…would be a terrible place to live.
I agree with the piece, though I don’t like the phrase “credentialed scientist.”
[Saturday-morning update]
I’ve discovered the Missing Link.
Category Archives: General Science
Peer Review
A spot-on rant.
It is highly highly overrated.
Space And Time
Louise Riofrio has a new Kickstarter project to highlight her cosmological theory.
If Donald Trump Wrote A Research Paper
This is great. I wish I’d done it.
Passage To Mars
I saw a pre-screening of the new film this morning, and talked briefly to Pascal and Jean-Christophe. Then we ran errands the rest of the day. I’ll have a review up somewhere this week. It’s a great documentary.
House Cats
A review, from Elizabeth Lopatto.
Peer Review
It almost always provides a false sense of validity of a scientific paper.
Mouse Embryos
According to the pictures sent back from a high-resolution camera, the 600 embryos, which were put under the camera, developed from the 2-cell stage, an early-on embryonic cleavage stage, to blastocyst, the stage where noticeable cell differentiation occurs, around 72 hours after SJ-10’s launch. The timing was largely in line with embryonic development on Earth, according to CAS.
But we still have no idea what happens in partial gravity. And they didn’t bring them to term.
Your Cat’s Head
What is going on in it? An interesting article on their perception, but there’s a lot we still don’t know.
Climate Prediction
What a concept. Read the concluding sentence.