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A Lesser Jet-Flying Clown Than Rubbia

The job of experimental particle physicist is strongly correlated with worldwide travel. Paid for and self-inflicted, sure. But not exactly always pleasant, nor to exotic destinations. In fact, experimental facilities are usually located in notably un-fan ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 24 2011 - 9:42am - 0 attachments

Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You

... forms? I've recently reviewed evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin's great book that deals with many transitional forms.) Bills ...

Article - Michael White - May 7 2008 - 3:37pm - 0 attachments

Shape-Changing Mitochondria Are Life Saving Mitochondria

Mitochondria are better known as the power factories of the cell but in fact they are much more interesting than that. Contrary to the old image in textbooks of round static structures, mitochondria are now known to be incredibly dynamic, shape changing, ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Apr 13 2011 - 12:19pm - 0 attachments

Empathy: evolution's latest trend?

... that we share our origins with many other species, as Neil Shubin describes it so well in his book “Your inner fish”. The basic ...

Blog Post - Emmanuelle Savigny - Dec 5 2010 - 4:27pm - 0 attachments

Land based plants get pushed back 10 million years

... on land.  I know, I know, that is blasphemy and Neil Shubin will stand on high and strike me down with my inner fish for saying ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 10 2010 - 4:00am - 0 attachments

Robots And Newton - How Science Will Clean Up The Gulf Oil Spill

... Newton - I can make anything about Newton much like Neil Shubin can make anything about fish . Bernoulli is famous in fluid dynamics ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2010 - 1:34pm - 0 attachments

30 Days Of Evolution Blogging: What Tiktaalik Roseae Means To You And Me

... But science is sometimes about long shots so Neil Shubin and colleagues set off to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, ... research, I'll spend two hours writing this article but Shubin spent five years trekking off to hunt around in the water.   In Canada. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 3 2009 - 1:42am - 0 attachments

Are You Going To The AAAS Meeting In San Diego?

The annual AAAS conference is being held next month in San Diego and I went last year ( here and here and here ) , despite it being a Chicago February, but most of you did not, thus the reason for the title.   Yes, I saw Carl Wieman and Dave ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 12 2010 - 3:45pm - 0 attachments

Hox Gene Research And New Data On How Fish Grew Feet

... author Marcus Davis, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Neil Shubin’s lab at the University of Chicago. Instead of using ... working with postdoctoral fellow Randall Dahn, PhD, and Shubin, PhD, professor and associate dean for organismal and evolutionary ... roseae, the newly found species discovered in 2004 by Shubin and colleagues. Tiktaalik provided a missing evolutionary link between ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2009 - 3:11pm - 0 attachments

Ken Miller Responds To Massimo Pigliucci (And Vice Versa)

... likes of Eugenie Scott, Kevin Padian, Sean Carroll, Neil Shubin or other non-religious scientists as “uncomfortable.” Heck, I am ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 2 2009 - 11:01am - 0 attachments