January 23, 2008
In a preview of his next book, Steven Pinker takes on violence. We live in violent times, an era of heightened warfare, genocide and senseless crime. Or so we've come to believe. Pinker charts a history of violence from Biblical times through the present, and says modern society has a little less…
January 23, 2008
So far no reliable reports seem to be available of a new and potentially interesting, but not necessarily earth-shattering, find in China.
China finds 100,000-year-old human skull: report from PhysOrg.com
An almost complete human skull dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years has been unearthed in…
January 23, 2008
This was one of many questions debated at the Second Annual Scientific Blogging Conference in North Carolina this weekend which I attended together with over 200 other folks who work in scientific communication.
When I told my friends I was going to North Carolina this weekend to attend a blogging…
January 23, 2008
For the geeks only: An overview of D, a programming language that gloms C and C++.
Here.
January 23, 2008
Check out Tangled Up in Blue Guy's LOL creationist school board yahoo, here.
January 23, 2008
The end-Permian mass extinction event was the big daddy of all the known mass extinction events. Life on the planet Earth was almost entirely wiped out. A new paper explores the post-extinction recovery of ecological systems.
Post extinction dynamics can be understood in relation to several…
January 23, 2008
Ebola is a nasty virus that causes an often fatal hemorrhagic fever. It crops up most of the time in The Congo (nee Zaire) but there have been significant outbreaks and isolated cases in The Sudan and South Africa. It is very virulent, passed on via bodily fluids. There may be a cure on the…
January 23, 2008
[Hat Tip: PZ Myers]
Might as well watch this one too:
January 23, 2008
Careful scanning of recent Mars rover imagery shows a sentient being. The best explanation for this is that the sentient being or beings have been following around the Spirit Rover for some time, always ducking behind a rock when the cameras swung their way. But this photograph shows a sentient…
January 22, 2008
Marine biologist Tierney Thys asks the audience to step into the open ocean, for a visit to the world of the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish. Basking, eating jellyfish, and getting massages, this behemoth offers clues to life in the open ocean -- which accounts for 90 percent of the living space…
January 22, 2008
Pilobolus dance company members Otis Cook and Jennifer Macavinta perform the sensuous duet "Symbiosis." Does it trace the birth of a human relationship, or the co-evolution of a pair of symbiotic species? That's left for you to decide. Gorgeous, organic choreography blurs the boundaries between the…
January 22, 2008
You are going to be hearing a lot more about Darwin in the month of February, which is Darwin Month here on The Internet. (It is also Creationist Home Schooling Science Fair month, so hang on to your mice and keyboards!!!!) I have a Darwin plan of my own that you will be learning of soon enough.…
January 22, 2008
The narration is annoying, but it is a good example of fieldwork (with ants)
January 21, 2008
Holy crap! The Age of The Machines is nigh: a bunch of scientists in Switzerland have created learning robots that can lie to each other. Okay, so they don't swill beer or put bends in girders--they just communicate to each other with benign flashing lights, thank goodness, instead of using lasers…
January 21, 2008
The Blog Carnival ... is HERE at biomarker-driven mental health 2.0
January 21, 2008
For your amusement, a selection from the public comments on the fight over science standards in Florida.
"How is anyone's life improved by believing in evolution?"
"I will not allow you to teach my child this no matter what you put in your curriculum. I stand for Christ and his creation."
"To…
January 21, 2008
Jan 21
Lenin died, 1924
Jan 21
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
Jan 21
Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic
Jan 21*
Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia (3rd Monday)
Jan 21*
Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (3rd Monday)
Jan 21*
Martin…
January 21, 2008
The CIA on Friday admitted that cyberattacks have caused at least one power outage affecting multiple cities outside the United States.
Interesting...
Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, said that CIA senior analyst Tom Donahue confirmed that online attackers had caused at…
January 21, 2008
Don' t drive drunk. Don't let this happen to you!
Hat tip: This guy.
January 21, 2008
Berry Go Round is a new web carnival. It is ...
A plant's Carnival, to be hosted at Seedsaside by the end of january 2008. Please submit your best posts before the 25th of January. Send contributions to seedsaside[at]gmail.com...
January 21, 2008
Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. The project, known as Palimpsest and first previewed to…
January 21, 2008
Check out this picture of the Internet! Can you find yourself? I think I see my house!!!
January 21, 2008
There is a new blog you should know about. It's called "The Worst of Scienceblogs.com" and it contains, so far, only three posts (so maybe we are not so bad after all). I thank Terra Sigillata, one of WOS's victims, for pointing this out.
Note, by the way, that the self-described curmudgeonly…
January 21, 2008
Is chimpanzee food sharing an example of food for sex?
One of the most important transitions in human evolution may have been the incorporation of regular food sharing into the day to day ecology of our species or our ancestors. Although this has been recognized as potentially significant for…
January 20, 2008
Educational on line learning: Math. Have your copy book ready:
