July 2, 2006
The second edition of Mendel's Garden, the genetics carnival, is up on Genetics and Health Blog.
The first issue of Bio::Blogs, a carnival of bioinformatics is up on Public Rambling
History Carnival XXXIV is up on Chapati Mystery.
The new Pediatric Grand Rounds are to be found on Breath Spa for…
July 1, 2006
I did not find it surprising. If you have money, you can buy yourself time - to exercise, to eat a good meal at a nice restaurant or to fix healthy food at home, and to sleep as much as your body needs. As a result, you will be healthier overall. You can read about the study here (hat-tip:…
July 1, 2006
It all has to do with a day, from journeys to circadian rhythms.
July 1, 2006
See for yourself.
July 1, 2006
Yes, there are two neurocarnivals. They occur on alternate weeks.
So, if you have written something this past week, send your entry to the Encephalon which will be posted on Neurophilosopher's blog on 3rd July, 2006.
Posts you write afterwards, during next week (or, if you really, really, really…
July 1, 2006
The first edition of the Festival of the Trees, the blog carnival of tree lovers, is up on Via Negativa. It is huge and beautiful!
July 1, 2006
Get your own slogan - just type in your name (or whatever word you want) and click ...The Advertising Slogan Generator does the rest for you. As it did for me - just check the title of this post.
Update: Ha! I knew other sciencebloggers were gonna love this. And here they are, generating their…
July 1, 2006
Go here to see what the best strategy is for maximizing the impact. We have raised $14,913.09. SEED is adding $10,000. And DonorsChoose will add 10% for each blogger's completed challenge, so click on that link to see whose challenges are the easiest to finish.
June 30, 2006
3 weeks
159 posts: that is 53 per week - a suit of cards with a Jocker - or roughly 7.5 posts per day! You have to click on Archives - June 2006 to see them all!
268 comments
17 trackbacks
$582.52 raised for DonorsChoose (9 of the 15 projects fully funded)
Technorati Rank: 15,376 (245 links from…
June 30, 2006
Kevin went to another place and kept catching a snake he cannot identify. Read more under the fold....
Pinqian Report
(pin - tchin)
The Pinqian trip is a fairly short and concise trip. The trip guest starred Vanessa Reynolds for about half the time. Prior to this trip, her China experience had…
June 30, 2006
This post was initially published on September 16, 2004. It takes a critical look at some UCLA studies on brain responses of partisan voters exposed to images of Bush and Kerry:
Using M.R.I.'s to See Politics on the Brain
The researchers do not claim to have figured out either party's brain yet,…
June 30, 2006
Some flatworms, for instance these pretty Pseudobiceros hancockanus, engage in penis fencing. Both individuals are hermaphrodites, i.e., have both male and female organs. The penis is white, pointed and two-headed. Both individuals are trying to inseminate the other. The one who is inseminated…
June 30, 2006
Circus of the Spineless #10 is up on Science And Sensibility.
Friday Ark #93 is up on Modulator.
June 30, 2006
After reading this review, I really want to go and see the new movie.
June 30, 2006
There is only one day left in our DonorsChoose action. To see the strategy that will yield the greatest benefit to the teachers and their students, go to Janet's blog.
June 29, 2006
This week, it took me quite a while to figure out how to answer the Ask a ScienceBlogger question: "What are some unsung successes that have occurred as a result of using science to guide policy?"
As a relative newcomer to the United States, and even more a newcomer to American politics, I was not…
June 29, 2006
This is in the bread-mold Neurospora crassa. It is unlikely to be universal. I expect to see the connection in some protists and fungi, perhaps in some animals. I am not so sure about plants, and I am pretty sure it is not like this in Cyanobacteria in which the cycle of cell division is…
June 29, 2006
I hope you have heard the Diane Rehm Show on NPR this morning at 10EDT (the first hour of the show). The guest was the presiding Episcopal Bishop-Elect Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first woman to lead the Episcopal Church. She is an amazing woman. You should listen to the show here (Real Audio…
June 29, 2006
Here is a wonderful new study that demonstrates that the antifreeze substances in notothenioid fish are not produced by the liver as was believed for decades and taught in Comparative Physiology courses. Instead, it is produced in two places: most of it in the exocrine pancreas, and somewhat less…
June 29, 2006
The absence of light-dark cycles in space (e.g., on the shuttle or space station) results in disruptions of sleep. It has been proposed that humans who spend prolonged time in space are suffering from jet-lag - the internal desynchronization of clocks in various tissues.
A new experiment on the…
June 29, 2006
Evolution's Lonely Battle in a Georgia Classroom:
OCCASIONALLY, an educational battle will dominate national headlines. More commonly, the battling goes on locally, behind closed doors, handled so discreetly that even a teacher working a few classrooms away might not know. This was the case for Pat…
June 29, 2006
The fifth installment just came in - read under the fold. (Oh, and BTW, I was wrong - the installments ARE in the correct chronological order)
Muyu, extended stay, report
(Mu - you, as in newt)
I never thought it would come to this, having to give a report on my finds and experiences in the town,…
June 29, 2006
This post was first written on October 28, 2004 on Science And Politics, then it was republished on December 05, 2005 on The Magic School Bus. The Village vs. The University - all in your mind.
Eric at Total Information Awareness wrote two excellent posts on something that touches me personally,…
June 29, 2006
Apparently, there is yet another movie made about Tesla this year.
Violet Fire Opera is an opera about Tesla. It will open in National Theater in Belgrade on July 10th.
There is some stuff about the history of radio and moving pictures. Both essays mention Tesla's contributions.
Tesla Roadster is…
June 29, 2006
WHY DAVID BRODER AND MARSHALL WITTMAN THREATEN DEMOCRACY:
If you look out over the landscape and think that both sides are equally bad and that the answer is somewhere in the middle, then you aren't looking very closely. In fact, you're not looking at all. You're letting a pre-existing concept (the…
June 29, 2006
The fifth part of Kevin's snake research in rural China is coming up on this blog today at noon. How do you think Kevin became such a scientist at such a young age? And how can we get more Kevins? Answer: science teachers in our schools. That is why we need to help teachers make science alive…
June 28, 2006
...if we all pitch in an help the challengers to get elected to the Kansas School Board - those people who are trying to replace the Creationists and get science education in the state back on track. How can you help? Josh Rosenau of Thoughts From Kansas has all the information put together so…
June 28, 2006
...so now you know. CFeagans, Mike Dunford and Dave S. were the closest to the correct diagnosis in the comments. You should start a car-repair show on NPR, guys!
I also needed - badly - new front tires and alignment. Total cost = St.Peter's scrambled eggs!
June 28, 2006
Carnival of Education #73 is up on The Lilting House.
Carnival of Homeschooling #26 is up on The Homeschool Cafe.
June 28, 2006
This is one a couple of posts about Creationism, written originally on May 1st, 2005.
Creationism Is Just One Symptom Of Conservative Pathology
I am not an "evolutionist". I am not a "Darwinist". I am a biologist. Thus, by definition, I am an evolutionary biologist. Although my research is in…
