December 16, 2006
Almost there! A couple of more days and we'll be done! So, check out the W-list and suggest some more.
Walking the Berkshires
Walt at Random
Wampum
Wandering Visitor
Wandermuse
Warning: squirrels.
The Well-Timed Period
Whatever (Scalzi)
What It's Like on the Inside (The Science Goddess)
What the…
December 16, 2006
Bayh Says He Will Not Run for President in '08:
Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who just two weeks ago took the first steps toward a White House bid in 2008, announced on Saturday that he was quitting the race. He said he had concluded his hopes of winning were too remote to make it worth continuing…
December 16, 2006
After a brief delay due to power outage, Friday Ark #117 is now up on The Modulator.
December 16, 2006
Brian Hayes is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 15, 2006
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
- Häfiz
December 15, 2006
Teaching circulatory physiology is pretty much the same as teaching fluid physics. It can get a bit tough and boring. But, if it is taught like this, I bet ther would be no students sleeping in the back row and failing the tests....
December 15, 2006
Well, it's starting tonight, so I better get back to cleaning the house (actually, all posts today are pre-scheduled). Kids are excited (hey, eight days of presents instead of just one and nobody mentions any Invisible Friends in the Sky all evening!). Posting will resume tomorrow early morning.
December 15, 2006
More than a year ago (September 26, 2005), and what has changed?
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The other day I saw (on a blog, from an e-mail? Don't remember now...) this article about a porn website on which our soldiers in Iraq exchange gory photos of mutilated Iraqi bodies for a free…
December 15, 2006
December 15th. Officially. Fire away. Via - via - via (read thos "vias" for more information about what it all means).
December 15, 2006
Two Studies On Bee Evolution Reveal Surprises:
The discovery of a 100-million-year old bee embedded in amber -- perhaps the oldest bee ever found -- "pushes the bee fossil record back about 35 million years," according to Bryan Danforth, Cornell associate professor of entomology.
Tiny Bones Rewrite…
December 15, 2006
V-V-V, vot begins with V? Very vicious veblogs! V-V-V!
The Valve
Vegreville
Vet Tech
Viewfinder Blues
The View From The Cheap Seats
VirJournal: A Vivisection of Virge
The Voltage Gate
A Voyage To Arcturus
Previously (and please you can add suggestions at any time in the future - I get e-mail…
December 15, 2006
Tong Ren is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 15, 2006
The Abortion Pill Could Prevent Cancer:
In women with BRCA-1, the naturally occurring female hormone progesterone speeds the proliferation of mammary cells. "If we block the progesterone pathway using an antiprogesterone, it could prevent breast cancer," says Eva Lee, lead author of the study. That…
December 14, 2006
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
- Dave Allen
December 14, 2006
Go here and here.
Hat-tip: Russ Williams
December 14, 2006
Identification Of Carbon Dioxide Receptors In Insects May Help Fight Infectious Disease:
Mosquitoes don't mind morning breath. They use the carbon dioxide people exhale as a way to identify a potential food source. But when they bite, they can pass on a number of dangerous infectious diseases, such…
December 14, 2006
Zack Exley: The Revolution misses you
Aldon Hynes: A different focus
NYTimes: 2008 Like It's Today: Edwards on Top in Iowa
Kansas City Star: Edwards gets most of the answers when quizzed on world leaders
Huffington Post: John Edwards Gets It
The Nation blog: John Edwards Is Strongest Dem Contender…
December 14, 2006
Change of Shift, Vol. 1, No. 13, now up on Protect the Airway
December 14, 2006
The seventh part of my lecture notes. Let me know if I made factual errors or if you think this can be improved (from May 15, 2006):
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How Genotype Affects Phenotype
BIO101 - Bora Zivkovic - Lecture 2 - Part 3
One often hears news reports about…
December 14, 2006
Summarized here - an Iowa poll, a nationwide poll, and a match-up.
December 14, 2006
Gas On Your Mind: Snail's Brain Provides Insights Into Human Learning :
Scientists at the University of Leicester are to gain a greater insight into the workings of the human mind -- through the study of a snail's brain.
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Dr Straub commented: "The gas nitric oxide has two faces. It…
December 14, 2006
Any other notable blogs starting with U?
UDreamOfJanie
Uggabugga
Ugly Overload
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Postdoc
Unbossed
Uncertain Principles
Unclaimed Territory (Glenn Greenwald)
Uncommon Dissent
The Uncredible Hallq
Under the Mosquito Net
Unfogged
Unqualified Offerings
Unscrewing The…
December 14, 2006
I and the Bird (s) #38 is up on Ben Cruachan Blog
December 14, 2006
Joy McCracken is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 13, 2006
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
- Golda Meir
December 13, 2006
I am not sure about their real names, but I call my Mother-in-law's cats Maximilian (right) and Minimilian (left). They are brothers.
December 13, 2006
Memory Improves After Sleep Apnea Therapy:
Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may improve their memory by using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). A new study published in the December issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP),…
December 13, 2006
Oekologie is a new blog carnival focused on ecology and environmental science. While Carnival of the Green is focused more towards conservation issues and sustainability, this carnival is going to focus on the science behind it. It will appear monthly on the 15th of each month, starting in…
December 13, 2006
It's not just PZ any more. The Scienceblogs.com will now see twice as many squid, cuttlefish, octopuses and nautiluses than before. How? Why? Because the reinforcements are here! Welcome our newest SciBlings, the Deep Sea News!
December 13, 2006
It came to me so naturally - no big thinking involved, no tweaking the results, this is who I am:
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.
