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by Dan on October 3, 2008
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COME AND GET IT! Hot blog posts around the intertubes, served up from the feed reader.

More classroom science blogs: the collection continues
Calling all scientists and science-fans: you can help with science education by letting students know you’re interested. How? Go and comment on classroom blogs and wikis.

Emerging Model Organisms
A new book is coming out from Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, of the same title.

Author’s initial entry: Autism’s False Prophets
Finally, science pushes back against antivaccine lunacy.

Gaze into the crystal ball - Nobel Prize Predictions
Who do you think will win?

David Goldstein on the failure of genome-wide association studies

Varmus on “The Cure” for Cancer
Some of the Nobel Laureate’s thoughts on an oversimplification of cancer biology.

A bacterium’s-eye view of life
An informative post on E. coli’s major life challenge: living life at low Reynolds’ Number.

Whirlpool of scientific thought
Stream-of-consciousness whirlpools emerge from a grant-writing process.

About the Author

Dan Rhoads

Dan is an American working in industry in a small Mediterranean country. He has a BSc in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Cancer Pharmacology and Biochemistry.

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