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May 22, 2008
The Intersection
With Honors. Without Options? Fact: According to the National Postdoc Association, between 1972 and 2003, the percent of recent Ph.D. holders hired into full-time faculty positions fell from 74% to 44%. Fact: During the same period, the number of post docs in science and...
Laelaps
Work day Today I'm working on my book (hint: Gaudry and Hipparion), but here's a few links and other tidbits of interest for your consumption; Indy 4 is out today. Now where is my fedora.... This week's issue of Nature is featuring...
See Jane Compute
Intention/Reality Things I should be working on vs. things I've actually been working on this morning:...
Greg Laden's Blog
Happy Birthday Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyal, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle will always be remembered for his Sherlock Holmes tales, including four novels and numerous short stories serialized in The Strand and/or published in various collections. However, Doyle was at least as prolific (probably...
Developing Intelligence
"Attentional Noise": ADHD and Serial Autocorrelations in RT "It has attained a certain mystique in the physical and biological sciences because it manages to be both rare and ubiquitous. Examples [...] are found in quasar luminosity, tide and river height, traffic flow, and human heartbeat..." (Gilden & Hannock)...
evolgen
The Probability of Winning the NBA Draft Lottery Are sportswriters full of it? Was it really unlikely that the worst team got stuck with the fourth pick? What about that good team getting lucky and winning the lottery?
Effect Measure
Are there big problems with the very small? Is nanotechnology hazardous to health and the environment?
Pure Pedantry
Sen. Kennedy and Glioma I don't know if everyone caught this in the news, but Senator Edward Kennedy has been diagnosed with a glioma. Regardless of one's politics, this is a real bum rap, and my deepest sympathy goes out to him and his...
DrugMonkey
Paper or President, Paper or President....hmmmm. As Steinn recently noted, Uncertain Chad is really good at "lazy blog polls". However that was meant, a recent question is of unusual interest to scientists. Suppose that you had a choice between having your favorite candidate win the presidential...
Zooillogix
Giant Blue Earthworms and Friends Giant bright blue earthworm from Australia has mucin that glows in the dark.
Uncertain Principles
Ask the Internet Where is my cell phone? Well?!? Where is it?...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Skyscrapers as Farms: "Skyfarming" Farming in the urban landscape?
Respectful Insolence
Epi Wonk versus Mark and David Geier: Guess who wins? Epiwonk deconstructs the latest epidemiological spew from that father-and-son team of cranks, Mark and David Geier, so that Orac doesn't have to.
Greg Laden's Blog
Ono: I Want To Just Say No Update on the Ono Law Suit ... As you most certainly know, Yoko Ono and her two sons have sued the producers of Expelled! for their use without permission of the song Imagine by John Lennon. Well, it appears as though a ruling from the...
Uncertain Principles
Publish or President? Suppose that you had a choice between having your favorite candidate win the presidential election, or having a first-author paper in Science. Which would you pick?
Deep Sea News
Give Yourself a Pat on the (Hump)back AP stock photo. Rex Dalton reports in the latest issue of Nature: "Humpback whale numbers in the northern Pacific Ocean have ballooned to nearly 20,000, the largest population seen since the majestic mammals were hunted nearly to extinction half a...
The Intersection
Don't Make Fun Of Grad Students... Today I begin a series of posts on the tremendous challenges facing graduate students--with some illuminating data that sheds light on what's really going on in the ivory towers during the 21st century. To get started, here's The Simpsons perspective...
Highly Allochthonous
Fear and loathing in Johannesburg (but some hope too) My readers may or may not have heard about the xenophobic attacks that have been taking place in some of the poorer districts of Johannesburg over the past week or so, which have claimed almost 50 lives so far and...
Pharyngula
Indiana Jones open thread You all know how the Indiana Jones movies are written, don't you? Let me recreate for you the day Steven Spielberg sat down with his head writer to put together the outline of what would be the fourth installment...
Greg Laden's Blog
Bon Voyage HMS Beagle It is on this day, May 22nd, 1825 that the HMS Beagle left Plymouth England on its infamous First Voyage. The Beagle was built at the Woolwich Dockyard (launched 11 May 1820) named after the breed of dog. The Beagle was the first ship to...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Officer Wins Victory on Don't Ask Don't Tell The 9th circuit has ruled in favor of Air Force Major Margaret Witt in an appeal on her discharge under the DADT policy. Witt was discharged after a stellar career in which she was so highly decorated that the Air...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Prager's Nonsense on the California Ruling Dennis Prager has a column at the Worldnutdaily filled with predictable and ill-conceived outrage at the California gay marriage ruling. He begins by saying: this is big. Really big: Nothing imaginable - leftward or rightward - would constitute as radical...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Supreme Court Alters First Amendment This week's ruling in US v Williams was widely reported in the media as being a case about child porn, but that is actually rather incidental to the reality of the case. Yes, it was immediately about evaluating the constitutionality...
bioephemera
Severed fingers and giant babies hyperrealist sculpture
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
6 Most Common Myths Here's a blog that cites and debunks some of our most common fake facts, including my personal pet peeve - the claim that we only use 10% of our brains. Every time someone throws that little nugget into a conversation,...
- DrugMonkey : A dead PI is a transition opportunity!
- Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Giant Beetles: Not Your Average Everyday Pet
- Developing Intelligence : Impulsivity Due to Distortions in Time: Hyperbolic Discounting and Logarithmic Time Perception
- Not Exactly Rocket Science : Snake proteins have gone through massive evolutionary redesign
- DrugMonkey : Do Appearances Indicate Anything About the Quality of the Data?
- Indiana Jones open thread PZ Myers
- Prager's Nonsense on the California Ruling Ed Brayton
- It's going to be 22 May in a few hours PZ Myers
- Oregon petition warmed over Tim Lambert
- 6 Most Common Myths Ed Brayton
