The Week-in-Preview: The Sadly Short Edition

Forgive me, but I have much to do and little time to do it, so this preview will be brief.
I mentioned last week this lunchtime symposium at Penn:
“Towards an Integrated Science of Demographic Behavior: the Interplays of Alleles, Brains, and Contexts”
Monday, April 2, Noon to 1 pm
McNeil Building, 3718 Locust [...]

The Week-in-Preview: Hydrophobia, Hydrophilia and Coffee

For whatever reason, I am fascinated with this story of a BBC documentarian who had been bitten by a rabid cheetah. Perhaps it is the very notion of a rabid cheetah — a predator made more deadly, yet in a perverse way.  It’s like a poisonous pitbull or a shark with frickin’ laser beams.
So, I’m [...]

The Week-in-Preview: Chick Magnets

If you missed the flower show like I did, check out the flickr set by Nicole Gaddis, highlighted on our sidebar. No, that’s not hyacinth you smell, that’s the sweet scent of science event(s) coming right through your monitor
From this Wednesday to the next, here are some things you might want to consider attending.
After the [...]

The Week-in-Preview: Birth of Spring Edition

Pennsylvania is home to two of the greatest weather prognosticating outfits known to man kind: Punxsutawney Phil and Accuweather.
Despite today’s snowfall, both of them are predicting something of an early Spring, which is a fairly obvious stance since the equinox is coming and winter does not last forever. This week, we’re looking at a [...]