by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 2, 2009 | Art and Science, John-the-Tourist, Testimonials
From John-the-Tourist: Looking for that perfect holiday gift for the science cheerleader in your life? Having a hard time finding it? I had that problem a couple of years ago, then I saw a blurb in the print version of Discover magazine titled “Micrograph Chic” which...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 26, 2009 | John-the-Tourist, News, video
John-the-Tourist writes: Getting information on how individual neurons fire was, until recently, nearly impossible in animals moving around because the detection devices were too delicate. In the October 14, 2009 edition of Nature, a team of neuroscientists have...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 21, 2009 | John-the-Tourist, News
John-the-tourist writes: Research published in the October 13th online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases suggests that the reason why warm-blooded animals may have evolved was because fungal diseases can’t stand the heat. The wide-ranging study,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 14, 2009 | John-the-Tourist, News
John-the-tourist writes: The first “mainly vegetarian” spider known to science was announced today (as reported by EurekaAlert and other sources). Of the 40,000 or so species of known spiders, all have been mostly carnivorous. The Bagheera kiplingi is...
by Darlene Cavalier | Sep 26, 2009 | John-the-Tourist, News, Science Education, Science Policy
Heeeeere’s John! About a year ago, Google announced it’s “10 to the 100th Power” contest to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The intent of the contest was to get ideas from around that would help the most number of people. Google would invest...
by Darlene Cavalier | Sep 21, 2009 | John-the-Tourist, Science Policy
From John Collier: A few years ago, for her 3rd grade “States of the USA” project, my daughter picked the Hawkeye State – Iowa. Many people view Iowa as just one vast corn field stuck between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, but my daughter likes Iowa...
