Category: Food
While in San Francisco, I'd like to eat at Incanto (look around the site for their menu and progressive food and water policies, and they also have a blog). It is at 1550 Church Street, on the southwest corner of...
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Category: Housekeeping
The Flying Trilobite Ljubisa Bojic 1420Mhz Weird Science Good Tithings Curious Expeditions Dandelion Diva Cabinet of Wonders Simplistic Art Mixotrophy Offal Good...
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Category: Politics
Edwards aside, this is an excellent look at the current political landscape in the USA: John Edwards and Dominant Media's Selective Skewering of Populist Hypocrisy by Paul Street:...
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Category: Society
Early reviews of the movie are coming out. Definitely read Ezra Klein's take on it. And Amanda Marcotte's. Also Mark Hoofnagle. And why Rob does not want to see it. Perhaps it is my upbringing, but the fact that one...
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Category: Pseudoscience
It's been a while since I last blogged about the Bosnian Pyramid (I did follow the story superficially, though, but was sick of trolls attracted to the topic), but I have to break the silence for this piece of good...
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Category: Science News
Lots of new papers just got published in PLoS-Genetics and PLoS-Computational Biology. Here are a couple of papers that caught my eye: From Morphology to Neural Information: The Electric Sense of the Skate: The electric sense appears in a...
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Category: Science News
First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changes One Species To Another: Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have announced the results of work on genome transplantation methods allowing them to transform one type of bacteria into another type dictated by...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus...
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Category: Science News
Modern Brains Have An Ancient Core: Hormones control growth, metabolism, reproduction and many other important biological processes. In humans, and all other vertebrates, the chemical signals are produced by specialised brain centres such as the hypothalamus and secreted into the...
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Category: Fun
Im in ur savanas takin pictrs of poopin elfants....
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