January 4, 2009
Star Wars Starships and Fighters Clock:
12 o'clock Star Destroyer
1 o'clock TIE Interceptor
2 o'clock Darth Vader's Tie Fighter
3 o'clock Jabba's Barge
4 o'clock Bespin Twin-Pod Cloud Car
5 o'clock Y-Wing Fighter
6 o'clock Super Star Destroyer
7 o'clock Rebel Blockade Runner
8 o'clock TIE Bomber
9…
January 4, 2009
And this is an alternative version.
January 4, 2009
And the winners in these two categories are:
xkcd: Purity
Digital Cuttlefish: The Evolutionary Biology Valentine's Day Poem
January 4, 2009
Let's highlight the rest of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Theresa Van Acker is a science teacher at the Morehead Montessori Elementary School in Durham.
Dani Vasco is a student at the Riverside High School and was a part of Duke's Summer research program which…
January 4, 2009
In Many Fungi, Reproductive Spores Are Remarkably Aerodynamic:
The reproductive spores of many species of fungi have evolved remarkably drag-minimizing shapes, according to new research by mycologists and applied mathematicians at Harvard University.
Physical Disability Brings Marital Happiness:
A…
January 3, 2009
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
January 3, 2009
I know many of you are trembling in anticipation: "Did I make it this year?". Well, it's like the Oscars - the Academy Awards are kept tightly under wraps until the moment the envelope is opened.
The list of entries was long, and full of excellent posts - this was hard to judge!
And, Jennifer Rohn…
January 3, 2009
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Dixie-Ann Sawin is a Research Fellow in the Neurotoxicology Group at NIEHS.
Amy Sayle is the Educator in the Adult Programs at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center in Chapel Hill, NC.
Scicurious is a…
January 3, 2009
New Breeding Ground For Endangered Whales? High Numbers Of Right Whales Seen In Gulf Of Maine:
A large number of North Atlantic right whales have been seen in the Gulf of Maine in recent days, leading right whale researchers at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center to believe they have…
January 2, 2009
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody.
- Andre Maurois
January 2, 2009
There are 9 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
January 2, 2009
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Talia Page is a future astronaut, senior staff at Talking Science, writer for Space Lifestyle magazine, Chief Editor for the Imagine Science Film Festival, and a blogger on Space Cadet. She will be on the…
January 2, 2009
Longstanding Theory Of Origin Of Species In Oceans Challenged:
New evidence uncovered by oceanographers challenges one of the most long-standing theories about how species evolve in the oceans. Most scientists believe that allopatric speciation, where different species arise from an ancestral…
January 2, 2009
The 31st edition of the Festival of the Trees is up on Rock Paper Lizard
Friday Ark #224 is up on Modulator
January 1, 2009
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us with a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined with a Bonaparte at their head and disposing of…
January 1, 2009
The most awesome January Scientiae is up on Thesis - with Children
Carnival of the Liberals #81 is up on Rust Belt Philosophy
January 1, 2009
From here.
January 1, 2009
The Psychology of Cyberspace is a course taught by John Suler in the Department of Psychology at the Science and Technology Center at Rider University. The website is a collection of a large number of thought-provoking essays on various aspects of human behavior online:
This hypertext book explores…
January 1, 2009
Academic Evolution is Gideon Burton's blog, intended as a playground for posting drafts and eliciting feedback while he is writing a book of the same title. You can see the rough outline of the proposed contents of the book here:
This blog is intended to become Academic Evolution, the book. My…
January 1, 2009
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
April L. MacKellar is a doctoral student in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke.
Rick MacPherson works for the Coral Reef Alliance and blogs on Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets. He will be on the…
January 1, 2009
Another Reason To Avoid High-fat Diet: It Can Disrupt Our Biological Clock, Say Researchers
Indulgence in a high-fat diet can not only lead to overweight because of excessive calorie intake, but also can affect the balance of circadian rhythms - everyone's 24-hour biological clock, Hebrew…
December 31, 2008
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual…
December 31, 2008
There are 12 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
December 31, 2008
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Greg Laden is an anthropologist, a part time independent scholar and part time associate adviser with the Program for Individualized Learning at the the University of Minnesota and a prolific SciBling blogger…
December 31, 2008
An ongoing meme [From, via] - list of cities/towns in which I have spent at least one night during 2008 (asterisk for places where I slept on non-consecutive nights):
New York City, NY*
Destin, FL
London, UK
Cambridge, UK*
Watford, UK
Cromer, UK
Trieste, Italy
Belgrade, Serbia
Berlin, Germany
A…
December 31, 2008
See the discussion about identification of this strange animal here. Is it correct?
