Sunday, February 21, 2016

Scalia dead, Christie and Bush Out

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/19/malcolm_x_on_democracy_now_see
From Democracy Now, a post commemorating the life and death of Malcolm X

http://www.nyas.org/AboutUs/AcademyNews.aspx?cid=375bf796-ff3b-4d97-be8d-37801db49ffc
From the NY Academy of Sciences, a biography of the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in Chemistry.

http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/are-adjunct-professors-the-new-fast-food-workers
From The Pacific Standard, an article about adjuncts comparing them to fast food workers.

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/whooping-cough-makes-a-comeback/?_r=0
This is from the NYT blogs Tuesday about the return of pertussis.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/02/perils-of-sticker-charts/470160/
Here is an article from the Atlantic about the negatives associated with giving rewards for good behavior.

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/24/headlines/rhode_island_protesters_shut_down_anti_refugee_event_at_state_house
Refugees are welcome here. From Democracy Now

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/court-orders-johnson-johnson-payoff-ovarian-cancer-case-n524456  Interesting court case and settlement by J and J to an ovarian cancer victim

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/25/scientists-discover-pancreas-cancer-is-four-separate-diseases  From the Guardian Science a report about pancreatic cancer being composed of four different cancers. This was a study done at the U of Glasgow.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2078285-why-i-think-genitals-reveal-the-universes-biological-diversity/  An article by evolutionary biologist Brian Langerhans about the evolution of genitalia.

http://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-just-released-a-new-187-million-pixel-map-of-the-milky-way  This is an article by Science Alert about the release of a new 187 pixel map of the Milky Way, it's called the (ATLASGAL).

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/male-biology-students-underestimate-their-female-peers/462924/ Interesting article in The Atlantic about how male biology students see their female peers.

http://www.whatsmynext.org/ Interesting weblink about careers in laboratory science.

http://www.sciencealert.com/va-scientist-is-turning-every-element-in-the-periodic-table-into-music
Article from Science Alert about a report in the Journal of Applied Physics about a scientist finding the musical "signatures" of every chemical element.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/elephant-genes-hold-big-hopes-for-cancer-researchers/ Elephants have more cells than people do, why don't they get cancer more often than we do? They have 2 copies of p53.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/nsf-launches-long-awaited-diversity-initiative  From Science magazine, a new diversity initiative at the NSF

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