ejohnson | June 17, 2008In this post: the large versions of the Environment and Humanities & Social Science channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week!
Environment. From Flickr, by Jam Adams
Humanities & Social Science. From Flickr, by jcheng
Reader comments of the week:
On the Environment channel, Benjamin Cohen of The World's Fair links to an article in The Gospel of Consumption which describes how our current culture of consumerism was driven by manufacturing giants in the early 20th century. According to the article's authors, such an excessive emphasis on production is…
ejohnson | June 16, 2008In this post: the large versions of the Life Science and Physical Science channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week!
Life Science. From Flickr, by eye of einstein
Physical Science. From Flickr, by iboy_daniel
Reader comments of the week:
In Friday Sprog Blogging: extinction, Janet of Adventures in Ethics and Science relates a conversation between her elder and younger sprogs (ahem, children), in which it is decided that ants should be allowed to remain alive as a species only where anteaters are around to eat them—which does not include the Stemwedel house.…
ejohnson | June 13, 2008
The ScienceBlogs Book Club launched earlier this month with Carl Zimmer's new book, Microcosm. Zimmer is a widely prolific science writer whose articles appear regularly in the New York Times, National Geographic and other publications; he also maintains a blog here on ScienceBlogs, The Loom, on which he muses about recent discoveries in life science. Microcosm is his sixth book. It is an intimate portrait of the E. coli bacteria, a familiar and yet widely misunderstood organism with limitless potential to reveal the secrets of life.
For it's inauguration, the ScienceBlogs Book Club…
ejohnson | June 13, 2008Each week we post a new picture and a choice comment from each of our nine channels here at ScienceBlogs on our channel homepages. Now, we're bringing you the best of the week in daily postings that will highlight individual channels. We've already seen Life Science, Physical Science, Environment, Humanities, Education and Politics and Medicine & Health; below, please find our selections from the Brain & Behavior and Technology channels:
From Flickr, by ul_Marga
From Flickr, by chaosinjune
Reader comments of the week:
On Office noise: Are your homicidal thoughts about your…
ejohnson | June 11, 2008Each week we post a new picture and a choice comment from each of our nine channels here at ScienceBlogs on our channel homepages. Now, we're bringing you the best of the week in daily postings that will highlight individual channels. We've already seen great things from the Life Science, Physical Science, Environment, Humanities, Education and Politics channels; below, please check out what we selected from the Medicine & Health channel:
Spreading awareness. From Flickr, by MastaBaba
Reader comment of the week:
In Socializing promotes survival of new nerve cells & may preserve…
ejohnson | June 10, 2008Each week we post a new picture and a choice comment from each of our nine channels here at ScienceBlogs on our channel homepages. Now, we're bringing you the best of the week in daily postings that will highlight individual channels. We've already seen what the Life Science, Physical Science, Environment and Humanities channels turned up; below, please find our favorite pickings from the Education & Careers and Politics channels:
Education & Careers. From Flickr, by Don Fulano
Reader comment of the week:
On In defense of amateurs, Brian Switek of Laelaps discusses a discouraging…
ejohnson | June 9, 2008Each week we post a new picture and a choice comment from each of our nine channels here at ScienceBlogs on our channel homepages. Now, we're bringing you the best of the week in daily postings that will highlight individual channels. We've already seen what the Life Science and Physical Science channels had to offer; below, please find a few gems from the Environment and Humanities channels:
Environment. Hurricane Kate: from NASA, via pingnews.com on Flickr
Humanities & Social Science. From Flickr, by shioshvili
Reader comments of the week:
In What is the Ecological Footprint of…
ejohnson | June 6, 2008Each week we post a new picture and a choice comment from each of our nine channels here at ScienceBlogs on our channel homepages. Now, we're bringing you the best of the week in daily postings that will highlight individual channels. We kicked it off this week with Life Science; now, please enjoy the photo, comment, and a few particularly outstanding posts from the Physical Science channel below:
A naturally framed view of Arches National Park, Utah. From Flickr, by James Gordon
Reader comment of the week:
In Alien or puppet? You be the judge!, Orac of Respectful Insolence shares a photo…
ejohnson | June 4, 2008Each week we post a new picture and a choice comment from each of our nine channels here at ScienceBlogs on our channel homepages. Now, we're bringing you the best of the week in daily postings that will highlight individual channels. To kick it off, please enjoy the photo, comment, and a few particularly outstanding posts below:
Life Science. From Flickr, by angela7dreams
Reader comment of the week:
In Who needs sex? - Rotifers import genes from fungi, bacteria and plants, Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science reports a new finding that bdelloid rotifers, a peculiar freshwater animal…
ejohnson | May 30, 2008The large versions of this week's channel photos are bigger and better than ever.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science. A male Mandarin duck enjoys a swim. From Flickr, by law_keven
Physical Science. The polished surface of Brazilian eudialyte. From Flickr, by kevinzim
Environment. From Flickr, by…
ejohnson | May 23, 2008The large versions of this week's channel photos are bigger and better than ever.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science. From Flickr, by frozenchipmunk
Physical Science. From Flickr, by tanakawho
Environment. From Flickr, by rappensuncle
Humanities & Social Science. From Flickr, by Ctd 2005…
ejohnson | May 20, 2008Every year at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), over a thousand high school students gather from all around the world to present their original research and to meet other young people with a passion for science. Hundreds of judges volunteer their time as well in order to choose the best of the best from the presentations. This year, ScienceBlogs' own ScienceWoman made the trip to Atlanta to be a judge, though it was hardly her first time attending; not only has she judged before, she actually took the top prize herself when she was in high school, winning a trip to…
ejohnson | May 16, 2008Because we know you've been waiting for them, here are the large versions of this week's channel photos.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science. From Flickr, by badjonni
Physical Science. Quartz crystals trapped in a glittering geode. From Flickr, by seeks2dream
Environment. From Flickr, by Claudia…
ejohnson | May 14, 2008Readers of denialism blog have long enjoyed the Hoofnagle brothers' determined war against the evils of denialism. Their new co-blogger Dr. Peter Lipson, also known as PalMD, joins them in the fight for scientific truth. Page 3.14 interviewed him and discovered, among other things, a fondness for waffles and Homer (the poet, not the Simpson).
What's your name?
Pete Lipson
What do you do when you're not blogging?
I'm an internist, husband, and father. It's probably in that order, but I'd like to change that eventually.
What is your blog called?
I joined up with the Hoofnagle brothers at…
ejohnson | May 9, 2008It's that time of the week again! Here are the large versions of this week's channel photos.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science. From Flickr, by dro!d
Physical Science. From Flickr, by jurvetson
Environment. The glacial waters of Patagonia. From Flickr, by angela7dreams
Humanities & Social…
ejohnson | May 2, 2008To make your Friday that much better, here are the large versions of this week's channel photos.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science. A whale surfaces off the Brazilian coastline. From Flickr, by Amnemona
Physical Science. Upper Antelope Canyon in Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona. From Flickr, by Farol's…
ejohnson | April 29, 2008ScienceBlogs is proud to announce the newest member of our blogging community: ERV is the pseudonym of Abbie Smith, an Oklahoma-based graduate student who was bound for medical school until a summer internship turned her on to the research track. She now studies HIV and its evolution from a molecular and biochemical perspective. She also studies...wait for it...ERVs!
What does ERV stand for? We'll give you a clue- it's not emergency response vehicle, English revised version, or expiratory reserve volume (get your mind out of the gutter).
ERV, in this case, stands for endogenous…
ejohnson | April 25, 2008For your viewing pleasure, here are the large versions of this week's channel photos.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science. From Flickr, by mrhappy
Physical Science. A rusted logging chain. From Flickr, by johndan
Environment. Fragments of smooth sea glass. From Flickr, by Akuppa
Humanities &…
ejohnson | April 23, 2008Thank god. Earth Day 2008 has come and gone and we can go back to leisure drives in our Suburbans and liberal watering of our front lawns. Time to ditch those canvas grocery bags- who thinks that far ahead?- and return to good old plastic. It's not like we're completely undoing all the good we did yesterday for the Earth- those elms we planted will continue to offset our carbon output all year long!
Okay, we kid. Obviously, awareness of environmental issues in any form is positive, and although we'd like to see people change their habits year-round- rather than a day or two in late April-…
ejohnson | April 18, 2008For your viewing pleasure, here are the large versions of this week's channel photos (but don't lose the love for the little ones!).
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science. From Flickr, by Joi
Physical Science. The polished surface of malachite. From Flickr, by kevinzim
Environment. A dry lake bed in…