clock | December 1, 2006The first edition of a brand new carnival is now up on Faux Real Tho. It is chockful of informative posts and practical advice on a range of topics all having something to do with ways to survive when short on money. I found some very useful advice already.
clock | December 1, 2006Carnival of the Liberals is turning One next week. TNG of Neural Gourmet will be hosting the Big Anniversary Edition on December 6th and he has asked people to submit their best post (of course!) - but not the best post of the week: the best post of the year! However, that post cannot be one that has already been submitted or published on a previous editions of the carnival.
Although I have hosted one of the first editions, I believe I have submitted only once (I do not remember which post - perhaps the one about the Love/Hate of Hillary) and NEVER had a post actually appear on the carnival…
clock | December 1, 2006An oldie but goodie for the connoisseurs of my long political rants (May 11, 2005):
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I am not an economist. Actually, I have no background in economics at all, if one ignores "Capitalism for Beginners" and "Marx for Beginners".
Like all Yugoslavs of my generation, I suffered through a couple of years of "Marxism" classes back in high school and college - classes that both teachers and students hated and did the absolute minimum. My high-school teacher gave us not-so-subtle hints about what she thought about it. When it was time for Marxism class,…
clock | December 1, 2006Any more blogs starting with 'L' that you know of?
Lab Cat
LabLit.com latest articles
Lamentations on Chemistry
Lance Mannion
The Lancelet
Language Log
The Last Dutchess
Law Evolution Science and Junk Science
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Learning Curves
The Left Coaster
Legal Fiction
Leiter Reports
The Liberal Coalition
The Library Lady Rants
Library Stuff
Life Science
Linkmeister
The Lippard Blog
Littlebear Holler
Little Green Fascists
The Little Professor
Live-Awake
Live Granades
Living the Scientific Life (old)
Living the Scientific Life (new)
Livin' Large
Lloydletta's Nooz and Comments
Local…
clock | December 1, 2006Save The Whales? Sure, But How Many?:
How many wildebeest should live in the Serengeti" How many grizzly bears should call Yellowstone home" Are there too few tigers in the world" Conservationist biologists grapple with the task of setting population targets for the species they are trying to protect -- a decision steeped in politics, emotion, and sometimes, science.
Two Rapidly Evolving Genes Offer Geneticists Clues To Why Hybrids Are Sterile Or Do Not Survive:
While hybrids -- the result of the mating of two different species -- may offer interesting and beneficial traits, they are usually…
clock | December 1, 2006
Amy Hughes is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | November 30, 2006* Genes may help predict infidelity, study finds:
Could DNA tests tell you your risk of being cuckolded? Scientists think so.
* Ancient sky calculator awes scientists:
A 2,000-year-old computer could transform our view of the ancient world, according to researchers.
* Success may be a 'family affair':
A study has led researchers to speculate that career success may be partly genetic.
* Science teachers' association accused of oil company influence:
After the top U.S. science teachers' group spurned some free DVDs, a controversy erupted over a reason they gave for doing so.
* Backache? Sitting…
clock | November 30, 2006Conitnuing with the Thursday BIO101 lecture notes, here is the fifth part. As always, I ask you to correct my errors and make suggestions to make the lecture better. Keep in mind that this is a VERY basic speed-course and that each of the lecture-notes covers roughly 45 minutes (often having 3-4 of these within the same day). This part was first posted on May 14, 2006.
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Cell Division and DNA Replication
BIO101 - Bora Zivkovic - Lecture 2 - Part 1
In the first lecture, we covered the way science works and especially how the scientific method…
clock | November 30, 2006You may remember when I mentioned the announcement of the new open-source online journal JoVE, a peer-reviewed journal of scientific methods in which submissions are provided in video form. Pimm, Eva, Jonah and Nick have also commented on it and Pimm prvides a look at the rate at which the news about the journal spread over the internet.
I have been thinking about this a little and I am wondering if we can predict what kinds of techniques are most likely to be found there - and what kinds will not.
I am assuming that showing how one uses a standard kit with no alterations of the protocol…
clock | November 30, 2006Is this the first such thing? A faculty position at UNC school of journalism. From the job ad:
This person should be highly skilled in writing and editing online news, in blogging and in developing news content for the web.
Apply if you think you can and want to do this.
clock | November 30, 2006
Rosalind Reid of the American Scientist magazine is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Rosalind will lead a break-out session on scientific illustration and is inviting participation in the planning of the session on the session's wiki page.
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clock | November 30, 2006From today's Quotes Of The Day:
Jonathan Swift was born at Dublin, Ireland on this day in 1667, seven months after his father's death, and was raised primarily by an uncle. He received his B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin but political events forced him to England before completing his Masters. He became secretary to an English diplomat, and spent most of his life serving as a political liaison of sorts, although he was also a priest of the Church of Ireland and was, on at least a couple of occasions, a parish priest. We know him as possible the greatest satirist in the English language,…
clock | November 29, 2006How to fight with other bloggers (via)
I tend to avoid getting in fights with individuals. I'd rather insult millions all at once.
(Let's see if this shows up as Quote on the scienceblogs.com front page tomorrow....)
clock | November 29, 2006You know that Bush-apologists say crazy things. They get cited, chastized and mocked for it every day on the liberal blogs, after all. You may have also wandered, by mistake, onto comment threads on Little Green Foodballs, or The Corner, or other nasty Right-wing blogs and suspected that those people are not really 'all there'. And you may be aware that there is actually quite a large body of scientific evidence that Conservatives are Crazy and Dangerous, er, that conservative/authoritarian ideology correlates strongly with a number of (environmentally induced, i.e., through upbringing and…