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Life Science
November 22, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
The Amazing Bouncing Pebble Toad (video) Seen on DeLene's Facebook wall.......
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Viruses and invasive species: I get sick, but you get sicker, sucker Viruses explain everything.
The Primate Diaries
Spirited Debate with Ray and Kirk From Atheist Cartoons.com...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
South African wildlife - Kudu Of all of South Africa's species of antelope, the kudu is my favourite, mainly because of those elegantly spiralling horns. They adorn the logo of the national parks and several street signs (which promise kudus majestically leaping out across...
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...
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #771: Gelada baboon A gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
November 21, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
The craziest fish jaws ever (video) (via Deep Sea News)...
The Primate Diaries
Ray Comfort is a Half-Wit and a Libelous Scalawag Now that his plan has backfired drastically (his own website has removed the link to his "Introduction" of Darwin's book) and more people were offended by his distortions than anything else, let me briefly point out some useful information. Comfort...
Gene Expression
Chinese propensity to copy No, this isn't about intellectual property issues and piracy. Whole Genome Distribution and Ethnic Differentiation of Copy Number Variation in Caucasian and Asian Populations: Although copy number variation (CNV) has recently received much attention as a form of structure variation...
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.
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!
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....
November 20, 2009
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....
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
Laelaps
Sivatherium: A giraffe with a trunk? A giraffe, photographed at the Bronx zoo. For me, no visit to the zoo is complete without stopping by to see the giraffes. They are among the most common of zoo animals, certainly, but I still find them fascinating....
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week Circadian KaiC Phosphorylation: A Multi-Layer Network; Evaluation of the Oscillatory Interference Model of Grid Cell Firing through Analysis and Measured Period Variance of Some Biological Oscillators; 10 Reasons to be Tantalized by the B73 Maize Genome; On Theoretical Models of Gene Expression Evolution with Random Genetic Drift and Natural Selection; Combination of Real-Value Smell and Metaphor Expression Aids Yeast Detection; Motor and Linguistic Linking of Space and Time in the Cerebellum; Genome-Wide Scan for Signatures of Human Population Differentiation and Their Relationship with Natural Selection, Functional Pathways and Diseases; A Mechanistic Niche Model for Measuring Species' Distributional Responses to Seasonal Temperature Gradients; and more....
Ciência Ao Natural
Sereno's Crocodilos Mais uma excelente monografia sobre a vida na Terra. Do passado dos Crocodylia, mais concretamente sobre o registo fóssil do Cretácico do Saara. Desta vez Paul Sereno é acompanhado por Hans Larsson na escrita de uma obra que vai ser uma referência futura. Na imagem o novo género e espécie Kaprosuchus saharicus revela uma morfologia craniana e mandibular muito particulares. A cereja em cima do bolo é que a monografia é grátis e está repleta de excelentes ilustrações e fotografias....
Pharyngula
Friday Cephalopod: Squink! Loligo peali (via Scientific American)...
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #769: Nyala A young nyala (Tragelaphus angasii) nursing from its mother, photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Friday Morning Jams... Last night one of you wrote: Dear Dr. Isis, Have you seen the Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" video? I cannot get this song out of my head and thought I might suggest it to Your Hot Scientistness. I have a...
November 19, 2009
Genetic Future
My Gene Profile: the lamest genetic testing scam on the internet? Pharyngula, via a reader, points me to the most aggressively bad attempt at a genetic testing product I have ever encountered, coupled with a truly horrific attitude to parenting.The tag line alone is hilariously inept:"Our Technology Spawned from Human Genome Project...
Transcription and Translation
Fourty two* and still in need of mentoring? ... the NIH should not give young investigators a break ... because they are full of crap?!?!!!
Laelaps
The Witness of the Deluge At last long there was solid proof that humans had died in a real Noachian Deluge. That such an event had occurred was widely taken on faith by Christians, and the belief that world's geology had been formed by...
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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.
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