What is the largest solid object in the universe?
Jun Kim Ph.D.
This is a speech I gave at the Creative Mornings seminar on January 27th, 2017
Today, CIHR hosted an “Ask Me Anything” about the ongoing Project Grant competition. I live tweeted what I could at #CIHRAMA.
First, the good: mainly, that this happened at all. Jeff Latimer said they are striving for greater transparency in their operations…
In light of current events, I've been reflecting on life, history, and legacy quite a bit lately, and I realized…
People voted for Donald Trump because jobs had disappeared, wages had stagnated…
Learn about preparation from one of the people who are the best at preparation, an astronaut
Or, more correctly, about science, culture and the problematic assumptions about these that #ScienceMarch makes evident.
As a pretty logical thinker & (mostly) an empiricist, I often startle my pro-science friends when I state that I…
Biotechnology, as the name implies, is the marriage of technology with biology. Generally it refers to the use of biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use.
Today we’re launching Scientists for Science, a group of scientists who stand for the informed practice of scientific research and the productive application of scientific findings.
We are convinced that scientific findings can play a useful role in preparing our…
This past week, we learned about the microbes within, fake breath analysis, pig people, and when DIY Medicine backfires.
Digital: the Breathometer smartphone app was ordered to shut down by the government due to inacurracy. I saw this device get a deal on…
“One of the enemies of happiness is adaptation,”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
Never give up, never wait for something, act instead, life is movement.
Well, it kinda depends on one’s definition of “God”, and according to some faiths (like Hinduism for example), where it essentially means some all-prevasive “organizing force”, then you basically just ‘proved’ it.
The road to recovery after a stroke is different for everybody. Treating a stroke varies depending on the type of…
Une nouvelle méthode de mesure de la vitesse de l’expansion de l’Univers indique que celui-ci s’agrandirait 6% plus vite…
This week, a study published in the renowned scientific journal “Science” provided data on how early this male/female gap in STEM starts.
According to the authors, by age 5, boys and girls are likely to judge men and women equally smart and brilliant.
I have found that it helps in meta-explaining phenomena. While swiftly explaining a phenomenon often is a popular goal (though I would lean towards the immense wisdom of the likes of Rilke, Jiddu Krishnamurthi, et al in dwelling with the question, with the unknown), one rarely is…
STEM For Our Children’s Future
…caused by the activities of the people who live on Venus?
Caused by illogical non-sequiturs?
Perhaps you are unaware of this, but we are able to create artificial versions of natural phenomena. Islands, for instance, have existed as geographical features on Earth since long before humans were…
This is part of an on going series of articles documenting my final year undergraduate physics project. The objective of the project is to learn about the physics of tin whistles and create a model that can predict the frequencies for…
“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense.”
This is the real meaning of the life… researche.
Thanks Thomas
This was posted to codingastronomer.com on 11/10/2015.
The archives were created to preserve my writings from various blog sites which I have used over the years. Most come from my wordpress blogs…
“In his response, the Republican chairman of the committee, Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, put it plainly: “Sound science is this: Vaccines save lives.”
“They save the lives…
Noodling with Illustrator made me do this.
Our bodies are pretty amazing, aren’t they? We do a lot of activities with our body and its parts, like run fast, jump high, sing, dance, swim, draw, ride a bicycle, even fly a plane! Do you know who helps our bodies to do these activities and function…
Have you noticed that supermarket tomatoes just don’t taste the same as they used to? That’s because the genes that control the taste of a tomato have become damaged over time, according to a team of scientists who are on a mission to save the world…
Trump is censoring government driven ‘political’ science.
Geeksertación 105
Originally published at monstruosity.blogspot.com on January 27, 2017.
As a child, I was known to be very playful and inquisitive. At the age of 8, i wondered what it was to be God. So I built a self-made Formicarium which had an ant colony of about 60 workers and each time i came back from school, i’ll play with them by studying there activities, how they…
On this episode we discuss fake scientific publishers and their predatory practices — and how this represents a imminent threat to evidence-based science as we know it. In this context, we sample from an article published in the holiday…
I will be writing a lot more about this in the future because it’s so important.
This is actually a very clear and concise method for explaining the D-Wave quantum computing architecture, and where it actually holds up. It’s not a true quantum computer (which is quite clear beforehand, but not understood generally), but enough of a quantum method to be totally…
I have just made this account and started writing on the back of watching a Vice YouTube video about immigrants in the UK, whilst procrastinating. For those interested this is the video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEhC0oM1aAo .After watching the video I scrolled down to the…
Everyday Climate is a website dedicated to environmental education and information. Its primary purpose is to be a resource of no-nonsense explanations for key environmental topics, presented without bias or spin, accessible for all…
Despite a generally longer life expectancy…people still have lots of aches and pains already by midlife.
A promising year of science ahead According to The Manitoban, 2017 is looking to be a promising year for science. Canada will be beginning its search for the Chief Science Advisor. Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, said, “This search for a chief science advisor is a historic moment.”…
European regulators are active to give a quick review of AbbVie’s investigational, pan-genotypic procedure of glecaprevir (ABT-493)/pibrentasvir (ABT-530) (G/P) for the cure of chronic hepatitis C (HCV) in all major…
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Originally published on Wordpress
Nothing. Get bent.
There are up to 1 million people in the United States living with Parkinson’s disease. About 60,000 people each year are diagnosed with the disease. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive condition characterized by…
As soon as I had laid the coat of paint down, a bug landed in it. “Not your day, pal” I said out…
Stack Xtreme L-Arginine — it is actually a important necessary proteins that is ideal for our bodies in different ways. Its basic purpose is to develop your veins dilated and thus the androgenic hormone or testosterone and the veins is allowed to take…
Everything on Earth Remains The Same Except Human Activity
I could list hundreds of examples of what I mean. this is one of those obvious ideas that seem childish once it’s thought of. I don’t care whether or not it’s profound thought; it has meaning for me. But as far as I know, we humans are the only species that’s…
