- I'm a little late to the game on this tidbit, but in case you haven't heard, please welcome the newest addition to the Sb family, Rebecca Skloot! She's a (*GASP*) journalist who has written some fantastic pieces for the New York Times and she also has a new book in the works called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her blog, Culture Dish, can be found here.
- Anne-Marie Hodge, author of Pondering Pikaia, is one of my favorite science bloggers, and she has just started up a new science blog on the Nature Network. Even though Pondering Pikaia will remain active, Anne-Marie will be shifting most of her science posts to the new blog, Endless Forms. Be sure to check it out!
- Another of my favorite bloggers, Michael Barton, has moved The Dispersal of Darwin to Wordpress. You can keep up with his excellent work here.
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Anne-Marie Hodge, the author of the delightful blog Pondering Pikaia has just started a new blog on the Nature Network and named it Endless Forms.
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There's a cool new blog on the Sb block, Culture Dish, written by Rebecca Skloot, author of the forth-coming "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." As Skloot's sidebar says: "[The book] tells the story of HeLa -- the first immortal human cell line ever grown in culture (pictured in the blog's…
Big week here at Culture Dish! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and its author (yours truly) were on the cover of Publishers Weekly (please note: THRILLED!). Inside that issue was a profile of me with some of book's backstory, a short excerpt from the book (longer excerpt coming soon in O, the…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (TILoHL) by Rebecca Skloot was far and away the top science book of the year in my Best Science Books 2010: The top books of the year post from last month. In that post I took all the Best Science Books 2010 posts and tallied up the books with the most mentions…
Very Cool!! And so is this blog!!
BTW, Is Laelaps a species of theropod dinosaur?
As someone who can never find enough science-related information on the net, I'm very excited to see the new blogs. And having a real journalist, Rebecca Skloot, writing her own blog makes it that much better (I don't use that word much these days, and when I do, it usually has quotation marks around it!) To the new bloggers, congratulations! P.S. Raptor Lewis, I believe Laelaps was the original name of the carnivorous dinosaur that was re-named Dryptosaurus (Laelaps was already taken.)
Thanks for the link, Brian! I'm looking forward to seeing you in NC in a few weeks!
Darwin plagiarizes to Pierre Tremaux?
I leave you the link to scientific paper that it affirms that to the idea of allopatric speciation borrow of a book of Pierre Tremaux.
Trémaux on species: A theory of allopatric speciation (and punctuated equilibrium) before Wagner
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003806/
Tremaux's Book: Origine et transformations de lhomme et des autres êtres, 1865″ http://fon.gs/tremaux-book-google/
As the author of that article, let me say that in no way do we argue that Darwin plagiarised Tremaux. We instead say that it is likely Darwin responded to Tremaux's ideas by refining a passage in the 4th edition of the Origin, which is a very different and quite legitimate thing to do for a scientist.
Thanks for stepping in to clarify things, John. I read the paper and quite enjoyed it (and even referenced it here - http://scienceblogs.com/laelaps/2009/01/shermers_purple_prose.php).