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• July 29, 2010

• erv

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  Theres a glitch in The Matrix... they changed something... Endogenous filoviruses! YAY!! ... wait... didnt I already write about this... wait... wat?

• The Thoughtful Animal

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  Parental Verbal Abuse and Why I'm Not ROFL Have you heard about NCBI ROFL? It's a previously-independent blog that has been incorporated into "Discoblog," one of the blogs at Discover Magazine. What they do is find amusing or funny abstracts by searching Pubmed (which is run by the...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Yellowstone area griz kills one, mauls several As you know, I have a long standing interest in dogs and bears and in the topic of animals eating people....

• Genetic Future

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  Protecting consumers from their own genetic data will come at a cost Investigations launched by the FDA and US Congress have potentially set the stage for a large-scale regulatory crackdown on the embryonic direct-to-consumer genetic testing industry. Such a move would be premature, and would do more harm than good to consumers. The industry needs to change, but a more careful, measured approach based on increasing the transparency of genetic tests is the best way forward.

• Respectful Insolence

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  A science section for the Huffington Post? More like a pseudoscience section! (2010 edition) Funny how everything old is new again, isn't it? Yes, if there's one thing I've learned over nearly six years of blogging, it's that, sooner or later, everything is recycled, and I do mean everything. At least, that was the...

• SciencePunk

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  Fleming Painted With Bacteria The Smithsonian has an interesting article on Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin, revealing how the scientist used his bacterial cultures to paint works of art. Fleming used different bacterial strains to create a range of colours, timing his...

• SciencePunk

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  The Bio Art of Michele Banks From Make: Washington, DC artist Michele Banks, aka Artologica, is a painter who, in her own words, "uses an old and often-disrespected medium, watercolor, to create pieces that are anything but old-fashioned." Her works in Makers Market focus on...

• July 28, 2010

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  How Physiology was Cooler 40 Years Ago A friend of mine sent me the following video today. It is footage of renowned physiologist John Severinghaus talking about the White Mountain Research Station. As a bit of background, John Severinghaus is a big deal in physiology. If you...

• Pharyngula

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  Botanical Wednesday: Shouldn't they sparkle? Or mope? Dracula simia...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Sociopolitical Apes It was already stifling at 9 o'clock in the morning as I frantically took notes on what I was witnessing through my field glasses. Without warning a black, hairy arm reached out to smack an unsuspecting victim, immediately giving way to a frantic chase that...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Triassic Life on Land: I love this book The Triassic is old. This book is new. That is a hard to beat combination....

• July 27, 2010

• Observations of a Nerd

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  Life on the Hi'ialakai: a few photos We just spent two days at French Frigate Shoals, most of which I spent diving or sleeping. Our research is going very well, which keeps me pretty busy, but I still find time to snap a picture or two. Here...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Evolutionary Biology Geeks: Three must read books for you! Imagine Stephen Jay Gould recast as a tall and lanky Jesuit priest who has an interest in evolution, or someone attempting the experiment of getting a large number of chimps at keyboards to see if you can get any Shakespeare? Or did you ever wonder, if a chimpanzee made the switch to human levels of intelligence, what kind of scotch if would prefer?

• The Thoughtful Animal

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  Editor's Selections: Methods FAIL, Empathic Robots, Gorilla Tag, and MDMA for PTSD Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week: EcoPhysioMichelle explains a giant methods FAIL on a recent paper that "claims that women who are approaching menopause become 'more willing to engage in a variety of sexual activities to...

• Framing Science

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  AAAS Establishes Early Career Award in Public Engagement Important leadership from AAAS with other major developments coming in August...

• July 26, 2010

• EvolutionBlog

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  Skip vs. The Creationists If you are in the mood for a little light reading, have a look at this account of Skip Evans, formerly of the National Center for Science Education, conversing with some of the local creationists in Madison, WI. It's almost...

• The Thoughtful Animal

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  Monkeying Around This is a tamarind: The fruit pulp is edible and popular. The hard green pulp of a young fruit is considered by many to be too sour and acidic, but is often used as a component of savory dishes, as...

• Tetrapod Zoology

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  The familiar Matamata, known to us all since the 1700s, and its long, fat neck (matamatas part II) Some weeks ago I wrote a bit about the Matamata Chelus fimbriatus: a weird, flat-headed South American pleurodiran turtle. It's one of the strangest creatures tetrapods on the planet, and there's so much to say about it that the...

• Pharyngula

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  Mary's Monday Metazoan: someone has a thing for tongues Anoura fistulata tonguing Centropogon nigricans (via Botany Photo of the Day)...

• The Thoughtful Animal

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  A horse is a horse, of course of course In general, the ability to attribute attention to others seems important: it allows an animal to notice the presence of other individuals (whether conspecifics, prey, or predators) as well as important locations or events by following the body orientation or...

• July 25, 2010

• Tetrapod Zoology

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  Squamozoic sneak-peek Like it says. One day all will be revealed. Not yet. Thanks to Tim Morris :)...

• Observations of a Nerd

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  Nihoa! And its inhabitants... We spent the past day at Nihoa. Even from afar, its jagged shape seems somewhat ominous. It blows my mind to think that people used to live on this island! There seems to be no source of fresh water, and...

• July 24, 2010

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  Fantastic Geek T-Shirts I just found the most incredible geek t-shirts while tooling around on this shop at Etsy. Dr. Isis does like a good geeky t-shirt. First, this delightful t-shirt with this adorable design: And, this one with a more complete diagram...

• Pharyngula

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  It's more than genes, it's networks and systems Most of you don't understand evolution. I mean this in the most charitable way; there's a common conceptual model of how evolution occurs that I find everywhere, and that I particularly find common among bright young students who are...

• July 23, 2010

• Life at the SETI Institute

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  From Galileo to Cassini -- 400 Years of Saturn's Rings By Dr. Mark R. Showalter Planetary Astronomer at the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute In 1609, Galileo introduced to the world his new invention, the astronomical telescope. It opened up new opportunities...

Synthetic Biology

Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:

Pharyngula May 30, 2007

“Playing God”

The Loom January 31, 2008

"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti

Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006

Build your own virus