clock | January 15, 2007New Group Of Algae Discovered: Picobiliphytes:
An international group of researchers has succeeded in identifying a previously unknown group of algae. As currently reported in the scientific journal Science, the newly discovered algae are found among the smallest members of photosynthetic plankton - the picoplankton ('Picobiliphytes: A marine picoplanktonic algal group with unknown affinities to other Eukaroytes" Science, Vol. 316'). On account of the minute size of the organisms (no more than a few thousandth of a millimetre) and the appearance of phycobili-proteins, researchers have termed…
clock | January 15, 2007We had a minor glitch with the cover. It is in the process of getting fixed right now. Stay tuned - the unveiling will be shortly....
clock | January 15, 2007
More information here and the entire speech (in three long clips) here.
Also, Brian Russell: Edwards and Permanent Military bases in Iraq
clock | January 15, 2007It appears that Ed Cone gets some commenters who desperately need to tune in next time Skeptic's Circle comes around! They defend this crap (and, in turn, attack Randi of all people) in the comment thread! Oy vey! Some people still believe in spoon-bending and are vehemently defending it in a public forum with no sense of shame! What woo!
clock | January 15, 2007
Kristen Novak and Bharat Chandramouli are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 15, 2007
Alicia Cypress of The Washington Post and
Newsweek Interactive and Sarah Greene of the New York Times are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 14, 2007I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
clock | January 14, 2007Are you putting in your nominations for the Koufax Awards? Just post links in the comments here. Then, drop a few dollars to the Wampum folks to help them run the Awards. There are only a few days left until the nominations close. Dont' know who to nominate? Check out my Blogroll...
clock | January 14, 2007
Hillary Davis and Judy Knight are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 14, 2007
Mauricio Borgen is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 14, 2007The entire file is now finished - the last quick round of proofreading is all that's left before the Grand Unveiling right at this place (likely tomorrow morning).
Since people nominated the best science posts and those tend to be the most substantial posts which tend to be very long posts (sometimes in two or more parts), the book will be much thicker than I expected - around 330 pages! This, unfortunately, will also make it a tad little bit more expensive (still not hugely expensive - this is online, print-on-demand model of publishing after all).
I got 13 out of 50 letters of agreement/…
clock | January 14, 2007
Mark Case is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 13, 2007Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
clock | January 13, 2007I have just realized that I keep mentioning David Sloan Wilson a lot (see the list of links below), always in a positive light as I think he is one of the pioneers of modern evolutionary theory (as soon as those drunk on Williams 1966 and Dawkins' opus retire or die) but have never really written a good post on group selection. I'll have to do this one day soon - that may be my contribution to the Basic Concepts collection.
Anyway, Wlison just gave a talk in which he presented my favourite example of the test of group selection - in chickens:
Two experiments using chickens show another…
clock | January 13, 2007
Brian Kloepfer of the Carolina Biological Supply Co. is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 13, 2007
Liz Borkowski is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 13, 2007There's No Scent Like Home: New Research Shows Larval Fish Use Smell To Return To Coral Reefs:
Tiny larval fish living among Australia's Great Barrier Reef spend the early days of their lives swept up in ocean currents that disperse them far from their places of birth. Given such a life history, one might assume that fish populations would be genetically homogeneous within the dispersal area. Yet the diversity of reef fish species is high and individual reefs contain different fish populations. For such rich biodiversity to have evolved, some form of population isolation is required. New…