Education: The PhD factory : Nature News
“Scientists who attain a PhD are rightly proud — they have gained entry to an academic elite. But it is not as elite as it once was. The number of science...
Category: The Narrative
Education: Rethinking PhDs : Nature News
“Fix it, overhaul it or skip it completely — institutions and individuals are taking innovative approaches to postgraduate science training.” Read t...
Needham losing photo icon – Boston.com
“When’s the last time you brought a roll of film to the store for processing? If you can’t remember, you’ll begin to understand why Scorby’s Camera will s...
Take 10: Man-made wonders in New England – Boston.com
“Resourcefulness runs a close second to thrift as a Yankee virtue, and New Englanders have been great builders for centuries. As modest folk, we rarely co...
Gut bacteria in Japanese people borrowed sushi-digesting genes from ocean bacteria | Discover Magazine
“Nori is, by far, the most likely source of bacteria with porphyran-digesting genes. It’s the only food that humans eat that contains any porphyrans and u...
Divided by language, united by gut bacteria – people have three common gut types | Discover Magazine
“Enterotypes aren’t quite as well-defined as, say, blood groups, but they could have similar uses as medical markers. The microbiome helps us to digest ou...
Language May Have Helped Early Humans Spread Out of Africa – ScienceNOW
“The story of humanity’s prehistoric expansion across the planet is recorded in our genes. And, apparently, the story of the spread of language is h...
ScienceShot: Green Eggs and Salamanders – ScienceNOW
“This is the first case of an algae living symbiotically within a vertebrate, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of National Academy of Scie...
Book: The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
This is one great book. It’s set a few hundred years in the future, long after the oil-fueled “Exapansion” (that would be the time we are livi...
Report: Current European Biofuel Policies ‘Unethical’ – ScienceInsider
“An E.U.-sponsored certification scheme should adhere to the following principles: * Biofuels development should not be at the expense of human rights * B...