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August 7, 2008
A Blog Around The Clock
My picks from ScienceDaily Olympic Games: Researchers Explore What Makes Better Athletes, The Physiology Of Performance, And More: The world-record pace for the marathon continues to improve for both men and women. For men, the record pace for the marathon is now about as...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
American Avocets 3 Another astonishing image for you to enjoy, courtesy of a talented photographer!
Discovering Biology in a Digital World
The five little Boogers and how they grew While American scientitsts make glowing fish, Koreans make glowing kitties and cute little puppies.
The World's Fair
Maybe we humans know only measurable things The Grass Seed, a graphic story/comic strip by Claudia Davila at Ballyhoo Stories
The Daily Transcript
A way to break out of the pyramid scheme Boom-bust cycles have caused many hardships especially within the lowest ranks of academia.
Mike the Mad Biologist
OK, Now I'm Convinced There Isn't an Anthrax Mixture The inversion is not enough evidence to conclude that two anthrax strains were used.
Framing Science
For UW-Madison Readers: Talk on Framing and the Marketing Problem in Science For Madison area readers, a great opportunity to discuss face-to-face the framing science debate...
Laelaps
Dinosaurs and the Red Queen Hadrosaurs are often called the "cows of the Cretaceous." They were common, had few defenses compared to their armored ornithischian kin, and were a favorite prey for predatory dinosaurs. Natural selection appears to have applied sufficient pressure for at...
The Intersection
Welcome To Existence This planet is a wonderful place and you have so much to look forward to...
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #332: Eastern tiger swallowtails Two-tailed swallowtail butterflies (Papilio glaucus) on a butterfly bush in central New Jersey. Photographed August 2, 2008....
Not Exactly Rocket Science
The virophage - a virus that infects other viruses Sputnik is a virus of viruses and infects the replication machinery of one of the world's largest.
August 6, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
DrugMonkey
The Statistics of Sports Doping The Summer Olympics are finally upon us. No doubt there will be some interesting sports doping cases arising. While we're waiting, might as well beat a dead horse and see if we can get anything out of it. The latest...
A Blog Around The Clock
My picks from ScienceDaily Duck-billed Dinosaurs Outgrew Predators To Survive: With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Sputnik Challenges Our Current Definition of Life If you thought giant viruses that blur the line between life and non-life were cool wait till you check this out: those viruses can get infected -- by other viruses
Discovering Biology in a Digital World
Support animal research, save lives When female bloggers get death threats for comparing a Batman movie to a poor business plan, and friends can have their lab fire bombed for doing plant genetics, it's sometimes a little scary to step into the fray and take a stand on controversial issues. But that's the point. We have to speak out. Scary or not, unless we speak...
A Blog Around The Clock
The Genius of Charles Darwin Not on US television (Channel 4 in the UK only): Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 [Via]...
Laelaps
Speculation overload = hed asplode I didn't get a chance to see last night's Jurassic Fight Club (you can see my thoughts on the first episode here) but someone has put the "main event" up on the web. I don't know whether to laugh or...
Pharyngula
The Genius of Charles Darwin It's on the internets. The opening is something that I can't imagine flying by on American television: he simply says that evolution is a vastly superior explanation to anything religion has ever provided....
A Blog Around The Clock
Domestication - it's a matter of time (always is for me, that's my 'hammer' for all nails) Since this article came out in The American Scientist (the only pop-sci magazine that IMHO has not gone downhill in quality over the past decade) in early 1999 (you can read the entire thing here (pdf)) I have read it...
The Frontal Cortex
Sleepy This ridiculously adorable video cheered me up today: Via Ezra Klein and Zooillogix...
Zooillogix
Captive Tuatara to Father a Child at the Age of 111 Henry the Tuatara has recently knocked up one of his mates, Mildred who's only 70-80 (scaaaandal!), in their museum enclosure/retirement complex at the Southland Museum on New Zealand's South Island. The couple now have a stack of 12 eggs.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Behold The Pale Horse: The Genetics of Color and Cancer The Gray mutation of horses is a beautiful example of the profound effects that a mutation can have upon regulation of gene expression and how that can cause dramatic color changes, development of cancer -- and even the appearance of new species.
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Duck-billed dinosaur defended itself by outgrowing predators The bone rings of Hypacrosaurus reveal an early growth spurt that helped it outsize predatory peers.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
American Avocets 2 Another lovely image of a delicate and colorful shorebird, thanks to a talented photographer!
“When a species as boring as the dog gets more attention than the entire parvorder of the wonderful cavio- morpha, something is horribly wrong! brtkrbzhnv on Okapi in NC!
