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razib | July 2, 2009Really funny scene of a reporter being harassed by a drunk guy (H/T Daily Dish).
razib | July 1, 2009World Conference of Science Journalists - New media new journalism
The miracle of the falling cat
More on accomodationism
The Magic of Attraction (aka Attractors in Dynamical Systems)
Peak Psychology
razib | June 29, 2009A new version of FireFox is coming out today. You can already test drive the latest pre-release already. I've been using Chrome since last year for 95% of my browsing needs because of the speed. I miss plugins, and there are also pages that render a bit idiosyncratically and AJAX apps which get confused. Because of low market penetration naturally designers and developers don't always make sure that their sites work appropriately for Chrome. In any case, now Farhad Manjoo has a review up of the new Firefox browser, and seems to think that it has revived the brand. His points are:
1) Almost as…
razib | June 25, 2009She's trying to leave New York for Antarctica. What you have to do to make it happen is vote for her essay.
razib | June 24, 2009Mark Gimein defends Google Books over at The Big Money. New technology can be misused, but in general I tend to agree with Gimein. Along with Amazon's Search Inside feature Google Books is an excellent resource to look up and cross-reference obscure facts and data. With the utilization of Google Translate you can even get a good sense of some books in languages you don't know (I generally use this to make sure I understand the legend for a table or figure).
razib | June 24, 2009Geoscience enrollments up; supply lags demand
Brazilian Megafauna: hard to hunt or to chew?
What's wrong with Steve Jobs, revisited
Dinosaurs provide clues about the shrunken genomes of birds
Influenza season, part 2
razib | June 22, 2009Why are most genetic associations found through candidate gene studies wrong?
What Darwin Said - Part 2: Mechanisms of Evolution.
razib | June 17, 2009The End of the Line: a must see
Non-rational lines, empathy, and animal research
Mt. Saint Helens: Supervolcano?
Francis Collins "upbeat" about impact of common disease genetics
The NAS and Geoengineering
razib | June 10, 2009In Defense of Inaccuracy
Chaos
Daydreaming and Booze
Why the double standard on genomic data release policies?
Galileo, the Leaning Tower, and Bull@%#$!
razib | June 3, 2009Dan MacArthur of Genetics Future is at the center of a minor controversy because of his blogging The Biology of Genomes conference. Realistically it seems updating pre-internet protocols is just a band-aid solution. And the issues aren't particular to blogging conferences, they're general to the ease and fluidity with which information can flow today.
razib | June 3, 2009It's My Ritz in a Box
Comps readings: virtual communities
Articles I want to read: May Geology edition
Confabulatory hypermnesia, or severe false memory syndrome
Evolving an Altruistic Robot
razib | June 2, 2009Nominees are now up for 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize. I have four posts up:
Genetic variation in space & time - Iceland
How Ashkenazi Jewish are you?
Inbreeding & the downfall of the Spanish Hapsburgs
The ancient origins of African pygmies
There are many great posts on the list obviously, but I want to point also to my friend Dan MacArthur's submission, Is a personal genome sequence worth $350,000?.
After reading these posts you can vote up until June 8th.
bioephemera | May 28, 2009It is no secret that 3 Quarks Daily is one of my favorite blogs. It's the first blog I told my boyfriend to put on his Google Reader (he'd already added BioE, but still). Which is why I'm overjoyed to announce that 3QD has created its own prize for blogging. It's called a Quark. Oh, how I covet the Quark - especially the Strange Quark. And the finalists are to be judged by the 3QD editors and their guest judge . . . Stephen Pinker! w00t!
Any blog post on a natural or social science topic published since May 24, 2008 is eligible. The catch? Nominations are only open until midnight on June 1.…