February 2, 2007
Bio::Blogs #7, the carnival of bioinformatics and quantitative biology, is up on BioHacking
February 2, 2007
On Iran:
Ezra Klein gets the interview and comments on it. Breathe a deep sigh of relief.
The House:
Elizabeth explains and Jim Buie and Sam Spencer defend. Nature preserve and a Green House, not a McMansion.
Gay Marriage:
Better honest and open than wishy-washy, says the LGBT community.
February 2, 2007
John Wilkins is updating, daily, the list of blog posts on Basic Terms And Concepts in science and math from archaeology to physics to philosophy of science. Keep checking it out until we have a permanent repository for this.
February 2, 2007
Some politicians fear blogs. They must have something to hide, dontcha think?
Other politicians love blogs and run their own. Unsurprisingly, they are beloved by their constituencies.
February 2, 2007
...here are brief summaries of what they said and how they were received (e.g., how many standing ovations, bloopers, etc.):
DNC Winter Meeting: Chris Dodd On The Stump
DNC Winter Meeting: Barack Obama On The Stump
DNC Winter Meeting: Ret. Gen. Wes Clark
DNC Winter Meeting: Ex-Sen. John Edwards On…
February 2, 2007
When good things happen, I am the first to cheer. If it is your birthday or blogiversary, you got married or your child is born, if you got a promotion on a job or published a paper - you know I am the first one to post a comment on your blog, perhaps post about it here...
But when the news are…
February 2, 2007
I guess I will bug you about this for the next ten days - my personal pet cause if you want. No takers yet....
Here is the e-mail newsletter about it I got today:
Dear All,
Beagle Project updates:
⢠We are now a UK registered company and have applied for charitable
status; now that we officially…
February 2, 2007
Continuing with the last week's topic (originally posted on March 11, 2005 - click on the spider-clock icon to see the comments, including by Mark O'Connell - who I subsequently met and blogged about, on the original post)
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Last night I listened to…
February 2, 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is now available for pre-order at Amazon. I ordered two copies (one for me, one to send to friends in Belgrade). Regular issue, not Deluxe. It ships July 21, 2007. Can't wait!
February 2, 2007
Sounds like Washington Press Corps over the past six years (and more). But really, it has something to do with genetics. Either you are alive, or you are fully, truly dead, or you are just not dead yet.
February 2, 2007
Lots of good stuff today - hard to pick favourites:
Human Preference For Other Species Could Determine Whether They Survive:
As humans exert ever-greater influence on the Earth, their preferences will play a substantial role in determining which other species survive. New research shows that, in…
February 1, 2007
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch
February 1, 2007
Natural History Artworks
Primordial Blog
Salutor
Framed
Welcome To DigitalKaos
The Contemplative Nuthatch
Commonground
Jonstraveladventures
Positive Psychology Blog
Strange Loops
February 1, 2007
A tale of two candidate's video distribution strategies:
These examples highlight an interesting problem for candidates: while YouTube offers tools to manage posting comments, you cannot control what content your page links to. In going to "where the people are," you leave yourself open to direct…
February 1, 2007
Philosophia Naturalis #6 is up on Science And Reason. Have I missed any other carnivals this week?
February 1, 2007
So, whats' cookin' in the local blogging world? Quite a lot, actually.
First, our little group, BlogTogether is growing, growing. Instead of being just a little " target="_blank" title="">Anton's sideproject, we are thinking of turning it into a non-profit organization - so if you have…
February 1, 2007
The Way Down South: Johnny Populist & The Born Fighter:
In short, Moser's new article (part of a series on Southern Politics) debunks the myths perpetuated by the DLC and national pundits, skewering John Kerry's "anti-Southern strategy" and Thomas Schaller's "Whistling Past Dixie" and…
February 1, 2007
I first saw about this on Pharyngula the other day and I think it is a majestic idea! A group of Brits are trying to build a replica of HMS "Beagle" and, on the Darwin Bicentennial in 2009, sail around the world following the exact path Charles Darwin made on his historic voyage. Have scientists…
February 1, 2007
Skeptics Circle #53 is up on Slicing with Occam's Razor.
Festival of the Trees #8 is up on Ginkgo Dreams.
There is a (finally!) brand new Carnival of the Mathematics
And, although there are already three other EduCarnivals doing well, there is another one coming, the Carnival of the Edublogs…
February 1, 2007
If so, you should read this, print it out and stick it on the side of your computer monitor. Then re-read it every time you sit down to write a post discussing actual scientific research.
February 1, 2007
Next in the series of BIO101 lecture notes. Chime in to correct errors and make it better (reposted from June 11, 2006):
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Anatomy is the subdiscipline of biology that studies the structure of the body. It describes (and labels in Latin) the…
February 1, 2007
Nonvenomous Asian Snakes 'Borrow' Defensive Poison From Toxic Toads:
Most snakes are born with poisonous bites they use for defense. But what can non-poisonous snakes do to ward off predators? What if they could borrow a dose of poison by eating toxic toads, then recycling the toxins? That's…
January 31, 2007
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
January 31, 2007
Four Stone Hearth #8 is up on Northstate Science
The 47th History Carnival is up on ProgressiveHistorians
January 31, 2007
How many such pieces of news can one survive in one day!
Now that Amanda has been welcomed by concern-troll-mysoginists who followed her from her blog to the Edwards campaign blog (where, frankly, nobody lets them stir the pot) there is another great piece of news!
Melissa McEwan, aka Shakespeare…
January 31, 2007
...I'll see you here tonight at 8pm.
Which is right now!
January 31, 2007
In light of my post earlier today about the discrepanices between 'real time' and 'clock time' (or 'social time'), it is heartening that the Parliament in the U.K. wisely decided not to switch their clocks to the time the rest of Europe observes. If they did, they would be seriously out of whack…
January 31, 2007
While study of Time-Perception is, according to many, a sub-discipline of chronobiology, I personally know very little about it. Time perception is defined as interval timing, i.e., measuring duration of events (as opposed to counting, figuring which one of the two events happened first and which…
January 31, 2007
Circus of the Spineless #17: The Symbology of Invertebrates is up on The Voltage Gate
Carnival of the Green #62 is up on Jetson Green
January 31, 2007
Carnival of the Liberals #31 is up on Pollyticks.com
