October 21, 2006
A brief history of antibiotics and the resistance to them, resistant TB and resistance to Triclosan (antibacterial soap).
October 21, 2006
Bacteria Use Radioactive Uranium To Convert Water Molecules To Useable Energy:
Researchers report in this week's Science a self-sustaining community of bacteria that live in rocks 2.8 kilometers below Earth's surface. Think that's weird? The bacteria rely on radioactive uranium to convert water…
October 21, 2006
Justin Abbott is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
October 20, 2006
The Hillary machine?
Instead, you can read a real interview here.
October 20, 2006
Patience and duck-tape
October 20, 2006
Huntington F. Willard, Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University and Vice Chancellor for Genome Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the first North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Check the evolving…
October 20, 2006
An oldie (March 28, 2005) but goodie, bound to stir up the comment section (why do I post controversial stuff on Fridays when the traffic starts coming down?)
WHAT SHOULD WE CALL THEM?
First, who is "them"? Second, why should they be "called"? Third, who are "we"? Fourth, why "should" we call…
October 20, 2006
Occasionally, an article on sleep in the newspapers is actually good. Like this one.
October 20, 2006
Shelley went to the Society for Neuroscience meeting and saw a talk on sleep deprivation, memory and hippocampus.
October 20, 2006
Ask a ScienceBlogger:
What's the best science TV show of all time?
This one's easy: Dont' Ask Me, 1970s BBC show starring Magnus Pyke,
David Bellamy
and Miriam Stoppard (and occasionally some other people). Absolutely the best of all time!
Update: Thanks to Brandon, you can see a short clip:…
October 20, 2006
Lab Cat is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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October 19, 2006
Shelley thought what she got was funny. Check out what Factorizer did to me:
"There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Coturnix allows to live."
That was the first one I got. Of course, every time you look, the saying is different:
Keep refreshing the page...
October 19, 2006
Animals with cool names (binomial, but cool).
More animals with cool names: Tort and Retort
Even more animals with cool names: That Cyprus mouse is not as unique a find as it was touted in press releases. I was not aware that Balkans were such a hot spot for new species discovery. I thought Josif…
October 19, 2006
This is hillarious. I need to try the cake one.
Via Mind Hacks
October 19, 2006
Shorter Nightly Sleep In Childhood May Help Explain Obesity Epidemic:
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This research shows that shorter sleep duration disturbs normal metabolism, which may contribute to obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Even two to…
October 19, 2006
I just got the teaching schedule for Spring, so I decided to follow up on last week's post by putting, under the fold, a series of short posts I wrote when I taught the last time, musing about teaching in general and teaching biology to adults in particular. These are really a running commentary…
October 19, 2006
Ed and Dave on Internet addiction.
If I go out of town, I am perfectly happy not to see a computer for days - there is so much more other stuff to enjoy. But at home it is a different story - it's minutes, not days, and I start shaking uncontrollably!
OK, just joking. But I spend less time…
October 19, 2006
Only Diebold can save the Republicans from the voters' anger in November.
The apparent optimism of Republicans bordering on cockiness makes me nervous - either they are totally delusional, or they are just playing the optimism game, or they know something we don't.
October 19, 2006
Randy Nelson is a wonderful person, an engaging speaker and the author of the best textbook on Behavioral Endocrinology. I heard that he is also a great teacher which does not surprise me and he has a talent for attracting some of the best students and postdocs to work in his lab. Oh, by the way…
October 19, 2006
Is it even possible?
October 19, 2006
The Master explains just how deeply flawed the Santorum quip was:
But Aragorn didn't start the war!
Nothing in Middle-earth happens by accident
October 19, 2006
Yup, I know, many of my sciblings have already posted about this, but curiously, I saw this first outside the Seed's blogging stable, on Majikthise, several hours before anyone here picked up on it.
Yes, the entire works of Charles Darwin will be placed online for you to browse, search and read for…
October 19, 2006
The Synapse #9 - the special Society for Neuroscience Edition is up on Pure Pedantry
October 19, 2006
...to Ruchira Paul of Accidental Blogger!
October 19, 2006
'Ecstasy' Linked To Survival Of Key Movement-related Cells In Brain:
New research from the University of Cincinnati suggests that the widely abused club drug "ecstasy," or MDMA, can increase the survival of dopamine cells in the brain during fetal development. Because these cells are critical in…
October 19, 2006
Burt Humburg is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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October 18, 2006
Change of Shift #9 is up on Emergiblog.
Carnival of Homeschooling 42: The Answer to Everything is up on HomeschoolHacks
Archy needs submissions for the Carnival of Bad History.
Daniel Collins needs submissions for Panta Rei - the carnival of Heat and Flow.
October 18, 2006
This week's Ask a ScienceBlogger question is:
A reader asks: Is severely regulating your diet for a month each year, as Muslims do during Ramadan, good for you?
There is no way I can get out of this one! As far as I know, I am the only one here who actually did research on fasting! Mind you, it's…
October 18, 2006
Since this is another one of the recurring themes on my blog, I decided to republish all of my old posts on the topic together under the fold. Since my move here to the new blog, I have continued to write about this, e.g., in the following posts:
Preserving species diversity - long-term thinking…
October 18, 2006
The latest issue (Fall 2006) of the Social Research Journal has as its theme "Politics & Science: How their Interplay results in public policy", based on a recent conference. The table of contents looks very promising. Unfortunately, none of the articles are online (yet?), so I cannot comment…
