"So Long, Mom. I'm off to drop the bomb."
Category: Nuclear issues
For those of you who missed it, the Pentagon resumed above ground nuclear testing--sort of....
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April 27, 2006
Solve the "Smithy Code"
Category: Things We Like
You may have seen the rather exciting NY Times article this morning: "Judge Embeds a Puzzle in 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling." Apparently, Judge Peter Smith stuck 40 bold/italic letters into his ruling on a suit against Dan Brown (Brown won)....
Posted by Maggie Wittlin at 10:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2006
Sb Watch: A Scientist's Garden of Verse
Category: ScienceBlogs
'The web's largest conversation about science' seems a strange place to find contributions to a celebration of poetry, but maybe it's not. Scientists and poets are alike in being keen observers of the world. Perception and description are the poet's, and the scientist's, stock in trade.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 2:24 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2006
At $3 a gallon, the Americans are squealing
Category: Energy
...reads the headline of this article from the The Times of London. Pump prices have risen by one third over the past year and in some parts of the US have topped $3 (£1.68) a gallon. Among the ultra-rich of...
Posted by Christopher Mims at 6:17 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2006
Yet Another Place to See Before it Disappears
Category: Environment
When I hear "glacier" I think of words like "fjord" and "Greenland." It's easy to forget that there are some not so far away from us, rapidly receding like most of their brethren. Ex seed staffer done good Ted...
Posted by Christopher Mims at 7:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sex!....Made You Look!
A while back, I wrote what some might call a fairly provocative article on the promiscuity of famous physicists entitled Getting Physical. Besides getting picked up by a porn site or two and this possibly NSFW link (So what if...
Posted by Joshua Roebke at 2:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Stop the Insanity!
Category: Medicine
So, yesterday, politics trumped science yet again. The FDA rejected medical marijuana, again. I'm sure the FDA's decision to say so on April 20th is entirely coincidental. The Times has an excellent summary, and you can read the FDA's original...
Posted by Lee Billings at 2:13 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shaft: Can You Dig It?
Category: Scientists
Here's a question for all the ScienceBloggers in the house: Which scientist (in your field or beyond) has been most seriously shafted? This could be taken two ways: Who deserves to be more recognized, revered and renowned today than he...
Posted by Maggie Wittlin at 12:08 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Science Mag on Science Blogs
Category: Blogs
You know what they say about great minds. In the April 14 issue of Science Magazine, two environmental scientists opine that scientists can, and must, become active bloggers and readers of blogs, for two main reasons. First, hard-blogging scientists will...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Polar Bear Blues, Revisited
Category: Environment
On the lighter side, not everyone is sad that polar bears might be going away. Seed actually located one of these individuals and asked what he thinks about drowning polar bears. His reaction is below the fold....
Posted by Lee Billings at 10:05 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Tracking the Plight of the Walrus
Category: Environment
As a followup to my post about abandoned walrus calves, here is a nifty plugin for Google Earth that allows anyone to track the movements of radio-tagged walruses in the Arctic. The page is in Danish, but I think ScienceBlogs...
Posted by Lee Billings at 9:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Global Warming Casualties: If It's Cute, Will People Finally Care?
Category: Environment
There's been a lot of justified hullabaloo recently over the fate of Arctic polar bears. You see, they're drowning in record numbers as their habitat, in an eyeblink, drastically changes from the ice floes they've known for thousands of years...
Posted by Lee Billings at 8:55 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2006
Yes, There Is Life Outside the U.S....
Category: Seed
Non-U.S. Stochastic readers, we've heard you. You tried to answer the Seed survey, tried to fill in the questions about where you live, and all you got was a lousy selection of U.S. states to choose from. We're sorry. Seed...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 5:32 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science and culture, 17th century style
Category: Things We Like
In my former life, long before I had even heard of Seed, I studied 17th century English literature and dipped occasionally into history of science. One of my favorite figures in 17th century science was mad, bad Margaret Cavendish, the...
Posted by Britt Peterson at 4:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Psychiatry Experts Linked to Drug Makers-- And?
Category: Medicine
The New York Times reported yesterday that many of the authors of the DSM-IV, the sine qua non diagnostic manual (I'm 300.00, thanks for asking) for mental health professionals had ties, either before or after their involvement in creating the...
Posted by Paul Tullis at 3:26 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Editor With His Feet Firmly On The Ground
Category: Readings
Has anybody been following the Letters page of The New Yorker recently? Quick recap: TNY writes something about Capote, which film includes a character named William Shawn, who was in fact the editor of TNY for a great many years,...
Posted by Paul Tullis at 1:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is This the Beer of Tomorrow?
Category: Pharmacology
What would you do if someone told you it was possible to get merrily drunk with none of the unsavory consequences? No hangovers, no unidentifiable party injuries, no "where-did-this-tattoo-come-from" screams the following morning? What if you also heard that...
Posted by Melinda Wenner at 11:06 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 19, 2006
Pack of Strays
Category: Seed
Y'all may have noticed that there are a bunch of us blogging on Stochastic. That's because there are a bunch of us working at Seed. Here's my (and a little bit of our) story:...
Posted by Christopher Mims at 6:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Who Are You?
Category: Seed
Answer the Seed survey, maybe win an iPod.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 5:32 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Happy Bicycle Day!
Category: Scientists
At 4:20 in the afternoon, on April 19th, 1943, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann deliberately ingested 250 micrograms of LSD-25, a substance he had discovered during experiments with alkaloids of the fungus ergot. Despite the vanishingly small dosage, he soon...
Posted by Lee Billings at 1:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NIMH Rolls Out Results of 6-year Antidepressant Study
Category: Medicine
An interesting piece posted on Slate.com yesterday called attention to the results of a NIMH study that might help rank existing antidepressant medications in order of effectiveness. The study, which goes by the awkward moniker of STAR*D (Sequenced Treatment Alternatives...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:32 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 18, 2006
The Truth About Bunker Busters?
Category: Nuclear issues
There's been a lot of talk recently about the Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker discussing the White House' plans for stopping Iran's nuclear program, which claims: One of the military's initial option plans, as presented to the...
Posted by Joshua Braun at 4:49 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 14, 2006
Off the Grid
Category: Energy
There's an interesting article in the New York Times today about the rise of solar power. Apparently the market for solar is growing rapidly--expected to expand by as much as 150 percent between now and the end of 2008. And...
Posted by Joshua Braun at 1:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Seed Boston Dinner: Photo Album
Category: Seed Events
On Tuesday, April 4, Boston-area Seed friends and contributors gathered for dinner and conversation at Cambridge's Oleana restaurant. Seed founder and editor-in-chief Adam Bly hosted the event. Steven Pinker, Seth Lloyd, Irene Pepperberg, Jonah Lehrer, Karl Iagnemma, and Alex Palazzo...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:10 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2006
phylotaxis.com Nominated for a Webby!
Category: Seed
Seed's daily science news aggregator, phylotaxis.com, has been nominated for a Webby Award in the category of 'Best Navigation/Structure.' Designed for Seed by artist Jonathan Harris, phylotaxis is based on the mathematical elegance of the Fibonacci Sequence, and the ordered...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 5:47 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Big Quench
Category: Physics
I like Chad Orzel's True Lab StoriesTM series so much that I've decided to be inspired by (read: steal from) him and tell the only vaguely worthy story from my short researching experience. Not too long ago, I was but...
Posted by Maggie Wittlin at 11:21 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2006
Science Marches On (Over Linus Pauling's Dead Body)
Category: Scientists
Gather 'round, dear readers, and let me regale you with the sad saga of the late, great Linus Pauling.
Posted by Lee Billings at 8:45 AM • 4 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
April 7, 2006
Stanislaw Lem, Author of Solaris, Dead at 84
Category: Readings
Polish science-fiction author Stanislaw Lem, author of The Cyberiad, Solaris and His Master's Voice, died on March 27. His ashes have been buried in the Salwatorski Cemetery in Krakow. Link to a short article on Candada.com, here. Born in 1921...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:52 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Best Science Books Redux
Category: Readings
Earlier this week I asked about the best science books of all time. Today, a related question crossed my mind: what novels do scientists like to read...and why? A couple of years ago, I took a grad-school English class devoted...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:55 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 5, 2006
The Ego and the ID
Category: Science & Religion
Hey there, budding Stochastic fans. If you're reading us now, you can officially say you listened to us when we were underground. I'm new to this whole blogging-and-being-read thing, so please be kind while I stand in the shadows of...
Posted by Maggie Wittlin at 8:45 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 4, 2006
Seed Magazine Nonfiction Writing Contest
Category: General
Seed announces its first annual Seed Science Writing Contest
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 4:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Best Science Books, Ever
Category: Readings
I'm between books right now. As an inveterate reader, this makes me feel antsy and unmoored. I want to get my hands on something good--and specifically, I'm thinking of going on a science-book spree. Can we put together an ultimate science book list, a science-reader's garden of prose?
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:50 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Check Out the New Seed Blog
Category: General
Welcome to Stochastic, the new in-house blog from Seed Media Group. This is the place where Seed editors weigh in about matters great and small. In case the launch passed you by unawares, check the link back to the first...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 10:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
