tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199573322024-03-13T09:17:37.169-07:00Moment of ScienceWhat Schools Today Really Need is:
<a href="http://www.cafepress.com/cp/prod.aspx?p=ScienceMoments.45244607">A Moment of Science.</a>Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-80016229092763828662007-04-12T06:41:00.000-07:002007-04-12T07:04:15.448-07:00Stem Cell SlantJames Taranto is projecting in the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal today. He accuses The Times of London of slanting it's coverage of a recent breakthrough in stem cell therapy.Taranto:Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again," the Times of London reports. That's Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1163135113435947082006-11-09T18:34:00.000-08:002006-11-09T21:05:13.553-08:00Looking into the Eye of a MonsterNASA Sees into the Eye of a Monster Storm on Saturn<!-- Title ends --> 11.09.06 <!-- Body starts --> NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.The "hurricane" spans a dark area inside a thick, brighter ring of clouds. It is approximately 8,000 kilometers (Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1157927893832657642006-09-10T14:32:00.000-07:002006-09-26T19:05:49.446-07:00Got Cicada Killers? Science in the backyard.While digging up the weed bed in my backyard, that in previous years has been a vegetable garden, I happened to unearth a large fresh cicada with no earth on it nor any sign of dehydration.Though the nymphs of cicadas do live underground they emerge from the earth and climb a tree to molt and become adults. A quick look around confirmed that cicadas had recently been molting in my back yard.(Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1154668241376676282006-08-03T21:50:00.000-07:002006-08-03T22:12:21.383-07:00The 40th Edition of the Skeptic's Circleis up at Daylight Atheism.Some great selections:The 2% Company on the absurdity that is homeopathy.Oracs Friday dose of Woo: Mere Regularity is Not Enough.And Eor's got a live wire in Giant UFO Built Yowie Pyramids of Bullshitan excerpt:"Dian spontaneously accesses past life knowledge as a Master Sound Healer in the Court of Akhenaton in Egypt and combines it with vibrational knowledge from Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1153958265285290122006-07-26T16:51:00.000-07:002006-07-28T13:56:46.306-07:00Intelligent Design?...Or drugs?(long video clip)It's rumored that one of my professors from undergrad figures prominently in this, er... educational film that shows that learning molecular biology can be fun! Without being incredibly geeky.Well,... maybe it just shows that learning molecular biology can be funny.Update Thanks to Turtles all the Way Down at Metafilter for the link.The only blog inspired by a Bumper Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1153594221162942752006-07-22T11:23:00.000-07:002006-07-22T12:22:28.203-07:00An open letter to Wesley J. Smith:Wesley J. SmithSenior Fellow Discovery Institute Center for Science and CultureDear Mr. Smith,I sympathize with the distress you expressed at learning you will have to financially contribute to your chief executive’s decision to provide $150 million to support embryonic stem cell research in the state of California.“The people of my state--unfortunately--voted to financially support this researchDr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1150088714087972102006-06-11T21:46:00.000-07:002006-06-11T22:05:14.096-07:00What the ... ????"Hey! What the ...????"Tap! Tap! Tap!"Is this thing on?""Holy shit guys! I think this thing is still on! What should I do?"Pharma Bawd: "Say something!""Like what?"Pharma Bawd: "It's a blog say something witty, or insightful,... or pointless, or... whatever! Just say something!""So, umm,... How 'bout those Hurricanes?""You know I here they've begun picking up in intensity due to global Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1140156070340839892006-02-16T20:31:00.000-08:002006-02-18T20:11:12.836-08:00Genentech to Colon Cancer Patients: BOHICA!Well really it’s not their colon cancer patients they’re telling to bend over but their new-found breast and lung cancer patients they want to grab their ankles. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> Genentech had its drug Avastin (bevacizumab), a monoclonal antibody for Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) which prevents the growth of new blood vessels to cancerous tumors, Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1139861484024725032006-02-13T12:11:00.000-08:002006-02-14T18:08:00.636-08:00Pure IDiocy!I realize that there comes a point of diminishing returns when criticizing and making fun of the intellectually vacuous propaganda that is "Intelligent Design". But I just can't help myself.Pharma Bawd made me go there to tell her what they were up to, and I saw this:Aarrghh!!! Of course! Why didn't I notice that models of DNA are designed before now? It's so obvious now that I've had the Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1139543639673877032006-02-09T18:55:00.000-08:002006-02-09T19:53:59.743-08:00I wonder what they'd do with the animals in a privatized National Park?PZ Myers points out this post at Northstate Science which discusses the 24 year old college drop out who attempted to censor NASA scientists. (The News that George Deutsch had never finished college was brought to light by blogger Nick Anthis of Scientific Activist.) Deutsch was appointed to his post at NASA by the Bush administration for his efforts on the campaign trail. As Northstate ScienceDr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1139374603462481942006-02-07T20:45:00.000-08:002006-02-10T14:06:11.856-08:00My Dirty Little Secret, and Soil Microorganisms.by Pharma BawdI have a dirty little secret. I’ve never told a soul, but Tara’s call for submissions has fond memories of my last encounter flooding over me, filling me with guilt. I’m so embarrassed! What if my children found out? I can’t tell my husband, he wouldn’t understand. Hell, I don’t even understand why I do it. I just know I can’t stop. I remember my first time like it Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1139238528035007142006-02-06T06:55:00.000-08:002006-02-06T17:01:41.880-08:00Let’s Talk About Herpes.by Pharma BawdThis is a very strange case of blog-imitating-life-anticipated-by-advertising. Maybe advertisers really have learned how to read our minds to target advertising based on our thoughts. To tell you the truth, I expected it to come from Google first.It’s all my fault really, I suggested we drop the Google Adsense ads in protest of Google agreeing to censor its search results for the Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1139176657704666522006-02-05T13:01:00.000-08:002006-10-16T06:29:32.693-07:00Metabolism of Evolution Information in the Blogosphere.A post-doc in the Moment of Science Laboratories has worked out the biochemical pathway by which evolution information is metabolized by the Blogosphere.Click here for the clickable image.Oh, just in case anyone hasn't taken biochemistry.And, no. We don't plan on determining blogospheric metabolism of evolution information to this level of detail.Apologies to all those other great enzymes who Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1138971368661977272006-02-03T04:53:00.000-08:002006-02-03T04:56:08.693-08:00What's a safe following distance...for Bison?Posted to the Friday Ark.The only blog inspired by a Bumper Sticker.Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1138425811303893842006-01-27T20:57:00.000-08:002006-01-29T06:58:54.833-08:00The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend.This maxim holds true in most parts of the world, including the plant and animal kingdoms. One of the really fascinating things about biology is the complex relationships that organisms develop with their environment, including the neighboring organisms with whom they share a common habitat.Lest you think I’m engaging in anthropomorphism applying this saying to organisms other than humans Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1138330953992832102006-01-26T17:55:00.000-08:002006-01-27T04:58:24.666-08:00Is That a Frog in your Fence Post? Or...So, a while back, I was delivering some compostable materials to my compost pile, when I happened to look down the pole for the chain link fence dividing my yard from my neighbor's, and what do you think I saw?At first, I thought it was some kind of alien, you know, like Yoda. All I could see was two beady little eyes looking up at me from a little green face (I used the flash to take the pictureDr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1137987949529732362006-01-22T19:00:00.000-08:002006-02-02T15:04:57.836-08:00Paleogenomics, the Future of Evolutionary Biology?Last month, scientists sequenced 28 million base pairs of DNA from the genome of Mammuthus primigenius, this DNA was was found to be 98.5% sequence identical to that of Loxodonta africana. Interestingly, the wooly mammoth appears to have diverged from the Asian elephant more recently than Asian elephants and African elephants diverged from their common ancestor. All three shared a common Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1137429025095394422006-01-16T06:44:00.000-08:002006-01-29T07:32:31.630-08:00Wild 2's "Cosmic Bootie", Stardust Probe ReturnsUpdate: Video of Stardust's 29,000 mph reentry is here. It sort of became a comet itself!"Already got scientific results which is great!" -- The very first particle examined is a transparent mineral grain settling discussions about whether comets do indeed contain minerals, glass, etc.Opportunity!: The interstellar dust (not the comet tail dust) collected in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1137203692647912622006-01-13T17:36:00.000-08:002006-01-13T17:54:52.656-08:00PZ Meyers' Immortal Soul Barbeque Sauce!It's Great for dipping McNuggets and,... well,... anything you like to eat!!(It's the best I could do with my meager photoshop skills. Inspired by Stubb's, which is actually pretty good!)The only blog inspired by a bumper sticker.Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1137128866221481442006-01-12T20:43:00.000-08:002006-01-12T21:10:03.906-08:00"Some pig", "Terrific", "Radiant", "Humble",Mild-mannered slop-swillers by day,Cancer fighting wonder pigs by night?These pigs from Taiwan had the Green Fluorescent Protein gene from the jellyfish aqueora victoriana ?? transformed into them prior to implantation into their mothers. Three pigs were born out of 265 embryos used for transformation.Researchers hope to use the pigs to study human disease. The green fluorescence of the pig cellsDr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1137126597481632102006-01-12T19:17:00.000-08:002006-01-30T15:18:35.296-08:00Ten Years of Biotech Crops.The number of hectares of farm land used to grow genetically modified plants grew by 11% in 2005. That's an increase from 200 million acres in 2004 to 222 million acres planted in 2005, 60% of that cropland were planted with herbicide tolerant soybeans.The continued adoption of biotech crops in industrialized countries is not surprising and, frankly, means very little to me except that farmers Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1137116293915715562006-01-12T16:35:00.000-08:002006-09-19T14:06:50.290-07:00Houston, we have a problem...In discussions about the science of Global Warming, the earth's albedo has become an increasingly important point of discussion. The earth's albedo is the ratio of solar radiation reflected by the earth to the total amount of radiation that reaches the earth from the sun. Clouds, the polar ice caps, forests, the oceans, deserts,... all contribute to the earth's albedo by absorbing or reflecting Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1137104635652886172006-01-12T13:40:00.000-08:002006-01-13T10:46:24.576-08:00The Lord works in Mysterious ways....My sympathies to the Discovery Institute, I know how annoying this can be.After the Kitzmiller verdict I feel bad about this. I really do! Because, you know, I can empathize with the guys at the Discovery Institute. I mean, imagine that you have your own little thing, let’s give it a name like, I don’t know... well let’s just call it science for now. Let’s say you’ve got this gig and you’re Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1135170815274271322005-12-21T04:37:00.000-08:002005-12-21T06:22:50.316-08:00Kitzmiller Roundup at eSkepticEd Brayton (St. Cynic) and Burt Humburg have written an article for eSkeptic magazine, discussing the Kitzmiller case and ruling. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> “...After 40 days and nights of testimony, the first evolution-Intelligent Design trial of the 21st century drew to a close in Federal court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. While evolution trials in the 20th century had Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19957332.post-1135168627837303552005-12-21T04:14:00.000-08:002005-12-21T04:37:08.046-08:00Kitzmiller decision conclusion of Judge Jones The proper application of both the endorsement and Lemon tests to the facts of this case makes it abundantly clear that the Board’s ID Policy violates the Establishment Clause. In making this determination, we have addressed the seminal question of whether ID is science. We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, Dr. Roy Hinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13059621349453957797noreply@blogger.com0