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July 26th, 2013

7/26/2013

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From The Weekly Show with Darius Balčiūnas: How bad has the obesity epidemic become in the US? So bad that even rats need gastric bypasses!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6144/406
Quite interesting findings though

A different kind of genetic testing:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7459/full/499383b.html

Cool stuff in a moldy way:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7459/full/499382c.html

If you wish to complain that zebrafish breeding and regeneration take a long time, how about this project:
http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-slowest-moving-drop-caught-on-camera-at-last-1.13418

Check out the rosy outlook for life sciences PhDs in the end of paragraph one:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_07_24/caredit.a1300150

Another bit of information can be extracted from their data :
-14,500 PhDs are awarded in life/med sciences annually
- there are 10,500 postdocs in a given year (I guess this number is an underestimate)
- average postdoc length is 5 years (my conservative guess, really 6-7) = only 1 in 7 new PhDs can get a postdoc position?!

Now that I got all of you feeling sad and down, how about some fun:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_07_26/caredit.a1300151

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