Last week I learned that President Bollinger approved my tenure at Columbia University…
Heading into my sophomore year at the University of Michigan, I needed one more “honors” class to…
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Can you handle the truth?
🎶 Music
I recorded my first mix in 5 years. Happily (and unabashedly) coming back to DJing in my mid thirties (aka in middle age) a little solace for the nostalgia of my raving 20s — hope you enjoy! Link
We tend to think of eclipses from our terrestrial perspective. But they occur all…
I consider myself to be very blessed and fortunate. To feel this way requires perspective — to consider…
An entire year of Alzheimer’s research in a single hour — such is the power of crowdsourcing science, to be unleashed on Alzheimer’s disease on April 13, with thousands involved across the country
This paper describes some useful applications of Design of Experiments methods to biofactory R&D…
I was reading my thermodynamics textbook for fun the other day (just kidding, I was trying to fall asleep and nothing was working so I read a…
Dreaming is weird and complex, like why on Earth would I dream of myself swinging from city blocks for miles…
Science and math, the foundation of our knowledge of the world, and the basis of our…
By Yiming Hu
Trevor Martin, the Co-Founder and CEO of Mammoth Biosciences, is building a CRISPR-based disease detect engine. He earned his PhD in biology from Stanford University. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 list for shaking up diagnostics and believes that…
Originally published in Back To Bios
Science is one step closer to the fountain of youth
This week, we celebrated Bald Eagle Week to drive awareness of bald eagle conservation and to highlight our…
Most scientists these days are just over-glorified lab techs that go through the motions without ever understanding the process. I know that sounds like an arrogant thing to say, but it’s true. Philosophy of science is an afterthought in science education, when really it needs to be central to it. Hell, so many scientists clearly don’t understand the…
Why is our moon just the right distance to block the sun in a total lunar eclipse? Great question, Kesh. Since the Earth and moon formed about 4.5 billion years ago, the moon has been moving gradually away from us (about 1.6 inches a year right now). We happen to live during a cosmic period while a solar eclipse is still possible — and just barely…
In class we learned about head loss in a drain pipe where the gravity-driven flow was impossible. At first, I did not understand it fully, but when I went back to the example, it made more sense. So, I will use the same example that we did in class to explain this situation in simple words.
It occurs to me that I recall something similar (perhaps it was the same group) a few years ago in which a team of scientists was endeavoring to collect undamaged mammoth DNA in the general vicinity. At least, there had been a TV special about it.
I can’t stand most discussions on dinosaurs, because it’s written as past tense. Dinosaurs never went extinct. They survived, and continued to thrive, and continue to thrive to this day. Many of them are very pretty and nice to watch in the morning, as they fly around looking for seed. Others are quite tasty. So please stop writing off the dinosaurs. They’re alive and well.
We talked last time about the need for radical shifts in outlook — paradigm shifts — if we want to overcome neuro-cultural resistance to change, and mentioned religious conversion as an example. This week, we’ll look at how a paradigm shift gave birth to a…
Just yesterday I was reading a scientific article about the “multiverse”. Yes it’s a real, or possibly imaginary thing. Obviously this all needs some ‘splainin, and I do believe that I am THE most qualified person, that is writing this blog, and talking to you, to perform the…
Science doesn’t prove things, so that’s not a surprising statement. But the study, which was poorly conducted, suggested a link between MMR and autism, a link that has been thoroughly falsified at this point. Now, I am curious about the link between GI issues and ASD. I wonder how much work has been done on researching that issue.
