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• November 23, 2009

• Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

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  Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Here's a challenging North American species to keep you busy with your field guides, thanks to a talented and generous photographer!

• bioephemera

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  Thank goodness no one grows eighties-jeans trees anymore Reader Jake, who is always on top of good finds, alerted me this morning to this punning play on fall foliage by illustrator Christoph Niemann at the NYT: "Bio-Diversity." The full post is absolutely charming - go browse it...

• Pharyngula

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  Mary's Monday Metazoan: Strange diet That's a photo of a coral slurping up a passing jellyfish. For some reason, I find it vaguely disturbing, and have no idea why my wife would select it....

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Crocodile ancestors found in Sahara A six-metre croc with three sets of fangs is among the five ancient relatives of modern-day crocodiles found in the Sahara Desert, scientists said Thursday. Three of the fossils, discovered by researchers led by Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and Hans Larsson of...

• Gene Expression

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  Cannibalism & evolution Cannibalism is a controversial topic. It is routine for particular societies to accuse "barbarians", enemies, or evil mythological figures, of cannibalism. When it comes to the archaeological record some skeptics have claimed that like "sacred objects" too often human remains...

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 22 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...

• Laelaps

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  Photo of the Day #772: Baby California sea lion A baby California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....

• November 22, 2009

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  The Amazing Bouncing Pebble Toad (video) Seen on DeLene's Facebook wall.......

• erv

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  Viruses and invasive species: I get sick, but you get sicker, sucker Viruses explain everything.

• The Primate Diaries

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  Spirited Debate with Ray and Kirk From Atheist Cartoons.com...

• Not Exactly Rocket Science

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  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)

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  The craziest fish jaws ever (video) (via Deep Sea News)...

• The Primate Diaries

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  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

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  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

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  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)

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  Mystery Birds: Plumed Whistling Ducks, Dendrocygna eytoni Here's a group of Australian mystery birds for you to identify, thanks to a talented and generous photographer!

• Aardvarchaeology

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  Why Malt the Barley for Beer? If yeast can make alcohol directly out of starch, why bother malting the barley before making beer?

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  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

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  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)

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  Mystery Bird: Australian Darter, Anhinga novaehollandiae Here's an easy Australian bird for you to identify, thanks to a generous photographer

• Laelaps

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  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

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  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....

Hurricanes

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

What Ike Really Means; Introducing Integrated Kinetic Energy