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PlanktonGirl: November 2011

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Algae specialists, long near the bottom of the biology food chain, are becoming the rock stars.". Bourne, National Geographic, Oct. 2007. Thursday, November 17, 2011. Things on my desk. A number of my students have already played this game, so I've decided to join in. To the left of my desk are the 3-hole punch, various cups of lukewarm, several-day old tea (did you know mold will grow in tea? Behind my monitor is my latest piece de resistance, the decomposition chamber. Fashioned out of two 2-liter ...

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PlanktonGirl: Theory and Philosophy: Taking a Breather

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Algae specialists, long near the bottom of the biology food chain, are becoming the rock stars.". Bourne, National Geographic, Oct. 2007. Monday, February 6, 2012. Theory and Philosophy: Taking a Breather. Fortunately for my sanity, I have a wonderful blog-mentor and hero, Dragonfly Woman. Hence my maniac giggling as I write this post. You see, Dragonfly Woman researches giant water bugs and she recently wrote an incredibly beautiful piece. On their respiratory behaviors. February 6, 2012 at 10:13 PM.

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PlanktonGirl: Ludicrous Pretense in Scientific Papers: Medawar's Three Laws

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Algae specialists, long near the bottom of the biology food chain, are becoming the rock stars.". Bourne, National Geographic, Oct. 2007. Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Ludicrous Pretense in Scientific Papers: Medawar's Three Laws. Medawar, P. B. 1964. Is the scientific paper fraudulent? Saturday Review, 49:42-43. 1 The Law of Conservation of Information: Generalizations cannot contain more information than the sum of their foundations. Figure 1. This is how I illustrate the inductive approach to my st...

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PlanktonGirl: Back!

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Algae specialists, long near the bottom of the biology food chain, are becoming the rock stars.". Bourne, National Geographic, Oct. 2007. Saturday, January 7, 2012. For the scores of followers who were disappointed at my absence, the end of the semester included a huge workload, followed by a two-week trip to Maryland for the holidays. Anyway, I wanted to come back and say hello, because it is about to get all crazy on the ol'blog! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). By far my favorite algae. Aquatic eco...

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PlanktonGirl: August 2011

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Algae specialists, long near the bottom of the biology food chain, are becoming the rock stars.". Bourne, National Geographic, Oct. 2007. Monday, August 29, 2011. On a positive note, today was my one gallon donation day. Given the nature of this semester however, I think it will be a span before I hit that two gallon mark. This is a little too bad, because in September they have a new Sooner shirt coming out. Granted, this is not the actual proposed title of my degree, although a rebel nerd part of me re...

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PlanktonGirl: Promoting a Necessary Myth: The Arrangement of a Scientific Paper

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Algae specialists, long near the bottom of the biology food chain, are becoming the rock stars.". Bourne, National Geographic, Oct. 2007. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Promoting a Necessary Myth: The Arrangement of a Scientific Paper. Gross, A. G. (1996). The arrangement of a scientific paper. In The Rhetoric of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 85-96. So, what does this have to do with scienctific writing and the scientific paper? Who analyzes myths as "a logical model capable...

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PlanktonGirl: February 2012

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Algae specialists, long near the bottom of the biology food chain, are becoming the rock stars.". Bourne, National Geographic, Oct. 2007. Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Gross, A. G., Harmon, J. E., and Reidy, M. (2002). Style and presentation in the 17th century. (p. 31-47). Communicating Science. This text is actually a bit of a dry read; it is a lot of hard-core textual analysis. However, there are some moments of note. If you read my post on Boyle. Let's just say that botany. Communication of science ther...

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PlanktonGirl: Bringing it to a Boyle: Virtual Witnesses to Matters of Fact

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Algae specialists, long near the bottom of the biology food chain, are becoming the rock stars.". Bourne, National Geographic, Oct. 2007. Saturday, February 4, 2012. Bringing it to a Boyle: Virtual Witnesses to Matters of Fact. Shapin, S. (2010). "Pump and circumstance: Robert Boyle's literary technology." Never Pure: Historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority. Thus, these matters o...

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PlanktonGirl: Pleasure in Anachronism

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Algae specialists, long near the bottom of the biology food chain, are becoming the rock stars.". Bourne, National Geographic, Oct. 2007. Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Gross, A. G., Harmon, J. E., and Reidy, M. (2002). Style and presentation in the 17th century. (p. 31-47). Communicating Science. This text is actually a bit of a dry read; it is a lot of hard-core textual analysis. However, there are some moments of note. If you read my post on Boyle. Let's just say that botany. Communication of science ther...