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October 28, 2008
2009 ASU-MBL History of Biology Seminar: Theory in the Life Sciences
May 20-27
Application Deadline: January 15, 2009
The MBL-ASU History of Biology Seminar is an intensive week with annually varying topics designed for a group of no more than 25 advanced graduate students, postdoctoral associates…
October 27, 2008
Mountain or Pale Weasel, Mustela altaica Pallas 1811
Click for bigger, clearer version of this little beauty!
October 23, 2008
On Monday, we'll begin the final lap of the Monday Mustelid, namely the 18 members of the genus Mustela. So it seems apt to post what is probably the most famous image of a mustelid, Leonardo Da Vinci's "Lady with the Ermine" (1482-'83). You can read more about the portrait here.
This is by way of…
October 19, 2008
Marbled polecat, Vormela peregusna Güldenstädt 1770
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Seriously, who wouldn't love this little guy?
October 17, 2008
Two-week-old Black footed ferret pup (Mustela nigripes).
Those Bleiman Brothers have done it again and given us ZooBorns. Too cute for words.
October 12, 2008
African Striped Weasel, Poecilogale albinucha Gray 1864
(Apologies for the quality of the picture)
October 8, 2008
I'm currently sitting in a hotel room in Indianapolis. Tomorrow I will be attending a two-day Liberty Fund seminar on "Liberty in the Scientific Enlightenment," a discussion using E.O. Wilson's Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge as a jumping off point. Other attendees (there are 15 in total)…
October 5, 2008
American mink Neovison vison Schreber 1777
(Formerly Mustela vison)
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October 4, 2008
I'm going to take a break from this blogging thing for a while. The past few months have been sufficiently crazy (blame a new lecture course, some deadlines, and a general malaise) to prevent me keeping abreast of anything worth writing about. I'll continue posting the Monday Mustelid every week,…
September 29, 2008
Over at Uncommon Descent, "DaveScot" has attempted to make the case that "public interest in global warming evaporates". By his own measure, public interest in ID barely exists.
September 17, 2008
"I feel like [Obama] is an elitist" says a blue-collar single mom who supported Hillary Clinton and has now decided to support McCain.
Just joking!
The statement was made by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CEO of EL Rothschild and wife of international banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, whom happens to…
September 16, 2008
Catholic News Service reports:
Speakers invited to attend a Vatican-sponsored congress on the evolution debate will not include proponents of creationism and intelligent design, organizers said.
The Pontifical Council for Culture, Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of Notre…
September 9, 2008
Following on from the last food meme, Janet gives us 100 vegetarian dishes to try. As there is nothing vegetarian I won't try, I'l just bold those I have tried and pass this along. As usual, comments are welcome.
1. Real macaroni and cheese, made from scratch and baked 2. Tabouleh 3. Freshly…
September 8, 2008
Want to win a trip for two to New York? Airfare with four nights in a four star hotel? Behind the scenes tours of science sites? And dinner with your favorite ScienceBlogger (who shall remain nameless)? Of course you do. Details are here, but all you need to do is leave a comment using a valid…
September 7, 2008
Yes, it's Sarah Palin. And it has nothing to do with creationism. Read more here.
September 7, 2008
Back in 2006 I briefly discussed sociologist Rodney Stark's book, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (Random, 2005). Now over at Evolving Thoughts, John provides a guest post by Thony Christie that discusses Stark's claims about the history of…
September 7, 2008
Male Flame Skimmer, Libella saturata (source)
We had one of these sit on an agave in our back yard for about three hours yesterday afternoon. Beautiful looking creatures.
Last seven days were busy here. New classes to prepare and other stuff left little time for blogging and suchlike. Don't know…
August 31, 2008
Cindy McCain on Palin's experience:
And, also, remember, Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So it's not as if she doesn't understand what's at stake here.
Seriously.
August 30, 2008
Sheril has just announced that Barak Obama has answered fourteen questions posed by the Science Debate 2008 team. I haven't had a chance to read his responses yet, so wander on over yourself to see what he has to say.
August 29, 2008
We had quite the storm here in the Valley on Thursday. Wind gusts up to 100 mph. Lots of rain. And more than 1,500 lightning strikes in a single hour.
Round about 7pm we could see the lightning to the east of us here in Tempe and it was still going on around 2am. It was the most amazing lightning…
August 29, 2008
On August 10th, Karl Rove had the following to say about Tim Kaine who he wrongly assumed was to be Obama's choice for VP:
With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's been able but undistinguished. I don't think people could really name a big, important…
August 29, 2008
The more I think about Obama's speech last night, the more I like it. As for Sarah Palin, I have little to add to what my stablemates have to say. That is all.
August 26, 2008
Via Cocktail Party Physics, a list of popular science books. Rules are simple: Bold those you've read in full, asterisk those you intend to read, add any additional popular science books you think belong on the list (I'll try and do that next weekend, class prep allowing), and link back to Jennifer…
August 25, 2008
Seen on I-494 heading out of Minneapolis St-Paul Airport.
Sweet!
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