http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog Science can be interesting, intriguing and even fun. Don't believe us? Let Stacey Singer show you. en-us ssinger@pbpost.com 2008-02-26T12:44:05-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2008/02/26/longterm_memory.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog Have you ever watched Psycho on late-night television only to find yourself hesitant to step into the shower the next week? Or read an article on retirement planning before bed, awakening with a better understanding of how to manage... 1901302@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2008-02-26T12:44:05-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2008/02/22/nerd_humor_insi.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog The device that made Chrysler great. Share this with the engineer in your life. But wait, there’s more: The History of the Turbo-enbabulator According to Wiki: The invention that changed the future of dynamical logarithmic interfaces with regards to flux... 1808702@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2008-02-22T12:15:09-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2008/02/19/odds_dont_favor.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog The U.S. government will attempt to use its anti-missile system to shoot down a potentially dangerous spy satellite tonight lest the wayward satellite’s toxic fuel cause a dangerous spill on entry. Russia, of course, thinks this is really just... 1719502@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2008-02-19T18:10:25-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2008/02/08/scientists_movi.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog Every where you turn, there’s a cluster. There’s the Scripps-Max Planck biotech center emerging in Palm Beach County, the Torrey Pines-Tradition complex in Port St. Lucie and a significant medical city growing a couple of hours’ drive north, in... 1489102@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2008-02-08T11:58:19-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2008/01/31/scientists_make.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog The Telegraph of London says a team of researchers at the University of Newcastle has asked for permission to turn a woman’s bone marrow cells into sperm. The research would raise the possibility that lesbian couples could bear their... 1282902@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2008-01-31T11:48:17-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2008/01/29/science_and_you.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog It seems like just yesterday Philip Morris was insisting that cigarettes were not nicotine delivery devices. God forbid they be regulated as a drug. How times change. For the past year the tobacco giant has supported FDA regulation. A... 1238602@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2008-01-29T18:56:36-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2008/01/14/great_news_for.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog Have you ever wanted to read an article from a scientific journal only to bump into those obnoxious screens that say you must cough up $20 first or subscribe? It happens to me virtually every day. But not for long,... 908402@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2008-01-14T18:39:25-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2008/01/08/too_cold_for_a.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog Photo by Tim Chapman, Miami Herald Last week’s cold snap caused a bit of drama in Plasmid’s back yard. We found a 3-foot-long iguana floating lifelessly in the E-4 canal. Normally, it would munch passion flowers and lounge on... 779902@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2008-01-08T11:03:42-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2007/12/31/the_games_we_pl.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog The year in science 2007 may be remembered as the year of complexity, one in which problems that appeared straightforward proved stunningly intricate, whether we were trying to sort out human genetic variation or playing a simple game of... 649802@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2007-12-31T16:38:07-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2007/12/24/santas_progress.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog One of my family’s favorite online Christmas Eve activities is checking in on Santa , thanks to a tracking web site assembled by NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Not only do NORAD’s satellites watch for incoming enemy... 572202@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2007-12-24T14:10:49-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2007/12/17/new_year_new_sp.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog A giant rat, a tiny possum, a stunningly beautiful dove; all are species apparently new to science that were discovered in Conservation International’s latest foray into Indonesia’s Foja Mountains, part of the Mamberamo River Basin, one of the largest... 459902@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2007-12-17T16:34:26-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2007/12/14/of_starlings_ne.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog Have you ever marveled at the way starlings by the hundreds can take flight and form a twisting curtain in the sky, moving as if they were one wonderful waving sheet? Or snorkeled near a reef and enjoyed a... 421702@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2007-12-14T15:47:48-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2007/12/13/floridas_evolvi.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog Warning: What you’re about to read may be offensive to some people: “Fossil evidence is consistent with the idea that human beings evolved from earlier species.” There’s more: “Small genetic differences between parents and offspring can accumulate in successive generations... 395502@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2007-12-13T13:26:34-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2007/12/10/study_men_are_a.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog News you can use, courtesy of the respected journal “Evolution and Human Behavior,” Volume 28, Issue 6, November 2007: For two months, eighteen strippers working in a gentlemen’s clubs tracked the tips they earned during each 5-hour shift, and also... 333202@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2007-12-10T18:21:20-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2007/11/16/plasmids_gifts_1.html?cxntfid=blogs_plasmid_science_and_biotech_research_blog When it comes to holiday shopping, nerds can make things tough. I should know. My family’s full of them. Some might argue I’m one of them. Inevitably, people end up buying nerds another sweater, and when the big day... 208141@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/ 2007-11-16T18:21:49-05:00