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October 30, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Photo Credit: Herederos de Santiago Ramón y Cajal Recently, ScienceBlogger Mo Costandi of Neurophilosophy penned a photo essay for MIT's Technology Review magazine, taking readers on a visual tour of the history of brain imaging, from the first Purkinje...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 12:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 29, 2009
Category: The Buzz
In honor of Halloween this week, ScienceBloggers are offering some creepy crawlies to intrigue and frighten you. Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science began spinning the spider web with his fascinating coverage of the Bagheera kiplingi, a "mostly vegetarian"...
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October 27, 2009
Category: The Buzz
President Obama declared the swine flu epidemic a national emergency on Saturday, after more than 1,000 US deaths--over 100 of them children--were confirmed as linked to the virus. The Centers for Disease Control report that this is purely a step...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 4:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 26, 2009
Category: The Buzz
How do we remember, collect, and recognize faces, and do sex and race have any role in how we process and treat faces, and ultimately people? On Collective Imagination, Peter Tu writes about how researchers can use differing theories of...
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October 23, 2009
Category: The Buzz
This week, the Oprah Winfrey Show aired an episode reporting on the quality of life in Denmark. Here, Oprah sat down with a group of Danish atheists and discussed the role of religion--as well as expansive access to healthcare and...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 1:26 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 21, 2009
Category: Anthropology
On October 1, 2009 paleontologists announced the discovery of the oldest known primitive hominid fossil, Ardipithecus ramidus dubbed "Ardi," after 17 years of quietly studying its significance. Nearly a month after its grand unveiling to the media, biologists, paleontologists, and...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 12:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 19, 2009
Category: The Buzz
As SciWo explained to daughter Minnow last week in a video on Sciencewomen, lakes, ponds, oceans and other natural bodies of water are as ecologically important as they are beautiful. But the ecological health of many is severely compromised due...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 4:14 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Buzz
Last week, ScienceBloggers celebrated Earth Science Week with a flood of geocentric posts. This year's theme this was Understanding Climate, and was the basis for a whole host of events in the coming days. Tuesday was No Child Left Inside...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 3:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 13, 2009
Category: The Buzz
Women's taste in men varies naturally with their menstrual cycle--during the more fertile period, they are more drawn to a square jawline, heavy brow, facial symmetry, and other signs of masculinity. But a new study by a team of British...
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October 12, 2009
Category: The Buzz
Early Friday morning, NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, collided with the Moon at a speed of 5,600 miles per hour, in hopes that debris stirred up by the impact would provide valuable data about how...
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