It's winter now, can spring be far behind?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-some-colleges-are-better-than-others-at-getting-women-into-stem-careers-2015-12-30
This story from MarketWatch explains why some colleges are doing better at women to major in STEM fields. In 2014 just 29% of batchelor's degrees awarded to women were in science and engineering fields.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/44769/title/Fearless-about-Folding/
This is one of my great heroes in science, Susan Lindquist. She worked on the organism yeast and heat-shock-proteins, which are kind of chaperones to help proteins get into their native configurations necessary for function.

http://gizmodo.com/feast-your-eyes-on-these-gorgeous-cg-reproductions-of-c-1750787565
From Gizmodo, here are some pictures of reproductions of beautiful scientific instruments.

http://chronicle.com/article/Clear-the-Way-for-More-Good/234773
From the Chronicle for Higher Ed, some suggestions about recruiting more teachers, including stripping down the bureaucracy and hiring teachers who are willing to get to know their students as students as well as as individuals. Not sure what the latter actually means or how to accomplish.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cancer-cells-can-t-proliferate-and-invade-at-the-same-time/
A researcher at Stony Brook U working on C.Elegans and reported by Scientific American has shown that cancer cells cannot metastasize and proliferate at the same time. They did this by inhibiting certain genes and analyzing gene expression.

http://now.howstuffworks.com/2015/10/23/rem-sleep-switch
Researchers working on mice, discovered how to switch them directly into REM sleep.They discovered a group of neurons, which when triggered, flipped the mice into REM. Reported in Nature October 15, 2015 and done at U California.

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/5/these_arent_the_first_armed_whites
From Democracy Now: About the armed uprising in Oregon and comparing it to 137 years ago when the Paiutes were marched off their land under the authority of President Grant.