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P-glycoprotein: The vacuum cleaner that makes Sir James weep
There has been a lot of discussion during the last decade about the continuing attrition in the pharmaceutical industry and the absence of novel drugs. Several factors including layoffs, narrow-minded...
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Do 'world religions' make cuckoldry easier?
You may have seen this one recently - perhaps under a headline such as How Religion Promotes Confidence About Paternity. It's an eye-catching headline, but that's not actually what the study showed -...
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Why We (Accidentally) Name Babies for Hurricanes
In the year after Hurricane Katrina made a toilet bowl out of New Orleans, baby names starting with "K" went up by nine percent. Why would new parents want to commemorate the costliest natural...
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The science behind tears
posted by @ulaulaman about #chemistry #comics #tears From the collaboration between the National Cartoonists' Society and the Center for Cartoon Studies, it is born the first issue of the first volume...
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Academic prestige in jeopardy
Circumstances well beyond the control of the Phactor have placed the academic prestige of our institution in jeopardy. Yes, we have suffered fiscal cuts at so many levels, and at a certain level, the...
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First Procolophonid from the Lower Triassic of Madagascar
Falconnet, J., Andriamihaja, M., Läng, É., and J.-S. Steyer. 2012. First procolophonid (Reptilia, Parareptilia) from the Lower Triassic of Madagascar. Comptes Rendus Palevol (advance online...
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This is water
posted by @ulaulaman thanks to @archivioDFW This comics watercolor is drawned by Davide Osenda, a computer engineer and cartoonists. His first comics is about mathematics, the italian graphic novel...
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New U-Pb Dates for the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio
Stockar, R., Baumgartner, P. O., and D. Condon. 2012. Integrated Ladinian bio-chronostratigraphy and geochrononology of Monte San Giorgio (Southern Alps, Switzerland). Swiss Journal of Geosciences...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - Purple Lacecap Hydrangea
Although everything is pretty thristy right about now (our area of the upper midwest is dry, dry, dry), the mild winter and early spring were to a few plants liking. Never before have the hydrangeas...
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#Microtwjc EHEC strain 86-24 gives it 100%
It is time for me to again delve into the joyful quagmire that is the microbiology twitter journal club, to discuss "Hfq Virulence Regulation in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strain...
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Darwinian Fitness Day
Yes, today is when Father's get to calculate their Darwinian fitness, which is how many copies of your genes you've passed on to the next generation. With only one F1 the Phactor has an obvious DF of...
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There's no evidence for NI Health Minister lifetime ban on MSM blood donation
It's not often that I talk about politics on this blog. In fact I don't think I have even mentioned it before but in some instances when infectious diseases and politics collide I feel I have to do so....
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More Father's Day happenings
The F1 stopped by to give the Phactor a decent bottle of bourbon, and it is much appreciated. Really good bourbons are out of her budget, but they're sort of out of my price range too. It was very...
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Linguipolygnathus Redux
Upper (left in each case) and lower (right, do.) views of representative Pa elements of polygnathids from Bardashev et al. (2000): (upper left) 'Linguipolygnathus' anastasiae; (upper right)...
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The Graham Bell's tetrahedronal shed
posted by @ulaulaman Thanks to @fadesingh #geometry #chemistry #math Tony Smith realized an interesting shed that it seems inspired by the tetrahedron, a particular polyhedron, but following Tropolism,...
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This is education?
As if our job could get any harder, the state of Misery is trying hard to stop education altogether. Let's see what this legislation allows or requires. "students may express their beliefs about...
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Anticancer drugs form colloidal aggregates and lose activity
Over the last few years, one of the most interesting findings in drug screening and testing at a preclinical level has been the observation that many drugs form colloidal aggregates under standard...
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The Shambulance: Ionic Foot Detox Baths
(The Shambulance is a brand-new, occasional series in which I try to convince you not to spend your money on bogus health products. My Shambulance copilot is Steven Swoap, a biology professor and...
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Fun with google
Botanists end up searching the web for some pretty esoteric items, certainly not the mainstream of web use, so in the totality of their helpfulness, search engines deliver some odd items from time to...
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