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Women in Science FAIL

Not entirely sure this ad on Science Magazine’s website needs much explaining of the blatant misogyny here. The look of ecstasy on the clear faced young attractive women, the dominating positioning of the gecko anole, an often masculine animal symbol, ever so precariously perched on her lips…

I don’t think I am reading too much into [...]

The Joy of Uncertainty

It is difficult to accept not knowing something. To have a definitive answer is to embrace certainty, to be in control of a situation. It is hard to blame a person for being wary of another for admitting not to know an answer, even an answer that a person should know. Can one be convinced [...]

Patenting Systematics

An interesting news piece came out today in the most recent issue of Science. Elizabeth Pennisi reports that systematists are up in arms over pending patents on methods that have been in place for dozens of years. Such as a novel

“… way to use biological data that has been organized according to evolutionary relatedness. [...]