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Who Owns Origin Of Life?: The Lonsdale Prize
Monday, 21 May 2012, 4:56 pm | Suzan Mazur
As a long-time protector of the Pacific Northwest's old growth forests and the political darling of environmentalists there, philanthropist Harry Lonsdale now thinks there is no greater wilderness to get his feet wet in than the origin of life. More >>
James Shapiro: On The Evolution Paradigm Shift
Friday, 11 May 2012, 10:10 am | Suzan Mazur
Given the exemplary status of biological evolution, we can anticipate that a paradigm shift in our understanding of that subject will have repercussions far outside the life sciences...How such an evolutionary paradigm shift will play out in the physical ... More >>
Gil Noble: Pianoman, Broadcaster, Tenaciously Human
Monday, 26 December 2011, 3:34 pm | Suzan Mazur
The news that legendary television broadcaster Gil Noble had a serious stroke earlier this year made me pause to think about how he touched my life. It was just before Christmas 1971 that I first met Gil, not long after New York publishing houses braced ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Betsey Johnson, 2nd Skin & Darpa $$$
Sunday, 16 October 2011, 6:42 pm | Suzan Mazur
On the heels of the public symposium on "humans in space" held in Orlando earlier this month , DARPA will award $500,000 next month to individuals and organizations with the best ideas on the subject . Futuristic designer Betsey Johnson had some ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Bill Blass - Into The Retro Future
Saturday, 1 October 2011, 12:40 pm | Suzan Mazur
The late fashion impresario Bill Blass would have been a natural for commercial spacecraft design and candidate for DARPA's humans-in-space $$$ being awarded in November , having influenced Detroit's production and pitch of the Lincoln Continental. More >>
Rubenstein's Lacera Talk Predicts Lehman Collapse?
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 1:10 am | Suzan Mazur
In the now-famous "How Bush Got Bounced from Carlyle Board " speech that Carlyle Group's co-founder David Rubenstein gave to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association on April 23, 2003, he also touched on the matter of investment bubbles. More >>
Suzan Mazur: Geoffrey Beene, Spacewear & DARPA $$$
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 1:02 pm | Suzan Mazur
With DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) now offering $500,000 in seed money for ideas related to sending humans into space , which it will award this November, I thought I'd revisit my Omni magazine conversations on future fashion with designers ... More >>
Futurist Giorgio Sant' Angelo, An Hommage
Thursday, 18 August 2011, 12:42 am | Suzan Mazur
"I dream constantly. Mostly while I'm awake." -- Giorgio Sant' Angelo In the mid 1970s when art inspired New York's fashion runways, there existed a stable of designers financed by Ben "Mr. Seventh Avenue" Shaw , among them avant garde talent Giorgio ... More >>
Origin of Life: Peter & Florence Mazur
Sunday, 24 July 2011, 2:47 pm | Suzan Mazur
The news of Mom's passing this spring shocked the northeastern Pennsylvania community where our family lived. Florence Rosemary Mazur was a vibrant woman of 84 who died in March after a month's hospitalizaton, having suddenly contracted a mysterious ... More >>
Pigliucci Deceit Drags Publisher Into Big Muddy
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 12:45 pm | Suzan Mazur
After a two-week review of the following letter, the University of Chicago Press has advised "Via Electronic Mail" and their legal counsel that they stand by their man, Massimo Pigliucci, and will neither remove his junk science book from circulation ... More >>
On the Origin of "The Altenberg 16"
Monday, 19 April 2010, 4:46 pm | Suzan Mazur
Since MIT Press does not fact-check its books (University of California, Berkeley does) -- according to the above email to me this past week from Executive Editor, Robert Prior -- its new Evolution: The Extended Synthesis volume opens with this ... More >>
The Peer Review "Fig Leaf": Vera Hassner Sharav
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 6:45 pm | Suzan Mazur
While the chief of the US National Institute of Mental Health this week stopped short of saying scientists are corrupt because of their ties to industry, as AP reported -- Vera Hassner Sharav does not give scientists a similar pass, partly because the ... More >>
What Darwin Got Wrong: Brainwash Done Right
Sunday, 21 March 2010, 2:27 pm | Suzan Mazur
Let's begin with the facts: The days of evolutionary science being an exclusive old boys club are over. The public is a party to the discourse now and knows the emphasis in evolutionary science is on VISION and not textbook rules. And while Rutgers philosopher ... More >>
David Noble: Peer Review, Where Are The Scholars?
Friday, 26 February 2010, 2:43 pm | Suzan Mazur
No, passing peer review is not the scientific equivalent of the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. . . I confess that decades ago as a Hearst Magazines fledgling I would on occasion pass by, and with some curiosity, peek in the glassed-in Good ... More >>
Free Science Peer Review From Cultish Conspiracy
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 1:54 pm | Suzan Mazur
While the hacked emails episode several months ago revealing attempts by scientists to withhold information about global warming from publication has put the matter of peer review under scrutiny like never before , secrecy in peer review continues ... More >>
Margulis: Peer Review Or "Cycle Of Submission"?
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 10:03 am | Suzan Mazur
"Grants are awarded by your colleagues who sit in Research Councils and Foundations. Most of us, in any establishment, tend to be conservative and to follow what is called the paradigm. This creates a cycle of submission. . . . The disregard for science’s ... More >>
Italy Seeks Ancient Loot From Symes Trustees
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 12:53 pm | Suzan Mazur
Among the high profile clients of British antiquities dealer Robin Symes was Maurice Tempelsman -- one of the pillars of the Eastern Establishment (Council on Foreign Relations, Africa-America Institute, long-time beau of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ... More >>
Vincent Fleury On Origin Of Form (And PZ Myers)
Friday, 26 June 2009, 11:24 am | Suzan Mazur
Vincent Fleury is a French scientist investigating origin of form with experiments involving cellular flow. He was recently featured in a PZ Myers Pharyngula blog -- where his work first caught my eye. More >>
Hi Ho Silver! -- The Lost Chalice
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 11:44 am | Suzan Mazur
Yes, there was a 1955 Lone Ranger episode called " The Lost Chalice " about a chase for escaped convicts and a treasure. And if you’re a Spaghetti Western fan, you might like the HarperCollins version of the book by the same name with its "Cast ... More >>
Paul Nurse: Revolution In Biology
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 12:26 pm | Suzan Mazur
The elevator was supposed to go down to the powder room but mysteriously went up to the 8th floor at Manhattan’s Rockefeller University, where I was attending a two-day public Evolution symposium last May. As the doors opened, in walked Nobel ... More >>
