by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 24, 2009 | Dr. John Reports, In the News
From Dr. John: Last week, David Meerman Scott, marketing guru and author of “The New Rules of Marketing and PR,” visited the Pentagon to discuss the importance of social media in the Defense Department’s communications arsenal. He spent two hours with the...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 22, 2009 | Blog, News
The Crunchy Chicken blogger writes: I wanted to write a post about the Hot Men of Climatology, but when I went a huntin’ for hotties, pretty much what I found were older men sporting a lot of hair or none at all. And, the only hot thing going on was more related...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 22, 2009 | Blog
On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of meeting with folks from Science House. James Jorasch (Founder) and Gabi De Wit (Project Coordinator) are helping me and my partner, Michael Gold, with the January 2010 beta launch of ScienceforCitizens.net, a major multifunctional Web...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 21, 2009 | Blog, Occam's Razor
Occam’s Razor on Functional Foods: I was reading an article in the Economist recently about functional foods. (I should note here that I barely understand anything in this magazine, which uses REALLY big words and talks a lot about places that as an American I...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 21, 2009 | Blog, Science Education
The itty bitty kids pictured here* invented EpiWatch, an alternative to traditional allergy shot systems. The small, wearable, computerized EpiWatch contains special codes and micro needles that instantly deliver painless doses of epinephrine when the wearer suffers...