COMING SOON: THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF HAZARD & PARTRIDGE

Altus Press has released information on their latest release:Coming in time for Pulpfest:The Complete Adventures of Hazard & Partridge by Robert J. PearsallIntroduction by Nathan Vernon MadisonJoin adventurers Hazard and Partridge as they battle Koshinga, the evil “spirit of the East, past all Western understanding” for the freedom of China. In...

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SET SAIL FOR THE PULPY SHORES OF VENUS!

Cover Art by John Coleman BurroughsPRESS RELEASE:Breaking News from EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, INC ~ Tarzana, CATo our Loyal, Steadfast, Patient Subscribers – We've got Great News for you!Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. is substantially expanding its Sunday Comic Strip Subscription website. Over the next several months, at no increased cost to you, we will be...

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Monday's Molecule #203

The last Monday's Molecule was medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) (PDB 2AIT). Nobody got the right answer [Monday's Molecule #202]. Today's molecule is very important for humans. You need to supply the common name AND a more official IUPAC name that identifies the configuration of the bonds. You also need to briefly explain why this molecule...

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Dawkins and Krauss on CNN

Here's a CNN interview with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss. It was recorded this morning. It's very unfortunate that the reporter (Poppy Harlow) injects her own views on religion but at least they serve to illustrate the prejudice against unbelievers. There are quite a few CNN reporters who broadcast their Christian views at every opportunity. They just don't get it....

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Happy Birthday Jane!

Today is my daughter's birthday. She was born quite a few years ago in Geneva Switzerland while I was a postdoc.Here's Jane with my grandchildren, Zoë and Luca (right). Below is Luca studying gamma ray bursts at the Griffiths Observatory in Los Angeles.  Gamma ray bursts were the subject of Jane's Ph.D. thes...

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RADIO ARCHIVES NEWS

RadioArchives.com Newsletter   April 26, 2013   D-Day 38 Hours of NBC Coverage   It was the largest, most ambitious, and most successful military operation ever attempted -- and radio was there to cover...

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Brunch with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss

The Centre for Inquiry is sponsoring a brunch with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss on Wednesday morning. You can sign up at Brunch with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss. There are only 12 tickets left. Here's the information you need.Join us for an exclusive engagement with Richard Dawkins, named top world thinker by Prospect magazine, and Lawrence...

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Meet Bora Zivkovic in Toronto

Coturnix (aka Bora Zivkovic) is coming to Toronto. He is the author of A Blog Around The Clock, a blog that currently resides on the Scientific American website. Bora is the blog editor at Scientific American and the main organizer of ScienceOnline, an annual conference held in North Carolina in January.This will be Bora's first time in Toronto—let's...

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DNA: Nature Celebrates Ignorance

Some freelance science writer named Philip Ball has published an article in the April 25, 2013 issue of Nature: Celebrate the Unknowns.The main premise of the article is revealed in the short blurb under the title: "On the 60th anniversary of the double helix, we should admit that we don't fully understand how evolution works at the molecular level,...

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Keith Yamamoto on Taking Risks

Here (below) is my old friend, Keith Yamamoto, talking about taking risks in science. Keith and I were graduate students in Bruce Alberts' lab over 40 years ago. That's him on the left in the photo. I'm the one looking up and the third former graduate student is Glenn Herrick. Keith and I learned a lot about science from our former mentor. I learned...

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Bruce Alberts on Learning from Failure

Here's a short talk from my thesis supervisor on learning from failure. He tells the story of how he failed his Ph.D. oral and how he almost gave up writing his textbook. I was a gradate student in his Princeton lab from 1969-1974. The most important lesson I learned from Bruce was the importance of knowledge and context. He taught a graduate course called "Macromolecules" where he explained both the basic chemistry and the basic biology. The lesson was clear. You can't do good science unless you see the big picture and understand the fundamentals...

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PZ's Wonderful Exam Question

PZ Myers has just given his students a take-home exam. Here's one of the questions [It’s another exam day! ] ...Question 1: One of Sarah Palin’s notorious gaffes was her dismissal of “fruit fly research” — she thought it was absurd that the government actually funded science on flies. How would you explain to a congressman that basic research is important?...

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