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Archives for January, 2008
Who’s scooping whom and why this matters?
Posted by Coturnix on January 31, 2008 Aetosaurs. No, I have not heard of them until now. But that does not matter – the big story about them today is the possibility – not 100% demonstrated yet, to be fair – that some unethical things surround their discovery and naming. And not just Aetosaurs. Some other fossils as well. As I am…
Intelligently Designed DNA
Posted by Coturnix on January 31, 2008 Someone did it. Get a prize if you correctly identify which one is intelligently designed. In both cases, the designer was an intelligent…..human. Of course. No media reports yet of bioengineering labs run by chimps, dogs, elephants or dolphins.
What He Says! Interview with Deepak Singh
Posted by Coturnix on January 31, 2008 Deepak Singh blogs on business|bytes|genes|molecules and, as the cartoon below testifies, has built for himself quite a reputation as an authority on the questions of Open Access and the future of science communication on the Web. We first met at Scifoo last summer and it was great pleasure to host Deepak here on my home…
Memories of War, Part IV (guest post by Mom)
Posted by Coturnix on January 31, 2008 Many of you have been moved by my Mom’s five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared in the first volume in the series We Survived published by the Jewish Historical Museum…
ClockQuotes
Posted by Coturnix on January 31, 2008 One world at a time. – Henry David Thoreau
My picks from ScienceDaily
Posted by Coturnix on January 30, 2008 The Eyes Have It: Researchers Can Now Determine When A Human Was Born By Looking Into The Eyes Of The Dead: Using the radiocarbon dating method and special proteins in the lens of the eye, researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus can now establish, with relatively high precision, when a person was born.…
NCSU helps Baghdad Zoo veterinarians
Posted by Coturnix on January 30, 2008 From Russ Williams, director of the N.C. Zoo Society.
Edwards speech in New Orleans today (video)
Posted by Coturnix on January 30, 2008 Good first responses on blogs: Jonathan Cohn Christy Hardin Smith Pam Spaulding Melissa McEwan David Sirota Chris Bowers
Bloggers….In…..Spaaaaace! Interview with Talia Page
Posted by Coturnix on January 30, 2008 Talking Science is a new non-profit that’s dedicated to bringing the latest discoveries, innovations, controversies and cures out of the lab and to the public. It was founded by Ira Flatow, host of NPR’s Science Friday. As a part of this effort, Talia Page is one of the bloggers for Science Friday and Talking Science…
Memories of War, Part III (guest post by Mom)
Posted by Coturnix on January 30, 2008 Many of you have been moved by my Mom’s five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared in the first volume in the series We Survived published by the Jewish Historical Museum…