July 12, 2010
... in Kruger Park. Waterbuck have a neat adaptation: Nasty tasting subcutaneous fat. It is said that lions and leopards avoid them for this reason. I assure you, however, that they do not avoid them totally. In fact, I'm not sure if it works at all. They seem to be hunted in reasonably close…
July 12, 2010
have decided not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the US to face sentencing for a case dating back to 1977.
from the BBC
July 12, 2010
And an interesting animation of the spill so far:
July 11, 2010
Sixty-four people were killed by two bombs set off at World Cup related events. Roughly the same number again were injured. The Somali group al-Shabab is suspected. One American is among the dead, and three American missionaries were wounded.
The BBC has details.
July 11, 2010
This is Lutetia, as photographed by the European Space Agency's Rosetta Probe. Details.
July 11, 2010
... Or not .
And if not, and if this keeps going for, say, a total of one year, this is what we can expect:
That animation is from the University of HawaiÊ»i at MÄnoa.
The possible spread of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig over the course of one year was studied in a series of…
July 11, 2010
Apparently, it's all about creating memories.
July 11, 2010
In which I suggest a way that Pepsigate could have been different.
I think PepsiCo's research scientists have something to say that I want to listen to. So do the scientists at Coke. And Cargill. The reason I think this is that some of my own research involves diet and nutrition, and I assume…
July 10, 2010
ScienceBlogs.com Deals With Community Backlash Over PepsiCo Column
July 10, 2010
When I injured my knee last February, it became apparent that I would not be able to fly to my BIL's wedding in DC. So.....
... we called Delta Airline and asked if it was possible to get the ticket refunded or something. This was many weeks before the wedding itself.
A Delta employee, over the…
July 10, 2010
We took a walk today along the east side of the Mississippi River just down stream from Coon Rapids Dam. The park here invested about ten years ago in a major prairie restoration project which has been paying off big time in recent years. The following is a sampling of the scenery, mainly focusing…
July 10, 2010
There were two of them, flying together, and they seemed to be going fast.
July 10, 2010
One of those good grazing spots, attracting white rhino, various antelopes, wart hogs, and birds.
July 10, 2010
One of those really cool and useful "evolution stories" gets verified and illuminated by actual research. And blogging!
An oystercatcher is a wading bird of the family Haematopodidae, distributed in one genus, Haematopus. As is the case with many coast loving birds, there has been confusion…
July 10, 2010
Bwahahahah!!! The true purpose of blogging? No... from Ed, a compilation of the best/worst movie insults evah!
July 9, 2010
The trial started on July 10th, 1925. It ended on July 21st of the same year. Evolution lost. That time. Subsequently, Evolution won most of the trials.
July 9, 2010
When and where will the next manhole explosion be? Bonus question: Why are manholes (or is that menhole?) round?
Why is a Black hole emitting a giant gas bubble 1000 light-years wide? Bonus question: How can anything in a vacuum be called a "bubble"?
July 9, 2010
Basks in wadi, Augrabies National Park, South Africa. Warning, image (below the fold) is a bit large.
July 9, 2010
And we're talking about bigots and creationists in Alberta, which I figure is more or less the Canadian equivalent of Texas .... the dumbest province in the Great White North.
Starting this coming school year, parents will be able to "opt" their children "out" of certain lessons, such as those…
July 9, 2010
Is Microsoft Losing its Grip on the Young Developers? Check out this interesting post by LIE. It's the truth.
Check out the BGR Plant Carnival here.
And the Carnival of Cinema is here.
July 9, 2010
The highly untrustworty rag News Max is reporting:
In the wake of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's lashing out against the war in Afghanistan, CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Bill Plante is reporting a buzz in the GOP inner sanctum that Sarah Palin should replace…
July 9, 2010
As promised ...
William the Blogger of YNH fame should seriously consider starting a new blog (after a suitable rest period in a witness protection program).
One reason is just because everyone should blog. But the other reason is for his own good. I can't imagine how someone could carry out this…
July 9, 2010
It's called "Science is Culture" and it is run by Adam Bly, who ...
.... founded Seed out of a biochem lab in Montreal, where he studied cell adhesion and cancer. He now lives in New York and is the CEO of Seed Media Group.
Go say hey to Adam.
July 9, 2010
Well, it is. But the Proton "got smaller" just now. And, by "got smaller" I mean that the accepted measurement of the proton has been adjusted slightly. The new measurement for the proton's diameter is about 0.00000000000003 mm (0.03 femtometers less than it was before. This is important:
"It'…
July 8, 2010
... As promised ...
Chris Mooney is about to explain to just posted a detailed explanation (which I have not read yet) of his interaction with the famous William the Blogger of YNH, posed as "Tom Johnson." He's posted Part One of an explanation of this infamous maneno, and we await Part II.…
July 8, 2010
On Skeptically Speaking:
We talk to researcher Dr. Kathleen Taylor, the author of Cruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain. Has the human brain evolved the capacity for evil? We'll examine cruelty as a scientific phenomenon, using the latest research from psychology and neuroscience.
Friday. Click…
July 8, 2010
Since its inception, the Huffington Post's business model has been one based on providing decent political reporting and serving as a liberal news aggregate of content assembled from around the internet.
But in addition to its main news page, it has also built its success on the idea that it will…
July 8, 2010
eTown is a music and community-building radio show broadcast on a number of stations across the US. Well, it's not all music. They do a wide variety of things, including a kind of pickup-game with well known artists and not so well known, but very talented, musicians.
etown's stated mission is…
