December 30, 2006
Sex Ends As Seasons Shift And Kisspeptin Levels Plummet:
A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at Berkeley scientists in the March 2007 issue…
December 30, 2006
Stephanie Holmgren is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 29, 2006
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )
December 29, 2006
John Edwards Identifies Global Warming as a Priority in His Presidential Campaign:
John Edwards has clearly made global warming a prominent part of his campaign at least at this early stage and has met one of the criteria (#2) that I identified. By including it as one of the issues he has chosen to…
December 29, 2006
Saddam Hussein executed
Where is Osama?
December 29, 2006
Martin Rundkvist is a very smart guy. By renaming his blog from Salto Sobrius to Aardvarchaeology, he has displaced my blog from the vaunted #1 spot on the alphabetical list of SB blogs on the front page! Go say Hello and Welcome to this great addition to the Seed blogging family!
December 29, 2006
I've been lazy over the holidays with my blogging, so I'll defer, once again, to Physics Of Sex blog:
Part 2 of Pumped Up and Ready for Love: Sex and Fluid Physics
And once the flow gets going, you may want to make sure that your toys are ethical.
December 29, 2006
Zoo trumpets birth of rare African okapi :
The Brookfield Zoo announced this week the birth of a baby okapi - an endangered African animal that looks as if it were put together by committee.
With a dark brown body and striped upper hind legs, the 1-month-old female looks a bit like a zebra, but…
December 29, 2006
Which one are you? (December 25, 2005)
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Big debate over Wonkery and Activism on blogs is brewing around the biggies in the Left Blogistan. Let me rehash it quickly before starting my own rant.
It all started with a Washington Monthly article titled Kos Call by…
December 29, 2006
How Zebra Finches Learn Songs: Cellular Killer Also Important To Memory:
A protein known primarily for its role in killing cells also plays a part in memory formation, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report. Their work exploring how zebra finches learn songs could have…
December 29, 2006
Becky Oskin is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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December 28, 2006
Death's brother, Sleep.
Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
December 28, 2006
If you read the papers or watched TV today, you may have gotten the impression that Edwards announced his run this morning around 9am in front of TV cameras. Wrong! The MSM folks think they still matter and are blind to everything happening outside of their domain.
The first people he directly…
December 28, 2006
Go say Hello to Developing Intelligence!
December 28, 2006
That title was the only way I could think of to connect nurses and birds....
I and the Bird #39 - A Visit from Sandy Claws - is up on Natural Visions.
Change of Shift: Vol 1, No 14 is up on NeoNurseChick
December 28, 2006
Here is the next installment of my lecture notes for teh adult education speed-class in biology. As always, I ask for corrections and suggestions for improvement (May 20, 2006):
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BIO101 - Bora Zivkovic - Lecture 3 - Part 1
Imagine that you are a zebra, grazing…
December 28, 2006
Africa's Least-known Carnivore In Tanzania: Mongoose Is One More Rare Find:
The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced that a camera-trap study in the mountains of Southern Tanzania has now recorded Africa's least-known and probably rarest carnivore: Jackson's mongoose, known…
December 28, 2006
Marissa Mills is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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December 27, 2006
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian
December 27, 2006
Edwards has unleashed his campaign website, where you can find all the info, join the discussion on the blog and see a preview of what he'll say tomorrow in NOLA on this video (and no, I am not paid by his campaign - my support is amateur):
December 27, 2006
John Edwards is announcing his presidential candidacy tomorrow in New Orleans, followed by a tour of town-hall meetings in Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina and North Carolina. I'll be at the last one and may have some pictures etc. I'll probably resuscitate my old blog to avoid…
December 27, 2006
99th Carnival of Education is up on Right on the Left Coast
The 52nd Carnival of Homeschooling: A Year and a Day - is up on What Did You Do in School Today?
December 27, 2006
Perhaps. But we do other stuff just like chicken (December 09, 2004):
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Fantastic news in science:
Researchers compare chicken, human genomes
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/nhgr-rcc120804.php
Some highlights:
Chicks have less junk DNA…
December 27, 2006
Singing For Survival: Gibbons Scare Off Predators With 'Song':
It is well known that animals use song as a way of attracting mates, but researchers have found that gibbons have developed an unusual way of scaring off predators -- by singing to them. The primatologists at the University of St…
December 27, 2006
Fiona Morgan of Independent Weekly is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 26, 2006
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially common knowledge.
- W. Willard Wirtz, US…
December 26, 2006
What is the oldest science blog?
Not medicine, not technology/gizmos/gadgets, not conservation, not nature writing, not atheism - a real science blog?
December 26, 2006
You can get to it from the sidebar or from the cute little grey button right under the banner...
December 26, 2006
Bio Crash
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Perceiving Wholes
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