December 31, 2008
Competition, Not Climate Change, Led To Neanderthal Extinction, Study Shows:
In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with…
December 30, 2008
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas Time.
- Charles Dickens
December 30, 2008
This article is almost two years old, but it is perhaps even more current today than it was when it first appeared:
Pretend for a second that you're a CEO. Would you reveal your deepest, darkest secrets online? Would you confess that you're an indecisive weakling, that your colleagues are inept,…
December 30, 2008
Every now and then I mention light pollution on this blog, usually from a biologist's perspective. But here is another perspective - using "dark sky" as a tourist attraction - a place where one can actually see the stars:
Nonetheless, Galloway Forest Park contains the darkest skies in Europe, and…
December 30, 2008
On the Hopebuilding's Weblog, Rosemary wrote:
When I was a journalist, many years ago now, it never really occurred to me that we spent much more time on "bad news" than on "good news". In fact, sometimes people caricatured the "good news" attempts as being Pollyanna-ish; they thought "good" news…
December 30, 2008
Introducing Sex, Drugs and Rockin' Venom: Confessions of an Extreme Scientist by Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry, the venom biologist!
December 30, 2008
There are 24 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 30, 2008
Three Obligatory Readings of the Day:
Brian Switek: Stephen Jay Gould's view of life
Larry Moran: An Adaptationist View of Stephen Jay Gould
Greg Laden: How fast does evolution happen?
December 30, 2008
Go say Hello to Rebecca Skloot, the newest addition to the Scienceblogs.com family, and her blog Culture Dish.
Check out her About page and the first post.
December 30, 2008
And what Joe says in response? He claims that he got his information from NYTimes and Washington Post, not realizing that those two publications are just as superficial as he is. Yes, Joe, throw those out and call Zbig if you want to get educated, not that he does not have his own agenda and his…
December 30, 2008
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Karen James is the Director of Science for The Beagle Project, writes the Beagle Project Blog and also works full time at the Natural History Museum in London doing original research in the Department of…
December 30, 2008
It is with great sadness that I learned that Dr.Greg Cahill died a few days ago, at the Houston airport, waiting for his flight. I have met Greg at several meetings of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms and while, those being fairly large meetings, we never had big one-on-one…
December 30, 2008
Edition #12 of Berry-Go-Round is up on Foothills Fancies
Grand Rounds 5.15: At the interface of evolution and medicine are up on Moneduloides
Carnival of the Green is up on Ruscombe Green
Carnival of the Elitist Bastards: Stardate 62453.9 is up on Submitted to a Candid World
Friday Ark #223 is up…
December 30, 2008
Humans, Oceans Shaped North American Climate Over Past 50 Years, NOAA Report Says:
Greenhouse gases play an important role in North American climate, but differences in regional ocean temperatures may hold a key to predicting future U.S. regional climate changes, according to a new NOAA-led…
December 29, 2008
Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
- Johnny Carson
December 29, 2008
Some guy named Mulshine, who is apparently an ancient journalist (remember: generation is mindset, not age), penned one of those idiotic pieces for Wall Street Journal, willingly exposing his out-datedness and blindness to the world - read it yourself and chuckle: All I Wanted for Christmas Was a…
December 29, 2008
This may take days to read, but it is worth it....
December 29, 2008
There are 21 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 29, 2008
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Kevin Emamy is coming to do a demo of his CiteULike reference management platform.
Kay Endriss teaches statistics in Career Center High School in Winston-Salem (see the Wikipedia page).
Martin Fenner is the…
December 29, 2008
College Students Find Comfort In Their Pets During Hard Times:
A new study suggests that college students may handle stressful situations better if they have a pet. Research has already shown that pets can improve the quality of life for people who are aging or those who are chronically ill. But…
December 28, 2008
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
- John Calvin Coolidge
December 28, 2008
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Russ Campbell is the Communications Officer at Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Patricia Campbell is the powerhouse behind the Campbell-Kibler Associates, the FairerScience and the FairerScience blog.
Roy Campbell is…
December 28, 2008
New Evidence That Humans Make Aspirin's Active Principle -- Salicylic Acid:
Scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting new evidence that humans can make their own salicylic acid (SA) -- the material formed when aspirin breaks down in the body. SA, which is responsible for aspirin's renowned…
December 27, 2008
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
- Gladys Taber
December 27, 2008
There are 20 new articles in PLoS ONE last night. 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…
December 27, 2008
Slate has this good article with the same title (yes, read it if you are interested in becoming or becoming a better blogger). I agree with everything in it, except for one piece of advice that I often see bandied about but think is totally wrong:
Don't be too wordy. HuffPo says that 800 words is…
December 27, 2008
Researchers Hope Obama Team Will Reinvigorate Role of Science Adviser:
In recent years, though, some critics have charged that the science adviser's influence has reached another low under President George W. Bush....
"Some critics"? Like, the entire scientific community? The entire science…
