A large portion of medical research is dedicated to designing and testing new and better drugs for treating disease. But what if we could improve treatments with the drugs we already have – and… more →
SCIENCE LIFEwrote 3 weeks ago: I often mention the wonders of scientific discovery, but sharing one’s latest finding with a wider a … more →
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wrote 2 months ago: In the fall of 2012 articles in The New York Times about scientific research and discovery began to … more →
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wrote 2 months ago: “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body” by Neil … more →
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wrote 2 months ago: Just finished reading this book and thought I’d share my thoughts on it. Overall, I like the m … more →
wrote 3 months ago: I was away from the computer on Sunday, the beginning of the Chinese New Year festivities. We were v … more →
wrote 3 months ago: So, did you loose your job? Great! Did your girlfriend break up up with you? Congratulations. A new … more →
wrote 3 months ago: We arrived in late afternoon at Pixar headquarters in Emeryville, on the east side of San Francisco … more →
wrote 3 months ago: People who have a great passion for a subject are often the best speakers on it, and Neil Shubin’s e … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Neil Shubin, Professor and Associate Dean of Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago, paleo … more →
wrote 4 months ago: The Hidden Universe Within Well this was a gem of an interview with Neil Shubin who just published h … more →
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wrote 4 months ago: Morning Widdershin friends, here’s hoping you aren’t imagining a world without hypotheti … more →
wrote 4 months ago: The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People, tells the story o … more →
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wrote 10 months ago: I must apologize for my month-long absence from this blog and Twitter! I know it might seem to a few … more →
wrote 11 months ago: … oh … never mind. I found them. In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins Rem … more →