Giovanna Di Sauro

When I saw this, I just had to post it on my blog. I do not think I have ever seen a better way to describe science, and whether you are doing it wrong.

A few days ago, while navigating in TED territory, I stumbled into this talk given by a Princeton sophomore. The main topic of the talk was to present a different view of cancer than the one we are usually accustomed to. While we are used to thinking that cancer is a terrible disease, it would hardly cross our mind that it could be some kind of a cure, or better an attempt to heal parts of our body that are damaged – an attempt that often gets out of control.

How many of you remember Jurassic Park? If you do, you would probably also remember that resuscitating a species which has undergone extinction long ago would basically be impossible because of, among other things, DNA degradation. But what about species that are more recent, and whose tissue samples have been carefully stored?

This is the second and last part of a series of posts aimed at helping you (and me) write a proper blog disclaimer. In the first post I listed some useful resources, and explained why anyone writing a blog needs a blog disclaimer, no matter what topic you are writing about. In this second section, I will propose a general blog disclaimer template that can possibly be used by anyone out there needing to write one.

Installation instructions for Desktop CD and review of Xubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron LTS. If you need to see some screen shots and get detailed instructions, you have come to the right place.

I will be back on Monday (I deserve a holiday once a year!), but in the meantime you can read this article written by yours truly, but edited and published by the Peak, Simon Fraser University’s independent newspaper. This article is more of a reflection on the results of the recent study on fruitless flies, results I have already talked about on this blog, and it has been written for a general audience. Feedback and comments are welcome.

In this first post, I will list links to some useful legal resources for bloggers on digital rights and how to write a blog disclaimer, and in my second one I will post a disclaimer template.

This is the second post dedicated to Bisphenol A (BPA). In this post I will talk about the research regarding BPA biological activity, and the medical as well as ecological implications of BPA presence for us and our environment.