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| 17 Sep ||Chris Simon ||  Magicicada phylogeography and life cycle evolution with Teiji Sota
 
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| 24 Sep ||Chris Simon ||  Genomics Projects in the Simon Lab; Digging for cicada nymphs 7th October
 
| 24 Sep ||Chris Simon ||  Genomics Projects in the Simon Lab; Digging for cicada nymphs 7th October
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| 8 Oct || ||   No presentations: Chris Simon away
 
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| 16 Oct||Andrew Lagasse & Adam Wilson ||[http://tinyurl.com/3k7lvj Findings: A Gift From the ’70s: Energy Lessons]  NY Times 10/7/08 (we recommend you drink something warm before re-reading this)|| You should check out the followup comment by Tierny [http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/a-new-image-for-nukes/ here] and  a reply by Amory Lovins [http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/a-new-image-for-nukes/?apage=4#comment-32843 here]. 
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| 15 Oct ||Beth || Kikihia microsat data
 
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If you are still interested, you can read this [http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1812540,00.html Time article] for a perspective that swings in the opposite direction.  You can also check out Amory Lovins' (long) [http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E08-01_AmbioNuclIlusion.pdf  2008 article] re-examining nuclear power.
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| 23 Oct ||Aaron Lescroart||[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/science/14gree.html?_r=2&scp=6&sq=Oct%2014%202008%20science&st=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin A Guiding Glow to Track the Movement What Was Once Invisible] NY Times 10/13/08
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| 22 Oct ||Pat Gero? || Evolution and speciation in the Australian Tick Tocks
ALSO [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/images/c/c3/Bob_notes_on_SEJSciCommPanel.pdf Bob's notes] on a special session at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists 
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|| [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/info.pdf This ]is a press release by the Nobel foundation giving a background narrative to how the protein was discovered and eventually used.
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[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/chemadv08.pdf Here's] another press release by the foundation that explains the science behind how the protein works and scientific applications.
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| 30 Oct ||Lyndsey Tanner & Kellie Kuhn  ||  We will be discussing [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EED7113FF932A15753C1A96E9C8B63&scp=10&sq=for%20breast%20health,%20take%20the%20initiative&st=cse "For breast health, taking the initiative"] by Jane Brody  ||Two supplementary articles: [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/health/research/23canc.html?pagewanted=all first] and [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/health/12case.html?scp=2&sq=Cancer%20and%20Finding%20a%20personality%20&st=cse second], both from the New York Times.
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| 29 Oct || Geert ||  Something about Zammarines
 
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| 6 Nov ||Brian Klingbeil  || [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/science/28obinfr.html?ref=science Ravenous Bugs Find a Hot Spot in Trees' Pine Cones] NY Times 10/27/08 || Link to article in Proceedings of the Royal
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| 5 Nov || Chris Owen || TBA
Society Series B [http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/0315t4k222526v81/]
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| 13 Nov ||Yannawan Wongchai  ||[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/health/04denguefever.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=dengue%20&st=cse&oref=slogin The War on Dengue Fever]  ||[https://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/scicomm/Dengue%20%20paper.pdf Link to article from Clinical Infectious Diseases] on the development of vaccines for dengue fever.
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| 12 Nov || Russ || Something fun!
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| 20 Nov ||Leroy Robinson  ||[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/health/research/11brain.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=mental%20disorders,%20genes&st=cse "In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents’ Genes Are in Competition"]
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| 19 Nov ||Thanksgiving Week ||  
|| [http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Crespi-02162007/Referees/Crespi-02162007_preprint.pdf "Psychosis and Autism as Diametrical Disorders of the Social Brain"]  (Only Read page 1-15, unless you have a whole lot of free time!)
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David Haig's 2003 paper [http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/haig/Publications_files/03WhatGood.pdf "What Good is Genomic Imprinting: The Function of Parent-Specific Gene Expression"] (One of the major influences on the Crespi and Badcock paper)(Optional Reading)
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| 27 Nov ||XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX||NO MEETING: THANKSGIVING || 
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| 26 Nov ||Ben Price || African Parnisini
 
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| 4 Dec ||Chiron Otero  ||[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18tier.html "In Bias Test, Shades of Gray"] ||[http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/how-do-you-measure-bias/ "How Do You Measure Bias?"] is a follow-up in Tierney's blog explaining more about the debate.
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| 3 Dec         ||Sarah Banker || The evolution of the genus Kikihia
 
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Also, please take the Race IAT [https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/ here] (and remember your results!) as it will be discussed.
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The two main scientific articles referenced in the NYT piece are [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2219763 here] and [http://www.springerlink.com/content/pg12587263076803/ here], but feel free to read them casually as they are a bit technical.
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== Related Reading ==
 
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'''An article from the Columbia Journalism Review on [http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/science_reporting_by_press_rel.php the practice of writing science news from press releases, rather than from interviews]'''
 
 
''' A Science article on [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/322/5901/532 communicating the risks of Climate Change]'''
 
 
'''[http://www.jibjab.com/player/main.swf?jid=130841 News Humor!]'''
 
 
'''The Washington Post's [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/green/index.html "GREEN: Science. Policy. Living."] page, online.
 
 
'''A report on evidence of [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=media-bias-presidential-election media bias] from Scientific American'''
 
 
'''Peter Vitousek's 1994 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1941591.pdf MacArthur Lecture] on Ecology and Global Change''', wherein he notes that we are not doing a very good job of communicating our evidence to the public. Uh, yeah.
 
 
'''The first of two-part piece from the Columbia Journalism Review on [http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/public_opinion_and_climate_par.php  Public Opinion and Climate Change]'''
 
 
'''Part Two of the CJR [http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/public_opinion_and_climate_par_1.php?page=all Public Opinion  and Climate Change] piece.'''
 
 
'''[http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html  Governor Palin's stance on teaching creationism in the classroom ] From the Anchorage Daily News, this ran during the last gubernatorial race in AK.
 
 
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 13:44, 25 September 2012

Discussion Schedule

Week of: Who Topic Notes
17 Sep Chris Simon Magicicada phylogeography and life cycle evolution with Teiji Sota
24 Sep Chris Simon Genomics Projects in the Simon Lab; Digging for cicada nymphs 7th October
1 Oct
8 Oct No presentations: Chris Simon away
15 Oct Beth Kikihia microsat data
22 Oct Pat Gero? Evolution and speciation in the Australian Tick Tocks
29 Oct Geert Something about Zammarines
5 Nov Chris Owen TBA
12 Nov Russ Something fun!
19 Nov Thanksgiving Week
26 Nov Ben Price African Parnisini
3 Dec Sarah Banker The evolution of the genus Kikihia