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Archive for January 10th, 2009

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Football Liveblogging

Early second quarter of Cards-Panthers. The Lord seems to be blessing the teams named after birds this weekend. Speaks poorly for the Giants’ chances of repeating this year given that they face the Eagles tomorrow.

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Therapy for foodies

By Thoreau
Genetically modified goats are now producing milk laced with medications.  Apparently engineering the goats, raising them, and extract the  medications from their milk is cheaper than synthesizing the drugs in a factory or lab.
A big thing in science these days is “drug delivery technologies”, generally chemicals or special particles or membranes that carry a [...]

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Obvious Tags Twice Over

By Thoreau
So, with all the violence in northern Mexico, two very different groups of public officials have proposed two very different solutions to the problem:
1)  The Department of Fatherland Security, last seen confiscating shampoo for the good of the rodina, is (not at all surprisingly) confident that they can contain any violence that might spill [...]

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Ethics of Academic Cloning

By Thoreau
I’m working with some other professors on a proposal for a program that would get more undergraduates involved in research. Although I have said in other posts that I’m not terribly interested in sending more people to grad school, I believe very strongly in undergraduate research: There are things that I can [...]