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May 12, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
Tricoloured Mega-colony Saved Audubon California has announced that it has reached an agreement with a farmer to safeguard a single colony of about 80,000 Tricoloured Blackbirds Agelaius tricolor - nearly a third of the world's population of this Endangered species. The estimated global population of Tricoloured Blackbirds is...
The Loom
Boston and Chicago: Taking Microcosm on the Road I'm heading to Boston on Friday to speak at the Harvard Book Store about Microcosm. It's at 7 pm, and it's free. Information is here. Then it's on to Chicago, where I'll be talking at the Field Museum on Saturday...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Blue Enough For Ya? Another amazing image for you to enjoy, courtesy of a friend and long-time reader!
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches by Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant, this book discusses how Darwin's finches teach us about the relationship between ecology and evolution.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Birds in the News 130 Another edition of the original online newsletter devoted to collecting international stories about birds in the news.
Laelaps
Finding the "Meaning of Fossils" Standing in front of a small tank of mudskippers in the special "Water" exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, I heard a gentleman next to me comment to his friend "You know, if evolution is true, it's...
Developing Intelligence
Time Distortion Due to Visual Flicker Time pervades our understanding of the world - we use it to coordinate our movements, to perceive motion, to plan our behaviors, and perhaps even to understand causality. But it is an under-appreciated factor in cognition. Even in the domain...
Gene Expression
Browsing biology on the web: NextBio Last year p-ter put up a post pointing to useful online tools such as Haplotter. One of the great things about biology today is that so much of the data from genomics is being thrown out there within reach of...
Greg Laden's Blog
Paul Ewald: Can we domesticate germs? Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, fascinating case: diarrhea....
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
One Day Late for Mother's Day A streaming video of bunny lurve -- or should I say "steaming video"? Bonus fun viewing for furries.
A Blog Around The Clock
Friday Weird Sex Blogging - Deepest Lovin' According to the referrers pages of my Sitemeter, a lot of you are excited by strange penises, strange penises, strange penises and strange penises (or something like it). So, today we have to move to a different topic, traffic-be-damned, for...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Orchid lures in pollinating wasps with promise of fresh meat The broad-leaved helleborine mimics chemicals that other plants use to signal the presence of caterpillars to wasps
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #246: Amur Tiger Zeff, a female Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed last year at the Bronx Zoo....
Tetrapod Zoology
The Crystal Palace monsters, armoured tyrannosaurs and lurking sauropods: a look back at 'Dinosaurs - A Historical Perspective' (part I) So, was it really 'the best conference of all time'? Hmm, maybe, but it was excellent and all went well (more or less). On May 6th and 7th I attended 'Dinosaurs (and other extinct saurians) - A Historical Perspective',...
May 11, 2008
Afarensis
Know Your Primate: Pan paniscus Know Your Primate grew out of posts I wrote specifically for the Friday Ark back on my old blog. The point was to write short, informative posts about whatever species struck my fancy (and at that point was not limited...
A Blog Around The Clock
A cellular riddle It takes 38 minutes for the E.coli genome to replicate. Yet, E.coli can bo coaxed to divide in a much shorter time: 20 minutes. How is this possible? Larry poses the riddle and provides the solution. The key is that...
Stranger Fruit
Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi keeps on rocking in the free world Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, a trapdoor spider recently discovered in Alabama and named after Neil Young. Arachnophiles can click to enlarge - arachnophobes probably don’t want to....
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Buzzard Yoga Anothe interesting image of the day for you to enjoy, courtesy of a friend and long-time reader!
A Blog Around The Clock
My Picks From ScienceDaily Dying Bats In The Northeast U.S. Remain A Mystery: Investigations continue into the cause of a mysterious illness that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of bats since March 2008. At more than 25 caves and mines in the...
Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge
Florida, vanity, and lying healthcare dispensers If there's one part of the country that may be as obsessed with its collective personal appearance as Los Angeles, it's Florida -- specifically its larger cities and metropolitan areas, especially those in the state's southern coastal areas: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West...
The Daily Transcript
Systems Biology - I'm coming around to it How are signal cascades built? And how can we decipher their inner workings? Alex van Oudenaarden shows how.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
The Birdbooker Report 13 A list of ecology, natural history and bird books that are (or will soon be) available for purchase.
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #245: African elephant A female African elephant (Loxodonta africana), photographed last year at the Philadelphia Zoo....
May 10, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
Pathway of Blood Through the Heart And don't forget: Blood is NEVER blue!...
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REPOST: Creationist Claims about ERVs Common Creationist Claims about Endogenous Retroviruses
“We focus on intelligence because that's our own crowning achievement—but if we were flies, we'd be studying flight.” agnostic on The Cost of Smarts
