clock | February 13, 2008I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 13, 2008Mythbusting Canadian Healthcare, Part II: Debunking the Free Marketeers by Sara Robinson
Scientific Careerism 101: Yes, grad students and postdocs it IS your fault by DrugMonkey
The project of being a grown-up scientist (part 2) by Janet D. Stemwedel
The Well Dressed Professor... by Thomas Levenson
Your massive credit card debt means you're doing great! by Amanda Marcotte
Barack Obama's Achilles Heel by Jon Swift
The Cult of Obama by Sara Robinson
clock | February 13, 2008Thousands Of Humans Inhabited New World's Doorstep For 20,000 Years:
The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000 -year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait. Furthermore, the New World was colonized by approximately 1,000 to 5,000 people - a substantially higher number than the 100 or fewer individuals of previous estimates.
New Technique Makes Tissues Transparent:
If humans had see-through skin like a jellyfish, spotting disease like cancer would be a snap: Just look, and see a tumor form…
clock | February 13, 2008The 34th edition of Four Stone Hearth is up on Our Cultural World
The 58th Carnival of the Liberals is up on Liberal England
The 111th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on The Voice of Experience
clock | February 13, 2008Jennifer Jacquet is the Blog-mistress of Shifting Baselines, where you will get disemvowelled if you eat Chilean Sea Bass in the comments. Especially if you smack your lips while eating. At the Science Blogging Conference three weeks ago, Jennifer spoke on the panel on Changing Minds through Science Communication: a panel on Framing Science
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clock | February 13, 2008Yes, that time has come....Going it alone in 2006 was far too much work for one person. Reed Cartwright was the first guest editor in 2007 and this was a perfect solution. So, going on into the new year and new victories, it is now time to announce the Editor of the Open Laboratory 2008. Drumroll....
The anthology editor for this year will be Jennifer Rohn!!!
Jennifer is a post-doc in cell biology at University College London, she blogs at Mind The Gap and is the Editor of LabLit.com.
Stay tuned for more book-related news soon. The new submission form will be available very soon as well…
clock | February 13, 2008After a brief winter break, the lovely neuroscience carnival Encephalon is back under the new management. Submit your posts and volunteer to host. I just hosted one recently and am too busy right now, but if you can, contact Alvaro and sign up for hosting.
clock | February 13, 2008Our Seed Overlords need to know more about our readers. Please do a quick survey and put your name in the hat to win an iPod.
clock | February 13, 2008Karl Mogel interviews Neil Shubin. Paleontology makes testable predictions, with cool results.
clock | February 12, 2008Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 12, 2008There are 43 new articles in PLoS ONE this week, and these I find most interesting at first glance - you look around, comment, rate, annotate, send tracbacks....
A Three-Stage Colonization Model for the Peopling of the Americas:
We evaluate the process by which the Americas were originally colonized and propose a three-stage model that integrates current genetic, archaeological, geological, and paleoecological data. Specifically, we analyze mitochondrial and nuclear genetic data by using complementary coalescent models of demographic history and incorporating non-genetic data to enhance the…
clock | February 12, 2008Burgermares and Coffeebots
Sigma Xi Water blog
Sigma Xi's Science Blog
Talking pictures
Stephen Bodio's Querencia
Vocino.com
clock | February 12, 2008As a part of the Darwin Day celebration the North Carolina Botanical Garden has organized a series of events for today, culminating in the lecture "Darwin the Botanist" by Dr.William Kimler, a Darwinian scholar and the professor of History (of Science) at NCSU:
Most people do not think of Charles Darwin as a botanist. He is famously connected to the animals of the Galapagos Islands, and to the subjects of animal and human evolution and behavior. But Darwin's famous curiosity did extend to plants. In fact, among his numerous publications are a book on carnivorous plants and one on orchid…
clock | February 12, 2008Laelaps was a dog in Greek mythology that always caught its prey and was turned into stone (by Zeus himself!) while hunting the Teumessian fox that could never be caught. Lealaps is also a defunct name for a carnivorous dinosaur. Laelaps is also a mite that parasitizes rats. And Laelaps is the name of a fascinating blog, written by Brian Switek. You can think deep thoughts about the meaning of his blog's name later. At the Science Blogging Conference three weeks ago, Brian participated on the Student blogging panel--from K to PhD.
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clock | February 12, 2008In today's NYTimes: At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web:
Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs.
Although the outcome of Tuesday's vote would apply only to Harvard's arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university's prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at…
clock | February 12, 2008Sheril and Chris have announced that the invitations to the remaining Presidential candidates for the Science Debate 2008 have been sent. The date is April 18th, 2008, just 4 days before the Pennsylvania primary (the last big primary that may decide the nominees unless something really weird happens before). The location - Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
Read the press release, read the actual text of the invitation and check The Intersection to see how you can help make this actually happen (ignore the Ron Paul idiots in the comments there).
clock | February 11, 2008
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
- Charles R. Darwin, the closing paragraph of the Origin Of Species, 1st edition, 1859.
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clock | February 11, 2008The Evolution of Norovirus, the 'Gastric Flu' and Mechanisms of GII.4 Norovirus Persistence in Human Populations:
Noroviruses are the leading cause of viral acute gastroenteritis in humans, noted for causing epidemic outbreaks in communities, the military, cruise ships, hospitals, and assisted living communities. The evolutionary mechanisms governing the persistence and emergence of new norovirus strains in human populations are unknown. Primarily organized by sequence homology into two major human genogroups defined by multiple genoclusters, the majority of norovirus outbreaks are caused by…
clock | February 11, 2008Fast Learning Bumblebees Reap Greater Nectar Rewards:
The speed with which bees learn affects their ability to collect food from flowers, according to a new study from Queen Mary, University of London. As nectar levels in flowers change from minute-to-minute, faster learning bees are more likely to keep track of which blooms are most rewarding, and thrive as a result.
Living On 'The Red Edge': Rare Form Of Chlorophyll Discovered In Newly Sequenced Bacterium:
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Arizona State University have sequenced the genome of a rare bacterium that…
clock | February 11, 2008When you hear SciBlings mention "our Seed Overlords", they are talking about Ginny, our new Commander-in-Chief and Royal Cat-herder. At the Science Blogging Conference three weeks ago, she herded (almost) 20 of us in Real Life to take the famous group photo.
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I'm Ginny, a 20-something NYC science writer, low-traffic blogger, and the new Community Manager at ScienceBlogs. I did neuroscience research in college, decided--…