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September 6, 2008
Laelaps
Son of Dinosaurs When we last left Gary Owens he had been turned into a mustachioed dinosaur. The good news is that he apparently found a cure and again teamed up with Eric Boardman for another dinosaur documentary. (It's not like being eaten...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain WHAA???? Tell me about this story because I can't read it using my McDonald's free wifi connection
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #332: Amur leopard An Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), photographed at the Philadelphia Zoo....
Genetic Future
Live long and prosper: first, make sure you have the right genes A recent study reports a new genetic variant strongly associated with long life and lower insulin levels in Japanese men.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Mystery Object from London's Natural History Museum -- Identified In addition to all of your answers, a geologist kindly answers my question about the identity of this mystery object
September 5, 2008
A Blog Around The Clock
My picks from ScienceDaily Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake: A Universite Laval research team has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The details of this discovery, which could go some way...
The Scientific Activist
Do You Work on E. Coli? If so, check out EcoliWiki.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Blue-Crowned Lory at the London Zoo I just had to share one of my many photographs of the gorgeous blue-crowned lories at the London Zoo.
Framing Science
McCain's Biggest Contributor Also Leading Science Advocate Can we agree to retire the "anti-science" label as applied to Republicans?
Framing Science
AAAS Issues Policy Alert on Sarah Palin A "Teach the Both Sides" Vice President?
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker 2 Another image of a stunning species -- this time this bird is at work building a home!
DrugMonkey
Marion Jones Completes Her Prison Term Marion Jones, former golden girl of track and field has been released from jail. A federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman says Jones was released Friday morning from a halfway house in San Antonio after serving most of her six-month sentence...
The Scientific Activist
E. coli, We Hardly Knew You The often unexamined life of E. coli comes alive in Carl Zimmer's Microcosm.
Zooillogix
Giant Antarctic Marine Worm - Parbolasia Corrugatus Meet a giant predatory Antarctic worm
A Blog Around The Clock
Sigma Xi Pizza Lunch - Lemurs Message from Sigma Xi: You may know that Duke University is home to the Duke Lemur Center (http://lemur.duke.edu/), the world's largest sanctuary for rare and endangered prosimian primates. But do you know its research? For a glimpse, attend Sigma Xi's...
A Blog Around The Clock
My picks from ScienceDaily Can anyone send me the actual paper that is described in the first press release on this list, please? What Is A Gene? Media Define the Concept In Many Different Ways: Even scientists define 'a gene' in different ways, so...
Pharyngula
Friday Cephalopod: Three phyla Argonauta hians, hitchhiking Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman....
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #331: Amur tigers Two Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed at the Philadelphia Zoo....
September 4, 2008
Evolving Thoughts
Sick... again Once again I have manflu, the most despicable disease known to man (and to women, who also suffer indirectly from it). So blogging is patchy. Also, I have to do some teaching stuff, which involves thinking about what the...
EvolutionBlog
Clarifying the Carnival I've already received quite a few submissions for the big Carnival of Evolution. Alas, I have also received a few submissions which, while good, were outside the parameters of what I had in mind. So let me offer two clarifications:...
A Blog Around The Clock
My picks from ScienceDaily Cigarettes' Power May Not Be In Nicotine Itself, New Study Suggests: There may be a very good reason why coffee and cigarettes often seem to go hand in hand. A Kansas State University psychology professor's research suggests that nicotine's power...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker 1 This is one of the most beautiful images I've seen in all of 2008 -- and it's here for you to enjoy!
Gene Expression
Recent human evolution in the New World Genome-wide distribution of ancestry in Mexican Americans:Migrations to the new world brought together individuals from Europe, Africa and the Americans. Inter-mating between these migrant and indigenous populations led to the subsequent formation of new admixed populations, such as African and...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Did a gene enhancer humanise our thumbs? HACNS1, a rapidly evolving stretch of DNA, may contribute to the development of human thumbs and hands.
Genetic Future
Oh shit, that's 320 terabytes! Dealing with data in a high-throughput age Nature News has a special feature on "big data" - a broad look at the demands of the brave new world of massively high-throughput data generation, and the solutions adopted by research institutes and corporations to deal with those demands....
“Hardline animal rights people care about animals in roughly the same way that serious doctrinaire communists care about workers.” phisrow Animal Rights Extremists kill at least a dozen mink
