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I also blog at Quiche Moraine, where you will find interesting restaurant reviews, political trades, and tear jerking memories. Such as:
- Strong Ideas and Exclusionary Thinking: Obama, Palin and Greek Food in Minneapolis

- Midori’s Floating World Cafe

- Dinner at Azia

- The Black Forest Inn: Anarchists 2; Scientists 1

- The Hurricane Lantern Effect

- Maybe We Should Have Elected a White President After All

- The Day the Right Wing Lost Its Last Shred of Moral Standing

- My Journey Through Race and Racism (Part I)

- Fashion at the West Bank’s Bedlam

Insects:

Re-examining the cause of speciation and species diversity in the tropics

Category: South America

Did Past Climate Changes Promote Speciation in the Amazon? Any time you've got a whopping big river like the Amazon (or a mountain chain like the Andes, or an ocean, or whatever), you've gotta figure that it will be a biogeographical barrier. Depending on the...

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Spread of Disease from Domestic to Wild Bees

Category: Evolutionary Biology

A recent article in PLoS examines the possibility that disease is spreading from domestic to wild bees. Osmia ribifloris...

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Monarch butterflies in the classroom

Category: Insects

Continuing with our discussion of the Evolution 2008 conference ... Karen Oberhauser talked about the "single species" approach to pedagogy. This involves focusing on a single species and using it throughout an entire course. Karen has taught classes on this approach for teachers' professional development...

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