October 7, 2009
is HERE.
There's no way this is up to number 77 already. I don't believe that.
October 7, 2009
Have you arrived to read this post because you don't like the sound of the title? Does it piss you off? Good.
A repost from last election season.
Listen. When I was a child, in Catholic School, I was told (by the nuns, older kids in school, and some other adults) not to trust the Jews. It was…
October 7, 2009
A new investigation of the sedimentology and ichnology of the Early Jurassic Moyeni tracksite in Lesotho, southern Africa has yielded new insights into the behavior and locomotor dynamics of early dinosaurs.
The tracksite is a pont bar in an old river that had a lot of variation in slope and the…
October 7, 2009
Tiny little cameras were attached to albatross as they flew around over the open ocean hunting. This is important because it is really hard to study albatross at open sea, and virtually impossible to follow individuals one might like to track from, say, a nesting grounds out many miles (they fly…
October 7, 2009
Pursuant to the recent discussion on the safety of carrying guns, I thought I'd throw this on the table:
According to this web page there are numerous studies demonstrating that increased firearms carrying decreases crime. The argument is being made that armed students will generally stop an…
October 7, 2009
This is for all your nascent researchers about to head off to remote places to engage in your very first fieldwork, and for all you eco-tourists or educational travelers about to embark on a trip through strange lands afar.
A Repost
When I was preparing to start my graduate research in Africa, I…
October 6, 2009
Because they won 6 to 5 in the 12th inning, and are thus the American League Central Division Champions.
October 6, 2009
You read about it here ... now you can see the music video version:
I think those guys might be related or something.
October 6, 2009
Do these look similar to you?
According to Apple corp, th e one on the left may be too similar to the one on the right.
The other day Julia and I went to a coffee shop together to work on our stuff. When she opened her laptop I was shocked to see the Apple Logo on it! I thought she was still…
October 6, 2009
Early Friday Morning, plus/minus one half a day depending on where in the world you are, two alien space craft are going to crash into the moon. It will be visible from earth with a small telescope.
Read about it here!
October 6, 2009
The Carnival of Muse on Everything is HERE.
The Carnival of the Vanities is HERE.
The Current Blogger Bio Blitz is HERE.
October 6, 2009
I've always had a fondness in my heart for cycads.
Encephalartos princeps
Years ago, while working in the Ituri Forest (in what is now the Congo), I kept hearing of a particular place in the forest, where the Efe Pygmies would occasionally but not often go for various reasons. Over time I…
October 6, 2009
The course of the biotic recovery after the impact-related disruption of photosynthesis and mass extinction event at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary has been intensely debated. The resurgence of marine primary production in the aftermath remains poorly constrained because of the paucity of…
October 6, 2009
Welcome to Bizzaro Land, computer users.
Since June 26, retailers and computer manufacturers have urged shoppers to buy computers already on store shelves loaded with the much-maligned Windows Vista operating system because they would qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it was released in…
October 6, 2009
This is a site I pointed out to you about a year ago, but it is worth another visit.
October 6, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The debate over Darwin will come to California on October 25th, when the Smithsonian Institution's west coast affiliate premieres Darwin's Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record, a new intelligent design film which challenges Darwinian…
October 6, 2009
Monty Python's Flying Circus is 40.
The show, which was written and acted by John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, first aired on October 5, 1969 and ran for a total of 45 episodes.
I know I know it was yesterday, but I just heard.
Details here.
October 6, 2009
An important finding was reported last week in the same issue of Science as the new studies of Ardipithecus, and unfortunately, overshadowed by the news of the 4-million-year-old hominid. This finding may turn out to be even more important because it relates not to the evolution of a single…
October 5, 2009
...male and female cattle (including the many wild versions such as the African Cape Buffalo) and wildebeest (a kind of antelope) have horns, while in most other bovids only the males have horns. Both male and female caribou (a kind of deer) grow antlers each year, while in most other deer only the…
October 5, 2009
Aggressive African bees were accidentally released in Brazil in 1957. As "killer bees" spread northward, David Roubik, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, began a 17-year study that revealed that Africanized bees caused less damage to native bees than changes in the…
October 5, 2009
For today's Linux Hint: How to pick which browser will open when you pick a link while using apine in Ubuntu.
Sometimes there is a URL in an email that you want to visit. In a GUI email brower, you click on it with the mouse. In apine you navigate to the link with the usual navigation keys (but…
October 5, 2009
Don't miss it! October 6th, on a PBS station near you.
NOVA and National Geographic Television present the extraordinary human drama that led to the birth of the most influential scientific theory of all time. Acclaimed screenwriter John Goldsmith (David Copperfield, Victoria and Albert) brings…
October 5, 2009
First there was the question of Goldilocks, a Very Cold Winter Night, And a Strange Sense of Empty-ness. Then, there was The Mystery of The Returned Outboard Motor. Which turned into The Mystery of the Missing Boat Motor Deepens. Then there was the complexification described in What makes a…
October 5, 2009
hat tip: Rebecca
October 4, 2009
This idea has been knocking around for a a few days, and is regularly discussed by David Dobbs at his blog. This concerns me quite a bit, as my wife is 8 months pregnant, flu is a very serious risk for pregnant women and their babies, she teaches in a high school, and got her seasonal flu shot…
October 4, 2009
Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a fundraiser in November for controversial ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide (YCRBYCH).
Based in Annandale, Minn., the group has made a name for itself as an anti-drug Christian punk rock band that organizes motivational student assemblies to bring…
October 4, 2009
Better send in Kissinger....
I really want to know what was said during that missing ten seconds...
October 4, 2009
Fear has been a subject of discussion around here lately. Pursuant to that, Stephanie Zvan has an interesting piece on it here at Quiche Moraine.
This is in part a follow-up on the Bomb Swarm in Princeton, Minnesota, which is starting to look more and more like what I said it was. A homecoming…
