October 28, 2006
Insights Into Honey Bee Sex Gene Could Bring Sweet Success In Breeding:
What makes a bee a he or a she? Three years ago, scientists pinpointed a gene called csd that determines gender in honey bees, and now a research team led by University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Jianzhi "George" Zhang…
October 28, 2006
Zeno has posted a nice, easy-to-understand primer on statistics and polling.
October 28, 2006
Dave Johnson is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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October 27, 2006
Kefli was my second horse, back in Yugoslavia. I raised him from foal until he was almost 3 years old. I sold him a few days before I left for he US. I just got a picture of him, from a few years later:
October 27, 2006
Tomorrow morning I am starting to teach again. Only the lab this time around, my colleague is teaching the lecture. And it is going to look pretty much the same as last couple of times I did it:
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Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
October 27, 2006
Tangled Bank, Darwin or Wallace edition, is (finally) up on Thoughts From Kansas. There is something wrong with the intended host's website, so Josh volunteered to save the carnival and did a splendid job at such short notice.
October 27, 2006
In today's New York Times. (via Ed Cone)
October 27, 2006
A follow-up on last week's repost (originally from April 06, 2005)...
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I've been wavering in how to call the Right Wing. When I say "conservatives" I get attacked for equating conservatism with GOP (with implication that conservatism is good but GOP…
October 27, 2006
Cougar Predation Key To Ecosystem Health:
The general disappearance of cougars from a portion of Zion National Park in the past 70 years has allowed deer populations to dramatically increase, leading to severe ecological damage, loss of cottonwood trees, eroding streambanks and declining…
October 27, 2006
Fred Stutzman, the Facebook expert from Unit Structures is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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October 26, 2006
If you go here and copy and paste the code into your blog, you will get something that looks like this:
--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl
--AZ-01: Rick Renzi
--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth
--CA-04: John Doolittle
--CA-11: Richard Pombo
--CA-50: Brian Bilbray
--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave
--CO-05: Doug Lamborn
--CO-07: Rick O…
October 26, 2006
Chris Mooney will be in the Triangle for three days - October 28-30th. Come to one of his book-readings:
Saturday, October 28
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Quail Ridge Books
3522 Wade Ave.
Raleigh, NC 27607
Sunday, October 29
4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth Street
Durham, NC 27705
Monday, October…
October 26, 2006
There is a new study out on computer and internet use in Serbia (via). Several things immediately jumped out at me: how many people connect by modem, how many connect from home (as opposed to work, school, etc.), how big is the rural/urban divide, and how many people think they have no use for the…
October 26, 2006
Rev. BigDumbChimp alerts me that Ken Miller will be in Raleigh on November 6th, giving a lecture at NCSU at 7pm. Tickets are free but you have to have one in order to attend. You can get your tickets here.
October 26, 2006
There is nothing easier than taking a bad paper - or a worse press release - and fisking it with gusto on a blog. If you happen also to know the author and keep him in contempt, the pleasure of destroying the article is even greater.
It is much, much harder to write (and to excite readers with) a…
October 26, 2006
A short but good article by my schools' President (April 25, 2006, also here).
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James Oblinger, the new President of North Carolina State University (promoted from within after many years as the Dean of the School Of Agriculture And Life…
October 26, 2006
From the press release (doc):
The report, prepared by Potomac Communications Group of Washington, DC under a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, provides a candid glimpse into the NSF's Urban Systemic Program (USP), the first national effort to reform how a school district teaches and students…
October 26, 2006
Researchers Give Name To Ancient Mystery Creature:
For the first time, researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, have been able to put a name and a description to an ancient mammal that still defies classification.
Protein Important In Blood Clotting May Also Play A Role In…
October 26, 2006
I And The Bird #35 is up on Migrations.
October 26, 2006
Roy Hinkley of Moment of Science is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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October 25, 2006
...and Chris is in great form again.
October 25, 2006
...and no means to get back! See how that happened on the latest Skeptics' Circle - On a Mission from God, up on Left Brain/Right Brain. Then use the Quackometer (the last link at the bottom of the carnival) to rate the quackiness of the claim debunked in each post.
October 25, 2006
Vegetables, Not Fruit, Help Fight Memory Problems In Old Age:
Eating vegetables, not fruit, helps slow down the rate of cognitive change in older adults, according to a study published in the Oct. 24, 2006, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology
Honey Bee…
October 25, 2006
The honeybee genome project has been finished and a bunch of papers are coming out tomorrow. As soon as they become available online I will comment, at least on the one paper that shows that the molecular machinery of the bee circadian clock is much more similar to the mammalian clock than the…
October 25, 2006
A couple of years ago I could beat my son at chess every time.
Not any more.
He's been studying from books, playing online and beating his sister relentlessly over the last few weeks. Then he challenged me. He won. Then he won again. Then he won again. In the fourth game I finally realized I…
October 25, 2006
Go help Chris do a study on framing in politics.
October 25, 2006
The very first edition of the Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology carnival, is up on Anthropology Net.
Carnival of the Liberals #24 is up on Perspectives of a Nomad
Carnival of Education #90 is up on The Current Events in Education
Next Circus of the Spineless will be on Neurophilosopher's Blog.…
October 25, 2006
It's been a year since this first appeared (September 21, 2005). I wonder if the "academy" is still open or what are they studying there....
This I learned from Eric:
How to become an astrologer
For those few remaining stubborn hold-outs who still cannot read Serbo-Croatian, here's a quick…
October 25, 2006
Publius is on the roll again with two posts, each putting a novel angle to a well-known story:
DISTASTEFULLY CORRECT
GIMME FICTION
October 25, 2006
Ndesanjo Macha of Digital Africa is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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