Looking through posts tagged ‘science’

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Taking Back The Power of Science | 18th Sep 2008

I read an article on Ars Technica [via /.]the other day that made me very worried about the future of scientific discovery in the US. With our currently failing economy, I don’t understand how we can still be making such idiotic decisions about the future of some of our most innovative industries.
The scientific research [...]

Chemical Party | 22nd Aug 2008

Learn the principles of chemistry with the Chemical Party video [hat tip Peter Srinu].

Solar Eclipse | 4th Aug 2008

Some people on an airplane videotaped a solar eclipse (via Gizmodo). Sweet!

Summer Research | 8th Jul 2008

I’ve started a new research project this summer in Marcello Del Carlo’s lab. Dr. Del Carlo is a new faculty member at Rush in the Department of Biochemistry. Our lab is affiliated with a clinical urologist faculty and we’re researching a urological disease called Peyronie’s Disease (PD) [Warning: male nudity]. From a [...]

Large Hadron Collider | 30th Mar 2008

Will the Large Hadron Collider bring about a cosmic Doomsday event, be used to shoot pidgeons, or just create the Higgs Boson and discover the meaning of life? Only the next few months will tell…
Note to dyslexics: Don’t transpose the “d” and “r” in that second word, or you’ll get an entirely different [...]

Pieter didn’t lie | 5th Nov 2007

Apparently Pieter wasn’t lying to me when he said my undergraduate thesis was on a really important topic. In yesterday’s Tribune, they dug up an apparently old piece of news that I hadn’t heard. The folks at UIUC’s new IGB received a $7 million grant from the NIH back in April. For [...]

Quantum Suicide? | 30th Oct 2007

I was checking my Google Homepage a few weeks ago and I noticed an article under How Stuff Works entitled “How Quantum Suicide Works.” The concepts in the article were a little complicated at times (well the background physics might be considered complicated), but overall I thought it was a pretty interesting and worthwhile [...]

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