By Guest Contributor T.F. CharltonCourtesy The Atlantic WireKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, La TaSha B. Levy, and Ruth Hays: they’re the doctoral students Naomi Schaefer Riley smeared–in unprecedented fashion–as inadequate, irrelevant scholars, in The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) based on nothing more than their race and field. But media coverage of the controversy has barely noted their names or their response to Riley; even black commentators have framed Riley’s comments as solely an attack on Black Studies.Riley’s argument was not only aggressively ignorant and racially aggrieved; it has a clear racist pedigree. Mockery of PoC scholars and ethnic studies is hardly new–as Riley herself is aware–and somehow thinks justifies her piece (“The content of my post, after all, is hardly shocking; the same thing could have been ... Continue reading →
My Students: On May 22, 2011 our schools were destroyed by an EF5 tornado. We lost all of our supplies and resources. As an agriculture and natural resources program, we lost an immense am... My Project: The FFA motto starts out "Learning to Do, Doing to Learn" and that is what we aim for in my classes. We learn by doing and with this particular project we will be able to use ... more» My Students: On May 22, 2011 our schools were destroyed by an EF5 tornado. We lost all of our supplies and resources. As an agriculture and natural resources program, we lost an immense amount of supplies. We missed out on a lot of learning without a fully furnished greenhouse last year, ... Continue reading →
Gerold Schuler, a German immunology researcher who shared the 2006 Deutscher Krebspreis — aka the German Cancer Prize — for his work that contributed to cancer vaccines has retracted a paper in International Immunology following concerns raised by a German science watchdog blog. Here’s the notice: After publication of our article “Optimizing the exogenous antigen loading of monocyte-derived dendritic cells”, several discrepancies have been brought to our attention. In Figure 1 and Figure 2A, in contrast to what is stated in the figure legends, identical control staining is shown within the various parts of the figures. In Figure 3, the dot-plots with values shown as 10.2 and 10.8 were obtained using the same data file, as were those with 12.9 and 14.1. In Figure 7, ... Continue reading →
With today’s news came the disgusting spectacle of someone trying to sell the blood of President Ronald Reagan. It seems that doctors at George Washington University Hospital took a sample of the Gipper’s blood in 1981, while Reagan was there recovering from a gunshot wound he suffered at the hands of madman John Hinckley Jr. Later, for some strange reason, a nurse asked for the vial of blood. For an even stranger reason, the hospital gave it to her. Now that the nurse has passed away, her son is essentially holding the blood of Ronald Reagan hostage, trying to auction it off to the highest bidder. Auctioning off a dead person’s blood is atrocious, especially when that dead person is a former president. It’s reminiscent ... Continue reading →
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The apex predator is the lead actor in any habitat’s story. The apex predator governs the balance of all species below it. They keep other species of fish in check, ensuring that certain species do not grow uncontrollably. They also play a critical role in the evolution of other species. The loss of an apex predator can cause unpredictable havoc in an ecosystem that has come to depend on it. Some species benefit and others may get wiped out by those beneficiaries. When sharks go, they alter the marine ecosystem as a whole, well beyond the specific species they feed on. Several studies are already identifying the problems. The Integrative Ecology Group in Sevilla, Spain and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ... Continue reading →
May 22nd, 2012 • 09:05 (This post was written for the “Our Favorite Toxic Chemicals” blog carnival hosted by Sciencegeist.) It was a meal Captain James Cook would just as soon have forgotten. The fish, an unfamiliar species, seemed harmless enough. But after just a small taste of its liver, he and two shipmates regretted it. “We were seized with an extraordinary weakness in all our limbs attended with a numness [sic]…We each of us took a Vomet and after that a Sweat which gave great relief. One of the pigs which had eat the entrails was found dead… When the Natives came on board and saw the fish hanging up, they immidiately [sic] gave us to understand it was by no means to be ... Continue reading →
