clock | February 3, 2008Circus of the Spineless #29: Making A Living is up on Andrea's Buzzing About
clock | February 2, 2008I believe from what I have seen Humboldts glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare union of poetry with science which he so strongly displays when writing on tropical scenery, with all this falls far short of the truth. The delight one experiences in such times bewilders the mind ... The mind is a chaos of delight, out of which a world of future & more quiet pleasure will arise. -- I am at present fit only to read Humboldt; he like another Sun illumines everything I behold.
- Charles R. Darwin,
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clock | February 2, 2008I've heard this one last year (02.16.2007) but heard it again today (it will probably re-air tomorrow - check your local NPR station) - the This American Life episode about Quiz Shows. It was composed of three stories:
The first one is kinda weird - the guy was lucky with questions on the Irish version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, he was shy and this win gave him self-confidence, and he is using the money to live and to help other people.
The third story totally floored me - I hope someone like Zuska or Amanda or Echidne does the analysis of it - it is about a failed quiz show for…
clock | February 2, 2008
Jon Swift and Skippy are reminding us that this weekend is the time for the annual Blogroll Amnesty Day.
The rule is to highlight, link to, and add to one's blogroll, some deserving blogs that have smaller traffic than you. Now, it's sometimes not easy figuring out who has what traffic - if you really like a blog you probably think the traffic there is higher than it is.
Also, I have real trouble picking just a few. Go and check my Blogroll - it's huge! And only a few of them are Big Dawgs. Most are rather smallish blogs. Check them out, at least some of them.
I have been really busy…
clock | February 2, 2008Graham Steel attended the Science Blogging Conference last week - but only virtually! He has been a strong proponent of Open Access, frequent commenter on PLoS ONE articles, a patient advocate and, more recently, a blogger on his own.
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Dear Squadron Leader Zivkovic. Thanks for inviting me to contribute.
I remain a McNative and McResident of Glasgow, Scotland. For the last 20 years, my real life job has been dealing with…
clock | February 1, 2008We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe[s,] to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
- Charles R. Darwin,
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clock | February 1, 2008New Species Of Giant Elephant-shrew Discovered:
When Francesco Rovero first saw the image captured by one of his automatic cameras in a remote Tanzanian forest, he knew he'd never seen anything quite like it. It was the size of a small dog, covered in orange and gray fur, and had a long snout like an elephant. Its markings and general appearance suggested it was a member of the elephant-shrew family, called a sengi in Swahili. Today, the Journal of Zoology reports that Rovero discovered a new species of giant elephant-shrew.
Anne-Marie has more.
Cats' Family Tree Rooted In Fertile Crescent,…
clock | February 1, 2008...to Melissa, Greg, Ed, Mustang Bobby and Rook for linking to my Mom's series of posts this week.
clock | February 1, 2008Carrboro Commons interviews Brian Russell about Carrboro Coworking. As a telecommuter, I am quite likely to participate in this. I'll keep you posted....
clock | February 1, 2008The 79th Skeptic's Circle - Rollin With Teh Lol-ling - is up on Podblack Blog
February 2008 edition of Bio::Blogs is up on Bioinformatics Zen.
Friday Ark #176 is up on Modulator
clock | February 1, 2008Sheril Kirshenbaum took the science blogging world by storm last year when she guest-blogged on The Intersection while Chris Mooney was traveling. When he came back, he had to face the outcries of his commenters, begging him to keep Sheril permanently as a co-blogger, which he gladly accepted. If you attended the Science Blogging Conference last week, you saw Sheril speak at the panel on Framing Science.
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clock | February 1, 2008Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared in the first volume in the series We Survived published by the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade.
It appeared here in five installments starting Monday and going throughout the week at the same time of day. This is the last part. Please ask her questions in the comments. Proceed under the fold:
I don't remember any of us ever being seriously ill. Uncle Vili would treat any minor…
clock | January 31, 2008I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles R. Darwin, The Origin of Species (ch. III)
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clock | January 31, 2008Aetosaurs. No, I have not heard of them until now. But that does not matter - the big story about them today is the possibility - not 100% demonstrated yet, to be fair - that some unethical things surround their discovery and naming. And not just Aetosaurs. Some other fossils as well.
As I am not on the inside loop of the story, you need to first read the background story on Aetosaurs by Darren Naish - Part 1 and Part 2.
Then, carefully read Darren's today's post and responses by Laelaps, Cryptomundo and Paleochick.
For the ethical side of the story, read Janet's take.
For the gory…
clock | January 31, 2008Someone did it.
Get a prize if you correctly identify which one is intelligently designed.
In both cases, the designer was an intelligent.....human. Of course. No media reports yet of bioengineering labs run by chimps, dogs, elephants or dolphins.
clock | January 31, 2008Deepak Singh blogs on business|bytes|genes|molecules and, as the cartoon below testifies, has built for himself quite a reputation as an authority on the questions of Open Access and the future of science communication on the Web. We first met at Scifoo last summer and it was great pleasure to host Deepak here on my home grounds at the Science Blogging Conference last week.
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That's a great question. I am a bit of a nomad…
clock | January 31, 2008Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared in the first volume in the series We Survived published by the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade.
It will appear here in five installments starting Monday and going throughout the week at the same time of day so please come back and you can ask her questions in the comments. Proceed under the fold:
Left: Rea in Osijek, in 1941 or 1942. After she left Djakovo,
this photograph was…