Hirschey Lab
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The Hirschey Lab in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology and the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition & Metabolism Center at Duke University explores different aspects of the biology of mitochondrial energy production, a crucial cellular process gaining recognition as an important regulator of human health and disease.
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This "How to:" series provides scientific advice for scientists-in-training, such as under-graduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows.
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This collection of papers provides valuable scientific advice from some of the world's leading scientists on scientific problem solving and communication
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What Is Science?
April 06, 2012
From Feynman to Sagan to Asimov to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitionsby Maria Popovaᔥ
‘The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.’ Read More...
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The Two Things
November 03, 2011
The Story of the Two Things
By Glen Whitman
A few years ago, Glen was chatting with a stranger in a bar. When he told him he was an economist, the stranger said, “Ah. So… what are the Two Things about economics?”
“Huh?” Glen cleverly replied. Read More...
Crowdsourcing Scientific Funding
August 02, 2011
Kickstarter is the uber-popular funding platform for creative projects, which launched in 2009. Since then, it has crowdfunded projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields. I wondered if they allowed science projects to be funded through their site. Wouldn't it be great, I thought, to raise millions of dollars to fund scientific projects? Surely the public who donates a few dollars for a widget, would also donate a few dollars to cure cancer. But Kickstarter doesn't permit this funding mechanism because they are funding projects strictly for the development or creation of tangible items. I'm not sure about the other crowdfunding sites. However, the idea of crowdfunding science is an interesting one: to put scientists in front of the crowd to raise money, and this is exactly the idea behind the new #SciFund Challenge; unfortunately, I'm skeptical it'll work. Read More...
How to publish a paper in Nature
June 09, 2011
Nature Publishing Group (@NatureAuthors) recently posted to Twitter
How to submit a paper to a scientific journal http://j.mp/iHYqj9. Something of a "golden oldie" but still very relevant, esp for new authors
It was written by Maxine Clarke, an executive editor of the prestigious journal Nature, and originally shared with the world via http://www.scidev.net on February 11, 2008 (11-2-08 for our European readers). It takes us through the processes involved in submitting a paper to a scientific journal. However, since the post was shared over 3 years ago (clearly a golden oldie), I thought it might need a little updating. So, here's the new version, with