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Science Is Sexy: How Do Vaccines Work and Are They Dangerous?

By Jimmy Rogers (@me)
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Aha, “Science Is Sexy” is back from its long hiatus to help you get through this year’s flu season! Why the hiatus? Well, in short, grad school is HARD!
About a week ago, my mother (who is a nurse) asked me, “What can I tell my patients to make [...]

Don’t Panic! Tips to Avoid the Flu at Flu.gov

There are few things less sexy in the world than getting the flu. However, one of those things is being annoying and uninformed about the disease. Even with all the expansive swine flu coverage and available information, plenty of people have no idea what to look for when it comes to the flu and how [...]

H1N1 Prevention Rap

If you’re like most people, it’s possible that you are slightly afraid of contracting the H1N1 (Swine) Flu, thanks to all the mediatic fear mongering currently being spread around. In any cases, just like regular flu, some simple precautions can be taken so that you lower the risk of getting the virus, and the following [...]

Science Is Sexy: DNA You Say?

By Jimmy Rogers (@me)
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Much of the time, when I discuss science with non-science people, I get the impression that genetics is a double-edged sword for them.  While most understand that genes contain the “blueprint” for the organism that carries them, and that heredity somehow factors into that, the DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid) molecule and its role [...]

Science Is Sexy: What Exactly Is HIV?

By Jimmy Rogers (@me)
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
HIV/AIDS is a worldwide pandemic disease, but I would wager that few people (even among our esteemed readers) really understand it at all.  You may be aware that Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (or AIDS) is a disease that results from an HIV infection.  To most, HIV/AIDS is a frightening scourge that [...]

Science is Sexy Tidbit: Mrs. Darwin, Her Life in Brief

By Jimmy Rogers (@me)
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Much has been made of the wives of the important men in history.  Some of those wives were very important in their own right, or even more so than their husbands.  It seems that one such lady has somehow slipped through the cracks of history, though.
Recently, a journal called International [...]

Science is Sexy: What is Evolution?

By Jimmy Rogers (@me)
Contributing Writer, [GAS]

Few things in science cause as much public confusion as the Theory of Evolution.  While a number of great resources have already effectively elucidated the concept, including a video I’ve embedded in this article, I think it is valuable to repeat and expand upon these resources in a public fashion, lest [...]

Blogs & the Life of Journalism: Welcome to the Jungle

By Casey Lynn
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Query: What separates man from ape? Perhaps the same thing that separates journalist from blogger. In his 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen analogized T.H. Huxley’s “infinite monkey theorem” to the rise of Web 2.0. If you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, one [...]

Science is Sexy: Will the Large Hadron Collider Blow Us Up?

By Jimmy Rogers (@me)
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Maybe you’ve heard about the recent controversy over the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.  This device, probably the most complex machine ever devised by man, has been the focus of much debate because of its potential to do two things.

Be an enormous waste of money
Create a black hole and annihilate the [...]

Science is Sexy: What is Swine (H1N1) Flu? How Does an Animal Disease Spread to a Human Host?

Have you been watching the news at all recently?  If so, you’ve probably heard the term “Swine Flu” or “H1N1 Flu” bouncing around a lot.  While most people come down with the normal human flu at some point, it’s not really a danger to anyone but the very young and the very old.  Why is [...]

Science is Sexy: “The Cure for Cancer”

By Jimmy Rogers
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Yes, we at Geeks are Sexy have discovered the cure for cancer! And for this, we ask for nothing more in return than your eternal gratitude.
Ok, ok, so there are two small problems in the first sentence of this post.  First of all, we’re a blog, not a well funded group [...]

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Blogs & the Life of Journalism: Welcome to the Jungle
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