Photo of the Day #299: Gorillas
Laelaps
A young western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) fast asleep against an adult female. Photographed at the Bronx zoo...
Nature Disses PLoS
the buzz in the blogosphere
07.05.2008
In a Nature News article published online Wednesday, Nature contributor Declan Butler harshly criticized the journal's rival Public Library of Science. The article contends that PLoS—one of the largest open-access scientific journals, with seven titles to its name—accepts low-quality papers for some of its publications so that the fees collected can fund its more prestigious ventures.
Religion is good for your health? Conservative Christianity bad?
07.05.2008 · Razib
... didn't include that map. The second map shows life expectancy of white males and females across the United States, the source is a PLoS ONE paper. What I'm suggesting here is that the authors above might be confusing...
Onsite Coverage
THE 2008 MEETINGS OF NOBEL LAUREATES IN LINDAU
Courtesy of scienceblogs.de | More Coverage
We are carting ourselves over to Europe, using a huge amount of gas and making a huge amount of carbon dioxide, to have a conversation with mostly Americans.
Sciencewomen · What will academia (need to) look like when gas is $20/gallon? · July 3, 2008
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Life Science
Some fossil tetrapod thing
Tetrapod Zoology
Here's a fossil I described recently. Does anyone want to have a go at identifying it? Don't worry,...
L'affaire Lenski continues
denialism blog
When will the stupidity end? Really. When? As long as Conservapedia exists, the answer will elude us. The...
Altenberg meeting next week: expect evolution to simply evolve slightly
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Remember Suzan Mazur, the credulous reporter hyping a revolution in evolution? She's at it again, publishing an e-book...
Physical Science
The coolest picture of the year, I predict
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Last night I thought I had fun, hearing both thunder and fireworks, but these guys could not just...
Video Feature: Nobelist Giacconi at Lindau
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In the video, Nobelist Riccardo Giacconi (Physics, 2002) discusses his work in X-ray astronomy, and the discovery of...
Happy Birthday ....
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Leavitt Henrietta Swan Leavitt You were born on this day in 1868, in Lancaster, Massachuetts. You figured...
Earth gets very far from sun, slows down
Greg Laden's Blog
The Earth Today The Earth has moved as far from the sun as it typically gets, and...
Environment
Large and Rapid Melt-Induced Velocity Changes in the Ablation Zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet?
Stoat
Its a paper in Science, by R. S. W. van de Wal et al. I've only read the...
LCV Dirty Half-Dozen
The Corpus Callosum
The League of Conservation Voters is half-way through the process of selecting the dozen worst environmental offenders in...
TGIF: Don't Mess with the Japanese!
Deep Sea News
From LiveLeak.com: Smugglers Chased and Rammed by Japanese Coastguard....
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Misdiagnosed extinction risk for endangered species were underestimated by as much as 100-fold
Humanities/Social Science
Update: Where Did I Go Today?
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Stay tuned for a new subway station featured on my subway tile mosaic artwork series tonight!
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Lewis the Rampaging Cat Cleared of All Charges
Zooillogix
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Gene Expression
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Education & Careers
Books on Open Access
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As expected, most of them are free to download. Peter Suber has all the relevant links: Open Access...
OA student projects available
A Blog Around The Clock
Heather Morrison just finished teaching her class on Open Access and the student projects are now all online...
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A Blog Around The Clock
That is, in a nutshell, the conclusion of this study. If you have free access to a lot...
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Thanks to Heather for the heads-up: Instructions for NIH-funded authors have been prominently placed on the PubMed home...
Politics
Instead of Fighting Terrorists Over There, Why Don't We...
Mike the Mad Biologist
stop rapists over here.
Is America ready?
Pharyngula
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Bush Edits Out Jefferson's Religious Views
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Hat tip to Sandefur for catching this. President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration...
Medicine & Health
My Picks From ScienceDaily
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C19th Japanese anatomical scrolls
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Not-so-foreign accent syndrome
Neurophilosophy
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a neurological condition that is acquired following a stroke or some other form...
Brain & Behavior
The Lady Macbeth effect - how physical cleanliness affects moral cleanliness
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A series of clever psychological experiments show just how closely linked physical cleanliness and moral purity are
Pride and Progress
The Frontal Cortex
You know what makes me proud to be an American? The fact that the black presidential candidate with...
PETA offers to scan Sharon Stone for brain damage
Neurophilosophy
Hollywood actress Sharon Stone hit the headlines recently, following her remarks that the massive earthquake which struck south-west...
High-pitched voices are most attractive -- with a few exceptions
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Technology
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Some Linux News
Greg Laden's Blog
Hans Reiser asks for a new lawyer (see below) This first item is not exclusively Linux at...
What is your operating system?
Greg Laden's Blog
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Petabyte Scale Data-Analysis and the Scientific Method
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Once again, there's a silly article somewhere, and everyone hammers me with requests to write about it....
