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Category: Humor
Burritos weigh in.
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January 31, 2007
Category: Humor
Burritos weigh in.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 30, 2007
Category: Announcement
You can influence the Truth.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 11:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ScienceBlogger Zuska conducts an online course on pleasure, excitement, and desire in feminist theories of science. Join in, read along, and get your jouissance on.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 1:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 29, 2007
Category: Announcement
Are Republicans really energy hogs?
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 4:30 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Climate change is gaining coverage in mainstream media. This Flash game from the BBC furthers the cause.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2007
In the 1970s, Alice Waters brought "slow food" to America. Amid fears about the environmental impact of the garment industry, can "slow clothes" be far behind?
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 12:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2007
Category: Announcement
Watch the Earth breathe.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 2:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 25, 2007
Category: Announcement
A little-known Google tool to tickle your infographic fancy.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 2:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Two photographic points of view on labware.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2007
From McSweeney's Books, Animals of the Ocean: In Particular the Giant Squid, by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, looks like it's for kids, but it is actually for people like you.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 9:00 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2007
His January 24 lecture in Toronto is sold out, but Steven Pinker fans can get a sneak preview of the cognitive scientist's forthcoming book and his current work on metaphor, indirect speech, and the the neuroscience of swearing...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 9:23 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 22, 2007
Category: Announcement
Under pressure from consumers, Starbucks jumps on the hormone-free milk bandwagon.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 1:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 19, 2007
Category: Announcement
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Bush is expected to call for increased reliance on, and investment in, biofuels, to mitigate U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Meanwhile, in Bush's home state, Interstate I-10 through Houston is being expanded to 18 lanes.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 1:37 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2007
Category: Announcement
More doctors in the house.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:33 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2007
Category: Announcement
Plants don't really need soil; just ask the French.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 9:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Skeptic runs a retraction which proves that sound journalistic practices don't become less relevant in the age of the web.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 16, 2007
Category: Announcement
Wind power has a strong base of support in our nation's second-smallest state.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 6:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 15, 2007
Category: Announcement
Troy Hurtubise--the inventor who achieved minor fame, and personal bankruptcy, as a result of his bear-protection suit--is at it again. This time, however, he is doing it for the soldiers. Pictured here is his newest invention, The Trojan, which...
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 7:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Nuclear issues
A symbolic clock is set to inch closer to the moment of nuclear catastrophe.
Posted by Emily Anthes at 12:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 12, 2007
An equation that predicts procrastination.
Posted by Emily Anthes at 2:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
A century of city smog can take its toll.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:05 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 11, 2007
Category: Announcement
ScienceBlogs went live for the first time on January 11th, 2006. Thanks, everyone!
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:01 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 10, 2007
Category: Announcement
Question: What's sleek, as multi-functional as a digital Swiss Army knife, available in June for "as little as" a cool $499, and sure to be coveted by a technophile near you?
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 4:38 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Science education + sixties mod design sense = compelling artwork from the inside of a childrens' biology book.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 9, 2007
Category: Announcement
Andromeda's halo, and other galactic marvels, brought to you by Dynamics of Cats....
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 1:32 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 8, 2007
Category: Announcement
If fertility levels were to remain unchanged at today's levels, world population would rise to 244 billion persons in 2150 and 134 trillion in 2300, clearly indicating that current levels of high fertility cannot continue indefinitely.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 6:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychology
In high school and college, young adults associate primarily with other young adults. Does the age mix make boys overestimate their attractiveness, and girls underestimate their own?
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 12:38 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 5, 2007
Category: Announcement
Since moving to New York, I've been having trouble breathing. Is city air pollution to blame?
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The National Arbor Day Foundation visualizes climate change since 1990, in your own backyard.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:38 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 4, 2007
Category: Announcement
Is it ever less polluting to fly than drive?
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 4:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
A possible meteorite barrels through the roof of a New Jersey home, cracks bathroom floor tiles. Officials declare it not part of an airplane; no positive I.D. yet.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 4:29 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 3, 2007
Category: Announcement
A daily dose of science blogging, without the medicine head.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 11:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 2, 2007
Category: Announcement
Mainlining science since 2006.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:18 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
