July 7, 2006
You really think I am going to put this above the fold? No way - you have to click:
Today's lesson is on the reproductive anatomy of the domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica), which probably applies to the wild species in the pig family as well. Although we may reflexively think about invertebrates…
July 7, 2006
As I have noted before, there is an opera about Tesla, called Violet Fire in preperation for the grand opening in the Belgrade's National Theater on July 9th, on the eve of 150th birthday of Nikola Tesla. I have since received a little bit more information about it. Here I translated some…
July 7, 2006
Robert Anson Heinlein was born at Butler, Missouri on this day in 1907. One of the "Big Three" authors of science fiction (along with Asimov and Clarke), his stories offered vivid characters who consistently were independent in both thought and action. He used his stories to comment on politics,…
July 6, 2006
The second installment of The Synapse, the neuroscience carnival, will be held right here this coming Sunday, on July 9th. Please send your submissions to me by Saturday night at 8pm EDT at: Coturnix1 AT aol DOT com.
July 6, 2006
George Lakoff has a new book out - Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea. You can read short blurbs and reviews on Rockridge Isntisute site, Salon and Washington Post. I have placed it on my wish list as well.
July 6, 2006
Next edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling will be hosted by Why Homeschool next Tuesday. Send your submissions by 6pm PST on Monday for the inclusion in the carnival.
July 6, 2006
First, there were The Boys From Brazil
not to mention a lof of other science fiction:
like, for example, the cloned dinosaurs of the Jurassic Park:
Then came Dolly, the cloned sheep:
Then came the AskThe ScienceBlogger weekly question: On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep became the first successfully…
July 6, 2006
I just finished listening to Fresh Air on NPR. Terry Gross had an interview with Geoffrey Nunberg whose book, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak…
July 6, 2006
OK, today I'd like you to superimpose a couple of very different articles that all look at the difference between patriotism and nationalism, but each from a different angle and see if, and how, they inform each other. First, I'd like you to read one of my old posts (which I may decide to re-post…
July 6, 2006
When I posted this originally (here and here) I quoted a much longer excerpt from the cited Chronicle article than what is deemed appropriate, so this time I urge you to actually go and read it first and then come back to read my response.
From Dr.Munger's blog, an interesting article: Liberal…
July 6, 2006
The Coca-Cola edition of the Skeptic's Circle is now up on Skeptic's Rant.
July 6, 2006
"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity."
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
"Even matter called…
July 6, 2006
Again, an article echoing Lakoff's argument, with which I agree:
Why Conservatives Can't Govern:
If leaders consistently depart in disastrous ways from their underlying political ideology, there comes a point where one has to stop just blaming the leaders and start questioning the ideology.
The…
July 5, 2006
Oh-oh! As if I needed yet another way to mess up my credit rating! Now, they are rolling out Coke machines that take credit cards! The way I drink Coke, this is a path to sure bankrupcy!
I always wanted to install a sink in my kitchen with three faucets: cold water, hot water and cold Coke,…
July 5, 2006
The first anniversary edition of I and the Bird is up on 10000 birds.
July 5, 2006
74th edition of the Carnival of Education is up on NYC Educator
July 5, 2006
Journal Nature has published a short article about science blogging. You do not need a subscription to read it - you can find it here.
In it, they highlight Top 5 science blogs according to Technorati rankings. Those five are, quite deservingly, Pharyngula, Panda's Thumb, Real Climate, Cosmic…
July 5, 2006
I wrote this book review back on February 18, 2006. Under the fold...
I see that Joan Roughgarden has a new paper in Science this week: Reproductive Social Behavior: Cooperative Games to Replace Sexual Selection
Theories about sexual selection can be traced back to Darwin in 1871. He proposed that…
July 5, 2006
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." (Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934)
"The…
July 5, 2006
Tangled Bank #56 is up on e3, Information Overload
New Carnival of the Liberals is up on Uncredible Hallq
July 4, 2006
I got several e-mails yesterday about a new study about the molecular mechanism underlying circadian rhythms in mammals ("You gotta blog about this!"), so, thanks to Abel, I got the paper (PDF), printed it out, and, after coming back from the pool, sat down on the porch to read it.
After reading…
July 4, 2006
Grand Rounds 4th of July version (Vol. 2 No. 41.) is up on Rangel MD.
Week 27 of the Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Tami's blog.
July 4, 2006
This was one of my first posts about blogging, and THE first about the impact of blogging technolgoy on science. A lot of time has passed since then. There are several science-related carnivals now, not just Tangled Bank. There are SEED scienceblogs. It is fun to look back at my first raw…
July 4, 2006
Writing a chronobiology blog for a year and a half now has been quite a learning experience for me. I did not know how much I did not know (I am aware that most of my readers know even less, but still....). Thus, when I wrote about clocks in birds I was on my territory - this is the stuff I know…
July 4, 2006
"The last 29 days of the month [are] the hardest."
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." (Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934)
"The spread of…
July 3, 2006
The first edition of Encephalon, neuroscience carnival, is up on Neurophilosopher's blog.
The new Philosophy Carnival is up on Adventures in Ethics and Science.
The first edition of the International Carnival of Pozitivities, carnival by HIV-positive bloggers, is up on 2sides2ron.
July 3, 2006
This is the third in the series of posts designed to provide the basics of the field of Chronobiology. This post is interesting due to its analysis of history and sociology of the discipline, as well as a look at the changing nature of science. You can check out the rest of Clock Tutorials here…
July 3, 2006
Believe me, I love the word "circadian". It is a really cool word, invented by Franz Halberg in the late 1950s, out of 'circa' (Latin - "about") and diem ("a day"), to denote daily rhythms in biochemistry, physiology and behavior generated by the internal, endogenous biological clocks within…
July 3, 2006
This is a quick, rough translation of an article that ran in a Serbian newspaper a few days ago. It is written by a professor of psychology at the University of Belgrade, Prof.Dr.Zarko Trebjesanin, whose book about psychology of Tesla just got published in Belgrade. Posthumous psychoanalyzing is…
July 2, 2006
Well, our big Scienceblogs DonorsChoose action is officially over. Our readers have donated a total of $22,554.38. This was matched by SEED Media with additional $10,000. Readers of Pharyngula, Stranger Fruit, Evolgen, Questionable Authority, Cognitive Daily and Terra Sigillata funded their…
