The Online Laboratory of Kevin Zelnio » Science http://www.zelnio.org Deep Sea Biology | Systematics & Taxonomy | Science Writing | Music Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:23:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Women in Science FAIL http://www.zelnio.org/2009/10/23/women-in-science-fail/ http://www.zelnio.org/2009/10/23/women-in-science-fail/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:36:44 +0000 Kevin Zelnio http://www.zelnio.org/?p=267 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 it [...]]]> http://www.zelnio.org/2009/10/23/women-in-science-fail/feed/ 17 The Joy of Uncertainty http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/23/the-joy-of-uncertainty/ http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/23/the-joy-of-uncertainty/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:08:32 +0000 Kevin Zelnio http://www.zelnio.org/?p=128 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 by [...]]]> http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/23/the-joy-of-uncertainty/feed/ 3 Patenting Systematics http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/08/patenting-systematics/ http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/08/patenting-systematics/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:39:23 +0000 Kevin Zelnio http://www.zelnio.org/?p=96 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

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