Why are Jamaicans so fast?
Gene Expression
I haven't been watching the Olympics, but my news feeds are broad enough that I get a general...
Magpies in the Mirror
the buzz in the blogosphere
Self-recognition, previously thought to be found only in a small number of mammals, including humans, chimps, dolphins and elephants, has now been observed in birds as well. Psychologists at Goethe University in Germany watched five magpies remove colored stickers from their feathers after viewing their own reflections in a mirror. Their findings indicate that self-recognition, a prerequisite for consciousness, arose at least twice in evolutionary history.
The Magpie in the Mirror
08.20.2008 · Greg Laden
... try to freak out the other chimps by showing it the mirror. They seem to get a kick out of this. Magpies do this too. Well, the magpies don't try to freak each other out, but they...
[Marohasy] promotes ideas that she herself knows are not correct. That is pretty damning evidence that the smell over there really was bull manure and not just poor hygiene.
A Few Things Ill Considered · Making Lemonade · August 20, 2008
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- What year is it, anyway? PZ Myers
- Protecting the Right of Conscience? PZMinion
- The Rick Warren Show Ed Brayton
- Open Thread 12 Tim Lambert
- Women With Their Sexy Hawt Bodies: How's A Man To Look Away? Zuska
- Rote Blutkörperchen aus dem Labor [Was Blogger bewegt]
- Louis J. Ignarro, Medizin 1998 [Nobel Faces]
- Aszendent Liebe: ein selten dummer Film [Astrodicticum Simplex]
- Bis an die Grenzen des Sonnensystems [Astrodicticum Simplex]
- Verhaltenspsychologie: Der Gewinn falscher Erinnerungen [Neurons]
Life Science
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
A Blog Around The Clock
There are 12 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes...
The best bird-day present ever
bioephemera
Check it out! For my birthday, my mom sent me two little bird skulls! They weigh almost...
Physical Science
The physics of ice cream
A Few Things Ill Considered
Check out a cool post (bad pun not intended...unless you thought it was good) on the physics of...
QCMC 2008 Comment Thread
The Quantum Pontiff
QCMC 2008 is being held in Calgary this week. Anyone care to comment on any of the awesome...
The Igneous Petrology of Ice Cream
Green Gabbro
Ice cream is the most delicious of all igneous rocks.
What Impulse Is.
Built on Facts
This is Zhang Juanjuan, immediately after applying an impulse to an arrow. Impulse is something which gets...
Environment
AGW denial roundup
Deltoid
Alicia Newton, an Associate Editor of Nature Geoscience, discovers the truth about CO2Science: But rather than its promise...
Never Say Goodbye: Sharpe's Longclaw
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Let's $upport a young Kenyan man who is dedicating his life to protecting endemic endangered bird species
The Speculation Bubble
Next Generation Energy
Commodities account for the goods that feed us, heat our homes, get our cars cruising, and provide the...
Making Lemonade
A Few Things Ill Considered
I poke into Jennifer Marohasy's blog from time to time, though I am no longer a regular commenter....
Humanities/Social Science
Book Review: War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
Afarensis
Once upon a time it used to be thought that "primitives" lead lives that were, to quote Hobbes,...
West 66th/Lincoln Center Subway Art 41
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another lovely glass mosaic mural artwork from NYC's subway system for you to enjoy, courtesy of me!
On Hanging Out With Creationists
EvolutionBlog
Some of the comments to my posts on the creationism conference reminded me of a scene from the...
Sentences in review
The World's Fair
Continuing in our series of things I don't understand, let's talk about language. You be the judge.
Education and Politics Weekly Channel Highlights
In this post: the large versions of the Education & Careers and Politics channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week.
Why do you blog, and how does blogging help with your research?
Education & Careers
Most Scientists are Perfectly Happy Not Publishing in GlamourMagz
DrugMonkey
An absolutely brilliantly expressed observation on a recent post reminded me of a point that I cannot make...
Make the Right Claims
Uncertain Principles
Chris Mooney has a new Science Progress column on the number of scientists that challenges the claim that...
Does this sound like you?
Sciencewomen
In my inbox this afternoon:We are requesting your help in identifying participants for a study that we are...
Cosmos is on iTunes
Greg Laden's Blog
Cosmos, the TV show by Carl Sagen, as in: Anyway, Cosmos is now available on iTunes. If you...
Politics
Security theater
Thoughts from Kansas
Airline captain, lawyer, child on terror 'watch list': James Robinson is a retired Air National Guard brigadier general...
This image does NOT need a caption
Greg Laden's Blog
An Ossetian protester holds a poster parodying US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a rally outside...
Expect McCain to "Prime" the Russian Bear
Framing Science
The GOP understands the science of voter psychology...
The Commodity Speculation Bubble
The Intersection
The spike in commodity prices is giving us a taste of the future.
Medicine & Health
Doctors aren't preachers (or at least they shouldn't be)
denialism blog
I've written a number of times about how a physician must be careful not impose his or her...
The Fit-Fat Fight Reignites
Pure Pedantry
The fit-fat fight -- whether someone can be obese but still healthy -- has reignited (if it ever...
Rats! My Academic Woo Aggregator is hopelessly out of date
Respectful Insolence
Quackademic medicine with a Spanish flavor infiltrates the Southwest.
Seeding trials---no relation to Seed Media Group, LLC
denialism blog
I've been having an internal debate about whether to write on this issue, not because it isn't interesting,...
Brain & Behavior
The Magpie in the Mirror
Greg Laden's Blog
A typical adult human recognizes that the image one sees in a mirror is oneself. We do not...
Unhappiness and Advertising
The Frontal Cortex
Here's Seth Godin: A journalist asked me, Most people have a better standard of living today than Louis...
To Equine Things There is a Season (guest post by Barn Owl)
A Blog Around The Clock
As I announced this morning, there will be several guest posts here over the next several weeks. The...
Free Will and Ethics
The Frontal Cortex
Over at Mind Matters, we've got an interesting article on how believing in free will can affect our...
Technology
The future of desktop computing
Greg Laden's Blog
The Linutop is a tiny Linux computer that you stick onto the back of your flat screen monitor...
Ocular Character Recognition
Aardvarchaeology
The CAPTCHA project uses brain time that would otherwise just go to waste.
How to get scientists to adopt web 2.0 technologies - Obligatory Reading of the Day
A Blog Around The Clock
Eva Amsen: How to get scientists to adopt web 2.0 technologies: Many, if not most, scientists are not...
How to moderate a conference panel
A Blog Around The Clock
Jeremiah Owyang: How to Successfully Moderate a Conference Panel, A Comprehensive Guide Not all of it is applicable...
