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February 10, 2010
Greg Laden's Blog
Great Moments in Human Evolution: The Invention of Chipped Stone Tools Or not....
Greg Laden's Blog
Chimpanzee Food Sharing Is chimpanzee food sharing an example of food for sex? One of the most important transitions in human evolution may have been the incorporation of regular food sharing into the day to day ecology of our species or our ancestors. Although this has been recognized...
Greg Laden's Blog
Two chimps walked into a bar ... ... and made a real mess of the place when one of them spotted the jar of pickles on the counter. They fought over it until one of them had almost all the pickles and the other one had a number of bruises and a...
Gene Expression
Most awesome post about Facebook ever At least in my book. How to split up the US. The author took social networking data and split up the United States into clusters. Here's the map: Clicking through you can find the top fan pages of various nations....
Greg Laden's Blog
What I Had for Dinner Tonight I had one of the most interesting dinners anyone has ever had....
Respectful Insolence
Dr. Rolando Arafiles: Antivaccine rhetoric, colloidal silver for the flu, and Morgellons disease The case in west Texas: It really is worse than I thought. Anyone there wanting to stand up for science-based medicine needs to be very afraid.
February 9, 2010
bioephemera
What is wrong with this fruit? It literally took me a good 20 seconds to figure out what was. . . off. . . about the first photo in this great post by Emily at SheChive. Sigh. ;) Thanks to Jake for the heads-up!...
The Questionable Authority
The Winkler County Nurse Trial, An Alleged Massive Conflict of Interest, and Morgellons As some of you might know, there is a very scary criminal case currently underway out in West Texas. A registered nurse named Anne Mitchell is currently standing trial. She's been charged with misuse of official information, which is...
Pharyngula
Things to do when you're godless Bored and godless? Want something fun to do? Visit the Phillipines! The Filipino Freethinkers are having a film festival on 27 February. It'll be a whole day of classic atheist documentaries and comedy films. Quick, catch a plane to...
Terra Sigillata
What's the buzz?: Synthetic marijuana, K2, Spice, JWH-018 A (currently) legal form of cannabimimetic compounds come under fire in America's heartland.
Deltoid
Andrew Bolt doesn't know or care what a draft is Andrew Bolt has written a post where he pretends that comments made by Andrew Lacis about the first order draft of the summary of chapter 9 of AR4 WG1 are actually aboout the published report. Andrew Revkin asked Lacis what...
Deltoid
The Australian's War on Science 44 part 2 As well as Monckton Media Watch also looked at the way Jamie Walker passed off his opinioin piece about the Great Barrier Reef as a straight news story. John Bruno dissects Walker's response....
Evolution for Everyone
Economics and Evolution as Different Paradigms IV: The Limiting Factor of Cultural Evolution is not Origin but Spread I'm back after finishing the first draft of my next book, titled Evolving the City, which will be published by Little, Brown and is about how evolutionary theory can improve the quality of life in a practical sense. It is...
A Blog Around The Clock
Cambodian Attitudes and Mental Health on the Eve of the Khmer Rouge Trials At Pizza Lunch talks, we hear a lot about efforts to decipher the physical world. But what about psychological realms? How do you measure them, especially on a large scale among people scarred by trauma? At noon on Thursday, Feb....
EvolutionBlog
Barr Bashes ID Writing in the religious journal First Things University of Delaware physics professor Stephen Barr lays into the ID Movement. Here's the first paragraph: It is time to take stock: What has the intelligent design movement achieved? As science, nothing. The...
Dot Physics
Sport Science, Pulling and Friction In the short episode recently, Sport Science compared a football player pulling a sled with huge tires on it to a truck pulling stuff. I think their goal was to compare the power per kg from for the player and the truck to show how awesome humans are (and let me just say that humans ARE awesome). The problem was that they really didn't give the truck a fair chance.
Framing Science
The NYTimes, the IPCC, and Perceived Conflict of Interest Time to think carefully about perceived conflict of interest....
Greg Laden's Blog
Apes don't read philosophy Yes they do! They just don't understand it!...
The Book of Trogool
Academic samizdat Since early days indeed, it's been possible to bypass journal publishers and libraries in a quest for a particular article by going directly to the author. Some publishers have even facilitated this limited variety of samizdat by offering authors a...
Built on Facts
Failing at Gravity A while back I mentioned I was starting the project of reading Neal Stephenson's rather lengthy Baroque Cycle. I'm most of the way done with the second book, so we're coming round to the 2000-page mark. It's a brilliant work...
Casaubon's Book
The Heaving, Voluptuous Breasts of the IPCC Chief I've often wondered what I should write after everyone is already living the Zombie attack and is bored with hearing about how to grow food and mend your socks. I figure at some point, the market will be saturated by such things, and people will want to escape - and I should start thinking now about escapist fiction. I was thinking detective novels, but I clearly should have been thinking "porn."
Mike the Mad Biologist
The Focus on the Family Super Bowl Ad: It's All About... One thing to remember about any non-profit group is that the most important mission is always keeping the doors open.
Highly Allochthonous
Is tweeting bad for blogging? Is there a "Twitter divide", and if there is, what can we do about it?
Respectful Insolence
Corrected by Dr. Paul Offit Orac admits a mistake. It's rare, but it happens.
Adventures in Ethics and Science
#scio10 aftermath: some thoughts on "An Open History of Science". Here are some of the thoughts and questions that stayed with me from this session. (Here are my tweets from the session and the session's wiki page.) The session was led by John McKay and Eric Michael Johnson. John posted...
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Synthetic Biology
Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
“Playing God”
The Loom January 31, 2008
"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti
Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006
Build your own virus
