March 31, 2008
Climate Change, Humans, and the Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth:
What caused the woolly mammoth's extinction? Climate warming in the Holocene might have driven the extinction of this cold-adapted species, yet the species had survived previous warming periods, suggesting that the more-plausible…
March 31, 2008
Teenaged Dome-skulled Dinosaurs Could Really Knock Heads, Virtual Smash-ups Show:
After half a century of debate, a University of Alberta researcher has confirmed that dome-headed dinosaurs called pachycephalosaurs could collide with each other during courtship combat. Eric Snively, an Alberta…
March 31, 2008
Candidate Models
Plausible Accuracy
Dolores Labs Blog
StupidFilter
GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles.
PSD Blog
March 31, 2008
The latest edition of Encephalon is up on Of Two Minds
Carnival of the Green #121 is up on Conserve Plastic Bags
March 31, 2008
Words of wisdom (via):
The internet isn't a decoration on contemporary society, it's a challenge to it. A society that has an internet is a different kind of society than a society that doesn't.
I agree. And people, regardless of chronological age, appear to separate along "generational" lines,…
March 31, 2008
Elisabeth Montegna is quite a prolific blogger, with SECular Thoughts being just one of her virtual spaces. We finally got to meet at the second Science Blogging Conference in January and took a tour of the Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh together.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would…
March 31, 2008
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (31 March 1811 - 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner. Bunsen also worked on emission spectroscopy of heated elements, and with Gustav Kirchhoff he discovered the elements caesium and…
March 30, 2008
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
- Garrison Keillor
March 30, 2008
SEA will train scientists to run for office:
SEA is holding a workshop to train scientists to run for office on May 10th at Georgetown University. If you are a scientist or engineer and have been considering running for office or working on an election campaign, then join us for a crash course on…
March 30, 2008
Ignore the mysogynist commentary over on YouTube....
March 30, 2008
American West Heating Nearly Twice As Fast As Rest Of World, New Analysis Shows:
The American West is heating up more rapidly than the rest of the world, according to a new analysis of the most recent federal government temperature figures. The news is especially bad for some of the nation's…
March 30, 2008
Juniorprof
Biology Blogs
JB Say What?
andrew plemmons pratt
Write To Done
BIOLOGY & POLITICS
Simon's Writing Room
March 29, 2008
Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- Mark Twain
March 29, 2008
From paper airplanes to IBM Typewriters, from cold war calculators to cereal boxes, from condoms to condiments, and many, many more strange collections, all found at the Museum of Online Museums, thanks to Anne-Marie.
March 29, 2008
If this is a cat, than what is this? A pig?
March 29, 2008
The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever
Hollywood's Best War Movies
March 29, 2008
Cooperative Classrooms Lead To Better Friendships, Higher Achievement In Young Adolescents:
Students competing for resources in the classroom while discounting each others' success are less likely to earn top grades than students who work together toward goals and share their success, according to…
March 28, 2008
People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
- John Miller
March 28, 2008
Evolution Of New Species Slows Down As Number Of Competitors Increases:
The rate at which new species are formed in a group of closely related animals decreases as the total number of different species in that group goes up, according to new research. The research team believes these findings…
March 28, 2008
Since I will be in Belgrade in April, this song is quite appropriate:
You can find the lyrics in Serbian here and a pretty decent translation here. I remember this song since when I was a little kid. Thirty five years ago, when he was a contestant on the Eurovision (see his 1973 spot), Zdravko…
March 28, 2008
Of course, after watching them do this for a year, I find this picture (found in a number of places around the internet) particularly funny
March 28, 2008
...Savior or Satan?
March 28, 2008
Tomorrow, March 29th, 2008 at 8pm local time, switch off all the lights for an hour! Join the millions participating in Earth Hour (of course there is a Facebook group, full of information).
Apart from the obvious idea of saving energy, it is important to also remember that light pollution has…
March 28, 2008
Henry Cate is liveblogging the Space Access 2008 meeting. Tourists in space? Of course! And the trip will be liveblogged as well.
March 28, 2008
Gene Genie #24 is up on Greg Laden's blog.
Carnival of the Liberals #61 is up on Last Left Turn Before Hooterville.
Friday Ark #184 is up on Modulator.
March 28, 2008
I have announced before my support for my friend and blogger Jay Ovittore in his race to unseat the Republican Congressman Howard Coble. But before he can get there, he first needs to defeat the establishment Democrats in the primaries, still not easy for a true Progressive here in North Carolina…
March 28, 2008
This week's PLoS Computational Biology is chockful of interesting articles, including these:
Open Access: Taking Full Advantage of the Content:
This Journal and the Public Library of Science (PLoS) at large are standard bearers of the full potential offered through open access publication, but what…
