Now on ScienceBlogs: Skloot Launching FAQ Blog Series Answering Reader Questions About The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Best of ScienceBlogs, and Beyond
Maintained by the ScienceBlogs Overlords, Page 3.14 points you in the direction of some of ScienceBlogs' finest offerings, plus the tastiest tidbits of science news and opinion from around the web.
MEMBER, ORDER OF THE SCIENCE SCOUTS OF EXEMPLARY REPUTE AND ABOVE AVERAGE PHYSIQUE
Add ScienceBlogs to your Technorati favorites:
August 31, 2009
Category: The Buzz
As the long days of late summer grow shorter and darker, many of us are trying to eke out as much time outdoors as possible before fall's sweaters and yellowing leaves arrive. ScienceBloggers are no exception this week as they...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 3:49 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 28, 2009
Category: The Buzz
The current health care debate has centered largely on the elderly, but as ScienceBloggers are pointing out, young adults have equally as much at stake in the outcome of health care reform. On Thus Spake Zuska, Zuska recounts the...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 2:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 27, 2009
Category: The Buzz
For the first time in over a century, New York's Salmon River is home to its namesake species of fish. Young Atlantic salmon were abundant in the Salmon River and nearby Lake Ontario in the 19th century but were...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 2:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2009
Category: The Buzz
Though reported Swine Flu cases have dwindled over the summer months, the Centers for Disease Control warns that a full-blown pandemic is on the horizon as fall inaugurates the 2009-2010 Flu Season, mirroring the progression of the 1918 Spanish Influenza....
Posted by Erin Johnson at 2:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2009
Category: The Buzz
With summer vacation drawing to a close, many ScienceBloggers are trying to squeeze in some final summer reading before they--and their sprogs--embark on the new academic year. On Confessions of a Science Librarian, John Dupuis asks for his readers' assistance...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 1:45 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 21, 2009
Category: The Buzz
Human athletic performance has the consistent ability to amaze us--we tend to think of the Michael Phelpses and Lance Armstrongs of the world as nearly superhuman. But in fact, there are physiological limits to our species' strength and speed....
Posted by Erin Johnson at 1:54 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 20, 2009
Category: The Buzz
In peer reviewed research, scientific insight is often gained as much from the comments on a published journal article as it is from the paper itself. Comments address mistakes overlooked during peer review and offer scientists with opposing views a...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 4:34 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 19, 2009
Category: The Buzz
In the event of a zombie epidemic, scientists have settled on an unambiguous plan for survival: be aggressive. Mathematicians from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University modelled the outcome of responses to zombie infection including quarantine, development of a...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 1:22 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 18, 2009
Category: Silliness
As reported in The New York Post, British botanists recently discovered a species of pitcher plant that consumes entire rats—not insects, rats. The plant was found atop Mount Victoria in the Philippines and has been named Nepenthes attenboroughii after Sir...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 4:59 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Buzz
At the annual ScienceOnline conference, organized in large part by ScienceBlogger Bora Zivkovic of A Blog Around the Clock, scientists gather to talk about the changing role of the Internet in the practice and communication of science. At the 2009...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 2:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
