Daily Archives: June 30th, 2008

A vision of students today

I found this getting ready for my freshman seminar, and wish I could make every faculty member I know watch it.

This is from the maker of the wonderful “what is web 2.0?” video.
I so wish that when I get my video editing suite I could be this creative.

Interesting new pheromone research

In this week’s Cell, a completely new idea about how pheromones work at the molecular level is described for fruit flies.
Activation of Pheromone-Sensitive Neurons Is Mediated by Conformational Activation of Pheromone-Binding Protein. John D. Laughlin, Tal Soo Ha, David N.M. Jones and Dean P. Smith. Cell 133(7). doi:10.1016/j.cell.2008.04.046
You might remember that pheromones are detected [...]