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Benson elected fellow for science, technology studies related to law
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:17:33 -0700
An area district judge is one of three in Minnesota recently elected fellows in the national Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Center, or ASTAR.
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Desperately seeking math and science majors
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:32:04 -0700
Applied Materials had to fly in 100 interviewers just to screen all the job applicants for its new Solar Technology Center in Xi'an, China, last year. The company wanted to fill 260 high-tech jobs. It got 26,000 resumes. A fraction of those applicants were invited to interview. The final selectees, board member Andy Karsner tells me, "were top-of-their-class, English-speaking engineers. They're ...
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A science section for the Huffington Post? More like a pseudoscience section! (2010 edition) [Respectful Insolence]
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:37:18 -0700
Funny how everything old is new again, isn't it? Yes, if there's one thing I've learned over nearly six years of blogging, it's that, sooner or later, everything is recycled, and I do mean everything . At least, that was the thought going through my mind when I came across PZ's discussion of a clueless wonder who appears to be advocating a science section in that cesspit of anti-vaccine quackery ...
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Breast Cancer's DNA Yields More Secrets
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:00:34 -0700
THURSDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- The genetic makeup of breast cancer tumors may be a better predictor of how well a woman will fare than a tumor's size and appearance, which has been the traditional way of looking at cancers, new research suggests.
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