Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. clock
  2. Biscuit

Biscuit

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
Profile picture for user clock
By clock on August 27, 2008.
Tags
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • American Heart Association: Thank Ozempic For Less Type 2 DIabetes
  • Your Predator: Badlands Future - Optical Camouflage, Now Made By Bacteria
  • Europe Rations Air Conditioning But The US Has Made A Map To Help People Optimize It
  • November First
  • Drugs, Crime, And… Homelessness?

Science Codex

More by this author

New URL for this blog
July 5, 2011
Earlier this morning, I have moved my blog over to the Scientific American site - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/. Follow me there (as well as the rest of the people on the new Scientific American blog network
New URL/feed for A Blog Around The Clock
July 26, 2010
This blog can now be found at http://blog.coturnix.org and the feed is http://blog.coturnix.org/feed/. Please adjust your bookmarks/subscriptions if you are interested in following me off-network.
A Farewell to Scienceblogs: the Changing Science Blogging Ecosystem
July 19, 2010
It is with great regret that I am writing this. Scienceblogs.com has been a big part of my life for four years now and it is hard to say good bye. Everything that follows is my own personal thinking and may not apply to other people, including other bloggers on this platform. The new contact…
Open Laboratory 2010 - submissions so far
July 19, 2010
The list is growing fast - check the submissions to date and get inspired to submit something of your own - an essay, a poem, a cartoon or original art. The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions…
Clock Quotes
July 18, 2010
At bottom every man know well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

More reads

What about those tornadoes?
Are there more tornadoes because of global warming? Are they stronger? Do they occur more frequently outside of the usual tornado season, or are they more common in areas that formerly had few tornadoes? There are problems with all of these questions, and the main problem is the fact that the tornado data isn't very informative. Here's the raw data from the NOAA tornado database, showing the…
Vintage children's book bonanza: the Children's Digital Library
The Cheerful Cricket and Others (1907) Children's Digital Library The Children's Digital Library doesn't have a sleek interface and it can be a bit hiccupy, but if you poke around you'll find a surprising number of vintage children's books like The Cheerful Cricket and Others (1907) or The Illustrated Alphabet of Birds (1851). Best of all, several of the Oz books illustrated by John R. Neill are…
Breaking the Standard Model is Really, Really Hard!
“Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more” -Lord Alfred Tennyson Ahh, the Standard Model of elementary particles and their interactions. It's right up there with General Relativity -- our theory of gravitation in the Universe -- as the most successful physical theory of all-time. Image credit: DoE, NSF, LBNL, and CPEP, via http://www.cpepphysics.org/.…

© 2006-2025 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.