News: ?Why do people get sick? Science close to answer? Posted by Tabitha M. Powledge [Entry posted at 28th October 2005 11:17 PM GMT] Yeah, right. That?s the assessment on the just-published hapmap papers from a headline writer at NorthJersey.com, the Web site for several newspapers in the region. And the headline writer is not alone; the story that follows is pretty uncritical ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Cool to some, cruel to others Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 28th October 2005 03:35 PM GMT] It?s important to recognize that consumer-friendly news reports about a promising new technology that?s years away can be somewhat torturous for people with conditions that need that technology now. Case in point: I know someone with a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Terrorists, Pedophiles, and now Darwin? Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 27th October 2005 11:46 PM GMT] In a previous post, I said that the Dover school system needs more than a bake sale to get over its issues. I was referring to a fundraiser set up by the political action committee Dover CARES (Citizens Actively Reviewing Educational Strategies). ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Reducto ad absurdum on the LANL ASCI Q? Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 25th October 2005 06:50 PM GMT] A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has topped a world record for biological simulations, and given us a taste of reducto ad absurdum. As reported in the Nov. 1 issue of PNAS the LANL team, led by Kevin Sanbonmatsu, used 768 of the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The Dover Downs Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 24th October 2005 03:05 PM GMT] We?ve finally seen the first full week of witnesses for the defense in Kitzmiller vs. the Dover area school board. Lawyers defending the board called intelligent design shogun, Michael Behe. The biochemist, unsupported by his Lehigh University ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Who teaches us what to eat? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 20th October 2005 06:58 PM GMT] Everyone?s had the frustration of reading something is good for you one day, then bad for you the next. The same mixed message is now being circulated about fish. On Friday, I participated in a panel discussion in Washington DC hosted by the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Discontent at GSAC Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 19th October 2005 06:22 PM GMT] It should be hard to complain in Hilton Head when the weather?s this nice, but a few folks have found a reason. J. Craig Venter voiced his discontent, yesterday evening at this year?s GSAC (a.k.a. Genomes Medicine and the Environment 2005). ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Genomes small, and getting smaller Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 18th October 2005 01:14 PM GMT] GSAC is back, although the annual genomics meeting this year goes by the name Genomes, Medicine and the Environment Conference 2005. Now under the purview of the J. Craig Venter Institute rather than the institute for genome research (TIGR), it has ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fighting the Republican War on Science: A Question of Balance Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 17th October 2005 05:21 PM GMT] Chris Mooney's "The Republican War on Science" showed up on my desk recently. The book traces the rise of the Republican Party's split with science, from its roots in the supersonic transport debate in the Nixon administration, to George W. Bush's ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Return of the Return of the Hobbit Posted by Tabitha M. Powledge [Entry posted at 13th October 2005 07:49 PM GMT] A nice thing about being a blogging journalist is that it gives me a place to put selected juicy bits and ruminations that there?s no space for in the "real" article. So here is some Supplementary Information on my most recent piece about the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Hollywood Science Posted by Ishani Ganguli [Entry posted at 10th October 2005 02:57 PM GMT] What if the 20-somethings on Friends were scientists? Columbia biology professor Darcy Kelley insists it could work. ?We?re just like regular people,? added Nobel laureate and Memorial Sloan Kettering director Harold Varmus. But does the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: In Dover: what she said, and what he wanted to say Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 6th October 2005 11:03 PM GMT] Barbara Forrest, Southeastern Louisiana University philosophy professor testified in the case against Dover?s school board adding intelligent design to the science curriculum yesterday and today. School district attorneys had opposed the testimony, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Bringing Biology to the Office Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 5th October 2005 06:38 PM GMT] The latest e-TOC from the journal Bioinformatics contains an application note on a really cool tool. ProTag is a Microsoft Office extension that uses biological name and markup services called ProThesaurus and LiMB to find protein names and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: End of Week One Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 1st October 2005 05:58 PM GMT] Yesterday marked the conclusion of the first full week of trials over the Dover, PA School Board?s decision to include intelligent design in the science curriculum. This week was devoted to the plaintiffs? witnesses. Lawyers questioned Drs. Kenneth ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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