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The Last 24 Hours
November 22, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Clock Quotes Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. - Art Buchwald...
Respectful Insolence
"Politics is always intruding into the world of breast cancer" Before I try to leave this topic for a while (which, like so may topics in the past, has temporarily taken over the blog for the last few days), one of the comments I've kept hearing since I started blogging...
November 21, 2009
Greg Laden's Blog
Dems Win Senate Vote The vote was 60-39 to bring the health care bill to debate. The Republicans failed to stop health care insurance reform on procedural grounds. details....
A Blog Around The Clock
The craziest fish jaws ever (video) (via Deep Sea News)...
Greg Laden's Blog
2012: an actual review Julia ended up with a minor concussion today....
Greg Laden's Blog
Make Your Own "Liquid Nitrogen" at Home Do not do this at home. This is for certified scientists only. Do not put your finger in this....
Gene Expression
Why science fiction was better in the past Perhaps because we only remember the good stuff? Or only the good suff & famous authors get reprinted. I'm prompted to offer this hypothesis in response to Chad Orzel's commentary that there was a lot of bad space opera even...
Greg Laden's Blog
A Blog Around The Clock
Interview with Felice Frankel Listen to Nature EdCast podcast about No Small Matter and Picturing to Learn: In today's podcast Ilona interviews Felice Frankel, a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard and a Research Scientist at MIT. Felice is a photographer who is keenly interested...
A Blog Around The Clock
National Day of Listening (and blogging about it) The second annual National Day of Listening - celebrated on Friday, November 27, 2009 - is just around the corner! With your help, we hope to make the National Day of Listening an ongoing holiday tradition, when all Americans...
Greg Laden's Blog
Who are better conversationalists. Cats or dogs? Cats: Dogs: Bonus Video:...
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
That Movie About the Rat... Dr., Mr., and Little Isis are back in the land that transformed the domestic and laboratory goddess from regular old Isis into the world famous, hot science-doing Dr. Isis. Figure 1: And thus Dr. Isis was created in awesomeness and...
Applied Statistics
Why most discovered true associations are inflated: Type M errors are all over the place Jimmy points me to this article, "Why most discovered true associations are inflated," by J. P. Ioannidis. As Jimmy pointed out, this is exactly what we call type M (for magnitude) errors. I completely agree with Ioannidis's point, which he...
A Blog Around The Clock
The Open Laboratory 2009 - one of the last calls for submission! Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST! Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more...
Greg Laden's Blog
Which is more intense. Cats or Chipmunks? Cat: Chipmunk: Yeah, I know, that's probably not a chipmunk....
Terra Sigillata
Toaster Sunshine channels Jack White for science and technology outreach There's a lot to be said for building shit just to see if it works.
A Blog Around The Clock
Today's carnivals The Giant's Shoulders #17 - Darwin Sesquicentennial Edition - is up on The Primate Diaries...
Stoat
Floods not linked to climate change shocker In shocking news just in, record heavy rain in the Lakes and extensive flooding has not been linked to global warming. Dr Bogus, spokesman for the Made-Up Institute of Twaddle, said "This is completely unprecedented. Normally, any unusual - or...
White Coat Underground
Skeptics' Circle #124 is up The latest Skeptics' Circle is up at Beyond the Short Coat. The Giants' Shoulders #17 is also up at scibling Eric Michael Johnson's place. Go and read!\...
Collective Imagination
From nature, robots Mechanical engineer Sangbae Kim looks to animals to inspire his robot designs.. Press release from MIT:...
The Scientific Activist
Rhodes Secretary: Wall Street Megabonuses Draining Our Young Talent In the op-ed pages of The Washington Post today, Elliot Gerson--the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust--takes a bold stand.
The Primate Diaries
Ray Comfort is a Half-Wit and a Libelous Scalawag Now that his plan has backfired drastically (his own website has removed the link to his "Introduction" of Darwin's book) and more people were offended by his distortions than anything else, let me briefly point out some useful information. Comfort...
Respectful Insolence
The 124th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle It's time for another installment of that venerable (gasp!) blog carnival of skepticism, science, and critical thinking, The Skeptics' Circle. This time, it's the 124th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle, and it's finally landed, late but still brimming with skeptical...
Gene Expression
Chinese propensity to copy No, this isn't about intellectual property issues and piracy. Whole Genome Distribution and Ethnic Differentiation of Copy Number Variation in Caucasian and Asian Populations: Although copy number variation (CNV) has recently received much attention as a form of structure variation...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Leafcutter ants rely on bacteria to fertilise their fungus gardens Leafcutter ants are consummate gardeners. They grow a fungus crop, which they fertilise and medicate using bacteria. This three-way partnership has made them some of the most successful of insects.
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Top Lists
- 1The Science in the Movie 2012 : Greg Laden's Blog
- 2Memories can be strengthened while we sleep by providing the right triggers : Not Exactly Rocket Science
- 3Tips from the top: Mentoring is really, super important to help people succeed. : Sciencewomen
- 4What Is the Heritability of Being an A--hole? : Mike the Mad Biologist
- 5Really rethinking breast cancer screening : Respectful Insolence
- 1The problem of the oblivious white male atheist
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
- 2KKMS, always quick to defend the fools
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
- 3Global Warming Skeptics score own goal
Tim Lambert 11.12.2009
- 4AAP reports from the future
Tim Lambert 11.18.2009
- 5The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't
James Hrynyshyn 11.20.2009
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Hurricanes
As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.
The Island of DoubtJuly 25, 2006
The real story of the hurricanes
Neuron Culture September 11, 2008
Hurricanes & Climate Change: A Round-Up Says Maybe More, Definitely Hotter
Corpus Callosum September 12, 2008
