clock | January 17, 2007The 1771 edition of the Tangled Bank has been rediscovered by scrupulous historical research on The Voltage Gate.
clock | January 17, 2007Go say Hello to Signout! And send your entries for next week's Grand Rounds right there.
clock | January 17, 2007The 102nd Carnival of Education is up on Dr.Homeslice
Carnival of Homeschooling #55: Parents' Meeting Edition is up on Dewey's Treehouse
clock | January 17, 2007
Brad Herring of the Museum of Life and Science and John Blake of P2LS are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 16, 2007If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.
Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05
clock | January 16, 2007Here is the list of posts in this series so far:
Mean, Median, and Mode
Normal Distribution
Force
Gene
Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
Evolution
Clade
What do you want me to write about? Circadian stuff? Group selection? Animal physiology and behavior?
clock | January 16, 2007As always, fell free to rip apart either the papers or the pre-releases in the comments (if they deserve that, of course - some are OK:
Code Pink: Extreme Weather Leaves Flamingos Hungry:
Lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor) at Lake Bogoria, Kenya, are suffering from malnutrition, report Earthwatch-supported scientists working there. The scientists are investigating the causes of recent large-scale mortality events, resulting in the death of thousands of lesser flamingos in Kenya last year and at least half a million birds during the 1990s. Post-mortem examinations on several flamingos…
clock | January 16, 2007
Catherine Clabby, the science reporter for Raleigh News & Observer and Rob Zelt are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 16, 2007
Trisha Crutchfield and Joy Widmann are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 16, 2007Since the Big Announcement is slowly drifting down the page, I placed a picture of the book on my left sidebar - just click on it!
clock | January 16, 2007Carnival of the Green #60 is up on One/Change
Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 17 is up on Six Until Me
clock | January 16, 2007Why Are Lions Not As Big As Elephants?:
Carnivores are some of the widest ranging terrestrial mammals for their size, and this affects their energy intake and needs. This difference is also played out in the different hunting strategies of small and large carnivores. Smaller species less than 15-20 kg in weight specialize on very small vertebrates and invertebrates, which weigh a small fraction of their own weight, whereas larger species (>15-20 kg) specialize on large vertebrate prey near their own mass. While carnivores around the size of a lynx or larger can obtain higher net energy…
clock | January 16, 2007 *N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
/Downtown Raleigh/
**Thursday, January 18
"Flock of Dodos" screening with filmmaker, Randy Olson
7:00 p.m. Museum Auditorium
Free
*Filmmaker and Evolutionary Ecologist , Dr. Randy Olson, presents his
new film */Flock of Dodos/*: /*The Evolution / Intelligent Design Circus.*/
"Flock of Dodos" is the first feature-length documentary to present both
sides of the Intelligent Design / Evolution clash and tries to make
sense of the issue by visiting Olson's home state of Kansas. The film
digs below the surface of the debate by examining the language being
used by…
clock | January 16, 2007
Kirk Ross, columnist for (and former editor of) The Independent Weekly, as well as hard-blogger on Exile on Jones Street, The Mill and Cape Fear Mercury is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 15, 2007What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.c
M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972), Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)
clock | January 15, 2007Yes! It is finally here! What you have all been waiting for, impatiently, for three weeks! The Science Blogging Anthology is now for sale. Go to Lulu.com by clicking here (or click on the picture of the book to your right) and place your order! You can choose to buy a PDF to download (but do you really want to print out 336 pages!?) or order the book with its pretty cover - it takes only a couple of days to arrive at your doorstep.
You can see here how it all got started, just three weeks ago, smack in the middle of the holidays when nobody was online and traffic was down to a third of…
clock | January 15, 2007
Greg Corrin and Alex Gunn are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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