Lord Rutherford about statistics

“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”

Lord Rutherford 

Someone has to decide…

Deve o criacionismo ser leccionado numa aula de biologia do ensino secundário?

Acho que este cartoon faz uma boa análise da situação.

Cartoon originally posted in : http://nebioq-up.blogspot.com/2007/10/ciencia-vs-criacionismo-porque-nao.html

sometimes it’s not easy naming molecules…

Someone had the idea of searching up molecules which have “unusual” names that somewhat resemble other things. For instance, did you know that there is a molecule called “arsole”? Or that there is another one called “megaphone”? or even a “pterodactyladiene”?
The list is quite extensive. Here is the site Enjoy and learn .

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm

just one example:
“Mirasorvone: This molecule is part of the defensive chemistry of Thermonectus marmoratus, a beetle

recently named the “sunburst diving beetle”. The discoverers’ at Cornell University named it in honour of the actress Mira Sorvino (right), who, as Dr Susan Tyler in the motion picture Mimic, successfully confronted the

ultimate insect challenge.”

Essentials for scientific communications

We all know that an important part of the scientific work is related to communicating your findings to your peers. So here are a couple of texts on the subject (from the “Improbable research” site). I hope you find them useful .

“How to write a scientific paper“, by E. Robert Schulman

” How To Make a Scientific Lecture Unbearable” , by Alexander Khon

expand…

Someone sent this to me by e-mail…

In the limit…

from PhD Comics: back from holidays

humor para químicos…

source : http://www.humornaciencia.com.br/

Schrödinger’s comic

Comic strip taken from: http://xkcd.com/c45.html