Comments on: Live-blogging Arsenic Life

By: Weirdly Unweird: A Better End to the #Arseniclife Affair » Gocnhin Archive

Weirdly Unweird: A Better End to the #Arseniclife Affair » Gocnhin Archive — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:53:11 +0000

[...] for me. If you want to follow the saga, click here and start back at the earliest post. In July I live-blogged the announcement that other scientists had replicated the experiment and failed to find the same [...]

By: Weirdly Unweird: A Better End to the #Arseniclife Affair – Discover Magazine (blog) | Latest News and Headlines

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:38:27 +0000

By: Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week | Highly Allochthonous

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week | Highly Allochthonous — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:31:01 +0000

[...] The final hammer blow on the arsenic life saga? Rosie Redfield presents the final results of her open notebook refutation of last year’s controversial Science paper. Chris is getting a little fed up with journalists running around declaring how this has changed science, when it’s more a change in the channels it was discussed in, and the way it was reported as a result. But if it means more of this sort of thing, then it’s a net good. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/07/08/live-blogging-arsenic-life/ [...]

By: The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 13th, 2012) | Stock Market News - Business & Tech News

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:36:50 +0000

[...] Live-blogging Arsenic Life by Carl Zimmer [...]

By: The Case (Study) of Arsenic Life: How the Internet Can Make Science Better – The Atlantic | Zaffit News

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:09:40 +0000

[...] Here’s how it all came to an end: On Sunday, while scientist Rosie Redfield spoke at the Joint Congress of Evolutionary Biology, two papers, one by her and her colleagues and another by a separate group, were published on the website of the journal Science. Together, the papers represent a summary refutation of the claims, first made in December of 2010, that the bacteria (GFAJ-1) could use arsenic to build its DNA, not phosphorous as is the case with all other life on Earth. As it turns out, GFAJ-1 is just like the rest of us — phosphate-dependent — and doesn’t represent some strain of alien or separately evolved life here on Earth, as the existence of arsenic-based life implies. Though the papers were not set to be published until later this month, Science released them early — during Redfield’s talk — in a move that surprised even Redfield herself, and garnered a cheer from the live audience in Ottawa. [...]

By: Arsenic Life, Cold Fusion, and the Allure of Wishful Thinking « Galileo's Pendulum

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:13:36 +0000

[...] pretty much closed the book on the arsenic bacteria. Carmen Drahl, Matt Strassler, John Timmer, and Carl Zimmer all provide some perspective on the new papers, and there are many more analyses out there I [...]

By: New research points toward “no” on arsenic life | Space Travels - Space Turism

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:24:38 +0000

[...] Magazine’s The Loom blogger Carl Zimmer – who has always been very skeptical of the results – live-blogged this new announcement, which makes for fascinating reading. There are some great quotes in there, and it’s worth your [...]

By: New Science Papers Prove NASA Failed Big Time In Promoting Supposedly … – Forbes | Zaffit News

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:05:20 +0000

[...] From Zimmer’s live blog: [...]

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:56:30 +0000

One of your links is wrong – the link “her blog”, referring to Ms. Redfield’s blog, goes to the same archiv.org link as the “her paper on Archiv” does.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:02:40 +0000

Was it really necessary to mention her hair? What does her hair or hair color have to do with the topic at hand?