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  • From spiders to breast cancer: Leslie Brunetta talks candidly about her cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up

    According to Leslie Brunetta, she now has much more hair than she had last July. We became aware of Leslie Brunetta because of her book, Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating, co-authored with Catherine L. Craig. Thanks to a piece Leslie wrote for the Concord Monitor (and excerpted here), we also learned that she is a breast cancer survivor. Leslie agreed to an interview about her exper…

    Authored by on January 31, 2012

  • Blog of the Week: Bug Girl’s Blog

    A painting of a collection of 374 moths from New Guinea. Via Wikimedia Commons. Women are often stereotyped as having a dislike of dirt, a fear of snakes, an abhorrence of bugs. I happen to like snakes, think dirt is a good thing, and embrace the enormous diversity that is the world of “bugs,” or, more specifically, arthropods. The number of species of bugs may well account for the vast majority of all known animals species…

    Authored by on November 28, 2011

  • Blog of the Week: Context and Variation

    This week’s Blog of the Week is Context and Variation, part of the Scientific American blog network. The blog author, Kate Clancy, is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, where she studies evolutionary medicine of women’s reproductive physiology, otherwise known as ladybusiness. Clancy writes about how human behavior evolved and is evolving and is also a vocal but thoughtful advocate for women in the…

    Authored by on November 7, 2011

  • Blog of the Week: PsiVid with Carin Bondar and Joanne Manaster

    This week’s blog selection comes to us via the Scientific American blog network. PsiVid, a “cross-section of science on the cyber-stream,” features two scientists and mothers, Carin Bondar and Joanne Manaster, both known for their work and expertise in sci-filmmaking. Over at their Scientific American blog, you’ll find all things sci-video related, including contest information, the Monday music video, and some commenta…

    Authored by on November 14, 2011

  • Blog of the Week: Speakeasy Science from Deborah Blum

    …ce” statements and the devastating “Poison in the Night,” about carbon monoxide poisoning. For a little lighter fare–and a great cookie recipe just in time for the holidays–check out , “So, 268 chocolate chip cookies later…”. Or, you could just start here, at the beginning. Imbibe each and every post as though it were a master class in narrative construction somehow confounded in ways most beautiful…

    Authored by on November 21, 2011

  • Blog of the week: Cocktail Party Physics

    …und topics such as the relationship between Woody Woodpecker and football, Ouellette weaves the promised tapestry of the pop culture and physical science worlds. This year, Ouellette also bravely helmed the upcoming Open Lab 2011 book, serving as editor and managing a pile of hundreds of worthy entries into a sharp presentation of 51 of the best in science blogging for the year. A huge task, but the outcome is an overview of some of the best sci…

    Authored by on December 6, 2011

  • Vacation week!

    Via WikiMedia Commons Most of our editors are enjoying vacations this week. We will resume our regularly scheduled programming next week. Meanwhile, you might enjoy some of these posts: Jeanne Garbarino’s Pregnancy 101 series Adrienne Roehrich’s Notable Women in Science series and a series from Matthew Francis explaining the science in your everyday world….

    Authored by on August 16, 2012

  • Pertussis: Get the vax or at least listen to why you should

    …e biggest pertussis outbreak since 1959. Not surprisingly, the majority of the states leading in pertussis cases are also among those that offer personal belief exemptions. Washington, despite their new law, is sitting at 4,190 cases, quadrupling their 2011 count of 965. This is the state where 7.6 percent of parents opted for exemptions (among all grade levels, not just kindergarten) in 2008-09, more than four times the national rate of abou…

    Authored by on October 10, 2012

  • Miscarriage: When a beginning is not a beginning

    …Ellison PT. 1996. Ovarian function in the latter half of the reproductive lifespan. American Journal of Human Biology 8(6):751-759. Sacks GP, Seyani L, Lavery S, Trew G. 2004. Maternal C-reactive protein levels are raised at 4 weeks gestation. Hum Reprod 19(4):1025-1030. Turner MJ, Fattah C, O’Connor N, Farah N, Kennelly M, Stuart B. 2010. Body Mass Index and spontaneous miscarriage. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 151(2):168-170. Wood JW. 1994…

    Authored by on September 5, 2012

  • Friday Roundup: Land-walking octopus, he’s having a baby, defining veggies, & lots for the ladies

    … glamour and heels. Here’s a day in the life of a scientist in Australia for those who are wondering what a scientist might do all day. Speaking of how scientists might spend their days, how about spending them watching 400 YouTube videos of dogs chasing their tails? Via DiscoBlog at Discover Science. Geek o’rama Use this app to follow live cameras trained on the wild places animals live in Sri Lanka, Kenya, the UK, and other places…

    Authored by on November 25, 2011

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