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Category Archives: Humor
Pets of Tri-I: Punxsutawney Pill
Audrey Goldfarb This month I was lucky enough to meet Punxsutawney “Punx” Pill, a pill bug who currently resides with Camila Villasante, a Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. student, and Denis Torre, a Ph.D. student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. … Continue reading
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Pets of Tri-I
Audrey Goldfarb As loyal fans may have noticed, Pets of Tri-I was absent from our November issue. Pooja Viswanathan is moving on to a postdoctoral position at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and sadly must leave this column … Continue reading
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Ten Years of Natural Selections
By Daniel Briskin Continuing on with our salute to the tenth anniversary of Natural Selections, here are two comics republished from 2004.
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Princip of the Thing
By George Barany and Brent Hartzell GB is a Rockefeller alum (1977), BH holds a master’s degree (1994) in public policy from the University of Minnesota. For more puzzles and for the solution to this month’s puzzle, visit http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle Click … Continue reading
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Ten Years of Natural Selections
By Daniel Briskin Continuing on with our salute to the tenth anniversary of Natural Selections, here are two comics republished from 2004.
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Ten Years of Natural Selections
By Daniel Briskin Continuing on with our salute to the tenth anniversary of Natural Selections, here is this month’s republished comic from 2004.
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New Science journal to publish exclusively through Twitter
By John Borghi Building on several recent developments in academic publishing and social media, a new publication platform for the distribution of scholarly material was announced this Wednesday by The Society for Concise Science. The new online platform, named after … Continue reading
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Artificial Brain Gains Sentience, People Lose Minds
By John Borghi Though it made a surprisingly small splash on the convention floor, the biggest news coming out of this year’s Society for Neuroscience conference were reports that the computational model of the human brain known as “Robby” has gained … Continue reading
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Classic Classifieds
The classifieds are a great place to borrow, buy, sell, and make announcements. Additionally, they can be a means to infuse humor into the doldrums of campus life. In this column, with the permission of the author, we publish classifieds … Continue reading
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Highly Cited Paper Does Not Actually Exist
By John Borghi Sending ripples through a scientific community still reeling from news that an artisanal science laboratory in Brooklyn, NY has documented the existence of phlogiston, a highly cited paper concerning the discovery of the alleged chemical compound known … Continue reading
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The Comic Strip
Contributed by Daniel Briskin “Understocked” reproduced from xkcd – a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language. xkcd.com My biology grad student friends tell me that different types of alcohol don’t actually have different effects. I trust their expertise, … Continue reading
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