Monthly Archives: June 2015

IMPACTing D.C.’s Teachers

Posted on June 4, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

This won’t help D.C.’s schools (boldface mine): I worked in a school for students who struggled in mainstream classroom environments due to emotional or behavioral issues, but I had managed to figure out a way to reach them and make … Continue reading →

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Links 6/3/15

Posted on June 3, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Holding Your Breath in India Scientists Have Finally Figured Out Why Swiss Cheese Has Holes Six reasons the blanket octopus is my new favorite cephalopod John Lott as possible template for future career of “Bruno” Lacour … Continue reading →

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Freemason Storm

Posted on June 3, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

It has been cloudy here. The Freemasonic Lodge, observed at 16th and S Streets, Dupont Circle, D.C.:

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Mitch Daniels (and Maybe Frank Bruni) Repeats the Education Zombie Myth That Just Won’t Die

Posted on June 3, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

As prelude, let’s start with this model by Mark Weber: Anyway, Frank Bruni had an op-ed piece in which he wrote the following (boldface mine): Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana, didn’t wholly disagree. I approached him because he … Continue reading →

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Links 6/2/15

Posted on June 2, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The NIH Cull and the K99/R00 cohorts Reduced public funding for basic research leaves U.S. in the scientific dust Chagas Disease: How A Silent Tropical Parasite Prospers In The US The Mystical World of Mushrooms Thousands … Continue reading →

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Clouds Over Cairo

Posted on June 2, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

The Cairo apartment building, that is. Observed at 17th and P Streets, Dupont Circle, D.C.:

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Mistakes Were Made: Another Anthrax Release

Posted on June 2, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Another day, another potentially deadly mishandling of anthrax: On Wednesday, Pentagon officials told reporters that Dugway Proving Ground in Utah had inadvertently shipped live anthrax to commercial labs in nine states – California, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, … Continue reading →

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Links 6/1/15

Posted on June 1, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: IS threat to Syria’s northern bald ibis near Palmyra The Dragon Autopsy Treating like cases alike: bioethics edition NCBI to hold three-day genomics hackathon in August The most predictable disaster in the history of the human … Continue reading →

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A Question About Mauna Kea

Posted on June 1, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

After reading this post by Tom Levenson about the proposed construction of a new observatory on Mauna Kea, which is contested by some local Hawaiian groups on religious grounds, I have a question: Would some of the rhetoric that has … Continue reading →

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The Mandatory Sentence in the LaCour Coverage That Matters

Posted on June 1, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

So the science Twitterz and bloggysphere is being roiled by the LaCour scandal, which involves a whole lot of scientific fraud along with ridiculously shoddy oversight. But what I keep reading in every story–and then which is dropped like a … Continue reading →

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