I instantly like anyone who names a book “Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose” so I’m pretty sure I’d be quite fond of Dr. Lee Alan Dugatkin who is described as “Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville.” He’s the main attraction at the next Science Cafe [...]
Continue reading...19. March 2010
I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything. – President Obama November 23, 2009 Good idea Mr. President. If you want to keep an eye on robots locally you should check out the temporary [...]
Continue reading...16. March 2010
I’m not much of a space person. I never dreamed of being an astronaut when I was a kid and I think rich people who pay tons of money to someday go on a space flight are a little silly. That being said even I’m kind of geeked about the Hubble IMAX film that’s opening [...]
Continue reading...13. January 2010
Since November there has been an exhibit at the Kornhauser Library (Medical School Library) titled Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. It’s a traveling exhibition from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The exhibition runs through February 1. Each week during the month of January there will be a free lecture in conjunction with the exhibit. [...]
Continue reading...13. November 2009
When you are pair-bonded with a doctor you can’t help but be inundated with medicine talk, insurance talk, health care talk in general and of course health care reform talk. You simply can’t get away from it. However, if you are not pair-bonded with a doctor I would suspect that health care reform is one [...]
Continue reading...29. April 2009
This time the area is beyond my comprehension is “Pursuit of Hyperquantum Chemistry via Slow Molecules and Swift Lasers.” Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dudley Herschbach, noted as an advocate for science education, will speak at the University of Louisville May 4-5. Herschbach is the Frank Baird professor of science at Harvard University, where he has taught [...]
Continue reading...6. April 2009
Like I can even understand what the Hadron Collider does. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek will be the inaugural speaker in the Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture series at the University of Louisville. The physics and astronomy department launched the series to honor Chamblin, a former faculty member and theoretical physicist who died in 2006. Wilczek, [...]
Continue reading...27. March 2009
OK big caveat, they’re saying “while supplies last” for the free Moon Pies so get thee there early. The Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium at the University of Louisville is celebrating its 47th birthday and-in lieu of birthday cake-will give everyone who attends its April 4 birthday celebration a moon pie (while supplies last) [...]
Continue reading...30. January 2009
Since I’m in a very foul mood about the state of things in Louisville at the moment I thought I’d write about something positive and happy making. Something that reminds me how much I love this city and all the cool things we do here. On Monday I went to the press conference celebrating the [...]
Continue reading...29. September 2008
Fresh on the heels of IdeaFestival comes the Nanotechnology Symposium: Advances in Nanotechnology and Applications at Sullivan University this weekend October 3-4, 2008. It doesn’t really look like this conference is geared toward the general public like Idea Festival is but I just think it’s cool we’re having a conference on Nanotechnology here.
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22. March 2010
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