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grrlscientist | June 16, 2007A looong time blog pal of mine (I am proud to say), YoungFemaleScientist did me the honor of mentioning me today on her blog in response to an email she received;
It is interesting to note (and I dont mean this as a dig at you) that all the FEMALE scientific blogs do not really cover science at all but are generally full of moaning and bitching about people in the lab colleagues etc. Whereas the majority of male scientific bloggers concentrate on science issues. Strange!
She responded by saying;
This is a very astute observation, though not strictly correct. Grrrlscientist, over at…
grrlscientist | June 16, 2007tags: educated, online quiz
This quiz is actually is a lot more fun than than its name implies.
You Are Not Stupid
You got 10/10 questions right!
While acing this quiz doesn't prove you're a genius, you're at least pretty darn smart.
Are You Stupid?
grrlscientist | June 16, 2007tags: blog carnival, Oekologie
The sixth edition of the new blog carnival, Oekologie is now available. It is fashioned after a newspaper and has a lot of great stories to read, including a bunch that I didn't write.
pharyngula | June 16, 2007Here's a nice story about a woman striking back at identity theft. She was robbed of $9,000 in 3 days (with even more long term grief) by a sleazoid who got financial information by breaking into her mail — and then she spotted the thief (recognized from a security camera photo) and got her arrested after chasing her on foot. A happy ending!
Happy, that is, until you learn the conclusion of the court trial. The thief was given probation. She'd perpetrated her crimes while on probation, so this seems like a particularly futile sentence.
It's not an entirely pleasant prospect. Read the article…
petnoyer | June 15, 2007Unbelievably, a 50 ton bowhead whale was discovered with a 19th century bomb lance fragment lodged between its neck and shoulder the bomb lance fragment was patented in 1879, making the whale between 115-130 years old according to researchers. See this amazing story from the American Cetacean Society at MSNBC here. Below is a graphic from that story.
I like this quote from John Bockstoce, an adjunct curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum:
It probably hurt the whale, or annoyed him, but it hit him in a non-lethal place. He couldn't have been that bothered if he lived for another 100 years…
cmcclain | June 15, 2007This blog is a considerable amount of hard work on our part requiring dedication and time. Sometimes people recognize this spreading the link love. Other times someone outright thieves our content. This time it is New York Articles that proudly claims "This site collects content from another sites".
If you're reading this post at New York Articles rather than at my actual site, you are partaking of a suboptimal experience on a poorly designed website from someone who doesn't #$%@ about the deep sea and oceans.
I'm not going to give you the URL for the lesser, because there is no value-added…
grrlscientist | June 15, 2007tags: blog carnival, Friday Ark, animal pictures
For those of you who love looking at animal pictures, Friday Ark is blog carnival is for you. Every link posted here features a large image of an animal that you will enjoy (it might also contain a story, but the picture is the primary focus of this carnival). This is the 143rd issue of this weekly carnival.
grrlscientist | June 15, 2007tags: blog carnival
This is a new blog carnival, Doing It Differently, which just published its fifth edition. This blog carnival is devoted to the concept of stepping outside of the box and living our lives "beyond the norm". Whether you want to learn unique ways to think or act differently, or if you want to share your own unique ideas, this carnival is for you! There are ten essays that range from topics such as "The Lap Dancer Who Changed My Life" to "How I Lifted Fifty Pounds With My Mind". They also included a contribution from me, of course, so go over there to give them some support.
cmcclain | June 15, 2007
...glance at a tide chart.
Taking photographs of a wedding is a pleasant memory for new couples. But six happy pairs were left stranded for six hours on Wednesday while snapping away on reefs, 50 meters away from the bank of the Badaguan in Qingdao in Shandong province. The Hebei province couples and four photographers were too busy to notice the rising tide at Badaguan or "Eight Passes" seashore, the Peninsula Metropolitan News reported. A witness told the newspaper the couples looked excited when they first saw the tide was up and wanted to use the tidal waves as the…
cmcclain | June 15, 2007
From the 17th-27th I will b out to sea aboard the Western Flyer, technology and time permitting I will try to get post a couple entries here at DSN. You can read all about the cruise, check the updated logbook about daily activities, view pictures of the seafloor, and meet the people onboard online at MBARI's website. You can check the location of the ship in real time as well.
grrlscientist | June 15, 2007tags: online quiz
I kinda liked the results from this quiz -- how about you? How did you score?
You Are 86% Creative
You are an incredibly creative person. For you, there are no bounds or limits to your creativity.
Your next creation could be something very great... Or at least very cool!
How Creative Are You?
mikethemadbiologist | June 15, 2007I'll get to El Jefe Maximo in a moment, but to dive into even more trivial waters, the thing I've never understood about the whole Paris Hilton affair is how utterly stupid she was. Her personal stupidity doesn't shock me--it's a miracle she doesn't forget how to breathe. But rich people can hire smart people to think for them. Which brings us to Bush.
While I can be sartorially challenged, even I would have the good sense not to go outside dressed like this:
(from here)
He's wearing dark dress socks with shorts.
And Crocs.
In public.
Who dresses him? His mother? Oh Intelligent Designer…
cmcclain | June 14, 2007
I am a really amateur photographer. I took a few classes a couple years ago and got the basics down. The kid in me, or maybe the scientist who works on body size, loves miniatures. Every since I heard of tilt-frame photography, I new I wanted to give it a try because of its surreal ability to turn landscapes into a tiny world. Here is a recent picture of Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey using this technique.
pharyngula | June 14, 2007Most people who are planning to attend YearlyKos in Chicago are planning to do so because of all the politicians and wonks wandering around. Now there's a better reason to go: The Field Museum is going to have an exhibit you won't want to miss — Darwin!
Can you imagine how peeved I am that I can't go now?
petnoyer | June 14, 2007
The video speaks for itself! Brought to your attention by Kevin Zelnio (Thanks Sue!). This was yesterday's footage from the Florida media outlets.
petnoyer | June 13, 2007
NOAA Great Lake Environmental Research Laboratory ships: Laurentian, Shenanon and Huron Explorer. In 1998, President Clinton enacted Executive Order 13101 for government agencies to reduce waste, recycle and use environmentally friendly and sustainable products including bio-products. Fast forward to 2007 and NOAA has heeded the call to reduce its environmental footprint by replacing petroleum-based fuels and lubricants with bio-based ones. In a press release from the NOAA website, Richard Spinrad, NOAA assistant administrator for Ocean and Atmospheric Research, commented that,
Our…
tqa | June 13, 2007
Reed Cartwright just forwarded me (and a few others) an email that was just sent out to an evolutionary biology mailing list. I'm going to quote it in full below. Don't worry if you don't understand the technical terms in there - you don't need to know what Bayesian methods are, or how they're used in phylogenetics, or even what phylogenetics is to understand why this email is important, and why all concerned should be proud of themselves.
Dear Colleagues,
This to inform you that we must retract Hall, B.G. and S.
Salipante. 2007. Measures of clade confidence do not correlate with…
grrlscientist | June 13, 2007tags: dinosaurs, fossils, Kevin Padian
For those of you who posted comments or questions about The Agonized Deaths of Dinosaurs Captured in Stone, you will be pleased to know that Kevin Padian, one of the study's authors, has responded to you. He said that you had some very interesting thoughts -- I just wanted you all to know that I was so proud of you (awww, it's just like when I was teaching ... ). Anyway, I finally got back on wifi today to post his comments there for you to read.
grrlscientist | June 13, 2007tags: blog carnival, carnival of the vanities
The 245th issue of the Carnival of the Vanities is now available for your reading pleasure. This blog carnival links to the best recent writing in the blogosphere, regardless of topic. This issue was a few weeks slow, so they accepted more than one link from me, yippee!