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very important because they help shed light on the actual capabilities of tools like blood tests and dna analysis an article published in current biology this week describes a recently developed way to use blood drops to determine age this capability will most certainly be useful in developing a profile of victims or criminals in cases where blood is a part of the evidence but identity is unknown the bbc article test tells age from blood drops the technique utilizes a specific type of immune cell called a t cell this is a significant development because to date the information contained in a blood sample can only be used to confirm the identity of a known person with this new technique researchers can describe characteristics of an unknown person to help identify them posted by unknown at 3 40 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday november 19 2010 what s the matter with antimatter now i m not really a physics person considering my less than stellar attempt at high school chemistry i have never attempted a physics class though i know enough to get by with my writing the holy grail of physics these days in the large hadron collider lhc at cern in switzerland this week researchers from cern are reporting that they have successfully captured the first antimatter atom of antihydrogen this is important because antimatter is a largely unexplored field in physics the idea is that each atom has a counter particle made of antimatter sort of like having an evil twin but these antimatter particles have been difficult to study because they are typically destroyed by coming into contact with their real matter counterpart researchers don t know why the universe is largely made of matter instead of antimatter but with the ability to trap and study these particles they may be able to find out posted by unknown at 11 35 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 17 2010 encouragement from jim vandehei today for j800 my class attended a lecture and question and answer session with jim vandehei the co founder of politico politico is a web and print based media outlet for national political news that has been pretty successful in the last few years when other media outlets have been struggling by that i mean they are actually making money instead of bleeding it hiring young reporters instead of closing ranks on not letting anyone new in it was really encouraging to hear someone say that journalism isn t dead and that if you are bright and driven you ll be ok the main thing that i took away from his talk was that if you know what you want to do and what you want to report on you should just be out there doing it don t take any job that doesn t have to do with your field don t settle make yourself known and just keep calling until someone gives you a chance even though i m still leaning more towards a public information officer position than a full blown journalist position it was nice to hear that it can be done not finding a job after going through all the effort of moving to wisconsin to get my master s degree is definitely something that scares me listening to vandehei made me inspired to start looking for an internship for next summer which is my thanksgiving break goal posted by unknown at 1 16 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 16 2010 stem cells on the brain human embryonic stem cells source wikimedia commons an interesting clinical trial just began in russia where doctors intend to inject stem cells into the brains of stroke patients to see if the cells can serve as a potential cure for the negative effects of a stroke the bbc article stem cells used in stroke trial so far only one patient has been injected with the stem cells which are embryonic pluripotent cells but it is notable because he is the first patient to ever have stem cells injected into the brain as a potential cure it is also controversial to use humans for this type of study considering how much still remains to be learned about the brain and about stem cells posted by unknown at 2 54 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday november 15 2010 the great unknown i find it astounding that even with all of the technology we now have there are still parts of the world that have yet to be explored even today new species are still being discovered which just makes me wonder how many species we have killed off without even knowing what they were i remember when i was in costa rica in 2005 our guide was pointing out species of plants that he said were new and waiting to be classified he was hoping to get credit for finding one of them and thus get the naming credits it made me feel so small that there are so many different organisms in the world i think it is the little kid in me that just wants to poke and prod and understand all the amazing new things there are to study in the last week a new species of bat that was actually first sighted in the 1970 s was discovered to be a distinct species in ecuador and a new species of squid was found in the indian ocean i find it pretty exciting that there are still things to explore posted by unknown at 8 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 11 2010 rolling nowhere today my group in j669 gave our midterm presentation on ted conover s rolling nowhere the book is conover s first which was published in 1984 the premise is that as a young anthropology student conover spent four months riding around the county in empty boxcars with the homeless he did it as an experiment for his thesis but after he returned from the trip and finished his degree he decided to turn his personal narrative of the experience into a book i am pretty happy with the way our presentation went i have an unfortunate cold so i was a little worried i would lose my voice or have to keep blowing my nose and be obnoxious while the members of my group were presenting but robitussin arguably one of the worst tasting substances known to man kept my symptoms in check long enough to get through our 1 1 2 hour discussion my contribution to our analysis was to compare and contrast conover with the other authors that we ve read as part of our class work for j669 i also contributed a little to the questions and discussion that we had after we all presented the parts we prepared individually we talked a lot about the ethics involved in immersion reporting and whether or not it would even be possible to give an accurate portrayal of homeless life given that conover was an upper middle class college kid overall i think it was a success the class definitely helped us out by participating in the discussion and bringing up issues of their own to talk about after i asked the first question they really ran with it prompted by deb and we didn t have to add much more to keep the class talking for another 15 minutes its always good when you can fill the entire time you are allotted and we did that so i m optimistic i also got another paper back in j620 today and it was another a so i m two for two in that class which is also good i m definitely headed into the home stretch of this semester the only assignments i have left are my finals and one more book for j669 sebastian junger s war it has gone incredibly fast posted by unknown at 1 53 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest what makes a cat tongue news ok so earlier this week i questioned what made the study on cricket testicles news and now here i am again questioning why a scientific find is in the news courtesy of the bbc mystery of how cats lap is revealed by rebecca morelle is really stretching it in my opinion i can understand how you might observe a cat lapping up water and be curious about how they do it so well but i really don t see why this is breaking news perhaps it is a slow day for science source wikimedia commons when did the biggest scientific discoveries become cricket balls and cat tongues can t we do better than that aren t we we spend millions of dollars on research how are these the best stories out there and i assume these must have been best as they led the bbc s science coverage on the days they each ran i am going to go out on a limb and say that stories like this are caused by the need to publish something anything quickly with the internet it is shifting from the quality of a story to the number of stories that you can produce i think its sad that the best the bbc is putting out is high speed video of a cat drinking as their science news this isn t going to entice readers to start giving a damn about science we can t just cover every single scientific finding as journalists it is our job to determine what stories are the most interesting to track down obscure threads and follow them until you get a story that no one else has and to inform the public about the scientific findings that they need to know about i think there are very few people out there that would say they really needed to know about cricket testicles and cat tongues seeing stories like this makes me want to change the journalistic system i don t blame the writer she wrote the story she was assigned i blame the fact that no one is willing to spend the money on investigative in depth reporting anymore give reporters the resources and we ll deliver the goods without the support journalists need to get the good stories you re gonna get cricket balls posted by unknown at 1 29 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 10 2010 scientists peer into their crystal ball one of the stories highlighted on the science pages of the new york times this week is a multimedia piece called voices what s next in science by carl zimmer i think the piece is interesting to note because it uses audio clips pictures and short write ups to give an overview of what scientists in a variety of disciplines predict will be hot topics in their field in the coming year the scientific areas featured are space science conservation ecology ocean science game design climate change genomics neuroscience engineering biotechnology and mathematics i found these choices a little puzzling what about stem cells or biomedical research as a whole the piece includes engineering and mathematics but ignores physics and chemistry why also while i find science gaming interesting and i think its a great new field for encouraging people to become interested in science i don t see how it fits in with the other specialities i also find it interesting that they use the term conservation ecology which is specific and scientific but then they use the term ocean science as a lump term for all the specialities that involve the ocean and the same for space it doesn t really seem cohesive for me to flip flop between specific and general the audio clips and the fact that the write ups are so short make this a very accessible article that i think even people who don t typically read science news could be interested in it is a good example of how to use multimedia without having to go terribly out of your way as a journalist posted by unknown at 2 19 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 9 2010 creepy crawlies on the brain tarantula at the davinci science center allentown pa credit erin podolak july 2008 i m not scared of many things i love snakes heights roller coasters and being in the dark most of the typical things that freak people out don t have much of an effect on me except spiders i can t stand spiders i think my fear of spiders stems back to being told that every year in our sleep humans eat an average of eight spiders without even knowing it imagining a spider creeping along my skin and the way their little legs would feel definitely freaks me out i m not so afraid that i ll run away or anything but some shrieking is usually in order researchers are now using tarantula s to help study fear reactions in the brain i think brain research is really interesting considering how little we actually know about how the human brain works figuring out how the brain controls all the things we think and do can tell us a lot about ourselves i feel the same way about genetics and studying our genetic code tarantula helps scientists map how brains process fear was featured in the la times posted by unknown at 8 03 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest promiscuous crickets the article cricket testicle size clue to promiscuous mating in the bbc was just too good to pass up for a blog post i mean come on cricket testicles who wouldn t chuckle source ehow the researchers found that bushcrickets have the largest testicles of any organism accounting for 14 of the cricket s total body weight the study correlated the large testicles with the promiscuity of the organism the more the organism gets around the larger the balls that this is news and that thousands of dollars were probably spent determining this makes me laugh and then makes me question why we spend our time and money investigating some things i want to know what good is going to come of knowing that crickets have the largest testicles because aside from just expanding humanity s knowledge of insect sex i don t really get a lot of value out of this posted by unknown at 7 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 4 2010 sea anemones there is no real point to publishing this image other than that i just think it is cool and very pretty it was on wikipedia commons as the picture of the day which is how i found it side note has it become obvious yet how much i love wikimedia commons this image is from the book the royal natural history by richard lydekker which dates back to 1893 posted by unknown at 3 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest a little politics since this is a science and journalism blog i try to stay out of politics that is why i didn t offer my commentary on tuesday s midterm elections most of the attention in the california election went to the defeat of proposition 19 legalization of marijuana but i think the defeat of proposition 23 is also important to note the proposition was a move to suspend california s regulations on green house gas emissions backed by oil companies according to the la times industry in silicon valley which is investing billions in clean energy opposed the propositions and may have added to the surprising defeat the la times article prop 23 battle marks new era in environmental politics is an interesting read for the way it chronicles the cross over between science environmental activism and 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