Epigenetics, DNA: How You Can Change Your Genes, Destiny – TIME
Epigenetics, DNA: How You Can Change Your Genes, Destiny – TIME. The January 18 issue of Time magazine had a nice cover story on Epigenetics – or how the way we live can actually change our DNA in ways that get passed on to our kids. Follow the link above to the web version of […]
LabGrab: What scientific topics are in the news?
Grab More Science News Graph | LabGrab. The link above features a site with an inventive way to show what scientific fields and topics were getting news coverage over the last couple of weeks. It offers a broad overview of all science in the news, with an option to choose how many days to cover, […]
A Race Against Time To Complete New Delhi’s Newest Subway Line | Popular Science
A Race Against Time To Complete New Delhi’s Newest Subway Line | Popular Science. Another Megapixels writeup from the February issue of Popular Science. This one was interesting because it was about the Delhi Metro; given that I went to high school in Delhi and visit their regularly, I’ve actually seen the Metro being constructed, […]
Popular Science editor on Good Morning America
Good Morning America Asks About the Future: PopSci Has the Answers The deputy editor at Popular Science, Jake Ward, was recently on Good Morning America. Follow the above link for a video of him answering questions on what Popular Science envisions for the future. I found it interesting to see Popular Science, which has its […]
Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition 2009
Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition | Image Gallery – 2009. Since I like pretty scientific pictures, I’m posting a link to this Olympus Imaging competition from late 2009. I recently discovered it, and the site has a lot of great images from this year’s competition as well as from the past few years.
A couple of new articles
Did some more freelance work for Discovery, the newsletter of the Institute for Human Virology. I always enjoy talking to their scientists about their research, and this time I wrote about science that involved some broader issues outside of science and medicine as well. The two articles in the Fall newsletter are about the testing […]
Why it’s not so simple to create designer babies
“The Myth of Genetic Improvement”, an article in the Council for Responsible Genetics’ GeneWatch magazine by Barry Starr, who ran the Stanford at the Tech science outreach program that I volunteered at and really enjoyed. Nice article, talking about an issue that I think will become more and more relevant as we decipher the functions […]
Photographed: Ratchet-Like Cell Mechanism that Pulls Wounds Shut | Popular Science
Photographed: Ratchet-Like Cell Mechanism that Pulls Wounds Shut | Popular Science. A short piece I did for Popular Science magazine’s Megapixels section, which features a two-page spread photograph. The web version is available at PopSci.com at the link above. They’re usually pretty stunning, and I like this fluorescent image of dorsal closure in a fruit […]
A few links to other blogs: NCBI ROFL and Pwned Experiments
A couple of new sites that I’ve found entertaining: NCBI ROFL, which posts real scientific studies that are funny, often inadvertently. The creators of that site (which will soon move to Discover magazine‘s site) recently launched Pwned Experiments, a collection of funny failed experiments. It’s only just getting started, but I think it hits home […]
Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010 | Popular Science
Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010 | Popular Science. This is a section that appears every January in Popular Science, and tries to predict the top news stories of the upcoming year. I wrote two sections in it, ‘Life After Death?’ and ‘Births and Deaths’ (on pages 2 and 5 respectively), but I just posted […]