September 15, 2008
How Corals Adapt To Day And Night:
Researchers have uncovered a gene in corals that responds to day/night cycles, which provides some tantalizing clues into how symbiotic corals work together with their plankton partners. Corals are fascinating animals that form the largest biological constructions…
September 15, 2008
Encephalon #54 is up on Neurophilosophy
Carnival of Space #70 is up on OrbitalHub
September 15, 2008
First, there was the First NC Science Blogging Conference. Then, there was the Second NC Science Blogging Conference. And yes, we will have the Third one - renamed ScienceOnline'09 to better reflect the scope of the meeting: this time bigger and better than ever.
ScienceOnline'09 will be held…
September 15, 2008
Two years ago, when we all got together and did this, the result was this.
Last year, when even more of us got together and did this, the result was this.
Now, with the new editor, we are ready to do this again!
The Open Laboratory 2008 is in the works. The submissions have been trickling in all…
September 15, 2008
A Vote For Science is a new blog here on scienceblogs.com, dedicated to science issues in the current election:
With less than two months left before the next U.S. president is elected, ScienceBlogs wanted to dedicate a space to campaign politics. A Vote For Science is a group blog that will focus…
September 15, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, Barack Obama answered the 14 science questions. Now we hear that McCain has answered them as well. If you can believe they still care about Reality (or will let McCain care, if elected), check his answers (side-by-side with Obama's) here.
Compare and contrast....
September 15, 2008
The party is getting close -next Saturday. You can still tell us if you are going to join us either here or here.
Meeting time/place: 1pm right inside the North America entrance.
September 15, 2008
Sleep researchers rarely pay attention to stuff like sleep position and sleep behavior, as opposed to EEG data, sleep duration, timing and patterns. But now Darren reviews that neglected aspect of animal sleep.
Also see my post on the same topic about the sleep behavior in whales.
September 14, 2008
This post was first written on October 28, 2004 on Science And Politics, then it was republished on December 05, 2005 on The Magic School Bus. The Village vs. The University - all in your mind.
Eric at Total Information Awareness wrote two excellent posts on something that touches me personally,…
September 14, 2008
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
September 14, 2008
...to revisit this discussion. Keep the current election in mind as you read all the posts.
September 14, 2008
Its Not Just Palin -- Its The Message.:
The brilliance of the McCain strategy and messaging is that it includes a trap for Obama. To push back on the McCain claim of "country first" and "the original mavericks who will shake up Washington" the Obama campaign's attack of "four more years of George…
September 14, 2008
This is one a couple of posts about Creationism, written originally on May 1st, 2005.
Creationism Is Just One Symptom Of Conservative Pathology
I am not an "evolutionist". I am not a "Darwinist". I am a biologist. Thus, by definition, I am an evolutionary biologist. Although my research is in…
September 14, 2008
Photos Reveal Myanmar's Large And Small Predators:
Using remote camera traps to lift the veil on Myanmar's dense northern wild lands, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have painstakingly gathered a bank of valuable data on the country's populations of tigers and other smaller,…
September 14, 2008
Don't click on "Play"! I warned you. Don't blame me if you cannot sleep for a week trying to get rid of this old pernicious ear-worm:
September 14, 2008
Chad did an interesting analysis the other day - looking at the traffic attracted by science posts vs. non-science stuff (e.g., pretty pictures, politics, etc.). This made me look at my all-time traffic here (I know some of the posts are re-posts from the old blogs where they got lots of traffic…
September 14, 2008
At Quail Ridge Books
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 7:30 p.m. Thomas Frank (WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS?) RETURNS
with his new, much reviewed book, THE WRECKING CREW: CONSERVATIVE RULE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, which examines the Washington culture that politicians have given us.
September 14, 2008
This was an early post of mine building upon George Lakoff analysis of the psychology underlying political ideology. It was first published on September 04, 2004 (mildly edited):
I keep going back to George Lakoff's "Moral Politics", as I did "here"
and "here", because I believe this book…
September 13, 2008
Statues of marble or brass will perish; and statues made in imitation of them are not the same statues ... But print and reprint a thought a thousand times over, and that with materials of any kind ... the thought is eternally and identically the same thought in every case.
- Thomas…
September 13, 2008
From here
September 13, 2008
This was first posted on http://www.jregrassroots.org/ forums on July 10, 2004, then republished on Science And Politics on August 18, 2004. That was to be just the first, and most raw, post on this topic on my blog. It was followed by about a 100 more posts building on this idea, modifying it,…
September 13, 2008
Vedran tells me that people from the Oncology Institute in Belgrade, who usually give women little brochures that describe breast self-exam in words, are now using - and loving - the two videos (originally from here) he has embedded into his Gynecology aggregator. Another win for Open Access.
September 13, 2008
Under the fold....
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN?:
When Republicans say that Democrats "just don't get it," this is the "it" to which they refer. Conservative positions on gays, guns, god, and immigration must be understood as means to achieve one kind of morally ordered society. When Democrats…
September 13, 2008
A Chicago Tribune reporter travels to an Illinois farm to literally try to put lipstick on a pig:
September 13, 2008
Everything about the Science in the 21st Century conference at Perimeter Institute can be found here.
September 13, 2008
Everything about the Science Blogging 2008 London conference can be found here and here.
September 13, 2008
Mimi and her husband took a trip to Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and all I got were these movies:
September 13, 2008
Male-specific Neurons Directly Linked To Gender-specific Behaviors:
New research identifies a few critical neurons that initiate sex-specific behaviors in fruit flies and, when masculinized, can elicit male-typical courtship behaviors from females. The study, published by Cell Press in the…
