User:Ragesoss

• ...of Yale
• ...of other places in the U.S.
• ...of places in Europe
• ...of protesters at Coast Guard Academy, 23 May 2007 (see "Protesters demonstrate at US Coast Guard Academy")
• ...of protesters in Washington, 15 September 2007
• ...of protesters at the Hartford Tea Party protest, 15 April 2009
• ...of The Decemberists performing, 28 April 2009
• ...of notable people
• ...of bonsai and related subjects
• ...of Swan Lake Nature Study Area near Reno, Nevada
• ...of other plants
• ...of other animals
• ...of miscellanea

• "Professors criticize, praise Wikipedia in listserv discussions", July 31, 2006
• "Wikipedia classroom assignments on the rise", December 18, 2006
• "Students in Western Civilization course find editing Wikipedia frustrating, rewarding", April 30, 2007
• "Report on Citizendium", July 30, 2007
• "WikiScanner tool creates 'minor public relations disasters' for scores of organizations", August 20, 2007
• "Vatican claims out-of-context Wikipedia quote was used to attack Pope" (with David Wilson), February 11, 2008
• "Wikimedia Board to expand, restructure, May 2, 2008
• "Explicit sexual content draws fire", May 12, 2008
• "Update on Citizendium", May 14, 2008
• "Pro-Israeli group's lobbying gets press, arbitration case", May 19, 2008
• "Statistical model identifies potential RfA candidates", June 30, 2008
• "Defamation case against Wikimedia dismissed" (with Ral315), July 7, 2008
• "Study: Wikipedia's growth may indicate unlimited potential", August 11, 2008
• "Wikipedia in the news", August 25, 2008
• "Editing frequency statistics show decline in participation", January 3, 2009
• "Wikipedia drug coverage compared to Medscape, found wanting", January 3, 2009
• "Large portion of articles are orphans", January 31, 2009
• "Philosophers analyze Wikipedia as a knowledge source", February 23, 2009
• "Wikipedia's coverage and conflicts quantified", April 20, 2009
• "Review of The Wikipedia Revolution", April 20, 2009
• "Review of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia", April 27, 2009
• "Review of Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes", June 15, 2009

*List excludes regular features like "In the news" and "News and notes" since I took over as Signpost editor in 2009.

I wrote most of:

• Johannes Kepler - Promoted to featured article status March 20, 2007
• History of biology - Promoted to featured article status April 28, 2007
• Rachel Carson - Promoted to featured article status September 30, 2007
• Goshin - Promoted to good article status March 28, 2008
• History of aspirin - Promoted to good article status April 9, 2008
• Barack Obama "Hope" poster - Promoted to good article status February 22, 2009
• Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment - Promoted to good article status February 26, 2009

I contributed at least a bit of content to:

• G. Ledyard Stebbins
• Noah's Ark
• Alfred Russel Wallace
• Joseph Priestley
• An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
• History of evolutionary thought

• ...that according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?
• ...that the phage group was an informal network of biologists centered around Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to the origins of molecular biology?
• ...that the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution explains why the rates of molecular clocks are generally independent of population size?
• ...that American evolutionary biologist Jack Lester King co-authored a provocative 1969 paper, "Non-Darwinian Evolution", on the neutral theory of molecular evolution?
• ...that nutritionist-turned-molecular biologist Thomas H. Jukes was one of the few scientists ever to have a regular column in the journal Nature?
• ...that biologists Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling would intentionally avoid peer review when publishing their most provocative works on molecular evolution?
• ...that Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl proposed using protein sequences to estimate the time since genetic divergence, early in the history of molecular evolution research?
• ...that humans have lived near Nevada's Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD?
• ...that John Y. Naka's bonsai masterpiece Goshin (pictured) consists of eleven trees representing Naka's eleven grandchildren?
• ...that molecular evolutionist Morris Goodman used protein sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hemoglobin and called this the first "hard evidence of Darwinian evolution"?
• ...that according to the 2R hypothesis, the genomes of modern vertebrates are the result of two rounds of genome duplication hundreds of millions of years ago?
• ...that the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971, was the first scientific journal dedicated to this field?
• ...that in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War, American biologist Clement Markert stowed away aboard a freighter?
• ...that Rachel Carson was so disappointed in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of her 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us that she never again sold film rights to her work?
• ...that English biochemist Ernest Baldwin (1909 – 1969) was a pioneer in the field of comparative biochemistry?
• ...that science historians have done so much work related to Charles Darwin that this area of research is often called the Darwin Industry?
• ...that Canadian biochemist Archibald Macallum used measurements of ionic concentrations in blood sera to argue for the ancient marine origin of all vertebrates?
• ...that the Great Phenol Plot of 1915 was to divert phenol from U.S. explosives production to prop up German Bayer's aspirin business?
• ...that the history of aspirin has been marked by fierce competition, patent and trademark battles, and even an international conspiracy known as the Great Phenol Plot?
• ...that anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab?
• ...that Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment with E. coli has been tracking genetic changes in bacteria for over 20 years?
• ...that the origins of chromatography can be traced to the work of Russian botanist Mikhail Tsvet (pictured), but his work saw little use until the 1930s?
• ... that biochemist Harvey Itano, who worked with Linus Pauling to determine the molecular basis of sickle cell disease, was the first Japanese American admitted to the National Academy of Sciences?
• ... that biochemist Rollin Hotchkiss, a pioneer in bacterial transformation and molecular genetics, helped to popularize the term "genetic engineering"?
• ... that the 1944 Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, later celebrated for showing that DNA is the genetic material, challenged the prevailing wisdom that genes were made of protein?
• ... that the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster designed by artist Shepard Fairey was based on a photograph from before Obama officially launched his presidential campaign?
• ... that the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis is often considered the first significant result in what came to be called molecular biology?
• ... that during the Darwin Centennial Celebration of 1959, religious humanist Julian Huxley delivered a controversial "secular sermon" arguing that traditional religion was no longer needed?
• ... that the numerous photographs of Charles Darwin—at least 53 (example pictured)—may have helped secure the singular connection between Darwin and the theory of evolution in popular thought?
• ... that in his 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, Linus Pauling explains primates' inability to synthesize vitamin C as a result of evolution?
• ... that the idea that molecular evolution is dominated by genetic drift originally took its name from the 1969 paper "Non-Darwinian Evolution"?
• ... that the T4 rII experimental system enabled biologist Seymour Benzer to map a gene down to the level of one or two base pairs before the invention of DNA sequencing?
• ... that the concept of "molecular disease" from the 1949 paper "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" became the basis for Linus Pauling's later views on molecular evolution and eugenics?
• ... that the sculpture Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (pictured) depicts what historians have described as "the modern fantasy of (female) nature willingly revealing herself to the (male) scientist"?

Franz Tengnagel - Chemical Revolution - Inheritance of acquired characters - Nature study - Birth cries of atoms - George W. Merck - David Enskog - Society for the History of Technology - Military funding of science - Paul Forman - Reimarus Ursus - International Day for Biological Diversity - Kunstformen der Natur - Funding of science - Manifesto of the Ninety-Three - Raymond L. Orbach - H-Net - Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot - International Biological Program - History of anorexia nervosa - Kepler (Martian crater) - Ernst Friedrich Apelt - Harriet Ritvo - Gene sharing - Minimum wage in the United States - Marie Rodell - Under the Sea-Wind - Velsicol Chemical Corporation - American Society for Environmental History - Marco Invernizzi - Dorothy M. Needham - Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry - Scott Slifka - Joseph S. Fruton - Emanuel Margoliash - James E. Walker Library - Carl Niemann - Maxine Singer