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Prof. Erland Stevens's online medicinal chemistry course
This spring I had a post up about an online medicinal chemistry course taught by Prof. Erland Stevens of Davidson College. It looks like the course was received quite well, with 14,000 students signing...
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Fear of terrorists put to good use
Oh, boy, does TPP love Tom Tomorrow! One of the worst aspects of USA culture is its fear of what might happen, no matter how remote, or how unlikely they are to be harmed. TT nails it.
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Blogging Microbes- Communicating Microbiology to Netizens
There was a conference on Blogging microbes at Nottingham University, with talks from Alan Cann, Shuna Gold, James Gurney and Oscar Rosales, organised by Ivan Lafayette from the Toxicologist Today.Oh...
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The hidden dangers of HIV
HIV particles swarming the defenses of a macrophageI have written a few times about the myriad obstacles thwarting our efforts to design drugs against pressing medical problems, but perhaps none are as...
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Market Apartment Complex that obviously is not in the USA
Little by little markets, particularly farmers' markets, are working their way back into the thinking of people in the USA. But markets like you see all over Europe remain rare in the USA although some...
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October 2014 Desktop Calendar
Another moss from my August vacation to New York and Connecticut. This one is Atrichum crispum. Unlike other Atrichum species, this one does not have lamellae running down the midrib. It has relatively...
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Election politics in Lincolnland
As the election season heats up here in Lincolnland, citizens are getting the old GnOPe Rauner-round, promises bereft of any plans or details, as if the how such things will be done were unimportant....
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Maryland Congressman asks the NIH to fund more young scientists
Maryland Congressman Andrew HarrisNow here's something that you don't get to see everyday - a politician taking (the right kind of) interest in the NIH's activities and asking the agency to support the...
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Apple quest
After a week of unseasonably warm weather, a dousing of nearly three inches of rain, the weather has turned a bit unseasonably cold. Yes, you can average our weather, but the great mid-west of North...
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Curried squash apple soup
Give yourself a treat and try this soup. Ingredients: 1.5-2 pound butternut squash, peeled & cut into 2 cm cubes, 2 somewhat tart medium-sized apples, peeled & cut into pieces, 1 TBSP cooking...
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Sudoku clues
http://t.co/zk3P3rPjFZ #sudoku #mathematics #arXiv #abstract The arXiv's paper is published two years ago, but I think that every time is a good time to play sudoku! The sudoku minimum number of clues...
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How to stop Ebola: ban air travel from West African countries
Countries in which Ebola virus has appeared in the past.I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal. But this week, Governor Jindal called for a ban on air travel to...
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What does it take to be an expert?
Someone somewhere came up with the idea that it took 10,000 hours of “practice” to become an expert. However this is in part a quite silly idea. TPP could devote 10,000 hours practicing the violin,...
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Fun and Games with new maps of the USA
This article is just a lot of fun. What would the USA look like if all 50 states had the same population? Or perhaps some other number of states? Or whatever! TPP is annoyed because it's Lincolnland...
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Carlo Rubbia and the discoveries of the weak bosons
http://t.co/KGVNarwZMG by @ulaulaman about #CarloRubbia #NobelPrize #physics #particlephysicsOn that day 30 years ago, I was almost certainly at school. Physics still was not my passion. Of course I...
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Updated #chemnobel odds for tomorrow
So today's physics Nobel Prize was awarded to three physicists who worked on blue LEDs, devices that make light bulbs glow brighter and last longer than normal ones. It's a well-deserved recognition,...
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PlantingScience - creating tomorrow's scientists today
As you may or may not have noticed, no ads, no commercial pop-ups sully the pages of this blog. Yes, you get the wisdom, knowledge, and wit of TPP for free, and it's darned well worth every penny, too....
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Tachiraptor admirabilis, a New Theropod Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic...
MAURÍLIO OLIVEIRAThe paper will be out on October 8th, but Science's website already has a news article up about the find. It is from the same locality as the early ornithischian dinosaur...
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Continued Adventures with Rake-legged Mites
Dorsal view of Neocaeculus kinnearae; photo modified for Taylor (2014).It's been a noteworthy couple of weeks here at chez CoO. My contract at the university has reached its end, and I've become a Free...
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Tachiraptor admirabilis and the Early Dispersal of Dinosaurs after the...
Langer, M. C., Rincón, A. D., Ramezani, J., Solórzano, A., and O. W. M. Rauhut. 2014. New dinosaur (Theropoda, stem-Averostra) from the earliest Jurassic of the La Quinta Formation,Venezuelan Andes....
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