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It was make by Berkeley grad students. Anyone you know, handofluke?

So, I just got an e-mail announcing GIGANTICmicrobes.

Not only are they awesome (I should probably get the neuron), I discovered that my two favorite cells (and white blood cell, as far as I've found so far, but not nearly as cool) have awesomely hypnotic animations. I'm seriously way too excited about this:

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adipocyte(No, we're not going ( Read more... )

Quote of the day: If you've played at invisible fairy-dust, you may have acquired the kind of counter-intuitive mental flexibility required to accept what goes on in the Large Hadron Collider.

Here's a nicely written response to Richard Dawkins who, perhaps having become bored with picking on the spiritual realm, has decided to go after Harry ( Read more... )

Well, I don't think it's as funny as Scientists for Better PCR (though we already know I'm a sucker for 80's charity song spoofs), but the new Eppendorf boy band video is out...

In other news, this made me squee!

I was just reading Nature News and found an article on Snowball! (It's a couple of weeks old, but I just came accross it.)

When Snowball, a sulphur-crested male cockatoo, was shown last year in a YouTube video apparently moving in time to pop music, he became an Internet sensation. But only now has his performance been subjected to scientific ( Read more... )

Nifty article on synthetic diamonds.

dw_duck subscribes to The Economist and I was just paging through the most recent issue when I cam across a short blurb on how scientists just figured out how an additive that's been used in vaccines for 80 years (alum) makes them work better. The first sentence:

DOCTORS often exude an air of omniscience, but in truth they are surprisingly ignorant.The ( Read more... )

Guess what? Evolutionarly biologists at the UofC don't have to be assholes! I've met Neil Shubin a couple of times as an ethics TA. He seems like a pretty cool guy. This morning, he was interviewed about his new book on Eight Forty-Eight. It was an interesting interview that had some cool tidbits I didn't know about the evolutionary origins of ( Read more... )