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Lab Coats & Gloves
Category: In the Lab
Before you enter a common area or grab a bite to eat, please remove your lab coat and gloves.
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments
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December 30, 2006
Save the Flies!!
Category: Drosophila
Twelve drosophilids earned protection from the government of the United States in 2006.
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments
December 29, 2006
The Rift in Evolutionary Biology
Category: Evolution • Genomics • Molecular Evolution
The rift in the biological sciences may lie between computational biologists and wet labs, but when we look at individual fields, we see other divisions. In an essay in PLoS Computational Biology Carl Zimmer describes the divide amongst evolutionary biologists....
Posted by RPM at 12:45 PM • 2 Comments
December 28, 2006
It Happens Again
Category: Admin
Another day, another person confuses us with Jason Rosenhouse.
Posted by RPM at 3:45 PM • 6 Comments
Barbaro NOT Cured by Jesus
Category: Anti-Science • Sports
Barbaro, the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner who broke his leg during the Preakness Stakes, is almost healthy enough to be released from his ICU stall at University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center. He has been the focus of hopes...
Posted by RPM at 3:00 PM • 5 Comments
Scientific American Also Mixes Terminology
Category: Science News
The editors at Scientific American are afraid of PLoS ONE, but they're more than happy to publish articles about Nature papers. Their coverage of the Komodo dragon virgin births contains the following lead in:...
Posted by RPM at 12:30 PM • 7 Comments
December 26, 2006
Chance, Stochasticity, Probability and Evolution
Category: Evolution • Statistics
Before we can determine the role of chance in evolution, we must define what we mean by chance.
Posted by RPM at 1:00 PM • 8 Comments
December 25, 2006
James Brown -- Overpowered by Funk
Category: Pop Culture
James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, has passed away at the age of 73 in Atlanta, Georgia. The world is a slightly less funky place today. I've posted some videos -- in honor of the hardest working man in...
Posted by RPM at 2:30 PM • 2 Comments
A Clash of Cultures on the Gridiron
This year's college football bowl season gives us a match up of two schools on opposite ends of the American cultural divide.
Posted by RPM at 12:15 PM • 5 Comments
Studying Cancer from an Evolutionary Framework
Carl Zimmer has an article in the upcoming edition of Scientific American that looks at cancer from the perspective of evolutionary biology. The most obvious parallel is that of cancer cells within an individual modeled as an evolving population: Rare...
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 5 Comments
December 24, 2006
On the Difference between Endosymbionts and Organelles
Category: Biology
What makes an endosymbiont an organelle, and who cares about such trivial matters?
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 4 Comments
December 23, 2006
Another Neat Article in PLoS ONE
Category: Biology
Molecular markers are becoming more and more popular for species identification -- a practice known as DNA barcoding. Researchers sequence a region of the genome from an organism of interest and search that sequence against a DNA database using BLAST....
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments
December 22, 2006
Science Reporters Lament the Advent of PLoS ONE
Category: Science News
The editors at Scientific American are taking note that the review process at PLoS ONE differs from that of traditional journals.
Posted by RPM at 3:30 PM • 4 Comments
The One Sentence Challenge
Category: Evolution
Describe your research area in a single sentence.
Posted by RPM at 12:00 PM • 8 Comments
Keeping Intelligent Design Out of Science Classrooms
Category: Anti-Science • Book Reviews • Science Education • Science Policy
Eugenie Scott' and Glenn Branch's new book, Not in Our Classrooms, provides a primer for anyone interested in involved themselves in the movement to defend science education in American public schools.
Posted by RPM at 9:00 AM • 1 Comments
December 21, 2006
On the Genetics of Virgin Birth
Category: Genetics
Just in time for Christmas, female Komodo dragons are giving birth to babies despite never mating with a male. How are they doing it? It's virgin birth through meiotic trickery.
Posted by RPM at 7:45 PM • 7 Comments
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