clock | August 13, 2006Pediatric Grand Rounds Vol.1, No.9, is now up on Unintelligent Design. You have to do a quiz. Multiple choice only.
clock | August 13, 2006First, go to Well-timed Period and Pharyngula to get all the neccessary information about Plan B, what it is, what it isn't, and how it works. Then go to Bitch PhD and buy a T-shirt (for which you need to know what you are talking about because you WILL be asked).
clock | August 13, 2006You have until August 29th to write a post about trees, or a particular tree, or a picture of a really cool tree, or a poem about a tree...and send it to Burning Silo for the next edition of the Festival of the Trees
clock | August 13, 2006Shakes has the quickest, clearest summary (with good additional links) about what happened at Heathrow last week, how media lied to you yet again, and who picked the timing and why. I hear that my cousin was at Heathrow at the time and ended up flying four hours too late, but I have not heard from him directly to get any jiucy tidbits.
clock | August 13, 2006In Jeebus can't see through the walls of the Ramada, Amanda adds some excellent commentary on my guest-post over on Echidne.
I know I have already linked to Cracks In The Wall, Part I: Defining the Authoritarian Personality yesterday, but here it is again if you missed it, especially now that Cracks In The Wall, Part II: Listening to the Leavers is also up. Very worth reading.
clock | August 13, 2006Tar Heel Tavern #77 is up on Another Blue Puzzle Piece. The theme is "the future is now" and it creatively done.
clock | August 12, 2006Sara Robinson on Orcinus: Cracks In The Wall, Part I: Defining the Authoritarian Personality
Amanda: Sometimes a cigar is just an arbitrary social custom and You might not be trailer trash if you think Jeff Foxworthy is funny
Lance Mannion: A joy forever
Publius: POLITICIZE TERRORISM
Mr. WD: Violence and Beauty
Tekanji on Alas, A Blog: Modesty and raunch culture: two sides of the same sex-negative coin and Ampersand on the same spot: Beyond Marriage
Berube: Leftover business V
Neil: You're Invited to Our Party! Bring Friends!
clock | August 12, 2006Woman Finds 'God's Water' Gurgling in Tree and 33% of AOL readers agree that it is God's water, with another 28% not sure!
clock | August 11, 2006Next Tar Heel Tavern will be hosted tonight (Saturday) by etbnc (one of my most frequent commenters) on My Blue Puzzle Piece. The theme is "the future":
That can include predictions, prescriptions, hopes, dreams, near future, far future, middlin' future, back to...etc.
Send your entries to: tht70 AT nc DOT rr DOT com
clock | August 11, 2006Well, this Friday Weird Sex Blogging is not going to be so unique. After all, Janet and Zuzu have already blogged about it, but who can resist a phallic-looking, rotten-meat smelling, fly-attracting flower! And it is not a B-grade movie on the sci-fi channel. This is real! The Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), in all its 3m tall glory is about to start stinking up the greenhouse at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden (follow the flowering on the blog or watch the flowering web-cam here) :
clock | August 11, 2006I guess the people at Belk only read personal diaries and Wingnut blogs. They should come visit Scienceblogs sometimes.
(hat-tip:Ed)
clock | August 11, 2006Carel discovered a fascinating website about iris pigmentation. As Carel notes:
Morgan Worthy, a retired psychologist, has put together an iris pigmentation site that includes lists of iris color for over 5,600 vertebrate species, along with observations based on his database that range from the insightful to the mundane to the crackpottish.
There are hypotheses there concerning eye color in humans and in animal predators. Looks like a treasure trove of material for blogging when you are out of inspiration and especially if you are wondering what to send next for the Skeptic's Circle.
clock | August 11, 2006Not just in the USA. Visceral queeziness coupled with religious sentiment coupled with scientific ignorance appears in other parts of the world as well, as in the UK
The Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, a professional group based in Edinburgh, has published a report on the ethical implications of the practice in the journal Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics. The report is online at www.schb.org.uk.
The article lists some examples of research:
Later research has spawned human-animal creations, the report said. These usually die at the embryonic stage, but often survive if the…
clock | August 11, 2006The second ConvergeSouth conference on blogging and journalism will be held on the NC A&T University in Greensboro, NC on Saturday, October 14, 2006. Check out the homepage and blog and register soon. It is going to be even more of an Unconference than last year.
Although it is expected that many in attendance will be from the vibrant local blogging community, it is by no means restricted to the South. Last year, we had people coming in from California, New England and abroad, so if you are interested in the blogging/podcasting world, this is a place to be.
I have blogged about the…
clock | August 11, 2006Seed ScienceBlogs are liveblogging the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto from August 13th-18th.
Two special correspondents on the ground, and our own Tara Smith of Aetiology will post daily commentary on a blog specially dsigned for this occasion - AIDS at 25.
Quite fittingly, the AskTheScienceBlogger question of the week is also about AIDS, and I am sure that a number of my SciBlings will write about the topic in addition to just answering the question, so you will have plenty of opportunity to be informed and educated about AIDS over the next several days. And, if you have not…
clock | August 11, 2006Teens Who Do Use Condoms Often Don't Use Them Properly:
A worrying number of young people who do use condoms don't use them correctly, so risking unwanted pregnancy or infections, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. But a good relationship with their mothers seemed to be associated with correct condom use, the research showed.
Paleontologist Discovers South American Mammal Fossils:
Fossils of a new hoofed mammal that resembles a cross between a dog and a hare which once roamed the Andes Mountains in southern Bolivia around 13 million years…
clock | August 11, 2006There are several excellent book reviews in the latest American Scientist. Check them out for reviews of Dennett and Collins books, if nothing else, but the one that caught my eye was the review of Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University by William Clark, which I will, just because of this review, put on my Amazon wish list. It is a history of academia and how it got to be organized the way it does today.
clock | August 11, 2006An interesting article in the new issue of the American Scientist, challenges the view, made popular by Jared Diamond in Collapse, among others, of the collapse of Easter Island civilization due to overpopulation and cutting down of trees:
"Easter Island has become a case study of human-induced environmental disaster, or "ecocide." The popular narrative, most famously recounted in Jared Diamond's book Collapse, depicts native inhabitants triggering the fall of their once-flourishing civilization by cutting down all of the island's trees. But recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental…
clock | August 11, 2006The most recent addition to the stable of Seed ScienceBloggers is Molecule Of The Day - better living through chemistry! Go say Hello!