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November 21, 2009
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...
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
H1N1: fastest freaking science ever (plus a bit about sequencing all the poo in the world) I actually mentioned this video earlier, but you know, I don't think I did the pitch justice. So... Basically a TEDx talk by Jennifer Gardy, who outlines just how freaking fast that H1N1 information has been obtained. And all because...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Tiny fungi replay the fall of the giant beasts North American used to be home to giant mammals - megafauna - that went extinct between 10 and 15 thousand years ago. Now, scientists are replaying the final days of these giant beasts by studying a tiny fungus that grew in their dung.
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!
Transcription and Translation
Olympus BioScapes 2009 Winners Like Nikon, microscopes manufacturer Olympus has a yearly microscopy photo competition, this years winners are up. First place: Dr. Jan Michels Christian-Albrechts-University, Institute of Zoology Kiel, Germany Specimen: Daphnia atkinsoni (Water Flea) Technique: Confocal laser scanning microscopy For more go...
Framing Science
TONIGHT: NOAA's Jane Lubchenco to Speak at AU For DC readers, an important lecture series on the AU campus...
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #768: Okapi An okapi (Okapia johnstoni), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
November 18, 2009
Gene Expression
Ancient DNA & the moa The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography: ...We synthesize mitochondrial phylogenetic information from 263 subfossil moa specimens from across NZ with morphological, ecological, and new geological data to create the first comprehensive phylogeny, taxonomy,...
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