New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
A Blog Around The Clock
There are 57 new articles in PLoS ONE this week, and it is hard to choose which ones...
Sea Monsters!
the buzz in the blogosphere
07.09.2008
The possibility of an undiscovered species lurking beneath the waters incites wonder and—depending on its purported features—a healthy dose of fear. Reports of large, ferocious creatures of the deep have been around since at least the 7th Century, when historians date the first written accounts of the Scottish Loch Ness Monster. Get acquainted with some of the world's most famous sea monsters this week on Tetrapod Zoology.
Santa Cruz's duck-billed elephant monster
07.08.2008 · Darren Naish
... Welcome to day 2 of sea monster week. This time the featured 'monster' is a beached carcass: it washed ashore at what was then called Moore's Beach ......
Onsite Coverage
THE 2008 MEETINGS OF NOBEL LAUREATES IN LINDAU
Courtesy of scienceblogs.de | More Coverage
For hundreds of years now, each generation has left its descendents a world less full.
Shifting Baselines · An Open Letter To the Future President · July 8, 2008
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- Adventures in Ethics and Science: Quantum mechanics for fourth graders.
- The Scientific Activist: Tales From the Front Lines in <em>The Animal Research War</em>
- DrugMonkey : On making the publishing process "more rapid, rational and equitable"
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome caused by a serotonin imbalance?
- Cognitive Daily: Will video games solve sex-discrimination in science?
- IT'S A GODDAMNED CRACKER! PZ Myers
- Nobody gets to call me arrogant ever again PZ Myers
- Thanks, Andrew Wakefield Orac
- Arguments for God Jason Rosenhouse
- "Diversity" at the Naval Academy Ed Brayton
- Johann Deisenhofer im ScienceBlogs-Interview [Video der Woche]
- CO2-Halbierung? Da wird das Meer ganz schön sauer sein [Geograffitico]
- Cholesterinsenker für Kinder: Sieg der Pharmalobby? [Was Blogger bewegt]
- Business mit dem Bösen [Geograffitico]
- Aus für Online-Poker? [Mathlog]
Life Science
Save the Orangutan: A Comment From Michelle Desilets
Afarensis
I don't often move a comment from the comment section to a post of its own, but I...
Baseball and Evolution
EvolutionBlog
Let's see. An op-ed in the New York Times entitled “Doubleday and Darwin”, with the following opening paragraph:...
My Picks From ScienceDaily
A Blog Around The Clock
Rare Microorganism That Produces Hydrogen May Be Key To Tomorrow's Hydrogen Economy: An ancient organism from the...
Physical Science
Unworkable Devices
Uncertain Principles
As a sort of palate-cleanser after the quantum chicanery discussed in the previous post, let me recommend Donald...
Quantum mechanics for fourth graders.
Adventures in Ethics and Science
In search of good reading (or viewing) on the quantum world for the grade school set.
Help Me Locate Kooks
Uncertain Principles
Point me toward the right sort of kookery, and I'll give you an advance look at (part of)...
Mercury
Gene Expression
Flyby of Mercury Answers Some Old Questions: Mercury, the smallest planet, bakes in the heat of the Sun,...
Environment
Linnaeus' Legacy #9: Classifying the Classifiers
Deep Sea News
Mr. Slybird has the latest and greatest Linneaus' Legacy carnival up at Biological Ramblings. It is an awesome...
Recycled sh*t* from Solomon
Stoat
Lawrence Solomon seems to have a bee in his bonnet about wikipedia. He really should be writing about...
Bird (and other) Conservation in Yemen
Greg Laden's Blog
The Golden-winged Grosbeak - Socotra Grosbeak Rhynchostruthus socotranus shown in image - has been chosen as Yemen's...
Meet the Next Generation Bloggers!
Next Generation Energy
The Next Generation Bloggers come from both within the ScienceBlogs community and without—from journalism, marine biology, banking, and...
Humanities/Social Science
Which demographics know science?
Gene Expression
The always fascinating Inductivist takes a look at science comprehension of Americans via the GSS. Here's his methodology:...
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway Art 2 [Detail 2]
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another detail from the larger glass and ceramic tile mosiac artwork for you to enjoy, courtesy of me!
On manufactroversies
Stranger Fruit
Leah Ceccarelli in the Seattle Times: My own research seeks to reveal what makes today's manufactroversies work. First,...
Euro-update update: Is a photo about whether science is art, art?
Cognitive Daily
Last year when the family was in Europe I snapped this photo of Jim looking at a triptych...
Environment and Humanities Weekly Channel Highlights
In this post: the large versions of the Environment and Humanities & Social Science channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week.
Why do you blog, and how does blogging help with your research?
Education & Careers
Women, Science, and Publishing Revisited
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
More data regarding sexism against scientific papers whose first author is a woman -- now what do you...
More on Animal Rights Extremism
The Scientific Activist
An AP article details the recent rise of animal rights extremism in the US.
Against the Stereotype
The Quantum Pontiff
After reading the comments on my post Leaving Academia: Cry or Celebrate?, I started thinking about the successful...
OA and the broader social good
Greg Laden's Blog
Consider this comment by Anders Norgaard of Spain, on the current Open Access discussion: ...For society and everyone...
Politics
New Franken Ad
Greg Laden's Blog
The Deep Sea Is Finally A Factor In A Presidential Election
Deep Sea News
Unfortunately not in the way I hoped. You may already now this but it is worth reiterating because...
It is not a war on terror. And torture does not work.
Greg Laden's Blog
Ed Brayton (Dispatches form the Culture Wars) has this post with a video you should watch. I have...
IT'S A GODDAMNED CRACKER!
Pharyngula
There are days when it is agony to read the news, because people are so goddamned stupid. Petty...
Medicine & Health
Antivax lies from a local reporter
denialism blog
It's worse than I thought. A local investigative reporter has just broadcast a report on mercury, vaccines, and...
Science in the Cinema
bioephemera
Those of you in the greater DC area may be interested in the NIH Science in the...
Should parents worry about HPV vaccine?
denialism blog
That's the question posed by CNN yesterday. It's a good question. Any time a new vaccine or treatment...
Brain & Behavior
I Can't Understand Your Accent, So Keep Talking
Mixing Memory
I have this friend from New York who, most of the time, speaks in a normal (that is...
Kids and Happiness
The Frontal Cortex
Some new evidence suggesting that children aren't such bundles of joy: Sociologists are discovering that children may not...
Chesterton, Madness, Reason
The Frontal Cortex
Adam Gopnik has a great New Yorker article (not online) on the genius and wickedness of G.K. Chesterton....
Will video games solve sex-discrimination in science?
Cognitive Daily
Last year we discussed a great deal of research about the gender disparity in math and science. Even...
Technology
Is Linux Getting the Shaft?
Greg Laden's Blog
As I recently reported, there is an order of magnitude difference between the market share of Linux "out...
Hans Reiser leads cops to wife's body
Greg Laden's Blog
First, an important note: According to what I've read lately the Reiser File System does have a maintainer,...
Score one for home schoolers!
Deep Sea News
Students from the New York City Home Educators Association (NYCHEA) took second place behind Blue Hills Technical High...
Check out the Linux Kernel Map (Interactive)
Greg Laden's Blog
(click on this picture to go to the map)...
