A Blog Around The Clock
Archives for March, 2007
Skeptical Blogging of the fortnight
Posted by Coturnix on March 29, 2007 Skeptics’ Circle #57 (The Zebra Spilled its Plastinia on Bemis!) is up on Aardvarchaeology
Stem Cell Experiment in The Scientist
Posted by Coturnix on March 29, 2007 On The Scientist website you can find their new experimental feature – an article with questions to the public that will be used in forming the articles for the print version of the magazine next month. Go see Special Feature: Stem cell cloning needs you: In a unique experiment we’re inviting you to participate in…
My picks from ScienceDaily
Posted by Coturnix on March 29, 2007 Ewwwww! UCLA Anthropologist Studies Evolution’s Disgusting Side: Behind every wave of disgust that comes your way may be a biological imperative much greater than the urge to lose your lunch, according to a growing body of research by a UCLA anthropologist. The Delayed Rise Of Present-day Mammals: It took 10 to 15 million years after…
ClockQuotes
Posted by Coturnix on March 29, 2007 If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I’d pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. – Wystan Hugh Auden
Who gets whose Last Name at the Wedding?
Posted by Coturnix on March 29, 2007 Times are changing and the variety is endless. See what Anton and Erin, The Woomers and Jenny F. Scientist ended up doing and why. Then, read the posts and comment threads by Amanda and on Chaos Theory.
AnthropoBlogging of the Week
Posted by Coturnix on March 28, 2007 The latest edition of The Four Stone Hearth is up on Afarensis
Open Science On Marketplace
Posted by Coturnix on March 28, 2007 And in the marketplace. Jean-Claude Bradley was one of the people interviewed for a segment on Open Science on NPR’s Marketplace this morning. You can read the transcript and hear the podcast here. Thanks Anton for the heads-up.
EduBlogging of the Week
Posted by Coturnix on March 28, 2007 Carnival of Homeschooling #65 is dedicated to Charles Darwin and Evolution, up on Alasandra. 112th Carnival of Education is up on Education Wonks.
Liberal Blogging of the Week
Posted by Coturnix on March 28, 2007 Carnival of the Liberals #35 is up on Framed.
My picks from ScienceDaily
Posted by Coturnix on March 28, 2007 Migratory Birds: Innocent Scapegoats For The Dispersal Of The H5N1 Virus: A review to be published shortly in the British Ornithologists’ Union’s journal, Ibis, critically examines the arguments concerning the role of migratory birds in the global dispersal of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1. Ecologists of the Station Biologique de la Tour du…