clock | December 16, 2006Almost there! A couple of more days and we'll be done! So, check out the W-list and suggest some more.
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Wandering Visitor
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Warning: squirrels.
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What It's Like on the Inside (The Science Goddess)
What the hell is wrong with you?
Wheat-dogg's world
Where this revolution's gonna begin
Whiskey Bar (Billmon)
Why Pandas Do Handstands
WildBird on the Fly
Winston-Salem Journal: Otterblog
Without Gods
Wolcott
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Word Munger
Words & Pictures
WorkBook
World o' crap
World of Psychology
World Science…
clock | December 16, 2006Bayh Says He Will Not Run for President in '08:
Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who just two weeks ago took the first steps toward a White House bid in 2008, announced on Saturday that he was quitting the race. He said he had concluded his hopes of winning were too remote to make it worth continuing the battle.
clock | December 16, 2006After a brief delay due to power outage, Friday Ark #117 is now up on The Modulator.
clock | December 16, 2006
Brian Hayes is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 15, 2006Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
- Häfiz
clock | December 15, 2006Teaching circulatory physiology is pretty much the same as teaching fluid physics. It can get a bit tough and boring. But, if it is taught like this, I bet ther would be no students sleeping in the back row and failing the tests....
clock | December 15, 2006Well, it's starting tonight, so I better get back to cleaning the house (actually, all posts today are pre-scheduled). Kids are excited (hey, eight days of presents instead of just one and nobody mentions any Invisible Friends in the Sky all evening!). Posting will resume tomorrow early morning.
clock | December 15, 2006More than a year ago (September 26, 2005), and what has changed?
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The other day I saw (on a blog, from an e-mail? Don't remember now...) this article about a porn website on which our soldiers in Iraq exchange gory photos of mutilated Iraqi bodies for a free subscription to porn. War Pornography was published on a news website I was not familiar with, so I posted the link in the comments to a couple of good liberal blogs, asking for the verification of the story.
The next day, Nation published a shorter story on the same topic: The Porn of War, which…
clock | December 15, 2006
December 15th. Officially. Fire away. Via - via - via (read thos "vias" for more information about what it all means).
clock | December 15, 2006Two Studies On Bee Evolution Reveal Surprises:
The discovery of a 100-million-year old bee embedded in amber -- perhaps the oldest bee ever found -- "pushes the bee fossil record back about 35 million years," according to Bryan Danforth, Cornell associate professor of entomology.
Tiny Bones Rewrite Textbooks: First New Zealand Land Mammal Fossil:
Small but remarkable fossils found in New Zealand will prompt a major rewrite of prehistory textbooks, showing for the first time that the so-called "land of birds" was once home to mammals as well.
The tiny fossilised bones - part of a jaw and hip…
clock | December 15, 2006V-V-V, vot begins with V? Very vicious veblogs! V-V-V!
The Valve
Vegreville
Vet Tech
Viewfinder Blues
The View From The Cheap Seats
VirJournal: A Vivisection of Virge
The Voltage Gate
A Voyage To Arcturus
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clock | December 15, 2006
Tong Ren is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 15, 2006The Abortion Pill Could Prevent Cancer:
In women with BRCA-1, the naturally occurring female hormone progesterone speeds the proliferation of mammary cells. "If we block the progesterone pathway using an antiprogesterone, it could prevent breast cancer," says Eva Lee, lead author of the study. That's exactly what mifepristone did for the experiment's mice, all of which had the BRCA-1 gene. At age 1, none of those treated with mifepristone had developed tumors. But all the untreated mice had tumors by the time they were 8 months old.
From what I have heard on NPR, all 14 of the treated mice…
clock | December 14, 2006We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
- Dave Allen
clock | December 14, 2006Identification Of Carbon Dioxide Receptors In Insects May Help Fight Infectious Disease:
Mosquitoes don't mind morning breath. They use the carbon dioxide people exhale as a way to identify a potential food source. But when they bite, they can pass on a number of dangerous infectious diseases, such as malaria, yellow fever, and West Nile encephalitis. Now, reporting in today's advance online publication in Nature, Leslie Vosshall's laboratory at Rockefeller University has identified the two molecular receptors in fruit flies that help these insects detect carbon dioxide. The findings could…
clock | December 14, 2006Zack Exley: The Revolution misses you
Aldon Hynes: A different focus
NYTimes: 2008 Like It's Today: Edwards on Top in Iowa
Kansas City Star: Edwards gets most of the answers when quizzed on world leaders
Huffington Post: John Edwards Gets It
The Nation blog: John Edwards Is Strongest Dem Contender
The Swamp (Chicago Tribune blog): Edwards entering before New Year
clock | December 14, 2006The seventh part of my lecture notes. Let me know if I made factual errors or if you think this can be improved (from May 15, 2006):
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How Genotype Affects Phenotype
BIO101 - Bora Zivkovic - Lecture 2 - Part 3
One often hears news reports about discoveries of a "gene for X", e.g., gene for alcoholism, gene for homosexuality, gene for breast cancer, etc. This is an incorrect way of thinking about genes, as it implies a one-to-one mapping between genes and traits.
This misunderstanding stems from historical precedents. The very first genes were…