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grrlscientist | August 15, 2009The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 3806 - 1614 - 1349 - 1116 - 1113 out of 484 candidates registered. I am now in third place (the second place candidate mysteriously disappeared from contention sometime yesterday). But I need your votes more than ever to recapture first place, so please ask your friends and relatives to vote for me now!
If you've already voted, then please encourage your family, friends, colleagues and neighbors to vote for the person whom you think would be best for this unique job: traveling to Antarctica for the month of February 2010 and writing about…
bleimanb | August 14, 2009A) They're English so they have a bigger vocabulary than the average Nascar obsessed "ravens".
B) They can figure out how to do this...***
***We at Zooillogix are adamant in our belief that humans ARE in fact the only species that use tools in their environments and are not fooled by footage like this. Case closed.
gregladen | August 14, 2009What the heck is that thing?????? It turns out that today's Google Doodle honors the scientist who discovered EMF (although I believe people fight about who really discovered it, where, and when). PZ noted this here.
grrlscientist | August 14, 2009My blog has been experiencing some sort of identity crisis, the nature of which is still being worked on. But it appears that I can once again post entries, although I can do so only very slowly -- saving each change (title, text boxes, etc) one-at-a-time. The mystery birds and other entries that I schedule for you will return tomorrow, hopefully. I will be tweeting and sending these new entries to newsfeeds, so if you don't automatically check here, that's where notification will appear.
cortex | August 14, 2009I finally got the internet setup in my new apartment - I won't bore you with my customer service complaints - and I've never been so delighted to waste time on the web. At first, my information vacation was lovely, charming, an experiment in vintage living. It was like traveling back in time to 1994 - I'd wake up, buy an actual newspaper, and leisurely sip my coffee. No blogs, no twitter, no ESPN.com. I'm not going to lie and pretend that, once freed from the yoke of constant email updates, I suddenly found myself reading Tolstoy for hours on end - instead, I mostly watched more mediocre…
gregladen | August 14, 2009I never watch TV or read anything that is not directly related to myre search interests in see dispersal eo-evolution.
Don't you hate it when people say shit like that? Because you KNOW they are full of shit when they do!
But seriously, I am very bad at watching TV shows that have a plot running over more than one episode and lately, Rachel Maddow has totally taken over prime time, so who cares about sitcoms? It seems that "The Big Bang Theory," a TV show about nerdy roomates and the hot chicks they can't have (according to the commercials ... I actually have not seen it) is of interest…
grrlscientist | August 14, 2009test
this blog is broken
i repeat: BROKEN!
rise up from the dead, broken blog! i command you to rise up from your broken shards of electrons and WALK!
EDIT: i baptize thee, oh blog, with extra chunky spaghetti sauce and declare you freed from evil, and sanctified in the name of the spaghetti monster, the tomato, and the garlic and declare you freed from your two demons and three bags of trash (one, organic trash, based on the smell emanating from the bag). you may now save this edit and publish for the world to see. for the world shall know you by your published essays, images and videos. go…
grrlscientist | August 14, 2009The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 3802 - 1600 - 1344 - 1113 - 1105 out of 480 candidates registered. I am now in third place (the second place candidate mysteriously disappeared from contention sometime yesterday). But I need your votes more than ever to recapture first place, so please ask your friends and relatives to vote for me now!
If you've already voted, then please encourage your family, friends, colleagues and neighbors to vote for the person whom you think would be best for this unique job: traveling to Antarctica for the month of February 2010 and writing about…
j7uy5 | August 13, 2009At the Lawrence Hall of Science, at the University of California -
Berkeley, there is a children's playground. On the playground,
theere is a whimsical sculture based on DNA. Lots of people like
it. Indeed, Dr. Stemwedel wrote
href="http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2007/08/friday_sprog_blogging_fsb_goes.php">a
post inspired by an experience her kids had there. That's
where this photo comes from. (More
href="http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/gallery/gal094.html">here.)
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So what'…
gregladen | August 13, 2009Get me your science post for Scientia Pro Publica, which we are doing on Quiche Moraine.
Submit the posts here
gregladen | August 13, 2009The Gory Details are below the fold.
Oh, and no, not THAT kind of Darwin Award! Not yet, anyway. No, Ed won the Friend of Darwin Award, from the NCSE.
As far as I can tell, it has not been officially announced yet, but you can read the details here.
dgmacarthur | August 13, 2009Most of the posts I've written recently have involved next-generation DNA sequencing in one way or another, which may have left some readers scratching their heads - keeping track of the different technologies, how they work, and their strengths and weaknesses is a challenge even for those immersed in this fast-moving field.
Fortunately, help is at hand for readers who don't know their SOLiD from their 454. Luke Jostins (who wrote a guest post here on Genetic Future a while back) has a great new post up on his blog Genetic Inference providing some background on second-generation sequencing.…
gregladen | August 12, 2009Have a look at this. Two of my favorite bloggers re in the top ten: Devorah, who is in third, and Danielle who is in eigth. The rest of these people are obviously interlopers, especially this guy Luis who is in first place. Please go and help fix that. Thank you very much...