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Right-wing science guy
No question the new GnOPe majority congress inspires us scientists with their attention to science via stunningly appropriate committee appointments. Tom Tomorrow's right-wing science guy explains.
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Don't worry! Be happy!
Here you go, folks! A handy infographic from the BBC that rates the probability of some apocalyse wiping out humans or life on Earth. Wonder if this comes in a wall poster size. Now the BBC can get...
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Mineral Classification Made Easy - Mohs Hardness Scale
Talc – Gypsum – Calcite – Fluorite – Apatite – Feldspar – Quartz – Topaz – Corundum – Diamond - “Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness ” should be familiar to rock-hounds and earth-science students alike, as...
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Calling all plant phanatics
As lone time readers may have noticed, this blog has no ads and makes no endorsements, unless TPP has been handsomely rewarded, which he hasn't, so you may also conclude how much impact the 623,884th...
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BLAST from the past
Lot's of things are conspiring to make TPP feel old especially a recent spate of things that all happened 50 years ago, e.g., Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant, things he remembers very well. Here's...
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Chili has no beans, a topic with plenty of heat
"The chief ingredients of all chili are fiery envy, scalding jealousy, scorching contempt and sizzling scorn." (H. A. Smith, 1967, Holiday). Sounds like this guy has participated in a chili cook-off...
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Precision medicine is not precision engineering
From the NYT, a plea for not getting carried away with the vision of 'moonshot medicine' as precision engineering. The op-ed is written by Michael Joyner, a doctor at the Mayo Clinic and takes issue...
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Academic bureaucracy
One of the first things to get the Rauner-roundTM here in Lincolnland are its universities. Our new GnOPe governor says he'd like to give universities more money, but first they have to "cut their...
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A magnet falling in a metal tube
by @ulaulaman http://youtu.be/keMpUaoA3Tg about #magnet #school #physics #experiments #magnetic_field Sometimes teach physics, and a couple of years ago the colleague of the educational laboratory...
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On the Art of Mineral Identification
Hardness is an important feature used for mineral identification, but it is not the only one. Fig.1. Lecture in mineralogy, from Bartholomäus Anglicus "Über die Eigenschaften der Dinge" (1390-1400), on...
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Velopresso
TPP's list of things he wants but doesn't need is pretty short, but move over, move down, make room because while no way he needs a tricycle espresso machine, but it was love at first glance. This...
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Carl Djerassi (1923-2015): Chemist, writer, polymath, cultural icon
Image: New York TimesVery few scientists of the 20th century have had as much of both a scientific as well as a cultural impact on the world as Carl Djerassi. It is a measure of how many things...
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Anti-vaxxers are to blame for a new epidemic of measles in the U.S.
Measles is now spreading outward from Disneyland in California, in the worst outbreak in years. The epidemic is fueled by growing enclaves of unvaccinated people. The CDC reports that in just the past...
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Cooking up a storm
It's a stormy winter weekend here in the upper mid-west. And it's Stupor Bowl this Sunday, and little but college basketball otherwise. Neither one generates any interest, and if you don't know,...
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Geomorphologic Groundhog Day !
We don’t know how much wood a woodchuck would chuck if he could chuck wood, but we know how much sediment he moves per year…Biogeomorphology, also referred as ecogeomorphology or sometimes as...
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A brief history of "quotation marks"
Who knew? Well, of course things like quotation marks and other such punctuations must have a history, but TPP never thought about it before. Here's a link to a brief history of "quotation marks",...
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Assessing assessment in higher education
In an article entitled “The walking dead in higher Ed” (whatever that means; it never says) Geoff Irvine tees off on what passes for assessment in higher education, and at the institutional level, it...
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A probabilistic approach to the prime numbers distribution
by @ulaulaman about #prime_numbers #arXiv #mathematics The prime numbers theorem states the asymptotic approximation for the prime-counting function. The first statement for the theorem is given by...
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Pathogen resistance can track with drug penetration, not just with drug...
Here's an interesting paper from a multi-institution group looking at a perpetual problem in antibacterial and antiviral drug therapy - the emergence of mutations and resistance. As one of the authors...
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Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez
Hi guys,I've set-up a new science/education blog called Science Bitez so I'll be blogging from there from now on!Here's my first Science Bitez post:On 4 February 2015, researchers at the University of...
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