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Science Chicago - Life's A Lab!
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As the world's largest science celebration, Science Chicago aims to awaken our inner scientists and raise awareness of our region's fantastic science resources. Science Chicago - Life's A Lab! blog is a forum providing science news and event info as well as fun and thoughtful discussion about the amazing world of science. Open to science enthusiasts of all ages across the globe!
- Added on: Jan 12th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Holly Dotterer
- Listed in: Science Technology
- Tags: science chicago "science chicago" "dr. rabiah mayas" "science saturday" "science conversation"
Recent Posts
Flu Emergency
My twin sister Jhilya, a microbiologist working in medical communications, writes today about some recent developments in the H1N1 pandemic. Still several weeks ahead of the expected seasonal flu peak, the Human-Avian-Swine H1N1 flu has already cla...
A Moment of Science (and, do plants feel pain?)
I stumbled across this Indiana Public Media website recently and wanted to share – A Moment of Science is a catalog of short audio and video pieces explaining some of the science behind everyday things. Today I caught up with a piece on chemica...
Getting Grandma’s Exercise Online
If you haven’t heard, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has been in town since Saturday for their annual meeting. The group boasts nearly 40,000 members and according to their website is “the world’s largest organization of scien...
Nobel Monday 2009 – Economics With An Environmental Connection
Woo-hoo!!!!! For the first time ever, a woman has been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Dr. Elinor Olstrom of Indiana University shares this year’s prize with Dr. Oliver Williamson of Universit...
Nobel Thursday/Friday 2009 – Surprise! And Surprise Again!
It’s not quite science, but the final two days of Nobel Laureate announcements were for the prizes in Literature and Peace. (Yes, I’m aware that the prize in Economics is still coming up, but that prize is a bit different, and winners are...
More Than A “Boy”
Our friend William Kamkwamba was back in Chicago last week, as he and co-author Ryan Mealer set out on a tour to promote their new book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. As we’re written here on the Blog before, William — I use his first ...
