March 13, 2007
You'll have to work fast - there are only five days left - but you can win some nice big prizes if you make the winning design for the Threadless T-shirts with the theme "Science Is Culture".
March 13, 2007
Here's an educational program worth supporting - Oceans Wide gets kids involved in marine science up in Maine. Craig, over on Deep Sea News has all the details. I wish there were programs like this when I was a kid! I had to learn all my science on my own, from dusty books!
March 13, 2007
If, like me, you don't give a rat's behind for the basketball tournaments and brackets but are interested in science, then go ahead and make your predictions in the Science Spring Showdown 2007 tournament over on World's Fair. Various Sciencebloggers will write "Basics"-style posts in defense of…
March 13, 2007
Hsien reports that the CEO of b5media (organization that hosts her blog) left a comment on Panda's Thumb (why not on her blog which is, after all, a b5media blog?) in which he states that:
All it takes for us to issue bloggers accreditation is that we - are you ready for this? - issue them press…
March 13, 2007
If you think my blog is boring as it is, you should try using Dialectizer or Gizoogle, so you can read it in jive or redneck dialect, or a few more....
March 13, 2007
Go here to get the code to put on your sidebar so your visitors can donate to the Beagle Project:
March 13, 2007
Encephalon #18 is up on Pharyngula
Grand Rounds 3.25 are up on ScienceRoll
Carnival of the Green #68 is up on Green Fertility
March 13, 2007
Male Reindeer Inflate Their Air Sac To Make Sexually Enticing Hoarse Rutting Calls:
A group of European scientists have determined that a male reindeer's air sac, influencing vocal sound and neck contour, may contribute to his sexual prowess and reproductive success. The results of this research…
March 12, 2007
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
- Segal's Law
March 12, 2007
I think Jenna was happy to have a snake in her pocket....
March 12, 2007
This is the time when everyone is talking about the Daylight Saving Time and I always feel pressure to blog about it from a chronobiological perspective. And I always resist. As I will this year. So, here are a couple of related links instead:
Larry provides a brief history of time zones and the…
March 12, 2007
Zoran Djindjic, the first person I ever voted for, was assassinated on this day four years ago. He had the guts to deport Milosevic to The Hague and he got paid for it with a bullet.
March 12, 2007
The number-obsessed Tarheel Tavern #107 is up on Scrutiny Hooligans.
March 11, 2007
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
- Peter Shaffer
March 11, 2007
The most exciting thing about this study is that this is, as far as I am aware, the first instance in which it was shown that a circadian clock gene has any effect on sleep apart from timing of it, i.e., on some other quality or quantity of sleep (not just when to fall asleep and wake up, but also…
March 11, 2007
Abandoning Net Neutrality Discourages Improvements In Service:
Charging online content providers such as Yahoo! and Google for preferential access to the customers of Internet service providers might not be in the best interest of the millions of Americans, despite claims to the contrary, a new…
March 11, 2007
Brainrow
This Week in Evolution
Framing Conflict
The herptile blog
Bearded Dragon Resource Blog
East Bay Vivarium Blog
Philly Herping
Stewed Thoughts
The Thinking Blog
Mousemusings
March 11, 2007
Pediatric Grand Rounds: Volume 1, Issue 24, are up on Blog, MD
March 11, 2007
Douglas Noel Adams was born at Cambridge, England on this day in 1952. After earning both bachelors and masters degrees there, he did some comedy acting and writing, including work with a couple of the Monty Python gang, and eventually wrote a radio series for BBC called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to…
March 11, 2007
Species' Sizes Affect Lives Of Cells In Mammals:
Cells from the smallest to the largest of mammals often seem to be "one size fits all." Now a closer look reveals that whether a cell lives in an elephant, mouse or something in between can make a big difference in its life. Researchers from the…
March 10, 2007
The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners, hand on the torch of life.
- Lucretius
March 10, 2007
Tikistitch, PZ Myers and John Wilkins are going through a list of "Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years".
Considering I am a big SF reader, I was surprised as to how few of those I have read (only around 15!). Most of the titles on the list are just around 40-50 years old…
March 10, 2007
The third edition of the Carnival of Mathematics is up on Michi's Place
March 10, 2007
The 9th edition of the International Carnival of Pozitivities is now up on Creampuff Revolution
March 10, 2007
Social Tolerance Allows Bonobos To Outperform Chimpanzees On A Cooperative Task:
In experiments designed to deepen our understanding of how cooperative behavior evolves, researchers have found that bonobos, a particularly sociable relative of the chimpanzee, are more successful than chimpanzees at…
March 9, 2007
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr
March 9, 2007
Too busy these days to blog much or even read blogs much, so I missed the news on Balkan blogs and only today, several days later, I got the news from PZ. A guy, just to be sure no resurrection ever happens, drove a three-foot stake through the heart of the dead and burried body of Slobodan…
March 9, 2007
March 9, 1991 was the first, and the most violent day, of the five-day protest in Belgrade (then Yugoslavia, now Serbia). This was the first anti-Milosevic protest in Serbia, just a couple of months after the first multi-party elections that he stole.
About 100,000 people gathered in the center of…
March 9, 2007
Following the Edwards lead, Bill Richardson also pulled out of the FoxNews Nevada debate effectively killing it. The current frame in the media and online is that Fox News is not a legitimate news source.
March 9, 2007
Lizards May Help Unlock Secrets of Evolution:
Hundreds of species of anoles roam the Caribbean Islands and parts of North and South America, a highly diverse and colorful small lizard that scientists have studied in hopes of unlocking the secrets of evolution. Kirsten E. Nicholson, a Central…
