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Olympic Games: Researchers Explore What Makes Better Athletes, The Physiology Of Performance, And More: The world-record pace for...
A Virus-Infecting Virus
the buzz in the blogosphere
For the first time, scientists have discovered a virus which replicates itself by infecting larger viruses. The University of the Mediterranean biologists who found the virus have named it Sputnik (Russian for "fellow traveler") and created a new family—virophage—to classify it. Its discovery raises a hotly debated question: Are viruses alive?
The virophage - a virus that infects other viruses
08.07.2008 · Ed Yong
... "virophages" - in honour of the similarities it shares with the bacteriophage viruses that use bacteria as hosts. The story of Sputnik started in 1992 with some dirty English water. A group of scientists were studying an amoeba...
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Until the rich countries show the rest of the world you can maintain economic development without building traditional coal plants, nothing else we do will really matter.
Next Generation Energy · The crucial first step in the global clean energy transition · August 7, 2008
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- Progressives put pressure on Obama PZ Myers
- Oklahoma, you can do better than Sally Kern PZ Myers
- The Million Man Prayer Ed Brayton
- Obama Handles Ignorant Douchebag Ed Brayton
- Tell us who you are! Alice
- Der vierte Aggregatzustand von Wasser... [Wissen schafft Kommunikation]
- Ein Arbeitsplatz [Wissen schafft Kommunikation]
- Unser Sommerrätsel - die KLEINE ZEITUNG braucht Ihre Hilfe! [Kritisch gedacht]
- Schwimmanzüge wie eine Haut aus Doping [Neurons]
- Eine kurze Geschichte der Planetenentstehung [Hinterm Mond gleich links]
Life Science
American Avocets 3
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another astonishing image for you to enjoy, courtesy of a talented photographer!
OK, Now I'm Convinced There Isn't an Anthrax Mixture
Mike the Mad Biologist
The inversion is not enough evidence to conclude that two anthrax strains were used.
For UW-Madison Readers: Talk on Framing and the Marketing Problem in Science
Framing Science
For Madison area readers, a great opportunity to discuss face-to-face the framing science debate...
Physical Science
Falcon failure diagnosis
Dynamics of Cats
SpaceX has explanation for Falcon 1 stage separation failure in 3rd launch failure With mo' better video....
"use-inspired research"
Dynamics of Cats
reasons for tenure #24952 ORNL fires Distinguished Scientist, UT picks up slack...
Cassini Prepares to Swoop by Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon
Greg Laden's Blog
From NASA: Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's moon Enceladus will be the target...
Don't rely on secondary sources, educate yourself!
A Few Things Ill Considered
Fed up of trying to decide who to believe in the endless blog wars over climate science? Well,...
Environment
Unintended consequences of growing local: Son eats spinach (or the plight of the picky picky eater)
The World's Fair
See this: This glorious piece of work is doing amazing things, amazing things!...
Got milk, in Turkey?
Gene Expression
New Results On The Domestication Of Barley In Iran & Cattle In Turkey. And stuff on milk a...
Environment, Humanities and Education Weekly Channel Highlights
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In this post: the large versions of the Environment, Humanities & Social Science and Education & Careers channel...
Tectonics shown to drive changes in biodiversity
Highly Allochthonous
No surprise to anyone - except biologists, apparently.
Humanities/Social Science
The five little Boogers and how they grew
Discovering Biology in a Digital World
While American scientitsts make glowing fish, Koreans make glowing kitties and cute little puppies.
Maybe we humans know only measurable things
The World's Fair
The Grass Seed, a graphic story/comic strip by Claudia Davila at Ballyhoo Stories
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Poster 9
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another Harry Potter movie poster for you to look at -- I am going to ask you to...
Ancient Greek genetic impact on Sicilians?
Gene Expression
Differential Greek and northern African migrations to Sicily are supported by genetic evidence from the Y chromosome: The...
Politics and Medicine Weekly Channel Highlights
In this post: the large version of the Politics and Medicine & Health 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
Bad speling 'should be accepted'
Greg Laden's Blog
Common spelling mistakes should be accepted into everyday use, not corrected, a lecturer has said. Ken Smith of...
Carnivalia
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
more coolio blog carnivals for you to read and enjoy!
Incentives for future science teachers?
Sciencewomen
Dear ScienceWoman, I am starting a career as a teacher and would very much like to enroll...
A way to break out of the pyramid scheme
The Daily Transcript
Boom-bust cycles of NIH funding have caused many hardships especially within the lowest ranks of biomedical academia.
Politics
Anthrax--still a mess
Aetiology
So, after almost a week of intense media scrutiny and finger-pointing at USAMRIID scientist Bruce Ivins as the...
Do not cite or quote
Deltoid
Clif at Sadly No mocks some blogger who thinks that because the draft report Global Climate Change Impacts...
The Arrogance of Power---The Corrupt Mayor of Motown
denialism blog
I usually don't stray into strictly political issues, but today's action by the Mayor of Detroit has me...
Politics and Medicine Weekly Channel Highlights
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In this post: the large version of the Politics and Medicine & Health channel photos, comments from readers,...
Medicine & Health
Book review: "The Animal Research War"
Discovering Biology in a Digital World
An excellent field guide to the animal rights organizations, their strategies, and the consequences for the rest of...
Here's your chance...
Respectful Insolence
...to ask über-quack Hulda Clark, the woman who disagrees with Dr. Simoncini in that she thinks that all...
Diagnosis--what is the value?
denialism blog
In an earlier post, I wrote about the epistemology (or perhaps ontology---we never really did settle it) of...
Aggregated posts from the best (medical) educational blogs
A Blog Around The Clock
Vedran is on the roll! Here is the aggregator for medical education blogs....
Brain & Behavior
Colour-changing photonic crystals could detect traumatic brain injuries in troops
Neurophilosophy
The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs, or roadside bombs) has led to an increase in the numbers...
Lehrer Squared
The Frontal Cortex
I was on the Brian Lehrer show (no relation) this morning talking about insight, firefighters and the right...
If you want to persuade a woman, look straight at her
Cognitive Daily
[This article was originally published in April, 2007] There is a considerable body of research showing that eye...
Morality and Distractions
The Frontal Cortex
Over at Mind Matters we recently featured an interesting article by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Adina Roskies (two philosophers...
Technology
More on DNS Bug
Greg Laden's Blog
Remember the earlier discussion of the DNS bug? If the internet is the post office, the DNS is...
It really is rocket science
Laelaps
Will of The Dragon's Tales is heading a group called Team Phoenicia, their aim being the construction of...
BioBarCamp is in session!
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