December 17, 2008
The 102nd Skeptics' Circle: [Bleeping] Edition is up on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes
The 202nd Carnival of Education is up on Steve Spangler's blog
The 155th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Small World
December 17, 2008
Michael Pollan will be on NPR's Morning Edition tomorrow:
I'll be on NPR's Morning Edition, talking about the new Secretary of
Agriculture, former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack.
What can I say? It's a good day for corn.
Less good for us eaters, perhaps. Perhaps the most disappointing thing
about this…
December 17, 2008
Peter McGrath, Michael Barton and Mike Haubrich brought my attention to a new book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore. Their previous biography of Darwin is arguably the best (and there are hundreds of Darwin biographies out there, many more to be published next year as well). The new book, Darwin'…
December 17, 2008
Hmmm so it seems that we have to abandon some old cherished beliefs:
Scientists debunk the myth that you lose most heat through your head:
When it comes to wrapping up on a cold winter's day, a cosy hat is obligatory. After all, most of our body heat is lost through our heads - or so we are led to…
December 17, 2008
Oh-oh, Olivia Judson is not up-to-speed on Open Access, Open Science and Science 2.0 stuff - though the article is interesting and thought-provoking:
As a system, it was a little clumsy -- photocopying was a bore, and if I wanted to spend a couple of months writing somewhere other than my office, I…
December 17, 2008
That's interesting:
Croatia currently has over 400,000 users on Facebook and that is more than a 15 percent growth over last month according to our own internal statistics. Facebook tends to be one of the first locations that younger generations turn to for expressing their political frustrations.…
December 17, 2008
This guy is an impostor! He is (or was) a soccer player, but if you google his name, most of the first 100 search hits are not about him at all.... (smile).
December 17, 2008
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A dolphin stampede!
December 17, 2008
There are 13 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 17, 2008
New Species Of Prehistoric Giants Discovered In The Sahara:
Dinosaur hunters on a month-long expedition to the Sahara desert have returned home in time for Christmas with more than they ever dreamed of finding. They have unearthed not one but two possible new species of extinct animals. Their…
December 16, 2008
Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain
- Stuti Garg
December 16, 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 16, 2008
Despite online debates - which one is better: Twitter or FriendFeed, sometimes serious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek - the fact is that these are two different animals altogether. Asking one to make a choice between the two is like asking one to make a choice between e-mail and YouTube - those are two…
December 16, 2008
Are you writing your posts yet? Hurry up, the PLoS ONE Second Birthday Synchroblogging Competition is in two days!
There are also just a couple of days left to vote in the 2008 Edublog Awards, so if you have not done it yet, do it now.
And be patient with us - there are many, many good entries to…
December 16, 2008
Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600:
Archaeological researchers at the University of Groningen have discovered that the aurochs, the predecessor of our present-day cow, lived in the Netherlands for longer than originally assumed. Remains of bones…
December 15, 2008
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
December 15, 2008
There are a bunch of cool new articles in PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases today. Take a look:
The Dirty War Index: Statistical Issues, Feasibility, and Interpretation:
In this issue of PLoS Medicine, Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks and Michael Spagat propose a new…
December 15, 2008
Today's Rocketboom mentions the NCSU symposium on obese zoo animals and links to me:
Cool!
December 15, 2008
The Giant's Shoulders #6 is up on Rigorous Trivialities
The December edition of Oekologie is up on Greg Laden's blog
Carnival of the green #158 is up on The christian environmentalist
December 15, 2008
Pawel tried, for a year, to be a freelance scientist. While the experiment did not work, in a sense that it had to end, he has learned a lot from the experience. And all of us following his experience also learned a lot about the current state of the world. And I do not think this has anything…
December 15, 2008
This guy compiled a list of Top Three Twitter Accounts from a number of different countries. Of course, it is impossible to make such a list perfectly - many people never put their country when registering, others have moved, others have multiple accounts, etc., but nonetheless, it is a nice list…
December 15, 2008
The next Sigma Xi Pizza Lunch -- noon, Wednesday, Dec. 17 -- is a chance to learn more about climate change's expected environmental toll. UNC-Chapel Hill marine biologist and ecologist John Bruno will discuss recent research on links between coral disease outbreaks and warming waters.
The Pizza…
December 15, 2008
Jeff Cohen was one of the people interviewed for this article in Raleigh News & Observer today about the Future of the Internet:
In 2020, powerful mobile phones will rule, privacy will erode further and the line between work and home life will be faint, if not obliterated.
That's what 578…
December 15, 2008
Practice As Well As Sleep May Help Birds Learn New Songs:
Practice as well as sleep may help birds learn new songs. The reorganization of neural activity during sleep helps young songbirds to develop the vocal skills they display while awake, University of Chicago researchers have found.
Snoring Or…
December 14, 2008
I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law I shall meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all of our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have…
December 14, 2008
This is a little tongue-in-cheek, on purpose, but it is also thought-provoking.
Perhaps we are not there yet, but in 5 years it will be completely correct. Power outages are keeping some of the older, analog technologies surviving on the back burner (FM radio, landline phone).
This will also…
December 14, 2008
See here. Love the photo albums...
December 14, 2008
Praxis #5 is up on Effortless Incitement
December 14, 2008
This, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Exploring the ecology of insects, The Descent of the Dinosaurs, Where the Woolly Rhinos Roam: A natural history of Ice Age animals and more at Pulse Project.
December 14, 2008
Molecular and Cell Biology Carnival #4 is up on The Daily Transcript
Gene Genie #41: Carnivalome - is up on ScienceRoll
