August 28, 2006
Summer is officially over. Kids are back in school. I am pretty much a stay-at-home-Dad these days and this is even more obvious during breaks in the school calendar.
And we certainly had a great summer, starting even before school ended, with our trip to New York City. We went to the pool a lot…
August 28, 2006
My daughter is getting really good at photography. Here is one from her recent set of pictures - our older cat, Biscuit:
August 28, 2006
Mike's wonderful blog 10,000 Birds is three years old. Go say Hello.
August 28, 2006
Certainly not Jews.
August 28, 2006
In the ongoing series of fiskings of Jonathan Wells' PIG book over on Panda's Thumb, Andrea Bottaro has posted his verbal destruction of Chapter 9.
August 28, 2006
Encephalon #5, the NeuroCarnival, is up on Developing Intelligence
August 28, 2006
Well, nobody in the comments here or here could help Kevin identify the mystery frog yet (if you are a herpetologist or fancy being one, take a look) and now Kevin caught yet another, even more mysterious frog. Can you help him identify it? Leave a comment here if you recognize what frogs are…
August 28, 2006
You probably realize by now that my expertise is in clocks and calendars of birds, but blogging audience forces me to occasionally look into human clocks from a medical perspective. Reprinted below the fold are three old Circadiana posts about the connection between circadian clocks and the…
August 28, 2006
If you write something related to Hurricane Katrina today (or have already done so recently), let Shakespeare's Sister know so she can include your link in the Big Anniversary linkfest.
August 28, 2006
Where does one start with debunking fallacies in this little article? Oy vey!
Dolphins and whales are dumber than goldfish and don't have the know-how to match a rat, new research from South Africa shows. For years, humans have assumed the large brains of dolphins meant the mammals were highly…
August 27, 2006
Educators, i.e., science teachers, are not too unhappy about the change in taxonomy of planets. Some argue they can use it as a lesson in the way science always changes.
August 27, 2006
Sara Robinson is on the roll: Tunnels and Bridges, Part II: Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself
August 27, 2006
The Tarheel Tavern #79 is up on Kivi Leroux Miller's blog on Freelance Writing.
August 27, 2006
Last year, there was so much blogging about Katrina, I thought that the best thing I could do was create a large linkfest of everyone else's posts. That is what I did - check it out here, a nice one-stop-shopping for the analysis and opinion at the time. If you need to refresh your memory that is…
August 27, 2006
George has posted a last call for submissions for the next edition of the Teaching Carnival - all about Higher Ed, life in academia, etc. He is hosting it on WorkBook this Friday, September 1st, so send your entries on time to: georgehwilliams at gmail dot com
Next Tangled Bank (science, nature,…
August 27, 2006
Next edition of the Circus of the Spineless will be held on Sunbeams From Cucumbers. Send your entries by August 29th to: sreuland AT gmail DOT com
Next edition of the Festival of the Trees will be held on Burning Silo, so send your entries to Bev by August 29th to: burning-silo AT magickcanoe DOT…
August 27, 2006
Amanda, a fellow hot-pepper-lover, reminds me that I have not finished my Hot Pepper series. It is supposed to be a THREE-part series, but I only wrote two parts so far, the introductory (personal) post and answering the question why are peppers hot (quite a popular post of mine, linked and e-…
August 27, 2006
Yup, the Katrina blogswarm is supposed to be tomorrow, but Publius and The Science Pundit could not wait.
August 27, 2006
...so I'd have my priorities straight. But checking my Sitemeter referrers list would come in at #2, LOL.
August 27, 2006
Childhood Sleep Apnea Linked To Brain Damage, Lower IQ:
In what is believed to be the first study showing neural changes in the brains of children with serious, untreated sleep apnea, Johns Hopkins researchers conclude that children with the disorder appear to suffer damage in two brain structures…
August 26, 2006
Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Troy Duster, Elizabeth Ransom, Winona LaDuke, Peter Singer, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Carlo Petrini, Eliot Coleman & Jim Hightower recently participated in a Nation forum: One Thing to Do About Food. Here are a few excerpts - go read the…
August 26, 2006
So, you must know by now, that last night I went to the Triangle Bloggers BBQ, hosted by Anton and his wonderful wife Erin. Needless to say, it was great fun, though I had perhaps a beer too many....(but the food....don't let me get started on food - it was great)
Who was there? Local activists…
August 26, 2006
A year ago this Monday, Katrina hit the Gulf states. We all blogged like crazy.
Since Bush Administration is desparately trying to supress the memory of their debacle, King Cranky and Melissa suggest we do a blogswarm - everyone blogs about Katrina on Monday and Shakes will collect the posts in a…
August 26, 2006
Yup, in our household the new meaning of 'Bushism' has already been adopted. Even kids are using it in the new Dictionary sense. Now I gotta go as I am feeling a tad little bit presidential.
August 26, 2006
Mr. Sulu says so. Shakespeare's Sister agrees. Very worth reading!
August 26, 2006
Hello to my 90,000th visitor, who came in from the Culture Wars Channel, and is good at hiding wher s/he is coming from except that it is North America. Still on here right now? Say something in the comments.
August 26, 2006
I finally got to meet Reed Cartwright in person last night. Now that he is in Raleigh, and Panda's Thumb resides in my old building on campus, I hope I'll see him more often.
Speaking of Panda's Thumb, it is currently, as in "this week", demonstrating the power of the scienceblogging community,…
August 26, 2006
Jennifer Ouellette and her commenters discuss how: Geek grrls: the next generation
August 26, 2006
Wolverine Tom posted some of his pictures from Badlands National Park in South Dakota he visited last summer.
August 26, 2006
Sara Robinson turned the last installment of her previous series into a whole new series, first part of which is now up: Tunnels and Bridges, Part I: Divide and Conquer.
