Biology:
Category: Health
Ed Yong's excellent post about fruit-bat fellatio received some even better, eye-opening comments from one Russell and Frog:Russell: "Tan is falling into the fallacy that animals have sex for the purpose of procreation. Or of writing as if. Those bats...
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Biology
The research reported on is in fact irrelevant to the much-publicised concerns about MRSA and other bacterial strains that have evolved resistance to antibiotics.
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Category: Homeownership
The wasp nest is ejaculating its little emissaries, and my house is one big latex contraceptive.
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Posted by Martin R at 2:41 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Biology
My friend Eddie the pagan goldsmith has inadvertently discovered an unusual way to acquire a clean mink skeleton. Here's what you do.
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Posted by Martin R at 4:52 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Art
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Category: Biology
Its unblinking eye was very clear.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Biology
During the big whaling era someone took the vertebra to the lake and threw it in.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Food
My wife and I made a short mushrooming excursion to Lake Lundsjön after lunch. Little more than half an hour in the woods garnered us only four species, but huge amounts of one: velvet bolete. We went home early...
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Posted by Martin R at 10:57 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Biology
When I left my PhD student office at the Museum of National Antiquities I rescued a couple of angel wing begonias. One has recently been joined in its pot by spontaneously appearing yellow fungus.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 17 Comments •
Category: Space
Those microdaddies will go to Phobos and back, and then biologists will be able to compare them to their stay-at-home buddies to learn what the environment out there in interplanetary space really does to an Earth creature.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:43 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Biology
Sean B. Carroll's latest book, Remarkable Creatures, is a collection of mini-biographies of people who have made important discoveries in evolutionary biology.
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Category: Biology
On the island I found the dry leg of a dead bird on the seashore, soft tissue almost gone, sinews still holding it together, foot still covered with skin. And around the lower leg, an aluminium ring with a series of digits...
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Posted by Martin R at 9:09 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Sweden
Imagine a flat gneiss and granite plateau criss-crossed by huge faults and crevices. Now run a few glaciations across it, sanding it down real good, so that everything is rounded.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Biology
Most psychoactive substances only occur in a small group of closely related plants. But caffeine pops up in widely divergent branches of the floral kingdom.
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Posted by Martin R at 9:53 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Biology
The press release claims that on one hand natural wetlands are not more biodiverse than recently dug ponds, on the other hand that biodiversity in wetlands increases with age.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:47 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Biology
Signs of spring so far around where I live, apart from the obvious sunshine and disappearance of the snow & ice:Crocus Snowdrop Scilla Blackbird singing at sundown (ah!) Magpies brawling...
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Posted by Martin R at 9:11 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
A less well-known way in which Darwin's great idea was misunderstood or misappropriated.
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Posted by Martin R at 9:58 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Biology
I am impressed by the gay dolphins' invention of nasal intercourse.
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Posted by Martin R at 7:21 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Biology
Our goal should never be to rid the planet of humans.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 91 Comments •
Category: Biology
There is no way of life that is ecologically sustainable for a global population of more than a billion.
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Posted by Martin R at 5:17 AM • 68 Comments •
Category: Biology
Somewhere, sometime, the first bird that fulfilled a genetic definition of chickenhood hatched.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 22 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
A rare piece of irate e-mail.Hi Mr. Rundkvist, This is Gregory from the US. I was reading your thoughts on Dr. Moller and the Exodus Case. You criticize Moller for not trying to disprove his hypothesis. Tell me; do evolutionists...
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 73 Comments •
Category: Biology
It is an adjective ending in an S, just like erectus, afarensis and neanderthalensis.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 26 Comments •
Category: Biology
Today we had eleven kinds, most of them hedgehogs and boletes.
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Posted by Martin R at 9:15 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: Biology
Wind-borne seeds like thistledown that can sprout anywhere.
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Posted by Martin R at 3:21 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Biology
The find spot hasn't been near the sea since the end of the latest ice age.
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Posted by Martin R at 5:29 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Art
Got up early this morning, six thirty, and slipped out for an hour's walk. The sun was already pretty high but still veiled in mist. I walked past vineyards and olive groves toward a farmhouse until yapping guard dogs made...
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Posted by Martin R at 4:58 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Biology
The beavers are rallying in Sweden, multiplying and repossessing old habitat.
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Posted by Martin R at 7:54 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
The attacker struck during a break in the 10th International Conference on Science and Consciousness.
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Posted by Martin R at 9:58 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Biology
New research from the University of Gothenburg shows the oldest phylum among the animals to be the ctenophores.
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Posted by Martin R at 3:02 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Biology
To learn what the spruce genome was like 8,000 years ago, we needn't look for deadwood in bogs.
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Posted by Martin R at 2:37 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Biology
Water suppliers use natural water to make tap water.
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Category: Books
In the US you can't popularise evolutionary biology without taking a stand against obfuscating fundies,
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Carnival
Hey everyone, and welcome to the 96th Tangled Bank blog carnival! This is where you can toadally catch up with the best recent blog writing on the life sciences. BeastiesGrrlscientist at Living the Scientific Life explains why bright blue...
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Environment
This was one of those paper mills that used mercury in a big way.
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Category: Biology
"I have been a beekeeper for eleven years now, having sort of tagged along when my father first bought two hives..."
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Posted by Martin R at 4:07 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Biology
Longer than my little finger and shiny green.
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Posted by Martin R at 2:39 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Biology
These cool-looking omnivores make their home in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Biology
The thing to note here is that I didn't know what I was doing.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Biology
Everything hurries to bloom and procreate before the cold and snow returns.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Biology
Huss has built software models of bits of the lamprey's spinal cord.
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Category: Psychology
Some people screw around a lot, some very rarely, and some not at all.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 39 Comments •
Category: Biology
Something that forms the basic element of a snake-like thing, maybe?
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Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 4 Comments •