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Chaos once again broke out in the realm of academia last month after Science, a leading scientific journal, refused to publish an article that dismissed the theory of psychological equivalence between men and women. Peter A. Lawrence, a biologist and fellow of the Royal Society, authored the controversial article, arguing the hardly astonishing point that “men and women are born different.” Big mistake...
...after it fell sick, may have fed. This is crucial because the disease is believed to be spread in cattle feed carrying infected brain, bone or spinal tissue from other cows. Any cow that ate from the same troughs could be sick, too. According to research by New York biologist Michael Hansen, it takes less than a milligram of infected material to contract the disease. "This is a critical example of our failure to have an animal ID system," warns Jean Halloran, director of food safety at the Consumer' s Union. "We were moving toward this sytem but the USDA...
...aviatress who can not fly (Ben K. Kawaller ’07), a playboy musician (Justin V. Rodriguez ’07), a sexy marine biologist (Peter A. Dodd ’06), and sultry genie Juana Rubme (David J. Andersson ’09), to the pot, and it is pretty hard to single out the culprit...
...absolute terms, of course, the U.S. is still the world leader in scientific research. A half-century's worth of momentum is tough to derail. Yet, says Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton and a molecular biologist, "there's still reason to feel some urgency. The world is not standing still while we take a pause...
...Pellegrino University professor, Galison joins a line of storied scholars who have held the same post, including philosopher Robert Nozick and biologist Edward O. Wilson...