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25.01.2022 Differentiating science from pseudoscience is important because many decisions depend on our best understanding of the natural world. SCIENCE is objective quest...ioning in search of answers to discover truths about our universe through observation and experiment. It is the constant and ongoing study of nature... from the tiniest subatomic possibilities... to cosmic unimaginable measures. Science allows us to find out answers that can be tested and verified by anyone else with the very same results. Science is designed to follow the evidence, facts, and initial answers toward wherever they may lead without bias or preconception... even if it leads to answers not desired. For this reason, science is in a constant state of change as new, even unexpected, answers and discoveries present themselves. PSEUDOSCIENCE, on the other hand, starts with a distinct bias or set of biases from the beginning. It is a subjective, rather than an objective, approach to make or prove a point that does not stand up to the rigors of the scientific method. Pseudoscience includes beliefs, theories, or practices that may have once been or are, even now, considered scientific by some people, but in reality have no basis in scientific fact. This could mean they were disproved scientifically, can't be tested scientifically, or lack credible evidence to support them. Astrology is an example of pseudoscience. Sources: https://www.npr.org///512402110/what-makes-science-science https://www.npr.org//2017/05/08/5273/what-is-pseudoscience https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-tell-the-difference-between
24.01.2022 Today Sarah's guest is biologist Merlin Sheldrake who takes us on a trip to the 'Wood Wide Web', where plants and intelligent fungi interact. Mind blowing scien...ce! Find the podcast in your feeds, or listen here: https://bit.ly/sheldrakefungiSK (image of bioluminescent fungi by Alison Pouliot) See more
21.01.2022 Many of my clients are multi-language authors, a term I'll use from now on instead of 'ESL' authors.
21.01.2022 we often see discussions here about shifts in language (and even naming) due to common use; here's a related but different situation (with a bonus wink to those of you out there who love Microsoft as much as I do): https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates?fbclid=IwAR2dHh_T0OAZEIpn5zq58WdcIZRqTZfiFtwg70fWFmkrIreEwtOjaS3DyyM
21.01.2022 Just a fun article I ran across.
20.01.2022 Transcription . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Image: a photo of a children's board book, open and standing up. On the left side, there are SIX cartoon bananas, and the text "5 bananas". On the right side, the large numeral 5 and the text "five" beneath it. Text: Proofreading this book couldn't have been that hard
20.01.2022 The oldest temperate hardwood tree in the world.
17.01.2022 A little light humour :)
17.01.2022 Weird things in space and on Earth were examined in our latest week of science. See the links below for more! Black holes https://bit.ly/326ZN5z Plants and miss...ing people https://bit.ly/3lQAjky Space changes brains https://bit.ly/3lWnTYm Bee venom https://bit.ly/2R7GNgF Rusting moon https://bit.ly/325I52o Melting ice sheets https://bit.ly/33jjAhB See more
15.01.2022 An APROSDOKETON is a figure of speech in which an expected word in an idiom is replaced with an unexpected one - e.g. "Rome wasn't built in a teacup".
12.01.2022 "This was my wake-up call about the need to speak up for myself regarding authorship, and to speak out against the unfair convention of diminishing the contributions of undergrads and technicians to scientific research." This week's Working Life from Science.
12.01.2022 Dr Hervé Sauquet & researchers from UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México constructed the world's first complete evolutionary 'time-tree' for all the flowering plant families known to date via Cosmos Magazine https://bit.ly/2WefaWq
12.01.2022 Proud to have been the managing editor on this: https://issuu.com/bganz//tbg_iss55_summer20-21_final_201128
11.01.2022 Hope this might be useful.
09.01.2022 Plants have a unique ability to safeguard themselves against pathogens by closing their poresbut until now, no one knew quite how they did it. Scientists have ...known that a flood of calcium into the cells surrounding the pores triggers them to close, but how the calcium entered the cells was unclear. "A new study reveals that a protein called OSCA1.3 forms a channel that leaks calcium into the cells surrounding a plant’s pores, and they determined that a known immune system protein triggers the process." Plant porescalled stomataare encircled by two guard cells, which respond to calcium signals that tell the cells to expand or contract and trigger innate immune signals, initiating the plant’s defense response. Because calcium cannot pass directly through the guard cell membranes, scientists knew a calcium channel had to be at work. But they didn’t know which protein acted as the calcium channel. To find this protein, that would be modified by another protein named BIK1, which genetic studies and bioassays identified as a necessary component of the immune calcium response in plants. When proteins exposed to BIK1, one protein called OSCA1.3 transformed in a very specific way that suggested it could be a calcium channel for plants. OSCA1.3 is a member of a widespread family of proteins known to exist as ion channels in many organisms, including humans, and it seems to be specifically activated upon detection of pathogens. BIK1 only activates when plants get infected with a pathogen, which suggests that OSCA1.3 opens a calcium channel to close stomata as a defensive, immune system response to pathogens. This fundamental knowledge is badly needed to inform ecology and agriculture on how the biome will react to the climatic changes that our planet is going through.
09.01.2022 After submitting a paper a decade ago, Adriana Romero-Olivares received patronizing feedbacknot about her science, but about her English. "As a nonnative English speaker who needs to publish in English, I still think about the experience today." #ScienceMagArchives
08.01.2022 "By refusing to use the titles scientists have earned, news outlets contribute to the delegitimization of expertise."
07.01.2022 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03422-x
06.01.2022 DNA... #sciencefunny #DNA Image via: I am in Science
06.01.2022 Fantastic fungi!
01.01.2022 A blog post on plain English from EAE members Laura and Luke.
01.01.2022 I wonder where they are on the evolutionary ladder?
