Mt. Improbable?
EvolutionBlog
There's an interesting discussion going on between Larry Moran and Richard Dawkins. The subject is the title of...
Hurricane Dolly
the buzz in the blogosphere
The Atlantic storm known as Dolly became a full-fledged Category 1 hurricane Tuesday and moved rapidly toward the U.S. - Mexico border; it is expected to intensify before hitting land in Texas on Wednesday. Dolly is the second Atlantic hurricane of the 2008 season, which has already seen one of the most active beginnings on record.
Dolly Is Rapidly Intensifying Before Landfall
07.23.2008 · Chris C. Mooney
...This is not good. The pressure reported by the National Hurricane Center was 976, then 972, then 967....meanwhile, the storm has developed a perfect eye: The Advanced Dvorak Technique, a computer program being run by folks at the University of...
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Global warming is a unique geological event, more akin to the scale of nuclear war than saving the spotted owl. So why are we treating it as if it is a spotted owl?
Next Generation Energy · A Reaction Commensurate To The Threat · July 23, 2008
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Life Science
Surviving the zoo
Laelaps
Given that today is a weekday and the weather forecast predicted a 90% chance of heavy thunderstorms I...
The Evolution of Imprinting
Greg Laden's Blog
The phrase "genomic imprinting" has come to refer the turning off of a gene (a particular instance of...
Piping Plover
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another fabulous picture of a cute little shorebird for you to enjoy, courtesy of a talented photographer!
Physical Science
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...
Dolly comes ashore Part 5
Deep Sea News
We can't joke around too much about this Hurricane Dolly, I'm afraid. The weather is not terrible here...
Dimethylaminopyridine/DMAP (Nucleophile magic)
Molecule of the Day
A lot of reactions with nucleophiles' rates are determined by how good a leaving group you have. For...
Environment
Hurricanes and Gas Prices
The Intersection
So: Dolly, which is now lashing southern Texas as a borderline Category 1/Category 2 storm, wasn't the...
I must be psychic
Deltoid
Earlier, I predicted: You can bet that Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Bolt etc will be falsely claiming that Ofcom...
Rising Fuel Costs Hurt Marine Research
Deep Sea News
Nature News reports: "Many of the research projects launched as part of the International Polar Year (IPY), which...
Don't dilly dally, here comes Dolly
A Few Things Ill Considered
With that name, the silly post titles just don't quit! But on the serious side, "This storm, heading...
Humanities/Social Science
The evolution of language and biology
Gene Expression
Sandman has a post up, Can There Be A Synthesis Between Cultural And Biological Evolution?, taking off on...
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway Art 17
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another lovely tile and glass mosaic artwork from the NYC subway system for you to enjoy, courtesy of...
Books, Books, Books
Uncertain Principles
Via Tom, a big long list of books with which to showcase either my broad cultural background or...
Wordlerizing Darwin, Watson and Crick
bioephemera
I'd never bowdlerize any author's work, but wordlerizing is a lot of fun. Jonathan Feinberg's Wordle is...
What's New on ScienceBlogs.de, July 17-23
A stem cell researcher turns his back on journalists; two runners die during an extreme mountain race; global warming will cause more kidney stones; a video of magnetic field lines in space.
Why do you blog, and how does blogging help with your research?
Education & Careers
The Women of MDMA Research
DrugMonkey
A comment left by a reader some time ago took exception to one of my posts highlighting another...
UK Government Seeking Feedback on Science Policy
The Scientific Activist
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), which is responsible for higher education in the UK, is...
Science in Catalonia
Neurophilosophy
I'm back in London now, after 5 days in Barcelona for ESOF2008. The trip has been rather...
Six Degrees of Scientific Separation
The Daily Transcript
How many degrees of scientific separation exist between you and Watson & Crick? We'll soon be able to...
Politics
Check Me Out on Live TV This Friday
The Scientific Activist
I'll be on Sky News at about 10:30 BST this Friday to talk about Barack Obama's visit to...
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) Online Archive
bioephemera
Today FAS put up an online public archive of documents produced by the Office of Technology Assessment. As...
We don't?
Pharyngula
Nick Spencer of the Telegraph says Americans don't do atheism. It's a weird piece that frets over...
Freedom is a responsibility
A Few Things Ill Considered
The background for this post is The Great Global Warming Swindle and the recent judgement [PDF] by the...
Medicine & Health
DROP THAT CELL PHONE NOW!!!11!!!
denialism blog
DROP YOUR CELL PHONE NOW!!!!111! (don't send me the bill for the replacement) I'm sure others will cover...
The end of ignorance
denialism blog
The folks at bloggingheads.tv whoring for some link love sent me an interesting link. They had a talking...
Enough with Radovan Karadzic, already! (Or, the mini-Hitler Zombie dodged)
Respectful Insolence
Orac avoids the mini-Hitler Zombie of alternative medicine.
Janet blogs her mammogram
Aetiology
So it's not quite a colonoscopy on live TV, but Janet's done the public health world a favor...
Brain & Behavior
Choosing is Hard
The Frontal Cortex
Over at Mind Matters, the expert blog I curate at Scientific American, we're currently featuring a really interesting...
The Number Four
The Frontal Cortex
Look up charming in a dictionary and I'm pretty sure you'll see this video: Because we like to...
Deliberate Practice
The Frontal Cortex
This kid is a poster child for deliberate practice: Marc Yu, a 9-year-old piano prodigy from Pasadena, Calif.,...
The Neuroscience of Insight
The Frontal Cortex
I've got an article in the latest New Yorker (not online) on the neuroscience of insight. I begin...
Technology
The iPhone: A User's Guide
The World's Fair
"Using the iPhone to solve disputes between Moqtada al-Sadr and certain Sunni elements within Iraq without causing an...
Remember the good old days?
Stoat
Then you may like gmane.comp.security.full-disclosure/62146 (hat-tip: PW). Or be up to date: pwnie-awards.org/2008/ Ooooh.. wordpress. Stoat: the obscure...
The iPod Zepto: Inconceivably Small
The World's Fair
And look for the iPod Yocto--the world's first subatomic media player--coming soon.
