September 24, 2006
Virtual reality, computer simulations and video games are all over the place these days. See some innovative uses, e.g., in tech education, in teaching immunology and in figuring out the dynamics of drug activation by discovery of Magenstrasse in the stomach.
September 24, 2006
Wild Bees Make Honeybees Better Pollinators
How?
By sexual harrassment!
Wild bees behave like the male audience of Girls Gone Wild - obnoxious and aggressive. So, the honeybees keep running away from them - from flower to flower.
Winners: Flowers.
Seriously:
Compared to honeybees, wild bees…
September 24, 2006
Daniel Collins of Down To Earth blog, did a little research on the power law as it applies to the recent and current standing of various (mostly science) blogs, with some interesting obervations about the edge effects, the gradual lowering of the slope, and the slow move of the cut-off point…
September 23, 2006
The 83rd edition of the Tar Heel Tavern, the blog carnival of NC blogging, is up on Poetic Acceptance.
Shortly before I moved here to Seed, Erin took over the management of the carnival and did a great job updating and beautifying the homepage and the archives.
Although I have hosted Tar Heel…
September 22, 2006
Carnival of Bad History #9 is up on World History Blog.
Friday Ark #105 is up on Modulator
September 22, 2006
The 2007 Triangle Science Blogging Conference will be a day-long conference Saturday, January 20, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is a free, open and public event for bloggers, scientists, science educators and anyone interested in discussing science on the Internet.
The conference is organized…
September 22, 2006
Now we know that Bush is correct when he says that everything he says comes directly from God. The source of Bushisms is Jesus himself!
(Hat-tip: Carel, the artist who made my banner)
September 22, 2006
From October 09, 2004. I'd write it differently today, but the main point still stands.
Life begins, takes its course, and ends.
The course of Life determines the directionality of Time. Without Life, it would be impossible to determine which way the Time goes, what is Past and what is Future.…
September 22, 2006
Lance and the commenters.
September 21, 2006
But this Science Fair project comes really close...
(Hat-tip: Pratie Place)
September 21, 2006
Chris Nolan explains exactly what happened and why.
September 21, 2006
23rd Carnival of Feminists is up on Lingual Tremors
September 21, 2006
Right after last year's ConvergeSouth I tried to get my school to let me teach a class on blogging. Posted on October 13, 2005 here and again on January 16, 2006 here.
Somewhat related to the whole ConvergeSouth experience. I've been pitching a blogging course to my school for a while now (not…
September 21, 2006
Herbert George Wells was born at Bromley, England on this day in 1866. He was apprenticed as a draper, which inspired several of his novels, then taught school before securing a scholarship to the Normal School of Science at South Kensington. Although his writing covers a broad range, he is now…
September 21, 2006
Change of Shift, the nursing carnival, has ventured out to a new host. The 7th edition is now up on kt.
September 20, 2006
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor have been wrongfully charged and are awaiting execution by firing squad in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV. They were tortured and forced to sign "confessions" written in Arabic they did not understand. In fact, the poor hygiene and…
September 20, 2006
People argue bad science, psuedoscience and nonsense for a variety of reasons, some religiously motivated, some politically motivated, some out of ignorance, some out of arrogance, some out emotional needs, some due to psychological problems.
When they encroach onto the scinetific turf and argue…
September 20, 2006
I have some great news to share. Thanks to an amazing outpouring of support in the first three weeks of The North Carolina Back to School Challenge we have raised over $24,569 for North Carolina kids!
When we started this campaign, we knew we were setting the bar high. But we're counting on you.…
September 20, 2006
Bird Moms Manipulate Birth Order To Protect Sons:
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Since 2002, Badyaev, Oh and their colleagues have been intensively documenting the lives of a population of house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) on the UA campus.
Throughout the year, the researchers capture…
September 20, 2006
Paramecia Adapt Their Swimming To Changing Gravitational Force:
The researchers placed a vial with pond water and live paramecia inside a high-powered electromagnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Fla. The organisms are less susceptible to a magnetic field than plain…
September 20, 2006
Over 1.6 Million Americans Use Alternative Medicine For Insomnia Or Trouble Sleeping:
A recent analysis of national survey data reveals that over 1.6 million American adults use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to treat insomnia or trouble sleeping according to scientists…
September 20, 2006
Team Describes Unique Desert Cloud Forest:
Trees that live in an odd desert forest in Oman have found an unusual way to water themselves by extracting moisture from low-lying clouds, MIT scientists report.
In an area that is characterized mostly by desert, the trees have preserved an ecological…
September 20, 2006
Carnival of Education #85 is up on The Median Sib
Carnival of Homeschooling Week 38: The Five W's and One H, is up on The Thinking Mother
September 20, 2006
This strange November 09, 2005 post should really be posted on Friday as part of the Friday Weird Sex Blogging....
Via Shakespeare's Sister and Blue Gal in a Red State comes this crazy article:
Serbs line up for testicle shocks
Men in Serbia are lining up to have electric shocks delivered to their…
September 20, 2006
In Ormond Beach Middle School:
Developed by teacher Tucker Harris and School Resource Deputy Karen Pierce, the investigation program is an innovative way to teach sixth-grade science students the scientific method. The CSI class takes students out of the classroom and into a crime scene…
September 20, 2006
Amanda makes a correct connection between preformationism of old and the anti-abortion ideology of today. The only thing missing is the connection of both to Dawkinsian genocentrism which is just preformationism with modern rhetoric of DNA and genes and "blueprints of life". The history of the…
September 20, 2006
In light of the recent outburst of blogging about diversity provoked by the all-white meeting of bloggers with Bill Clinton, it is interesting to take a look at Simon Owen's new informal survey of the diversity in various bligging niches. Go take a look and let Simon know what you think. Also,…
September 19, 2006
Unfortunately, not in my neighborhood any more, the First Year Teacher gets portrayed, quite positively, in USA Today in an article about teachers-bloggers.
September 19, 2006
So, is extreme "larkiness" due to overphosphorilation or underphosphorilation of PERIOD2?
Hypotheses get tested, studies conflict with each other and, in the end, there is a resolution. In this case, we are still waiting for resolution. Science marches on.
September 19, 2006
The latest issue of Archives of Internal Medicine is devoted to sleep. The articles are freely available. Here is the press release:
Incorporate Sleep Evaluation Into Routine Medical Care, Expert Says
Sleep is an integral part of health, and assessment of sleep habits should be a standard part of…
