Author: professor blue
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Question: Who are they? Here’s a clue: It all starts out with just one of them.
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What do engineers do?
You may be playing with your legos, and then you hear someone use the E word: engineers. What’s an engineer?
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The Professor and the Frog – bad jokes abound!
Warning! Bad jokes lurk here. This is only a joke. You can check out more from the good people at Interactive Biology.
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What we can learn from an ant
Not enough gas for the family car? Let’s grow us some biofuels! Scientists are looking to a certain ant from the forest for instruction on how to use bacteria to make biofuel.
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Interview with a dancing scientist
Our interview with Cedric Tan, famous for dancing his PhD thesis topic. We featured Cedric earlier here at the bloog because he made a dance out of his graduate studies on fruit flies and … chickens – also known as ‘red jungle fowl’. And it was excellent! He is currently a PhD student at the…
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And speaking of snow and animals…
Dogs can sniff out people who get buried in an avalanche. Check out this cool video on how they do it.
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The bears are hibernating but soon they’ll have to eat
It’s winter in much of the world, which means colder weather. Sometimes snow is involved. Snow is what makes me think of hibernating bears. And how when they wake up they’ll be hungry. And that reminded me of this research that found that we humans need predators such as bears, and wolves, cougars mountain lions,…
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Better than slime
It really is better than slime. It’s an advertisement but we weren’t paid for it. No one asked us to talk about it. But we sure do love it!
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Smells like homework
Imagine being able to do a dance to prove that you’d done your social studies, math, english homework. Dance your PhD 2011: Smell mediated response to relatedness of potential mates from Cedric Kai Wei Tan on Vimeo.