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gregladen | March 25, 2009this video is comprised of pictures i took of the lunar eclipse on march 3rd 2007 from pendeli mountain in athens, greece. the music is 'odysseus' by niko (www.nikoonline.com).
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sb admin | March 25, 2009Our food production system is unsustainable, but those who advocate for healthier agriculture and diets often find themselves dismissed as elitists. While I think this is often an unfair criticism , itâs clear that it hampers advocatesâ effectiveness. So, I was delighted to read in the Washington Post this morning about a good-food advocate from an Iowan farming family. Jane Black writes:
Dave Murphy is the founder of a food advocacy group. But he wants you to know, "in no uncertain terms," that he is not a foodie. Foodies are people who obsess about the perfect apple tart. Not that there's…
jwilbanks | March 25, 2009I am just back from my wedding and have a lot of catching up to do - notably I will respond to the eTech announcement of the Science Commons collaboration with Microsoft, and the small furor that my comment "there is no crowd" in science has caused.
But first things first. I'm a day late posting but I wanted to make sure I got this in.
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.
We are asked to blog about a female role model for us in technology. Mine's pretty easy.
Diane Cabell.
When I was a wet behind the ears kid masquerading as…
gregladen | March 25, 2009...I am trying to rid the word dilettante of its negative connotations and use it to highlight my interest in scientific research of all kinds. My area of expertise is chemical engineering and food science, however this does not prevent my interest in any other research.
I like any and all science, so this is my playground where I can properly discuss other areas outside my expertise without getting a bad formal peer review!
We like dilettantes. So let's see how The Science Dilettante develops!
gregladen | March 25, 2009UPDATE: Read it in his own words! Relive the horror of the road! Cringe as you hear all the gory details of near death and automotive crunchiness, here at Pharyngula!
Myers, trapped in remote region, unable to blog.
UPDATE: Myers has been picked up from the scene by rescue vehicle dispatched from Morris, and is now en route to Saint Cloud airport. where he will take flight to Michigan. Pharyngula readers await direct word from Myers, who may be able to blog from airport.
Approximate Location of Car Wreck University of Minnesota, Morris, Biology Professor and Science Blogger (…
cortex | March 25, 2009Here's another common question I get at my book talks:
"Is there a difference between the male and female brain when it comes to decision-making? Are women really more intuitive? Which sex is the better decider?"
While there are certainly relevant differences between the male and female brain - that wash of sex hormones in the womb can have significant effects - I think it's important to begin by emphasizing the profound irrelevance of gender in most experimental studies of decision-making.
Let's begin with that perdurable cliche about female intuition. My own hunch is that women got…
mspringer | March 25, 2009Kal-El, native of the planet Krypton, came to Earth and was adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent. Being a Kryptonian, he found that he had superhuman powers and used them for good as Superman[1].
We all know the story. But what do we know about Krypton? Any information would be a dramatic coup for astronomers of all varieties. Superman couldn't tell us, he was just an infant when he left[2]. We might have to do some deduction. I propose we start by trying to determine the orbital period of Krypton - in other words, how long a Kryptonian year was.
To do this, we need the equation for…
gregladen | March 24, 2009PLoS ONE now has a community blog. You an see it here and read Bora's take on it here.
This is in part to mark the fife thousandth paper published by PLoS ONE, and the growth of the on line community to a level that may sustain a community blog. Check it out.
grrlscientist | March 24, 2009Do you remember how I've been campaigning to save several science-y blog carnivals from oblivion? Well, since one blog carnival is currently being revived, partially due to my noisemaking, I am taking my support one step further: I am hosting the upcoming issue of the Circus of the Spineless on 6 April. So this means that I need your help. If you have written a "translation" of a scientific paper, or an essay, a photoessay or if you have a stunning image of a squishy (or crusty) animal that lacks a backbone -- not including American politicians -- to share with the world, please send the…
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gregladen | March 24, 2009Tangled Up in Blue Guy examines Genie Scott's testimony in Texas and takes it to another level. Here.
gregladen | March 24, 2009... and related matters.
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gregladen | March 24, 2009... Cheney has been rather out of line. And now he's out of breath.
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grrlscientist | March 24, 2009Here's the latest carnivalia for you to enjoy;
All Things Eco, a blog carnival that focuses on living lightly on the earth.
Carnival of the Cities, which is all about cities .. essays, photoessays and images of news events and other things about cities.
cortex | March 24, 2009Here's Joseph Brodsky (via Kottke), praising boredom:
A substantial part of what lies ahead of you is going to be claimed by boredom. The reason I'd like to talk to you about it today, on this lofty occasion, is that I believe no liberal arts college prepares you for that eventuality. Neither the humanities nor science offers courses in boredom . At best, they may acquaint you with the sensation by incurring it. But what is a casual contact to an incurable malaise? The worst monotonous drone coming from a lectern or the most eye-splitting textbook written in turgid English is nothing in…
mspringer | March 24, 2009Cormac McCarthy is with good reason widely considered to be among the finest living American writers. The literary scene has appreciated his work for some time; the general public (including myself, though I do a lot of reading) was first exposed to his work in the uncommonly faithful film adaptation of No Country for Old Men.
Success breeds success in Hollywood, and McCarthy's most recent book The Road is being filmed.
It's an unforgivingly grim and brutal book. A father and son are trying to survive in post-apocalyptic America. It's an uglier post-apocalypse than most. More or less…
cwilcox | March 24, 2009Two Komodo Dragons have been blamed for killing a man at Loh Sriaya, in eastern Indonesia's Komodo National Park.
Police and witnesses say that 31 yr old fisherman Muhamad Anwar was attacked by the duet of immense lizards waiting below minutes after he fell out of a tree on Monday. He was trespassing on forbidden park lands in search of fruit when he was surrounded and eventually killed. He bled profusely from bites to his hands, legs, neck and body. He died soon after transport to a clinic.
While there are only a few thousand left in the wild, dragon attacks have increased in recent years,…
gregladen | March 23, 2009Macroblogging the microblog so you don't have to.
From BoraZ: Texting Your Catch: New Technology For Recreational Fishing Data
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At nearly every fisheries management meeting he attends, Baker hears the same complaint: North Carolina's recreational fishermen don't have to account for their catch. Two years ago, during a regional meeting about snapper and grouper, Baker looked down at his hands and finally saw a possible answer: his mobile phone.
"I wondered if you could send a text message to a computer database somewhere instead of just texting from phone to phone," he says. "And if you…