clock | January 9, 2007How Fish Species Suffer As A Result Of Warmer Waters:
Ongoing global climate change causes changes in the species composition of marine ecosystems, especially in shallow coastal oceans. This applies also to fish populations. Previous studies demonstrating a link between global warming and declining fish stocks were based entirely on statistical data. However, in order to estimate future changes, it is essential to develop a deeper understanding of the effect of water temperature on the biology of organisms under question.
How Trees Manage Water In Arid Environments:
Water scarcity is slowly…
clock | January 9, 2007
Corie Lok of Nature Publishing Group's Boston Beat is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 8, 2007When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Steven Wright (1955 - )
clock | January 8, 2007
Songphan Choemprayong is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 8, 2007Science Daily should know better. The title is OK:
Annual Plants May Cope With Global Warming Better Than Long-living Species
But look at the first sentence:
Countering Charles Darwin's view that evolution occurs gradually, UC Irvine scientists have discovered that plants with short life cycles can evolutionally adapt in just a few years to climate change.
Excuse me, but there is nothing there countering Darwin, or countering gradual evolution!
They are mixing two senses of the word "slowly". Under the same strength of selective pressure, all organisms will evolve at the same rate. That…
clock | January 8, 2007
My SciBlings Dave and Greta Munger are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 8, 2007I know you've all been waiting for this. Well, after two all-nighters, the deed is done. Under the fold is the final list of 50 posts that will be included in the anthology. There may be some small changes if some of the authors refuse (or never get back to me in the first place), but I have a couple of posts in reserve for such eventualities.
This was a heck of a job (and I hope I did better than Brownie...) to do. All science bloggers are my friends, and all the submitted posts were excellent. Cutting down from 218 down to 50 was a heart-wrenching, blood-sweat-and-tears kind of a job (…
clock | January 8, 2007Only 10 days left until the conference! You can imagine that Anton, Brian, Paul and I are in quite a frenzy over it, planning every last detail. Name tags? Name tags! Cups and napkins? Chauffering people between the airport, hotels, the conference and the dinners? Reserving the restaurant spaces. Printing the program. Oh, and the anthology!
So, go to the homepage and see how wonderfully the program has evolved, how many people (and what great diversity!) have signed up and, if you are coming, feel free to edit the wiki pages attached to each of the sessions - let's start the…
clock | January 8, 2007The 57th installment of the Carnival of the Godless is up on Daily Irreverence
clock | January 8, 2007
Erin Knight of the The Hamner Institutes is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 7, 2007Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
clock | January 7, 2007
Michelle Ellis is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 7, 2007Yes, the best blog awards in the history of the Universe are ready to go again! Go here and start nominating! Dont' you think that Scienceblogs.com is one awesome "blog community" and should be nominated in that category?
clock | January 7, 2007OK, the Final 50 are soon to be revealed (tomorrow right here in this place)! I have notified the "winners" and I hope they all respond (several already did) and agree for their work to be included (not everyone self-nominated posts). Just in case....I have a few posts in "reserve" to plug in if someone decides to opt out....
I also received a couple of great covers - it will be difficult to make the final choice on those as well.
I'll keep you up to date as this endeavor progresses....
clock | January 7, 2007
Lenis Chen of UNC's DESTINY Traveling Science Learning Program is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 7, 2007
Getting Livestock Vaccines Past A Maternal Block:
Use of a virus linked to the common cold is among the novel approaches Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Iowa are using to bypass maternal defenses that thwart vaccination of very young livestock.
Age, Gender Major Factors In Severity Of Auto-accident Injuries:
Understanding the differences among drivers in different gender and age categories is crucial to preventing serious injuries, said researchers in a new study showing stark statistical differences in traffic-accident injuries depending on the gender and age of drivers.…
clock | January 7, 20077th Annual Weblog Awards are now taking nominations. Go and nominate your favourites. Need inspiraiton? Check my blogroll!