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March 17, 2007
Ireland have agonizingly missed out on winning the Six Nations 2007 despite beating Italy 51-24 in Rome. Ireland's win meant that France faced Scotland knowing they had to win by a margin of 24 points or more. The French did what they had to, winning by 46-19 thanks to a last-gasp try.
March 16, 2007
March 17th
1764 - Death of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
1780 - Birth of Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist
1782 - Death of Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician
1834 - Birth of Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor…
March 15, 2007
March 16th
1750 - Birth of Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer
1789 - Birth of Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist
1794 - Birth of Ami Boué, Austrian geologist
1859 - Birth of Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist
1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister…
March 15, 2007
This beauty is a Bornean clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi ), a new species native to Borneo and Sumatra.
For many years the clouded leopard was traditionally regarded as a monotypic genus with four subspecies. But recent molecular genetic analyses (mtDNA, nuclear DNA sequences, microsatellite…
March 15, 2007
March 15th
1713 - Birth of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer
1813 - Birth of John Snow, English physician
1854 - Birth of Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate
1890 - Birth of Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician
1898 - Death of Henry Bessemer, English…
March 13, 2007
March 14th
1835 - Birth of Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer
1854 - Birth of Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1879 - Birth of Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1882 - Birth of Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician
1995 - Death of William…
March 13, 2007
Mike Dunford responds to a pedophile ("Sam") that has appeared at Shelley's blog - an idiot who compares the treatment of pedophiles to the treatment of Jews and African-Americans and feels that "[p]edophilia needs no endorsement, it is a beautiful and natural part of the world's culture." Mike…
March 12, 2007
March 13th
1720 - Birth of Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer
1733 - Birth of Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1781 - Charles Messier publishes final catalog of Messier objects.
1781 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovers tungsten.
1784…
March 12, 2007
Image of Io taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons at 11:04 Universal Time on February 28, 2007. The picture shows the enormous 290-kilometer (180-mile) high plume from the volcano Tvashtar. See here for more details.
March 12, 2007
March 12th
1824 - Birth of Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist
1838 - Birth of William Perkin, English chemist
1863 - Birth of Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist
1907 - Birth of Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer
1925 - Birth of Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
1991 - Death of…
March 11, 2007
Once again, my sheep-like characteristics manifest themselves and I find myself dutifully following Orac, PZ, Bora, Joseph, John, Rob,
and Afarensis in listing (in bold) those of the "Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years" that I have read.
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R.…
March 10, 2007
March 11th
1811 - Birth of Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician
1822 - Birth of Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician
1870 - Birth of Louis Bachelier, French mathematician
1880 - Birth of Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist
1910 - Birth of Robert Havemann, German chemist
1920…
March 10, 2007
Egnorance: The egotistical combination of ignorance and arrogance. First coined by Burt Humburg Reed Cartwright to describe Michael Egnor, neurosurgeon, ID-flak, and no-nothing (at least when it comes to biology).
March 10, 2007
Ireland won its third Triple Crown in four years with a 19-18 victory over Scotland and Murrayfield. No further comment.
March 9, 2007
March 10th
1585 - Death of Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist
1628 - Birth of Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
1670 - Death of Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist
1709 - Birth of Georg Steller, German naturalist
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone…
March 9, 2007
March 9th
1564 - Birth of David Fabricius, German astronomer
1758 - Birth of Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist
1851 - Death of Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist
1900 - Birth of Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer
1923 - Birth of Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of…
March 8, 2007
Ode to a Trilobite
Timothy A. Conrad (1840)
Thou large-eyed mummy of the ancient rocks,
The Niobe of ocean, couldst thou tell
Of thine own times, and of the earthquake shocks
Which tore the ocean-bed where thou didst dwell;
What dream of wild Romance would then compare
With the strange truths thy…
March 8, 2007
As it turns out, today is Myers' fiftieth birthday. Posting a squid would appear to be appropriate, and Dawkins raised the bar by writing him a poem. Being untalented, I'd rather link to one of my favorite posts by PZ, "The proper reverence due those who have gone before". Enjoy ... and happy…
March 8, 2007
Featuring Kent Hovind.
Update: Ah, only now I see that PZ posted this yesterday.
March 8, 2007
March 8th
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1712 - Birth of John Fothergill, English physician
1886 - Birth of Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1914 - Birth of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian…
March 7, 2007
Apparently, an unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without "In God We Trust." Seems like a good development.
March 7, 2007
March 7th
1625 - Death of Johann Bayer, German astronomer
1788 - Birth of Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist
1792 - Birth of John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer
1837 - Birth of Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer
1857 - Birth of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian…
March 6, 2007
A large-billed reed-warbler (Acrocephalus orinus), one of the world's least known birds, is seen in this photo released by Birdlife International. A wetland bird that has eluded scientists for nearly 130 years, it has been rediscovered at a wastewater treatment plant in Thailand. More details here,
March 6, 2007
Back in July I reported on the "ID Arts Initiative" - an attempt by Access Research Network to establish the relevance of their particular brand of creationism to the fine arts. Well now they have a website and a blog featuring some fairly horrific poetry. Witness "GIGANTOPITHECUS, WE HARDLY KNEW…
March 6, 2007
Four new species of Loricariid catfish have been described from the upper RÃo Orinoco of southern Venezuela: (A) Hypancistrus inspector, (B) H.
lunaorum, (C) H. furunculus, and (D) H.
debilittera, Full details are in Armbruster et al. (2007) "Four New Hypancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)…
March 6, 2007
March 6th
1787 - Birth of Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist
1866 - Death of William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science
1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and…
March 5, 2007
I really have to stop paying attention to Ann Coulter, but this quote that Steve highlights just shows her as the ignorant troll she really is:
Professors are the most cosseted, pussified, subsidized group of people in the U.S. workforce. They have concocted a system to preemptively protect…