Many of us have been following the twitter controversy regarding Scientific American Blogs. What started out as bad, got a lot worse. Laura Helmuth at Slate has the complete story here. I’m appalled.
The notion of using a mentorship role to sexually harass is just wrong. Where we find it, we should call it out.
And the Lonely Crowd in the age of social media, from Paul Hiebert in Pacific Standard, here. Like many high school students of the early 1970’s, the writing of Riesman was pretty much the first serious sociology that I was exposed to.
Paraphrased here in the Washington Post. Bottom line? It’s a boom town. Even with the recently ended shutdown, this area feels so different from the rest of the US economy. Perhaps that’s part of the problem?
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Story is behind Science Magazine’s firewall, but the abstract is here. The overall meme is of course Big Data….but….at some point, we’ll continue to need new data, so there is a future for wet-lab science too.
“I do not know what the cost of the shutdown will be,” Mr. Augustine said when asked for an estimate of the losses that could result from an Antarctic shutdown. “It is just one more example of what we are doing to rip apart at the grassroots level the fabric of what is one of America’s few remaining competitive advantages: our research and education system. No enemy could have been so effective.”
I couldn’t have said it better.
Of the game, explained here, in The Economist. They may need to be slightly adjusted for the 21st century to handle big-team science.
For Albert Einstein that is, story here. I’ll note that the Director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine mentioned in the story (where Einstein’s brain currently resides) is none other than our Advisory Board Chair, Dr. Adrianne Noe.
From Emory’s Gregory Berns here. Another argument for dog rights.
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I’m an ethusiast of what Elon Musk is trying to do in Space and with Tesla. On a week when all the news seems grim here in Washington, here’s my version of good news…
Discoverers and Discoveries 