clock | March 5, 2007Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- Tennessee Williams
clock | March 5, 2007Via Pam and Melissa, from Nation, the CPAC: The Unauthorized Documentary - must-see video showing what conservatism is:
clock | March 5, 2007And you don't even have to believe in dinosaurs to share their fate.
From here. And the preceeding paragraph? Another great quote:
"You know how taking so long to end slavery is a shameful part of our history, and how long it took us to give the vote to women is a shameful part of our history? Well, I think in 20 years, we're going to think that denying marriage to gays for so long is one of the great shames of our nation, too." That's from a teenager in Redneckville. She's our future--and Donohue, LaBarbera, and company are just desperate dinosaurs.
clock | March 5, 2007We had to wait on Saturday until the Moon rose above the trees and the houses, by which time the eclipse was half over, but my daughter managed to take a few pictures anyway and this one turned out the best:
clock | March 5, 2007Scientist Discovers New Horned Dinosaur Genus:
A scientist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has announced the discovery of a new horned dinosaur, named Albertaceratops nesmoi, approximately 20 feet long and weighing nearly one half ton, or the weight of a pickup truck. The newly identified plant-eating dinosaur lived nearly 78 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now southernmost Alberta, Canada. Its identification marks the discovery of a new genus and species and sheds exciting new light on the evolutionary history of the Ceratopsidae dinosaur family.…
clock | March 4, 2007I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
clock | March 4, 2007I am glad to see that I am not the only one who keeps growing my Blogroll instead of purging it - Mike, PZ, skippy and Jon Swift are doing it as well. Here are additions for today:
Small Things Considered
The Divine Afflatus
Cannablog
The Thermal Vent
The Adventures of Tobasco da Gama
ERV
I am the Lizard Queen!
A Snail's Eye View
If I Ran the Zoo
Musings of the Mad Biologist
An enigmatic science
Laelaps
Biochemist in Exile
The Red Notebook
Back off, man; I'm a scientist
A geocentric view
Toomanytribbles
The Stone of Tear
Literacity
Eleven Thousand Species Of Relatively Simple Animals
Like a…
clock | March 4, 2007In most cases below comment threads are more interesting than the posts, but let's see when Anne Coulter will show up on TV or at a conservatives' meeting next time, so we can ask "Why?"
John Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards
Glenn Greenwald
David Neiwert
Mick Arran
John McKay
John Lynch
Neil the Ethical Werewolf
Ed Brayton
Ed Cone
The Malcontent
Pam Spaulding, and again here (more comments here and here)
Kagro X
Pioneer111
(Yes, there are gazillions of Diaries on Daily Kos about this, some good)
Lindsay Beyerstein
Aldon Hynes
Mustang Bobby
Matt Stoller
Nancy Scola (and again)
...and unrelated, but…
clock | March 3, 2007The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and the rain with verbs, and for worms to pass through question marks, and the stars to shine down on budding nouns, and the dew to form on paragraphs.
- Richard Brautigan
clock | March 3, 2007This news just came in:
Charles F- Ehret died of natural causes on February 24th at his home in Grayslake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
His Wikipedia entry is quote short:
Charles Frederick Ehret is a WWII veteran (Battle of the Bulge/Ardennes along the Siegfried Line) as well as a world renowned molecular biologist who worked at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Lemont, Illinois, USA, for 40 years. Dr. Ehret researched the effects of electromagnetic radiation on bacillus megaterium with Dr. Edward Lawrence (Larry) Powers, as well as the effects of time shifts on paramecia, rats and…
clock | March 2, 2007Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.
- Margaret B. Johnstone
clock | March 2, 2007John Dupuis, the Confessing Science Librarian, wrote a review of three science-writing anthologies, including the Open Laboratory 2006, which ended up in the highly respectable second place, nested between two professional collections.
The beauty of online on-demand publishing is that one can correct errors on the go, as in "right now", not waiting for an official Seocnd Edition and such. So, I'll try to fix a couple of things John noticed before the book gets an ISBN number and starts getting shipped to the real bookstores.
And, with ten months instead of three weeks to work on it, Reed…
clock | March 2, 2007Philosophia Naturalis #7 - Tabloid Headline Edition - is up on Geek Counterpoint [fixed link]
clock | March 2, 2007ConvergeSouth website and blog went live today. You bet I'll be going - this is a Not-To-Miss annual event in Greensboro. Just check the program!
clock | March 2, 200720 New Species Of Sharks, Rays, Discovered In Indonesia:
The five-year survey of catches at local fish markets provided the first detailed description of Indonesia's shark and ray fauna - information which is critical to their management in Indonesia and Australia.
Regenerative Medicine Advance: Frog Tadpole Artificially Induced To Re-grow Its Tail:
Scientists at Forsyth may have moved one step closer to regenerating human spinal cord tissue by artificially inducing a frog tadpole to re-grow its tail at a stage in its development when it is normally impossible. Using a variety of methods…