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grrlscientist | April 4, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
The next edition of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) publishes tomorrow and as usual, it is seeking submissions and hosts! If you haven't sent your essays in yet, or if you've read other people's science essays that you thought were especially good, please send those URLs to Scientia immediately so they can be included in tomorrow's edition.
Scientia Pro Publica is a traveling blog carnival that celebrates the best science, environment, nature and…
gregladen | April 3, 2010Things to Do with a Cadbury Cream Egg - watch more funny videos
Hat Tip: Ana
cwilcox | April 3, 2010Stop what you're doing. You HAVE to read this. Your life will be changed forever.
You can cook a cake in a microwave. In 5 minutes.
Seriously.
Barry stumbled across this recipe for how to make a cake in a mug. In a MUG.
How did I not learn of this during all those years as an undergrad?! I suddenly feel inadequate, like I haven't truly mastered life as a poor college student. If you can bake a cake in a microwave, what other culinary arts have I yet to discover? Casserole in a toaster oven, perhaps?
I simply had to have my cake and eat it, too, to see if this recipe really works. Here's what…
grrlscientist | April 3, 2010The 22nd edition of the Carnival of Evolution has been published at Beetles in the Bush, and it includes several pieces that I wrote! So be sure to go there, read, enjoy and -- most important of all -- provide feedback to the blog writers who spend their precious free time reading and writing about cool science so we all can read about it!
illconsidered | April 3, 2010I would like to share a press release from the University of Minnesota I received a few days ago announcing a short video on environmental sustainability.
Press release as follows:
Greetings from the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment.
For 10,000 years, our world seemed endless. The sky was the limit. But today's world looks much smaller. We've cleared, consumed and polluted our way across the globe. The planet is shrinking. Have we pushed Earth past the tipping point? That's a critical issue we explore in our second Big Question video, which draws on research from "…
grrlscientist | April 3, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
The next edition of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) will publish on Monday and as usual, it is seeking submissions and hosts! Can you help by sending URLs for your own or others' well-written science, medicine, and nature blog essays to me or by volunteering to host this carnival on your blog?
Scientia Pro Publica is a traveling blog carnival that celebrates the best science, environment, nature and medical writing that has been published in the…
gregladen | April 2, 2010They are calling it "The wheel, reinvented" and I think they may be right.
H/T Jaf
gregladen | April 2, 2010This Month's Wikio Rankings of Top Science Blogs is as follows:
1
Wired Science - Wired Blog
2
Watts Up With That?
3
Climate Progress
4
RealClimate
5
Bad Astronomy
6
Climate Audit
7
Next Generation Science
8
Respectful Insolence
9
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
10
The Frontal Cortex
11
Deltoid
12
FuturePundit
13
Gene Expression
14
Uncertain Principles
15
BPS Research Digest
16
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
17
A Blog Around The Clock
18
Greg Laden's Blog
19
TierneyLab - New York Times blog
20
Stoat
Ranking Wikio
cortex | April 2, 2010Let's begin with this recent experiment by neuroscientists at Rutgers, which demonstrated that general intelligence (at least in rodents) is mediated by improvements in selective attention. Here's the abstract:
In both humans and mice, the efficacy of working memory capacity and its related process, selective attention, are each strongly predictive of individuals' aggregate performance in cognitive test batteries. Because working memory is taxed during most cognitive tasks, the efficacy of working memory may have a causal influence on individuals' performance on tests of "intelligence".…
cwilcox | April 2, 2010... over at Beetles in the Bush. Go read it! Now!
Next month's carnival will be over at Evolution: Education and Outreach. Submit now through this handy-dandy little form!
grrlscientist | April 1, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
The next edition of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is less than two weeks away and as usual, it is seeking submissions and hosts! Can you help by sending URLs for your own or others' well-written science, medicine, and nature blog essays to me or by volunteering to host this carnival on your blog?
Scientia Pro Publica is a traveling blog carnival that celebrates the best science, environment, nature and medical writing that has been published in…
gregladen | April 1, 2010When the science writer Simon Singh sat down to write an opinion piece on chiropractors two years ago, he could have had little inkling of the nightmare that lay ahead.
Yesterday, after a court of appeal ruling hailed as a "resounding victory" for Singh, he has been spared having to stand up in court and prove that the comments that sparked a libel suit from the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) were factually correct - an experience that the three appeal judges compared to "an Orwellian ministry of truth".
source, more
gregladen | April 1, 2010I like this post because I'm an archaeologist: Garbage Statistics.
Be afraid of doctors in Cape Fear.
Does Domestication Produce Dummies?
gregladen | April 1, 2010This is not only the true story of easter, but it is also a commentary on which is better, cats or dogs. Verily, many mysteries are explained in this epic documentary:
h/t: Julia
gregladen | April 1, 2010Have you ever watched the documentary The Corporation? If not, you must.
It is now available on YouTube and everywhere else, but as an experiment, I've embedded the Hulu version of it here:
cwilcox | April 1, 2010... Then check out Bora's interview of me.
Oh, and also, I wrote a little self-indulgent fluff piece awhile back, too, if you haven't read that.