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April 2012
- The Empty Seat
- Science Storyteller Perrin Ireland to scribe as artist-in-residence at the Nature Research Center Grand Opening!
March 2012
- "Science Comedian" Brian Malow joins NC Museum of Natural Sciences
- Thoughts on academic scientists giving media interviews
- The Republican War on π
- Dear Dad, with love
- Octopus Lungs for the #IAmUninsured campaign
February 2012
January 2012
- 2007 repost on intravenous milk thistle extract for amatoxin poisoning
- Private correspondence made public
- I am not your [expletive] transcriptionist
- The backstory of a touching moment at ScienceOnline2012
- Could tardigrades survive re-entry?
- Woman loses arm, shoulder, and breast after "bath salt" injection
- From the Archives: ScienceOnline'09 Winetasting (and a new, alcohol-free PSA)
December 2011
- Science Writing Sampler Platter
- Science ed-tech curator wanted for The Daily Planet
- Wanna be Chief Webmaster at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences?
- Sharing Science at Skeptically Speaking
- Pseudoscience Sunday
- My Day in Chile
November 2011
- Love others. Period.
- Nature subscription cancellation for #womanspace: No refund for you!
- Excellent FDA Q&A for Patients Regarding Avastin Breast Cancer Withdrawal
October 2011
- Scientist copy-checking: Point-counterpoint at the Guardian
- University milestone dashed by distant copy editing
- What's the difference between HeLa and HeLa S3 cells? Part I: Launching the lab
September 2011
- How do scientists view fact-checking by science writers?
- Trine Tsouderos on This Week in Virology: When do you fact-check article content with sources?
- HeLa High!
- Personal reflections on a September 11 hero
- The inescapable reminder
August 2011
- Stetson Kennedy, 94 - Florida folklorist, Klan-buster, and all-around thorn in the side of the rich and the racist
- Eastern US earthquake radiates across Twitter
- "Hippies were never much good as plantsmen"
July 2011
- Happy 75th to the Wellcome Trust!
- From the psychiatry ward: Don't do K2
- Bath salts (MDPV and mephedrone) in The New York Times
- The whole herb and nothing but the herb...
- Join Peter Holsapple at Durham's Motorco Music Hall for Sunday brunch in July
June 2011
- Thanks to American Airlines flight attendants, Kat and Patty
- Happy Father's Day to all fathers and their surrogates - past, present, and future
- Five years ago: A sort of homecoming. . .at ScienceBlogs
- Is that a special dialect?
- NCI Cancer Bulletin on meeting tweeting
May 2011
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
- Breast Cancer Recurrence & Advanced Disease breaks Amazon top 100 breast cancer books
- The Freedom Riders and Same-Sex Marriage
- Gorgeous periodical cicada video from Mark Dolejs
- University of Virginia's Hui Li and Stand Up to Cancer
- "It's humiliating...it's embarrassing to the entire nation"
April 2011
- Deepwater Horizon blowout anniversary: great radio pieces from Barry Yeoman and Richard Ziglar
- Rock 'n' roll pharmacist: Brian Van Etten
- NIDA-sponsored Addiction Performance Project
- The Henrietta Lacks Foundation Design Winners
- IV-to-IVF: A beautiful and brave essay from Maia Szalavitz
March 2011
- Why herbs and supplements sometimes appear to "work"
- HeLa T-shirt and button design contest
- Saving schools and building brains: Sandi O'Reilly
- Dear Dad, With Love
- Spice sellers: Bring out your dead
- 6 Big Questions on the DEA Ban of K2 Spice Synthetic Marijuana "Fake Pot" Compounds
February 2011
- It just changes - that's all
- REPOST: National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Week: Examining the Modern Relevance of the HBCU
- Are HBCUs still needed?
- Teenage girls launch French herbal tea business
- Valentine's Ohrwurm: Mandolin Orange
- Fresh Air Friday - give an inner city kid a breath of fresh air
- MLM bottled water: The "Evolv"-ing story with MD Anderson
- Angry Sunday rant on behalf of my friends in the Minority Academic Ghetto*
- Colbert interviews Paul Offit, accidental release of Southern accent
January 2011
- Stumbling, imperfect allies: supporting diversity in science and the blogosphere #scio11
- Synthetic marijuana marketers: "Don't agonize, organize!"
- ScienceOnline2011 Twitter hashtag #scio11: annoying or inclusive?
- Another MLK science message and "Alone Together"
- Martin Luther King, Jr., on science and religion
- Mike Taylor and Rocky Mountain High: From the High Country to the Lowcountry
December 2010
- John Denver, friend of science, born today in 1943
- ScienceOnline2011 Hotel Update - Special Radisson rate now available
- Will K2 Spice sellers take a bath? Can you spell MDPV?
- Fast Company recognizes innovator, Pandora's Tim Westergren
- KBCO Studio C Volume 22 to stream at 11 am EST/9 am MST Sunday
- Five years of blogging
- Just to be clear: Ed Yong does read the primary literature
- Science in strange places
- Contrave (bupropion/naltrexone) narrowly recommended for approval
- Kate Moss should not take horny goat weed
November 2010
- New coverage of DCA and cancer cell energy metabolism
- Jon Shain - When the Well Runs Dry
- US DEA action on synthetic marijuana compounds in K2 Spice and others
- 23andMe gift idea together with "Here Is A Human Being"
- Tenure denial case of DePaul chemistry prof, Quinetta Shelby
- Great week of news for Avett Brothers fans
- Gregory Petsko seems like a really cool dude
- Four Loko for locos
- Gulf shrimpers post-BP blowout
- Alcoholic energy drinks
- Support Our Troops, Veterans - Every Day
- The Chronicle features essays on animal research
- Ass in chair, and other wisdom...
- Best wishes and a thank-you to Rep. Tom Perriello (D, VA-05)
- Kira Cochrane on role models for young women
- Kidney with "whopper of a tumor" aims for Guinness record book
October 2010
- Put yourself in the shoes of Big Pharma
- Chemjobber on cooking process and being a chemist
- Top 5 Nobel Prize searches
- Breast Cancer Recurrence and Advanced Disease: Comprehensive Expert Guidance
- Is DEA about to act of K2 Spice synthetic marijuana products?
- Press release journalism and the faulty press release
- Mary Knudson launches Heart Sense blog
- Royce Murray and the problem of science bloggers
- Gratitude for our readers
- Little Colored Girls Want To Wear Pearls Too
- The Onion on two Nobel Prizes
- one. more. day. david m bailey (1966 - 2010)
- Superbug in the Research Triangle
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 to Robert G. Edwards
- How did I miss Guster?
- Reflections on chronic illness: Revisiting LungMutiny2010
September 2010
- If I was a bettin' man...
- Taking the side of truth
- Criticism of the ACS and C&EN
- Bleachgate: More Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) Madness
- Billy Bragg and R.E.M. fans/players need to meet Daniel Earwicker
- "Working as a phone-sex dominatrix is a lot simpler than being on a college faculty"
- Can scientists really learn from Get-It-Done-Guy?
- "[W]hy any of “us”—meaning faculty—would want to have any kind of personal relationship with students"
- Personal reflections on a September 11th (9/11) hero
- Blair L.M. Kelley wins the 2010 Letitia Woods Book Award for Right To Ride
- Fourmile Canyon Fire (#boulderfire): There but for the grace of God, go I
- Labor Day: In honor of those who struggled on our behalf
- The Haystack and ScriptPhD on Pfizer's "More Than Medication" adverts
- Latest from the PLoGsters!
- Dr. NakaMats and his LoveJet (plus 3,300 other patents)
- Take me, I'm yours
August 2010
July 2010
May 2010
February 2010
- Icariin from horny goat weed is structurally unrelated to sildenafil (Viagra®)
- Horny Goat Weed (Epimedium spp.) is a limp excuse for Viagra, Cialis


