With one week to go until deadline, more Ph.D. dances arrive
Now I know how an NSF administrator feels. With just one week to go before the 1-September deadline for the “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest, most of the scientists who are working on their dances still haven’t submitted. But that’s just how science gets done: Always last-minute. It seems to be in our DNA.
Two more dances just came in. An economic modeling of the phosphorous cycle under different agricultural regimes, and a study of transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for spinal chord injury.
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How to make Stephen Colbert eat cat food
Yes, I caused Stephen Colbert to eat cat food on TV. But let me explain…
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Galileo in Senegal
A time travel experiment. Impossible? Yes probably, but it didn’t stop us from trying. Our goal was to introduce astronomy to people in remote African villages to see how Galileo might have been received if he brought telescopes.
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The ultimate film festival for science geeks
What to do after a cell biology PhD? Alexis Gambis got a haircut, moved to Brooklyn, and is now the director of the Imagine Science Film Festival.