by Derek Simon Hope for the Future: Inspiring Young Minds Some disturbing statistics: 46% of Americans deny that evolution is scientific truth (Gallup, 2012) and 29% still refuse to acknowledge that global warming is occurring (Gallup, 2014), despite the overwhelming consensus amongst the professional scientific […]
By Alison Carley All I have on my side is facts and science, and people hate facts and science. –Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation While I was writing a proposal for my qualifying exam, I hit what felt at the time like an insurmountable roadblock. […]
This entry is mirrored from the new site, MySciCareer. by Lou Woodley Today, my friend Eva Amsen and I launched a project we’ve been working on in our spare time: MySciCareer. MySciCareer is a new site that collects first person stories about science careers. What’s MySciCareer for? There have […]
By Gabrielle Rabinowitz, @GabrielleRab On a typical day as a molecular biology PhD student, I combine tiny amounts of clear liquid in a small plastic tube. One of those small droplets contains several billion molecules of RNA, each one a copy of the information from […]
By Michael LeVine, @thoughtculture Imagine you are standing in the middle of a busy street – the kind of street you’d find in Midtown Manhattan on a Tuesday afternoon. Now, imagine that not a single person speaks your language, but everyone is talking. […]
By Emily Dennis, @emilyjanedennis Naked mole rats are neither moles, nor rats. They are mammals, but they live in bee-like colonies. They have eyes, but can barely see. They live for a long time (up to 30 years!) but rarely get cancer. Naked mole rats […]
