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November 21, 2009
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.
Respectful Insolence
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - Program highlights 3 Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 11:30am - 12:35pm: A. Legal Aspects of publishing, sharing and blogging science - Victoria Stodden Description: Not giving legal...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Don't Know Much About Palintology Of course Palinists can imagine Sarah Palin talking about economics with the Chinese government.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Today's Mystery Birds for you to Identify Here's a group of Australian mystery birds for you to identify, thanks to a talented and generous photographer!
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Cert Denied in Religious Graduation Speech Case The Supreme Court has denied cert in the case of McComb v. Crehan, the 2006 case where a valedictorian had her microphone cut off by the school during her speech at a graduation ceremony because she began to talk about...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Cops: Break the Law, Change Departments The Charleston Gazette of West Virginia documents a whole bunch of police officers breaking the law over and over again and just changing to a new department. The chief example is a cop named Matthew Leavitt, who was finally sentenced...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Oh Ye Of Little Faith This will show you just how strong the faith is for many Catholics. An Italian man has invented a hands-free holy water dispenser for Catholic churches because congregants were afraid of dipping their hands in the holy water urns: Clever...
DrugMonkey
Here we go again. Ecstasy, death...unsubstantiated claims. Canada. Again. This time in Whistler: A 20-year-old male had been found unconscious by friends. When police arrived, Whistler Fire Rescue Service and Emergency Health Services personnel were performing CPR, but failed to revive the victim, who was pronounced dead...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Hilarious Onion Article About 8 people emailed me a link to this article from the Onion: Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a read. It's just barely a parody. Spurred by...
Collective Imagination
"Will NexGen AI Have Unintended Consequences?" Commentary from the Daily Galaxy: ...A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that...
White Coat Underground
Science-based medcine: we are not automatons Opponents of science-based medicine like to accuse the rest of us of failing to be "holisitc", of failing to see the whole individual who comes to us for health care. I've argued many times that this is not only wrong,...
Greg Laden's Blog
Global Warming Alarmist Conspiracy Emails Hacked!!!11!! The Anthropocentric Global Warming Denialist Community is collectively creaming in its collective jeans over the release of zillions of emails that definitively prove that the whole global warming conspiracy thing was made up. Real Climate has the story:...
Aardvarchaeology
Why Malt the Barley for Beer? If yeast can make alcohol directly out of starch, why bother malting the barley before making beer?
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #770: Small-clawed otters A group of small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinerea) gnawing on some fishsicles, photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Effect Measure
Trying to understand the Norwegian swine flu mutations What kind of team player is the mutation and will it make it in the Big Leagues?
A Blog Around The Clock
Clock Quotes I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams...
Gene Expression
When mammoths roamed Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America: Although the North American megafaunal extinctions and the formation of novel plant communities are well-known features of the last deglaciation, the causal relationships between these phenomena are...
November 20, 2009
Gene Expression
Greg Laden's Blog
The World's Fair
O.K. For what it's worth - I'm finally on twitter. Send on some suggestions for science scout badges... ... because I have tuesday afternoon cleared for updating the science scout site a bit. Plus, although I'm a bit apprehensive jumping into this media (more from a time suck perspective), I am keen to see if it has any...
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Atheists with vaginas. I am so pissed off. I didnt get out of the lab until quarter till 6 tonight, so there was no friggen way I could get down to OU to see Barker (feed/potty Arnie, feed/potty me, 15 mph on I-35......
Starts With A Bang
Believe it or not: A Black Hole Question! Black holes have come up a couple of times this week, and I've always wondered something. When you fall into a black hole, all sorts of strange things happen. The most well-known one is that nothing -- not even light...
Ciência Ao Natural
Darwin 150 "Em Novembro o CEM e a Escola Secundária de Francisco Franco celebram o 150º aniversário da publicação da obra de Charles Darwin, "A Origem das Espécies", com um ciclo de conferências intitulado "Darwin e a Origem das Espécies", a decorrer entre os dias 23 e 25."...
Greg Laden's Blog
Medical Matters: H1N1, Science Ignorance and Cancer Screening I have a few non-authoritative comments regarding recent and current medical developments. This concerns the flu (esp. the H1N1 Swine Pandemic Flu), and the two recent changes in screening recommendations, for breast and cervical cancer and related issues....
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- 1Memories can be strengthened while we sleep by providing the right triggers : Not Exactly Rocket Science
- 2Tips from the top: Mentoring is really, super important to help people succeed. : Sciencewomen
- 3What Is the Heritability of Being an A--hole? : Mike the Mad Biologist
- 4Really rethinking breast cancer screening : Respectful Insolence
- 5Hippos are photographed biting a crocodile to death : Tetrapod Zoology
- 1The problem of the oblivious white male atheist
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
- 2The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't
James Hrynyshyn 11.20.2009
- 3AAP reports from the future
Tim Lambert 11.18.2009
- 4Cert Denied in Religious Graduation Speech Case
Ed Brayton 11.21.2009
- 5Global Warming Skeptics score own goal
Tim Lambert 11.12.2009
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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
