August 31, 2006
Panta Rei is a new science carnival:
The theme is on thermal sciences related topics, from the purely technical to the academic trivia and gossip. Contributions from science and engineering bloggers with a post that is even remotely related to the above topics and at times, not at all related to…
August 31, 2006
You Are Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
You take the title "mad scientist" to the extreme -with very scary things coming out of your lab.
And you've invented some pretty cool things, from a banana sharpener to a robot politician.
But while you're busy turning gold into cottage cheese, you need to watch…
August 31, 2006
Frist might face fine on M.D. license renewal
The senator, a surgeon, failed to complete continuing education required by Tennessee.
And he lied about it.
August 31, 2006
Tangled Bank #61 is up on Epigenetics News.
Skeptic's Circle #42 is up on Immunoblogging.
August 31, 2006
Melatonin improves mood in winter depression:
Alfred Lewy and his colleagues in the OHSU Sleep and Mood Disorders Lab set out to test the hypothesis that circadian physiological rhythms become misaligned with the sleep/wake cycle during the short days of winter, causing some people to become…
August 31, 2006
The fisking of Chapter 15 of Wells' PIG is now up on Panda's Thumb. It has something to do with church! Wonder, what has church to do with the "science" of Intelligent Design?!
August 30, 2006
My SciBling Chris Mooney, as part of his book-signing tour, is finally coming my way. So, if you are from these parts and are interested in the Republican War On Science, make sure to check October 28th and/or 29th on your calendar.
August 30, 2006
I already told you that my daughter is crazy about cats as well as getting really good at photography. Occasionaly I break down and post pictures of cats (but never on Friday!) just because she took them. So, you have had the opportunity to meet Marbles and also Biscuit and even both of them…
August 30, 2006
Ancient Raptors Likely Feasted On Early Man, Study Suggests:
A new study suggests that prehistoric birds of prey made meals out of some of our earliest human ancestors. Researchers drew this conclusion after studying more than 600 bones from modern-day monkeys. They had collected the bones from…
August 30, 2006
I have never seen these birds around here before, yet, over the last few days I saw tons of them all over the place. Where did they come from? Why do they seem to still be paired this late in the summer?
At first, I saw them flying, mostly from the car, and their flight is undulating, almost…
August 30, 2006
I And The Bird #31 is up on Migrateblog. Enjoy the poetry leading you to the best bird-writing on the Internet.
August 30, 2006
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30th, 1797. She is very old now, but a team of mad scientists is working on resurrecting her with jolts of electricity.
August 30, 2006
Joe Lieberman's communications director, Dan Gerstein, claims the sun rises in the West. Seriously. And will not back down. What more proof you need to know that Lieberman is a Republican, waging his own "independent" war on science in hope of appeasing Inhofe & Co. all in the spirit of…
August 30, 2006
Now that the school has started, we (meaning 'ScienceBloggers') are getting feedback messages from science teachers who were able to buy supplies for their classes because you, our readers, pitched in back in June and donated mountains of money through the DonorsChoose program.
I want to thank you…
August 30, 2006
Chad wrote a neat history of (or should we say 'evolution of') clocks, as in "timekeeping instruments". He points out the biological clocks are "...sort of messy application, from the standpoint of physics..." and he is right - for us biologists, messier the better. We wallow in mess, cherish…
August 30, 2006
Rush thinks one needs to slaughter a cow in order to get butter. And he blames liberals and the UN for being a fat idiot.
August 30, 2006
Carnival of the Liberals #20 is up on The Greenbelt - the next one will be in two weeks on Archy.
The latest Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Category Five - the next one will be next week on Why Homeschool.
August 30, 2006
Re-post from May 17, 2006, under the fold...
When teaching biology, one has to cut up the syllabus into edible and digestible chunks, and it makes sense to cover various subdisciplines in separate lectures. As you know, I strive to find ways to make connections to students so they don't leave…
August 30, 2006
The school has started and I have not yet met my son's teachers, but he brought home his science textbook yesterday. Of course I had to take a look....and I really liked it! It is North Carolina Edition of McDougal Littell "Science" for 8th grade.
While I am still stunned that all of science is…
August 30, 2006
Do dogs get jealous? At just the most inopportune moments?
August 30, 2006
If you are confused by the sheer number of ScienceBloggers and need to know who is who and what everyone writes about, you should check the periodic table of SciBlings. Then, check out more detailed descriptions of some of the blogs and keep checking in the following days for the descriptions of…
August 30, 2006
Mark Perakh debunks Chapter 16 of Jonathan Well's poor excuse of a book. The chapter is on alleged new "Lysenkoism" in today's American science, which has nothing to do with historical Lysenkoism.
August 29, 2006
Carnival of the Green #42 is up on The Disillusioned Kid.
Carnival of Education #82 is up on Thespis Journal.
Grand Rounds, V. 2, No. 49 is up on Protect the Airway.
August 29, 2006
Mr.WD continues with his series on "Postmodern" Christianity - here is It's still that old time religion, Part III.
Sara Robinson continues her series on authoritarians: Tunnels and Bridges, Part III: A Bigger World
August 29, 2006
.....and smart politicians know this.
August 29, 2006
Yesterday, we were putting down media reports on a study that purports that dolphins are not intelligent despite behavioral studies and big brains. Today, NYTimes has a much better article arguing that manatees, despite their small brains, are more intelligent than previously thought.
It is a…
August 29, 2006
Previously unopposed, "...the most notorious creationist on the Ohio State Board of Education, Deborah Owens Fink, has a challenger in the Novemeber 7th election." The election is non-partisan and the serious challenger is Tom Sawyer. You can get all of the details from Ed Brayton (as well as…
August 29, 2006
From quite early on in my blogging endeavor, I was interested in exploring science blogging, what it is, what it can do, and what it can become. So, check out some of my earliest thoughts on this here and here.
Then, over about a month (from April 17, 2006 to May 17, 2006) I wrote a gazillion…
August 29, 2006
My SciBling Chris Mooney, the first science blogger I ever discovered (and whose blogroll let me into the scienceblogging world) is the author of one of the most important books of last year, The Republican War On Science.
I have read the hardcover as soon as I got it (and my copy was shipped in…
August 28, 2006
And here's the kitten:
