Attack of the Horny Peacock
evolgen
He's just trying to get some.
Volcano War Erupts
the buzz in the blogosphere
When Deep-Sea News declared Sunday that volcanoes are evil—citing their occasionally disastrous effects on marine life—ScienceBlogs's resident geologists rushed to their defense. Green Gabbro argued that "volcanoes were here before we snotty, ungrateful hydrocarbons metamorphosed from the goo," and Highly Allochthonous added that volcanoes "may cause the odd extinction event or two, but they're also a big part of why there are things to go extinct in the first place."
Volcanoes: our noble allies in the battle against export productivity
07.23.2008 · Chris Rowan
... Finally, a blogospheric spat that actually matters. Craig McClain over at Deep Sea News has accused volcanoes of being the implacable enemies of marine life, based on new research linking them to some bouts of extreme ocean ano...
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I'm sorry to say that I only aspire to be a teeny-tiny bit evil, and my target is a handful of virtually inedible crackers in my possession.
Pharyngula · The Great Desecration · July 24, 2008
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- Baylor rededicates itself to bible college status PZ Myers
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- Comments from the McDonald's Boycott Ed Brayton
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Life Science
Happy birthday, PLoS Genetics!
A Blog Around The Clock
PLoS Genetics is celebrating its third birthday this month! Let's see what's new this week, among else... PLoS...
My picks from ScienceDaily
A Blog Around The Clock
'Snow Flea Antifreeze Protein' Could Help Improve Organ Preservation: Scientists in Illinois and Pennsylvania are reporting development of...
Semipalmated Plover
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
So .. do you think you can identify some plovers? I have a few more images to show...
Physical Science
Colleagues behaving badly: symmetry considerations.
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Go to Cosmic Variance at once to read Julianne Dalcanton's musings on why spherical jerks (not the word...
Numeric Pareidolia and God in Π
Good Math, Bad Math
There's one kind of semi-mathematical crackpottery that people frequently send to me, but which i generally don't...
Physics and McSweeney's
The Frontal Cortex
Funny stuff from McSweeney's: General relativity is your high-school girlfriend all grown up. Man, she is amazing. You...
A Question of Publishing Ethics
Uncertain Principles
If I copy the data from a table, and make my own version of the graph, am I...
Environment
Latest no-no for climateers: tropical vacations
The Island of Doubt
Jet flights near the equator do more damage than at high latitudes.
Monckton and the APS
Deltoid
Catherine Brahic, at the New Scientist enviromental blog has more on Monkcton and the APS: [Al Saperstein, an...
Geopuzzle #13
Highly Allochthonous
Whilst I struggle to cope with the suddent onset of dementia in my beloved but aging laptop (which...
"The Cave Where Turtles Die" Video
Deep Sea News
Earlier this year, I highlighted a post from the amazing dive blog The Right Blue. Their story about...
Humanities/Social Science
Style is timeless
Gene Expression
I've been reading Critique of Pure Reason and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding in the evenings. It should...
A Complicated Dominion: Tiffany Bozic
bioephemera
delicately brutal scenes of an imagined Nature. . .
Top 10 Scientifically Inaccurate Movies
The Intersection
From Jonathan Crow: If movies were completely scientifically accurate, they'd probably be as interesting as a Physics...
Name That Drink Quiz
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
I know you are getting ready to go out partying tonight (that's what fridays are for), so here's...
Politics, Brain and Technology Weekly Channel Highlights
In this post: the large version of the Politics, Brain & Behavior and Technology 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
The importance of stupidity in scientific research
A Blog Around The Clock
Now this is a title of a paper in a scientific journal that will make one's eyebrows go...
UNDERCURRENTS: the voice of undergraduate research
A Blog Around The Clock
The July issue of our e-newsletter is now available. http://snipurl.com/34wgh Highlights: * Social Networking For Researchers * Do...
Is the grass is greener on the other Knol?
Greg Laden's Blog
Sorry for the mixed metaphor, but I assure you, it gets worse. Google may be taking a shot...
Classroom teachers: get a jump on the school year (and your DonorsChoose proposal)!
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Sure, we still have about a week of July left, but those days are getting shorter and soon...
Politics
Are liberals against nuclear power more than conservatives? Yes
Gene Expression
Because of the increased prices in gasoline and the perception of scarcity in terms of power, there has...
The New World Order
Greg Laden's Blog
Hey, this seems like a great idea, what do you think? (I have to admit that I got...
Giuilani and Duke
Terra Sigillata
Two of the most polarizing names in American politics and US collegiate athletics, respectively, come together as Rudy...
California Brinkmanship
Dynamics of Cats
The California "minumum wage" standoff moves closer to the edge. Universities "requested to co-operate" and cut wages....
Medicine & Health
Sex, Gender, Reproduction
A Blog Around The Clock
I have not done a Friday Weird Sex Blogging post in ages, and I won't do today either,...
Oh no! My cell phone's going to kill me!
Respectful Insolence
I'm very puzzled. Now, I know that my being puzzled isn't particularly unusual. I'm frequently puzzled. I can't...
Clarification Of Comments On Medical Battery
DrugMonkey
My blog post the other day about the surgeon who committed battery by placing a temporary tattoo on...
Brain & Behavior
Hacking Vision?
The Quantum Pontiff
An interesting idea from Mark Changizi from RPI: can one design pictures which, when interpreted by your vision,...
Loss Aversion and Real Estate
The Frontal Cortex
The latest report on home sales is bleak: Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh...
Butterflies of the soul
Neurophilosophy
This quote comes from Recollections of My Life, by Santiago Ramon y Cajal: Like the entomologist in search...
Why do more Asians have perfect pitch?
Cognitive Daily
Several recent large-scale studies have confirmed a curious finding: Asians are much more likely to have "perfect pitch"...
Technology
Blogrolling: Dr. Professor Chaos
DrugMonkey
I've been enjoying the Professor Chaos blog authored by River Tam of whom the about blurb says: I...
Robofish
Deep Sea News
Robotic sea bream from researchers at the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. Go to the Pink Tentacle to get...
TGIF Video: Johnson Sea-link Submersible
Deep Sea News
This is an exterior shot of the submersible that collected and photographed the Phakellia sp. sponge from...
Who are you, what are you doing here and why do you keep looking at me!!??!
DrugMonkey
Ed Yong recently asked his readers to tell him a little about themselves and what they enjoy about...
