Follows Easily
Okay, I get it when I’m reading a research paper. But for a textbook, these kinds of details should probably be shown. Maybe I’m just tackling textbooks that are too far ahead of me…
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Variable Conditions
Pineapples and Whales presents: Evolutionary Tales!
We’re super excited to unveil our latest adventure in artistic science communication, Evolutionary Tales! We loove creative writing. As much as we love drawing. And ecology & evolution, of course! Naturally our fondness for these activities culminated in a pet science communication project: a collection of fairy tales about science! Imagine the Three Little Pigs teaching you about genetic drift, or evil stepmothers embodying meiotic drive. The perceptive Goldilocks testing out new habitats, with the…
Research Bubble
In mathematics, this is known as “proof by circularityâ€, and is partly where I got the idea for this comic (from someone else). However, my real motivation came from the fact that I was looking at the literature for a specific topic, and I kept on seeing the same few papers being referenced. I was hoping to find something new, but I couldn’t seem to break this “bubble†of citations.
#552 The First Cell
This week we take a closer look at what cancer is, how it works, and what makes it so hard to treat without shying away or ignoring the human experience of cancer for patients and their families. We talk with Dr Azra Raza, oncologist, Professor of Medicine, Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University, and author of the new book "The First Cell and the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last".
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#551 Translating Science, Part 2
This week on Science for the People, we're discussing how Siksika become one of the official translation languages for press releases from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The area of the world that is now known as Canada has an abundance of distinct languages; according to the 2016 Census, over 70 are still spoken. But the British government, and then the Canadian government, spent generations trying to prevent children from learning these languages. One…
