Last 24 Hours The Most Recent Posts in Chronological Order
May 14, 2008
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Redefining Yellow One of North America's most stunning birds for you to enjoy, courtesy of a friend and long-time reader!
The Island of Doubt
Polar bears to be listed Word is the U.S. Interior Department, after much delay, is going to list the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) "as a threatened species because of declining Arctic sea ice," according to major news service alert. Marvelous. Now all we have to...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Why it's so hard to get that course you need. Why the heck doesn't the school offer the courses you need more frequently? Here's some insight from the faculty end of course scheduling.
evolgen
Well, I'm a Doctor I can officially claim myself as a member of the ivory tower elite. At least, that's what they tell me....
Effect Measure
McCain on climate change: Bush league More of the McSame.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
I am Meeting Bill Thompson Tomorrow Afternoon Magazine editor, published author and leader of birding field trips around the world .. what would you like to ask him?
Greg Laden's Blog
Carnivals Grand Rounds 4:34 is at Health Business Blog The Carnival of Home Schooling is here. I don't know why I'm telling you that. They always reject my posts for some reason. The Carnival of Cinema is requesting submissions: Go here to submit....
Laelaps
Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge... I just finished the last exam of the semester, but rather than being relieved I am seriously pissed off. I'm not going to divulge the details of the situation just yet, but for now I'll just say that once again...
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #248: Plains zebra A Plains zebra (Equus quagga), photographed last year at the Philadelphia Zoo....
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Which Bird Field Guide Do You Use? Just wondering which bird field guide you use now, and which guides you used previously in your life, and why you switched.
Pharyngula
Michael Medved says something dumb Did someone declare this National Flaming Racist Idiot week, and I just didn't notice until now? You have got to read Michael Medved's latest foray into pseudoscience: he has declared American superiority to be genetic, encoded in our good old...
erv
Intro to ERVs: Why EVERYONE should care about ERVs! ERVs-- Understanding evolution helps you, me, grandma, EVERYBODY!
Sciencewomen
ISEF 2008: Cool science and practical applications More selections from projects I'm seeing at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair....
Highly Allochthonous
Ripples aplenty Last week's geopuzzle was really just an excuse to show off more photos of the rather nice sedimentary structures preserved in the Archean rocks I visited the other week. All of the photos show preserved ripple marks. I've always found...
The Scientific Indian
Free Dr Binayak Sen A related BBC article....
Thoughts from Kansas
Australians do it down under Buswell fends off quokka rumours | The Australian: WEST Australian Opposition leader Troy Buswell has admitted to chair-sniffing in the past but today he denied having done anything untoward to a quokka. Mr Buswell, who has also admitted to snapping the bra of a Labor staffer, faced question at Parliament House after sacked frontbencher Paul Omodei had said “more stories” would emerge about Mr Buswell and that his leadership would “die the death of a thousand cuts”. Asked if he had done anything inappropriate to a quokka, Mr Buswell replied: “No”. Asked if he was aware of any rumours about...
A Blog Around The Clock
Today's carnivals Tangled Bank #105 is up on The Beagle Project Blog Carnival of Education #171 is up on Instructify...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Amanda: "I Love Vaccines" Anti-vax selfishness and arrongance: heckuva combination.
Developing Intelligence
Reversing Time By Crossing Your Hands In 2001, Yamamoto and Kitazawa showed that the perception of temporal order can be reversed when subjects cross their hands. Subjects closed their eyes and had their hands mechanically touched in quick succession (with stimuli separated in time by a...
Page 3.14
An Interview with PalMD Readers of denialism blog have long enjoyed the Hoofnagle brothers' determined war against the evils of denialism. Their new co-blogger Dr. Peter Lipson, also known as PalMD, joins them in the fight for scientific truth. Page 3.14 interviewed him and...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill) by David Cay Johnston, describes hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and corporate welfare that the super-rich use to fuck over everyone else.
Uncertain Principles
NYC Trip: Excellent Art at the Met Italian rooms, Korean screens, Chinese masterpieces, and feathered cloth from Peru.
The Frontal Cortex
False Memory One of the delicious ironies of memory is that, even when our recollections are utterly false, they still feel true. Consider this wonderful tale from the upcoming season of This American Life (I've loved the first two episodes, by the...
The Frontal Cortex
Neural Buddhism? I admire David Brooks for trying to expand the list of topics written about by Times columnists. (To be honest, I'm a little tired of reading about presidential politics.) His latest column, on "The Neural Buddhists," tries to interject modern...
bioephemera
Climate change, as seen by Siberian schoolchildren Reception tonight in Washington, DC
- Uncertain Principles: A Pro-Science Film Festival: Why Not?
- Developing Intelligence : 99% Genetic? Individual Differences in Executive Function Are Almost Perfectly Heritable
- Pharyngula: Einstein on gods and Judaism
- Gene Expression: Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- Terra Sigillata : Buddhist mindfulness to combat eating disorders
- What year is this again? PZ Myers
- Michael Medved says something dumb PZ Myers
- One Giant Cross, Slightly Used. Ed Brayton
- Professional Creationism: A Dying Profession? ERV
- Hagee "Apologizes" to Catholics Ed Brayton
