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Mazur On Euphronios At Harvard Law & Lost Chalice
Monday, 30 March 2009, 2:13 pm | Suzan Mazur
This is one of the most refreshing examples I've seen of how Internet reporting is influencing institutional learning. Unbeknownst to me, at the time that Altenberg! The Woodstock of Evolution? was beginning to “reverberate throughout the evolutionary ... More >>
Lynn Margulis: Intimacy Of Strangers & Natural Selection
Monday, 16 March 2009, 5:59 pm | Suzan Mazur
While Eastman Professor Lynn Margulis clearly doesn't have time on her hands at Oxford University’s Balliol College where she’s spending the year away from her other job as Distinguished University Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst ... More >>
Evolution Sea Change? David H. Koch Weighs In
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 12:27 pm | Suzan Mazur
It was an exquisitely warm, sunny February day and New York's groundhog had just bit the mayor, grabbing the headlines too. I made my way to the East Side, cutting through Barneys to the Madison Avenue offices of Koch Industries, Inc., the Kansas-based ... More >>
Scott Gilbert: Evolutionary Mechanisms & Knish
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 4:50 pm | Suzan Mazur
You’ve got to love the chutzpah of a scientist like Swarthmore biologist Scott F. Gilbert, who (along with his students) once wrote a feminist critique of fertilization narrative, as well as his joie de vie “moonlighting” as a piano player in a Jewish ... More >>
The Rome Abstracts: "Evolutionary Mechanisms"
Saturday, 14 February 2009, 11:44 am | Suzan Mazur
Why have the two major evolution conferences of the year (this and last) been hosted outside the United States? In July 2008, we had Altenberg, Austria and the "Extended Synthesis" , and on March 3-7, 2009 in Rome, "Biological Facts and Theories: A Critical ... More >>
Pigliucci: Scientist Or Ongeblussen?
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 2:46 pm | Suzan Mazur
"The kinds of things you're reporting on, you're reaching a wider audience. It is important in writing to highlight where there may be controversies or disagreements because that is what's most exciting, that's what moves science. . . . More >>
The Astrobiologists
Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 4:17 pm | Suzan Mazur
A fter reviewing Robert M. Hazen’s 28-page C.V. of his work as an experimental mineralogist (listing grant $$$ too), as an educator, author of a dozen books and a symphonic trumpeter – I was most charmed to read that a new mineral “precipitated” ... More >>
Stuart Newman: Evolution Politics
Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 3:37 pm | Suzan Mazur
I t’s not surprising that Stuart Newman was one of “the Altenberg 16” scientists who kicked off a reformulation of the theory of evolution, the “extended evolutionary synthesis,” this July at Konrad Lorenz Insitute. While I’ve been writing about ... More >>
Onward -- Altenberg 16 At Howard University
Monday, 17 November 2008, 12:08 pm | Suzan Mazur
Move over Charles Darwin, this year's the 125th anniversary of Ernest Everett Just's birth. And that's what brings Altenberg 16's dynamic duo -- New York Medical College cell biologist Stuart Newman and Konrad Lorenz Institute chair Gerd Muller -- to ... More >>
Zus & Son Of Zus: The Defiance Film
Monday, 20 October 2008, 1:06 pm | Suzan Mazur
One night during the untamed post-Woodstock years living in Greenwich Village, my sister and her husband introduced me to a gorgeous Israeli-American scholar and athlete named Jay, the son of Zus -- Alexander "Zus" Bielski, a WWII resistance fighter and ... More >>
Nature: Yes We Stole Yr Altenberg-Woodstock Theme
Monday, 6 October 2008, 12:25 am | Suzan Mazur
Now that Nature magazine -- pants down -- has admitted its theft and has partially and begrudgingly corrected the record regarding my first coverage of the Altenberg story, let's put blame where blame is due. In a breach of public trust, the coordinator(s) ... More >>
Ex NASA Astrobiology Instit. Chief Bruce Runnegar
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 4:06 pm | Suzan Mazur
I've been having bits and pieces of communication with former NASA Astrobiology Institute chief Bruce Runnegar in recent weeks in between his field trips to Australia -- sometimes via his wife Maria, a biochemist at the University of Southern California. Runnegar ... More >>
NASA Humanist Chris McKay: Where Darwinism Fails
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 4:12 pm | Suzan Mazur
Over the phone I detect a touch of William Shatner's Kirk in the voice of NASA astrobiologist Christopher P. McKay . McKay admits he was inspired by the television series Star Trek 30 years ago and the "great voyages of discovery". But while most of his professional ... More >>
Why Obama's K-12 Sex Ed Initiative Makes Sense
Monday, 15 September 2008, 11:34 am | Suzan Mazur
In the quest for a more positive dialogue between women and men, it's worth revisiting George Lucas' classic scifi film THX-1138 set in an underground city of tomorrow where sex is forbidden and drug sedation laws are to be obeyed. In the film LUH tells ... More >>
David Deamer: Line Arbitrary Twixt Life & Non-Life
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 4:42 pm | Suzan Mazur
When I reached origins of life investigator David Deamer by phone at his lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he told me the NASA Astrobiology program he's part of encourages public outreach, since it is publicly funded, and that he’d ... More >>
Stuart Newman Video Interview: Evolution Politics
Sunday, 24 August 2008, 11:00 pm | Suzan Mazur
It’s not surprising that Stuart Newman was one of the "Altenberg 16" scientists who kicked off a reformulation of the theory of evolution, the "extended evolutionary synthesis," this July at Konrad Lorenz Institute . While I’ve been writing about ... More >>
Bob Hazen: The Trumpeter Of Astrobiology
Wednesday, 30 July 2008, 4:02 pm | Suzan Mazur
After reviewing Robert M. Hazen’s 28-page CV. of his work as an experimental mineralogist (listing grant $$$ too), as an educator, author of a dozen books and a symphonic trumpeter – I was most charmed to read that a new mineral “precipitated” by ... More >>
Buick: Follow The H2O Or Energy, Not Selection
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 9:14 pm | Suzan Mazur
Roger Buick, a native Australian, not only looks like a "rock star" with his long dark hair swept to one side and has the name to match, he actually is one. That is, he studies rocks and evidence of sulfur eating bacteria and pre-Snowball ... More >>
Mazur: Altenberg 16, AAAS & The Dorak Affair
Friday, 18 July 2008, 6:59 pm | Suzan Mazur
The AAAS/ Science magazine's recent two-page article on the Altenberg 16 symposium re-reports, somewhat incorrectly, on the evolution story I've been tracking for months. This isn’t the first time I’ve addressed the work of one of their writers. More >>
Evolution: Except Vanity Fair Media Doesn't Get It
Friday, 11 July 2008, 12:54 am | Suzan Mazur
"Unless the discourse around evolution is opened up to scientific perspectives beyond Darwinism, the education of generations to come is at risk of being sacrificed for the benefit of a dying theory." – Stuart Newman , New York Medical College More >>
