HIV may not be associated to Duffy!?!?!
Gene Expression
Over the past few days I've blogged a bit about the story about an HIV susceptibility allele; Evolution,...
Netroots Nation
the buzz in the blogosphere
Netroots Nation—formerly known as the YearlyKos Convention—brings together progressive political bloggers and policy experts for four days of panels, talks and film screenings. Sciblings Ed Brayton and Josh Rosenau are in attendance, mingling with the likes of Howard Dean and Al Gore.
"They're tired of war"
07.19.2008 · Josh Rosenau
... Nancy Pelosi, speaking at Netroots Nation, says that the title quotation is what she hears in all her travels, wherever she talks to young folks here and ......
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The idea of a great chain of being, starting with bacteria and progressing through animals to humans, is just not true.
evolgen · The Great Chain of Phylogenetic Wrongness · July 18, 2008
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Life Science
My picks from ScienceDaily
A Blog Around The Clock
Distribution Of Creatures Great And Small Can Be Predicted Mathematically: In studying how animals change size as they...
Marbled Godwit
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another amazing photograph for you to enjoy, courtesy of a talented photographer!
The mantis shrimp has the world's fastest punch
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Its claw hits with the force of a rifle bullet and boils the water in front of it.
Physical Science
The Amazing True-Life Adventures of A Peeponaut
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
To boldly go where no peep has gone before .. This special peeponaut has the right fluff!
Sulfur Dioxide (Alternative, more toxic refrigerants)
Molecule of the Day
As was mentioned in the comments to my entry on a refrigerant Monday, what we use has changed...
Crackpottery
A Blog Around The Clock
Just an hour or so ago I was in the car, listening to This American Life on NPR,...
Physics Magazine
Uncertain Principles
On a happier note than the previous post, the American Physical Society has launched a new publication, called...
Environment
Global Warming, Media and Politics
A Blog Around The Clock
Robert Grumbine has a series of posts with thoughts about climate change and what a non-expert can do...
Baby Penguins Adrift
Greg Laden's Blog
More than 400 baby penguins have been found dead on beaches in Brazil, hundreds of miles from their...
Monckton's triple counting
Deltoid
Thanks to Drudge, all the right-wing blogs have been touting a story alleging the American Physical Society has...
50,000 physicists can't be wrong! (Who said they were?)
The Island of Doubt
Some people just jump to conclusions, I guess.
Humanities/Social Science
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway Art 13
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another lovely tile and glass mosaic artwork from the NYC subway system for you to enjoy, courtesy of...
From Does and Trees to Doors
Chaotic Utopia
There’s nothing like spending a month staring at trees. As I hinted recently, my purpose for I was...
Interesting Anthropology News
Afarensis
There are a number of interesting anthropology stories in the news. My picks below the fold....
Pop Culture Interlude
Uncertain Principles
Dor. Horrible, Watchmen, and the nonsensical earworm of the moment.
Brain & Behavior and Technology Weekly Channel Highlights
In this post: the large version of the Brain & Behavior and Technology channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week.
Why do you blog, and how does blogging help with your research?
Education & Careers
Vedran Vucic on Open Access
A Blog Around The Clock
A couple of weeks ago, Vedran Vucic gave a talk about Open Access at the law school at...
Journals - the dinosaurs of scientific communication
A Blog Around The Clock
Bjoern Brembs: Today's system of scientific journals started as a way to effectively use a scarce resource, printed...
Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship. Really?
A Blog Around The Clock
Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship by James A. Evans, ironically behind the paywall, has...
Periodic Table of Videos
A Blog Around The Clock
Periodic Table of Videos on YouTube: This channel has a video about each element on the periodic table....
Politics
Federal Judge Orders Endangered Species Act Protections Reinstated for Grey Wolves - At Least For Now
The Questionable Authority
Yesterday afternoon, Judge Donald Molloy of the Federal District court for Montana issued a preliminary injunction reinstating...
Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons
A Blog Around The Clock
Silly, but funny to see how people react when treated to a dose of their own medicine: "Australian...
Why Are Orthodox Jews So Different on Israel Compared to Other Jews?
Mike the Mad Biologist
Obama has strong support among every denomination except for the Orthodox, where McCain cleans up. But, like every...
Science Education
Thoughts from Kansas
A teacher at Netroots Nation asks what can be done to improve science education, and to get principles...
Medicine & Health
Race-based vitamins: no, it's not The Onion
Terra Sigillata
The latest dietary supplement marketing angle. A little bit o' science distorted for financial gain. Er, and what...
Viability selection and genetic screening
Gene Expression
Just a quick follow up to my post about genetic screening of embryos and subsequent implantation. The spontaneous...
Good News and Bad News about what you can eat.
Greg Laden's Blog
You say tomato, I say tomalley . Tomalley. Mmmmmm... That is the green yeck inside the body of...
HIV susceptibility, a "black" thing, not a Duffy thing?
Gene Expression
DARC and HIV: a false positive due to population structure?: The authors are aware of this potential confounder,...
Brain & Behavior
The Dark Knight
Evolving Thoughts
Wow. Just... wow. This is not the best superhero film I have seen. This is perhaps the...
Psychic Detectives and the Chandra Levy Case
Framing Science
The capital's police force distracted....
Time Perception news
A Blog Around The Clock
Carl Zimmer: How Your Brain Can Control Time: For 40 years, psychologists thought that humans and animals...
ESOF2008: Looking inside your brain: Keynote speech
Neurophilosophy
The keynote Speaker for the Human Mind and Behaviour theme is Pierre Magistretti of the Brain-Mind Institute at...
Technology
Linux Jokes
Greg Laden's Blog
More Computer Humor available here. Samples below: Excerpt from "Fifty Ways to Leave your Editor: Just press control-K,...
The end is near: Time to switch to Linux
Greg Laden's Blog
If the difference between success and failure in your business, as the economy comes crashing down around you,...
Blog is software
A Blog Around The Clock
I've said it before and I said it again, and I heard other people say it repeatedly (e.g.,...
TOPAZ upgrade
A Blog Around The Clock
TOPAZ software, the one that hosts five out of seven PLoS journals (ONE, Pathogens, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Genetics...
