Greg Laden and David Dobbs on Bloggingheads.tv

By ejohnson on September 8, 2009.

In the latest installment of Bloggingheads.tv Science Saturdays, ScienceBloggers Greg Laden and David Dobbs discuss David's book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral.

More like this

A minor correction

No Se Nada highlights (and RPM picks it up) a picture of a statue of Louis Agassiz head-first in the ground after the

Today in Science (1217) & A Hiatus

I’m going to close things down here until the beginning of the New Year - a combination of projects I need to finish and family commitments mean that I will be posting little (if anything) for the next two weeks. I wish all my readers a happy, safe & peaceful holiday season.

Today in Science (1214)

Events 1782 - The Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifts on its first test flight.

Now in Darwin's day did they know that Coral are in the same phylum as jellyfish?

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

Science 2.0

Science Codex

More by this author

ScienceBlogs Under Attack by Zombies

July 1, 2010

Late Wednesday evening, a terrible disaster began to unfold in the ScienceBlogs universe: word emerged that a zombie attack was taking place in our bloggers' homes. While the attack was believed to have begun somewhere in the southeastern United States, with patient zero Scicurious, it has now…

Meet the rest of the Inside the Outbreaks Book Club contributors

June 24, 2010

In addition to author Mark Pendergrast, we have four more outstanding contributors here to discuss Inside the Outbreaks over the next few weeks. Though they all come from public health backgrounds, their experiences in and with the Epidemic Intelligence Service are all different. Check out their…

ScienceBlogs Welcomes the World's Top Scientific Institutions to Our Network

June 22, 2010

We here at ScienceBlogs are pleased to announce that beginning today, we will be helping to spark the next generation of research communications by introducing new blogs to our network from the world's top scientific institutions. The initial list includes: CERN, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (…

Meet Mark Pendergrast, author of Inside the Outbreaks

June 21, 2010

Before writing Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Atlanta native Mark Pendergrast authored a history of another of the city's cornerstone institutions, the Coca-Cola company, in addition to a history of coffee and two other books. Pendergrast…

What's that rumbling sound?

June 14, 2010

Is it distant thunder? A passing freight train? World Cup fans celebrating a goal? Nope...that's the sound of the ScienceBlogs Book Club becoming active again! It's been awhile since we hosted a Book Club discussion here on the blog - not since Paul Offitt's Autism's False Prophets back in…