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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
Category: Evolution
I snared two copies of Ray "I like the feel of a good banana in my hand" Comfort's idiotically amended edition of The Origin of Species. Hearing that his minions were giving them out a day early, I swung by...
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Category: Evolution
Brazen stupidity has been given a national soapbox.
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Category: Evolution
Jen finds a story about a Swiss research group which made a little ecology of robots with neural-network brains and let their wiring be crafted by natural selection. The most entertaining line of the pop-science writeup: At intervals, the robots...
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Category: Evolution
Renowned palaeontologist and author Neil Shubin will be speaking at the Harvard Museum of Natural History this Thursday evening. His talk is entitled "Finding Your Inner Fish". To celebrate the opening of EVOLUTION, the museum's new permanent exhibition, Shubin will...
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Category: Bibliophilia
Yesterday evening, I came home to find a new piece of swag waiting for me: a brown paper parcel, lined with bubble wrap and containing Sean B. Carroll's Remarkable Creatures (2009). I flipped it open immediately after extracting it from...
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Category: arXiv
On the arXiv: Cong-Xin Qiu, "AdS/CFT Aspect of the Cosmological QCD Phase Transition" (arXiv:0812.2601). Published in Phys. Rev. D 79, 063505. Recently, deeper understanding of QCD emerges from the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence. New results include the properties of...
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Category: Carnivalia
It's nice to look back and remember we've had reasons to be happy. Dicyemid mesozoa Reproductive history writ in the genome Four bad arguments against evolution Basics: How can chromosome numbers change? Still just a lizard Who needs a vat...
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Category: Bibliophilia
Ah, Darwin Day. A day for all of us to reflect on the accomplishments of those past, and find pleasure in learning of the progress which has been made since. A day to spend time with one's fellow-travellers on the...
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Category: Physics
The story so far: New Scientist magazine publishes an issue with a heartbreakingly sensationalist cover, and biology experts across the Blogohedron get up in arms. (See Sandwalk, Ecographica, Evolutionary Novelties and Genomicron for sample critiques of both cover and content.)...
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So, there's this video. It's apparently for a German electronics retailer whose motto is, roughly translated, "We hate expensive". Phil thought it looked really kewl. P-Zed agreed, but he said that it portrayed evolution as a linear progression along a...
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