Life Science
February 10, 2010
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Can you identify this cute little bird, just by looking at its rear end?
Pharyngula
Religion: adaptation or by-product? For years, whenever someone asks me about the evolution of religion, I explain that there are two broad categories of explanation: that religion has conferred a selective advantage to people who possessed it, or that it was a byproduct of...
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #850: Gorillas Lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 18 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
Pharyngula
Botanical Wednesday: Love is in the air Aren't you all looking forward to spring, when all the plants strive to inseminate your nose? (via National Geographic)...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
TEDTalks: Nick Veasey Talks About Exposing the Invisible Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and painstaking, but the reward is a superpower: looking at what the human eye can't see.
February 9, 2010
Evolution for Everyone
Economics and Evolution as Different Paradigms IV: The Limiting Factor of Cultural Evolution is not Origin but Spread I'm back after finishing the first draft of my next book, titled Evolving the City, which will be published by Little, Brown and is about how evolutionary theory can improve the quality of life in a practical sense. It is...
Pharyngula
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be People keep asking me for books on evolution for their kids, and I have to keep telling them that there is a major gap in the library. We have lots of great books for adults, but most of the books...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Very Cool Staphylococcus aureus Interactive Surveillance Site We actually now have a strategy for limiting or even stopping the spread of MRSA in Europe: this is why surveillance matters.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Here's an astonishing photograph of a lovely North American bird species that is (rarely) kept and bred in captivity in Australia of all places
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Crickets forewarn their offspring about predators before they're born Field cricket mothers can warn their young about the world without ever meeting them. If a pregnant female is exposed to a wolf spider, her babies are more likely to freeze when they smell wolf spiders nearby.
Laelaps
Book Review - Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold Shrimp is fancy food for anyone's dinner table. Boiled, baked, grilled, poached... the culinary possibilities are almost endless, and the low price of shrimp at grocers and superstores makes it easy for us to keep on eating. Yet this...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just...
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #849: Horse A domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus), photographed in suburban New Jersey....
February 8, 2010
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
How I Know the Universe is Screwing With Me... I know that Mama has been mildly absent, little muffins. Things here have just been so scientifically busy. Now I am convinced that the science universe is screwing with me. Allow me to explain how... Dr. Isis is a smoking...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Racehorse Research Identifies Speed Gene A new PLoS-ONE paper describes the identification of several DNA sequence variants in the myostatin gene, and a genetic association study indicating that these sequence variants may be useful for predicting the best race distance for flat racing Thoroughbred horses
Laelaps
Book Review: The Rise of Horses Almost two decades ago vertebrate paleontologist Bruce MacFadden published his monograph Fossil Horses, an instant classic that was as much about new approaches in paleontology as the equids considered in the book. For over a century the family history...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Mystery Bird: Ferruginous Hawk, Buteo regalis A stunning image of a distinctive raptor in the United States, this species should not be too difficult to identify
Oscillator
Synthetic Biologist Karmella Haynes Teachers' Domain, a digital media resource for teachers, profiled Karmella Haynes, one of my amazing labmates! There's a fun video of Karmella talking about her work on synthetic biology devices to track cancer cells and about careers in science streaming...
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #848: Amur tiger Zeff the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) yawns. Photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 16 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
Pharyngula
Mary's Monday Metazoan: Fishing You can also watch sailfish fishing. (via National Geographic)...
Gene Expression
Ooga begat Booga...lots of begats...Robert begat Charles In my discussion with Eliezer I referred to "recreational genetics." Basically, "for entertainment purposes only" genetics. For example, someone with blue eyes confirming that they have the alleles on OCA2 & HERC2 associated with blue eyes. Or a man with...
EvolutionBlog
Evolution at Wheaton I am currently reading the book Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America by Jeffery Sheler, published in 2006. There is a chapter about Wheaton College in Illinois, which is generally considered one of the best, if not the best, evangelical...
Neurotopia
Mitosis Since Sci wrote so recently about the preservation of somatic cells and gametes for species regulation, she thought it might be a good idea to run through some basic concepts. REALLY basic. Like the stuff you had in high school...
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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
