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A Blog Around The Clock: What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?
A Blog Around The Clock: My latest scientific paper: Extended Laying Interval of Ultimate Eggs of the Eastern Bluebird
A Blog Around The Clock: Evolutionary Medicine: Does reindeer have a circadian stop-watch instead of a clock?
A Hot Cup of Joe: About Cognitive Archaeology
A Hot Cup of Joe: Application of Cognitive Archaeology
A Meandering Scholar: Back to basics: The Evolution of a Postdoc
A Wonderful Day for Anthropology: Sexual Dimorphism in Human Breasts: An Examination of Three Evolutionary Perspectives
Anna's Bones: The Ape That Wouldn't Grow Up
The Anthropology of Everyday Life: Step Right Up and Give Us Your DNA
The Anthropology of Everyday Life: The Angels are Flying
The Anthropology of Everyday Life: Dancing by the Nile, Ladies Loved His Style....
If The Shoe Fits
Anthropology in Practice: The Irish Diaspora: Why Even Trinidadians Are a Little Irish
Anthropology in Practice: RSVP--A Cultural Construct?
Anthropology in Practice: Death 2.0: Digital Mourning
Anthropology in Practice: Is Your Time My Time? Deconstructing "Social" Time (2)
Anthropology in Practice: Dealing With 'Digital Distractions' in the Classroom
Anthropology in Practice: Extra! Extra! (Some) Print Media Is Not Dead!
Anthropology in Practice: Bullying and Emotional Intelligence on the Web
Anthropology in Practice: Standardized Time and Power Relations
Archy: Mammoths, floods, and whatnot
Back Re(action): To whom it may concern (poem)
Back Re(action): What is a scientific prediction?
Bad Science: Is it okay to ignore results from people you don't trust?
Bjoern Brembs Blog: In which potatoes in France are like high-ranking journals in science
The Black Hole: Say NO to the Second Post Doc!
The Black Hole: Devils of Details: Getting Scientists to Understand How Policy Making Works
The Black Hole: Two heads are better than one: Making a case for jointly run labs
Blag Hag: In the name of science, I offer my boobs and A quick clarification about Boobquake and Head of Iran's Guardian Council supports Sedighi's earthquake hypothesis and And the boobquake experiment has begun..., And the Boobquake results are in!, Why boobquake isn't destroying feminism and The Iranian and Muslim response to Boobquake collected and edited as a single entry.
Built On Facts: The Theory of Theory
Byte Size Biology: Highly Evolved
Byte Size Biology: Well, color me surprised
Byte Size Biology: Obesity: the Role of the Immune System
Byte Size Biology: Comparative Functional Genomics: Penguin vs. Bacterium
Byte Size Biology: Protein function, promiscuity, moonlighting and philosophy
Canadian GirlPostdoc in America: Dissent gets a fat lip.
Canadian GirlPostdoc in America: Slow Science Gets the Shaft - Part Deux
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Crispy on the Outside (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Molecules of Song (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Cryosat-2, Orbital Mosquito Hunter (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Now You See It... (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Military Objective (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Avoiding the Sugar Buzz (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: 2010 GA6, Space Yacht (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Gut Instinct (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: The Search For Night Life (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Unruffled Tuxedos (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Her Sense of Timing (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Watching Their Backs (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Disorienteering (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Floral Rearrangement (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: In Development (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Power Plant (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Breathless Find (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Eyjafjallajökull (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: A Grain of Exposure (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: A Project With Teeth (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: A Head For Fashion (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Equatorial Engine (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Inherited Hunger (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Going the Distance (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Manipulations (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Current Events (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Pattern Masters (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Shutter Bug (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Rules of Virtual Engagement (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Reflections on 24-Themis (poem)
CMBR: Flu shots all around! But is it the best way?
CMBR: Attn: Science journalists. It's time to break the mold.
Code For Life: Book sales, frumpy readers, and mental rotation of book titles
Computing Intelligence: Sloppy Language in Science on Human Uniqueness
Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat: On Peer Review
CultureLab: Celebrating the real Einstein
Culturing Science: Octopuses doing tricks on the internet and our search for non-human 'intelligence'
Darryl Cunningham Investigates: The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield (comic strip)
Deep Thoughts and Silliness: Branch Lengths and Species
The Digital Cuttlefish: A Batty Problem (poem)
The Dispersal of Darwin: The Discovery Institute needs a dictionary
Dot Earth: My Second Half
Dot Physics: MythBusters' energy explanation
Dr. Carin Bondar...biologist with a twist: Darwin's 'Survival of the Fittest' meets the irresponsible Homo sapiens
Dr. Carin Bondar...biologist with a twist: Chemical Espionage, Anti-Aphrodisiacs and Hitchhiking...all in a Day's Work for a Parasitoid Wasp!
Dr. Kaku's Universe: The Bizarre and Wonderful World of Quantum Theory--And How Understanding It Has Ultimately Changed Our Lives
Endless Forms: Crown Jewel of Biodiversity on the Edge
Endless Forms: Saving face: Salamanders show why it's important to know thy enemies
Endless Forms: Boozing Treeshrews: Heavyweight drinkers in small packages
Ever Wondered? (Scienceline): How Does a Venus Flytrap Work?
Freethinker's Asylum: Alpha, Beta, and Power
Genetic Maize: GMOs Could Render Important Antibiotics Worthless
Greg Laden: Are you are real skeptic, or are you just faithing it?
hgg: Anthology of science writing: now almost 4 % with ovaries!
ICBS Everywhere: Fun Does Not Sell Smarts
ICBS Everywhere: BS for George Takei Fans and Consumers
ICBS Everywhere: There Must Be an Idiom
ICBS Everywhere: Narcissism + Incompetence = Ignorance and More Incompetence
Ionian Enchantment: Anecdotes as evidence
Ionian Enchantment: The Cost of Truth is Eternal Vigilance
Laelaps: Off the prehistoric coast of Panama, a mega-toothed shark nursery
The Language of Bad Physics: The Language of Science - it's 'just a theory'
The Language of Bad Physics: Experiments in Non-Relativistic Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Made for Each Other: Evolution of Monogamy in Poison Frogs
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): UV, You See? Black Light Reveals Secrets in Fossils
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Fly Me to the Moon: The Incredible Migratory Journey of the Arctic Tern
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Darwin's Finches Develop Immunity to Alien Parasites
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Is That A T. rex Up Your Nose? New Species of Nose-dwelling Leech Discovered
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): (How) Are Birds Affected by Volcanic Ash?
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): How Will You Celebrate International Migratory Bird Day?
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): What do Great Tits Reveal about the Genetics of Personality?
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Racehorse Research Identifies Speed Gene
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Fossil Feather Colors Really ARE Written In Stone
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Fetid Fish Revise Understanding of Fossil Formation
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Oiled SeaBirds: To Kill Or Not To Kill? What Is The Ethical Thing To Do?
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Newly Described Bird-like Dinosaur Predates Archaeopteryx by 15-20 Million Years
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Gulf Oil Spill Disaster: Spawn of the Living Dead for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna?
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Ancient DNA from Fossil Eggshells May Provide Clues to Eggstinction of Giant Birds
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Orange Stripey Dinosaurs? Fossil Feathers Reveal Their Secret Colors
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Migratory Monarch Butterflies 'See' Earth's GeoMagnetic Field
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Colorful Tits Produce Speedier Sperm
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Doing It For the Kids: The Evolution of Migration
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Distressed Ravens Show That Empathy Is For The Birds, Too
The Loom: Skull Caps and Genomes
Maniraptora: Tastes Like Chicken: Size Matters -- Bigger is Better, Even for Male Pipefish
Maniraptora: Tastes Like Chicken: Gender-Bending Chickens: Mixed, Not Scrambled
The Martian Chronicles: How to cure the Avatar Blues
Mauka to Makai: Barnacle Sex
Maxwell's Demon: Spirographs and the third dimension
Maxwell's Demon: The Laws of Gelada (How to be a grad student)
Medical & Bio-Inspired Innovations: Blood Pressure, Medication, Diet, And Dementia: What The Recent Research Tells Us
Mental indigestion: Your microbiome and you (part I): Gut
Mental indigestion: The grass isn't always greener...
Mind the Gap: In which I dream of revolution
Mr Science Show: For a healthy relationship, men should be ugly and rich, women pretty and mixed-race
Mr Science Show: Correlation of the Week: Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent
Mr Science Show: How do you spell goal?
Neurotopia: Attractiveness, anger, and warrior princess blondes
Neurotopia: A Letter to a Grad Student
Neurotopia: Friday Weird Science: Why does asparagus make your pee smell?
Neurotopia: On Animal Research
Nutrition Wonderland: The Truth About Organic Farming
Nutrition Wonderland: Understanding Our Bodies: Insulin
Observations of a Nerd: Evolution: The Curious Case of Dogs
Observations of a Nerd: Psych FAIL
Observations of a Nerd: Evolution: Watching Speciation Occur
Observations of a Nerd: Ancient Sex Scandals: Did We Get It On With Neandertals?
Observations of a Nerd: Reflections on the Gulf Oil Spill - Conversations With My Grandpa
Observations of a Nerd: Tuna
Opinionator (Olivia Judson): Laboratory Life
Opinionator (Olivia Judson): Evolving Sexual Tensions
Opinionator (Olivia Judson): Divide and Diminish
Opinionator (Olivia Judson): Enter the Chronotherapists
Oscillator: Knowledge is Power and Biology is Power, perhaps fused into a single essay.
Pharyngula: How to make a snake
PodBlack Cat: Presenting, Minorities And The Token Skeptic At #AtheistCon
Poseidon Sciences: The Agony and the Ecstasy: Why science writing is like learning tango and Chinese brush painting
Prof-Like Substance: Can I get a Land's End catalog, STAT?
Promega Connections: How do I Describe Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Promega Connections: Mate Selection at Frog Cocktail Parties: Keep it Short, Low, Loud, and Stand Out from the Crowd (Oh, and have a colorful vocal sac, too)
Reciprocal Space: I have discovered Jupiter
Reciprocal Space: Judgement Days
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Extracting the stopper.
Rennie's Last Nerve: Blood Simple: Mammoths, mice, malaria and hemoglobin
Rennie's Last Nerve: Energetically Batty
Respectful Insolence: When what an acupuncture study shows is much more interesting than what acupuncture believers think it shows
Sandwalk: On the Origin of the Double Membrane in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Epistemological Anarchists (comic/cartoon)
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week: Lies, damned lies, and Clash of the Dinosaurs
Save Your Breath For Running Ponies: Your Friends Aren't Just Going To Forget You Envenomated Them, Sinornithosaurus.
Save Your Breath For Running Ponies: You Should Probably Just Move Oceans, Male Gulf Pipefish
Sciencebase: Whatever happened to the audiophile
Science in Seconds: Africa's Next Top Hominid
Science In The Triangle (DeLene Beeland): Hibernation devastation: White-nose syndrome and our bats
Science Progress: Ecosystems In the Age of Cassandra
The Science Talent Project: Happy song scientists and sad song scientists
The Scientist: On Public Relations
Skeptic Wonder: Social onycophorans!
Skulls in the Stars: Perpetual motion -- nonsense for over 100 years
Skulls in the Stars: Rolling out the (optical) carpet: the Talbot effect
Skulls in the Stars: Mythbusters were scooped -- by 130 years! (Archimedes death ray)
Skulls in the Stars: Singular Optics: Light chasing its own tail
Skulls in the Stars: Shocking: Michael Faraday does biology! (1839)
Skulls in the Stars: Invisibility physics: Kerker's 'invisible bodies'
Southern Fried Scientist: The Data Speak
Southern Fried Scientist: Tournament marlins get bigger?
Southern Fried Scientist: Oil Spill vs. Hypoxic Zone
Southern Fried Scientist: Louis Agassiz and a brief history of early United States marine biology
Terra Sigillatta: Marking the magnificient memory of Henrietta Lacks
Testimony of the spade: Surveys on my mind
Testimony of the spade: Door to Door
Tetrapod Zoology: Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis
There and (hopefully) back again...: Everyday (lab) living
The Thoughtful Animal: Snakes on a Muppethugging Plane! (Monday Pets)
Through the Sandglass: Life and art, sand and glass: the wonders of Difflugia
UCAR Magazine: Brrr: The AO is way low
Uncertain Principles: Science Is More Like Sumo Than Soccer
Water Numbers: Peter Gleick at SFGate.com: The best argument against global warming
wet: Save the Whale Poop
Wild Muse: Social networks, and social animals
Wild Muse: Wolf recovery vs. ecosystem health
Wild Muse: Givin' props to hybrids
WooFighters: My Inspiration for Woo Fighters
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