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November 22, 2009
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Okay, this is such as easy Australian bird to identify that I expect all of you to ID the species, and many of you can even ID the subspecies!
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Ask Dr. Isis - How Do I Avoid Being a Committee Patsy? Last week I received this letter from a lovely reader...a letter I have been carefully, carefully pondering: Dear Dr. Isis, I am an assistant professor at a big research university. Despite general appearances of democracy, my department is in reality...
November 21, 2009
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.
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!
November 20, 2009
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...
A Blog Around The Clock
Pets Teach Science: 16 golden retrievers explain atoms (video)
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Death is not an option: optimizing academic performance edition. Let's say you're a college student. You have a class meeting today at which a short essay (about 400 words) is due. The essay counts for about 5% of your grade for the course. At that class meeting, your instructor...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Friday Sprog Blogging: photosynthesis. Dr. Free-Ride: Any ideas for tomorrow's sprog blog? Younger offspring: I wanted to do how photosynthesis works. Dr. Free-Ride: Did you do any research on that since last week? Younger offspring: I don't do research....
DrugMonkey
Continuous submission of NIH grants for reviewers: Something is odd. Anything that encourages scientists to help with NIH grant review is a GoodThing.
The Primate Diaries
Friday Rant: Atheists Need To Be Brighter Now that the Darwin Reclamation Project collage has been posted, I can confess that I have a few problems with the recent atheist action that sought to counter the dunderhead Ray Comfort and his Creationist propaganda ministry. I'm not sure...
The Island of Doubt
The ultimate anti-tar sands message I promise to get back to substantive blogging shortly, but in the meantime, if you've got three minutes to tear yourself away from coverage of Sarah Palin's book: Scientifically sound? Not the words I would use, but not too far...
A Blog Around The Clock
Museum lecture traces historic Beagle voyage The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts the final offering of its Charles Darwin Lecture Series on Tuesday, November 24 -- the 150th anniversary of Darwin's landmark publication of "The Origin of Species." Join Museum paleontologist and science...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Here's an easy Australian bird for you to identify, thanks to a generous photographer
The World's Fair
Wendell Berry in Charlottesville "Burning the world to live in it is wrong."
Sciencewomen
SciWo's Storytime: Little Squirt the Fire Truck I am not in charge of SciWo's Storytime. Sure, it might look like I'm the one reading the books and operating the video camera, but Minnow exerts the ultimate executive authority as editor-in-chief. Some weeks no videos whatsoever are allowed...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Hello Germany: Why I am (and am not) Looking Forward to Living in Germany I am now officially an American Expat: I am living overseas as a foreign national and except for visits, I plan never to return to the United States
November 19, 2009
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Ask Dr. Isis - How Do You Make Time to Write? For the record, I almost titled this blog post, "Ask Dr. Isis - How are You So Hot?" But, man, that would have taken hundreds of thousands of words. My amazing science aside, there are a bazillion reasons I am...
Thus Spake Zuska
Bra-Burners and Feminist Activists: A Wee Primer Alas, there is no answer sheet, except the one provided by your own pre-existing (mis)conceptions and biases. Enjoy.
The Primate Diaries
The Darwin Reclamation Project (To watch this as a music video click on the volume icon in the top left.) Here you are, all your bright, shining faces with a brand new copy of On the Origin of Species. It's extremely generous of...
The World's Fair
Saying hello to Carl Zimmer Carl is currently in Vancouver, and he was gracious enough to come out for drinks with us last night. This was after a great talk he gave on the how scientists have been following the evolutionary tracks of the H1N1...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Here's a challenging North American species for you to identify, thanks to a photographer who is new to the daily Mystery Birds!
November 18, 2009
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Ask Dr. Isis - How Do I Convince a Young Girl That Math = Hot? I'm back to my list of Ask Dr. Isis email. Next up in the queue is this one: Dr. Isis, I'm a regular lurker at your blog who is writing on behalf of my mother - she's a fourth grade...
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Blogrolling - An Exciting New Blog! Earlier today I posted a letter from a smoking hot little muffin who sent me a picture of her gorgeous patterned tights. She then appeared in the comments section with a link to her own brand spanking new blog. I...
EvolutionBlog
Brief Blog Break My calculus students had a test yesterday. Having now graded them I understand, like never before, the meaning of the word “futility.” Their logic is not like our Earth logic. My future elementary school teachers had their test today. About...
A Blog Around The Clock
Celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday NESCent and SCONC: What: November SCONC-fest When: Thursday November 19th , 6-8pm Where: National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham Please join us to commemorate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of "The Origin of Species." Learn about the...
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“It amazes me that many people want to use explanations for creation that are thousands of years old. We should be using our our own people and technology to explain phenomena in our time.” Ken Creten on Teaching Creationism in Schools
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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
