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Perspectives on science, politics and history from a primate in the human zoo.
Eric Michael Johnson received his masters degree in primate behavior and is now pursuing his PhD in the history of science.
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Sexy Beasts
June 29, 2010
Survival of the Kindest
Sept. 24, 2009
The Open Laboratory 2009:
Best Science Writing on Blogs
Male Chauvinist Chimps?
The Open Laboratory 2007:
Best Science Writing on Blogs
The Sacrifice of Admetus
Wildlife Conservation
Behind Enemy Lines
(November/December 2005)
Discover
The Laughter Circuit
Vol. 23 No. 5 (May 2002)
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Journal of Human Evolution
Sociality, ecology and relative brain size in lemurs.
JHE 2009 56(5):471-478.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Career or Family?: Maternal style and status-seeking behavior in captive bonobos (Pan paniscus).
AJPA 2008 135(S46):126
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Lack of inbreeding avoidance and reduction of alliance formation in matrilineally- housed bonobos (Pan paniscus).
AJPA 2007 132(S44):137
January 29, 2010
Category: Humor
Many of us self-styled journalists and bloggers lack formal training in what news reporting is really all about. Fortunately Charlie Brooker at BBC4 has this helpful report that can make even the novice journalist a professional reporter in no...
Posted by EMJ at 2:52 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Wingnuts
Goldberg shown here (right) "gangbanging" with a guy who enjoys making fun of the dead.I must have done something very, very wrong. Jonah Goldberg, that noxious, infected man-tit of a human being, has just praised my work at the National Review....
Posted by EMJ at 8:56 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2010
Category: Environment
As I wrote yesterday in my piece for The Huffington Post, the history of Western financial involvement in Haiti has been one of growing the nation's textile industry despite the fact that 70% of Haiti's annual income comes from agriculture....
Posted by EMJ at 8:05 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2010
Category: Academics
As reported this evening in the Boston Globe, the internationally renowned historian and bestselling author of A People's History of the United States died today while traveling in California. For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist...
Posted by EMJ at 3:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Here at ScienceBlogs we regularly take The Huffington Post down a notch by pointing out such cutting edge lunacy as vaccine denialism or pseudoscientific spiritualism masquerading as health advice. Now the latest in a long list of unsubstantiated crazy is...
Posted by EMJ at 9:43 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2010
Category: Humor
Image: Idiot Box / Matt Bors And now, of course, Robertson and his Christian Broadcasting Network can interpret geological events as well. On January 13, just a day after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the reigning televangelist explained why God...
Posted by EMJ at 10:40 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2010
Category: Human Evolution
Sapolsky's talk begins at 5:00 after an introduction by the Stanford Provost. The neuroendocrinologist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky has been one of my primary scientific influences and the reason I pursued my masters and PhD in primate behavior and evolution....
Posted by EMJ at 3:00 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2010
Category: Race
My friend Henry Gee at Nature Network wrote a few thoughts about how issues of race, gender and communication were discussed at the recent ScienceOnline2010 conference (#scio10 for the Twitter inclined). In his post he raises what he felt were...
Posted by EMJ at 12:09 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: ScienceOnline
This is the brief presentation I gave on Saturday, Jan. 16 as part of this year's ScienceOnline conference. I was thrilled to have PZ Myers, Greg Laden and Janet Stemwedel present (the latter of whom posted her thoughts on...
Posted by EMJ at 8:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
OK, so this wasn't really part of ScienceOnline2010, but it really should've been. Perhaps there could be a special session next year on comedy in scientific communication. Any nominations on who the panelists should be? While you think about...
Posted by EMJ at 8:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
