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I really did not have time to follow up on the whole case, but Alun has so check out his latest.... And you can always be up to date by following the postings on the APWR Central blog. I wish the whole thing was just an April's Fool joke, but unfortunately, it is just one's fool's joke that…
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A review of evo-devo (Jenner, R.A., Wills, M.A. (2007) The choice of model organisms in evo-devo. Nat Rev Genet. 8:311-314. Epub 2007 Mar 6.) is starting to make rounds on the blogs. I cannot access the paper (I'd like to have it if someone wants to e-mail me the PDF), but the press release (also…
The best way to make it easy for the low-brow followers to kill the enemy is to dehumanize it. That is what right-wing talking-heads have been doing for a while. Of course, if someone actually gets killed, they did not do it - they were just telling "jokes" on radio or TV.
When I ask a guy for something, I may get Yes as an answer half the time and No half the time. Yes mostly means Yes and No means No. If the answer is "Let me think about it", that means usually that within 24 hours or so I will get a definitve Yes or No answer.
If I ask a woman for something, I…
Jason drove down to Knoxville and attended an ID-Creationist "conference" and lived to tell about it. And tell he did, in five installments:
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All the usual suspects were there and all the usual nonsense was spouted, but the most interesting part was the Subway-line…
Alun Salt will be leading a session about the Peer-to-peer publishing and the creative process, i.e., publishing papers on blogs at the Classical Association conference at Birmingham so he has written a post on things he wants to say there - quite an excellent summary of pros and cons of the idea…
On her blog, of course:
For my money, John Edwards is the best candidate out there. Clinton has Iraqi and American blood on her hands; Obama has yet to lay out clear economic alternatives; and, although they might once have been Republican moderates, McCain and Giuliani are shamelessly snuggling up…
First, there was a Tree Octopus, but now, there is an even more endangered animal - the Mountain Walrus:
Having just eaten a substantial meal, this herd will not have to hunt again for many days. For now, these mustangs are safe from the satiated walruses. Mountain walruses are carnivorous animals…
In today's issue of Science, there is a study showing that hunting of sharks, by eliminating the main predator of rays, leads to a decline in the ray's - and ours - food: the scallops:
A team of Canadian and American ecologists, led by world-renowned fisheries biologist Ransom Myers at Dalhousie…
There is a growing, glowing discussion about the usefulness of college science labs that was started with an anti-lab post by Steve Gimbel and responded to, with various degrees of pro-lab sentiment by Janet Stemwedel, Chad, Chad again, Chad yet again, Razib, Jeremy and RPM and numerous commenters…
Overfishing Large Sharks Impacts Entire Marine Ecosystem, Shrinks Shellfish Supply:
Fewer big sharks in the oceans mean that bay scallops and other shellfish may be harder to find at the market, according to an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science, tying two unlikely links in the…
I guess some people have no sense of aesthetic pleasure, no personal connection to nature, and no ability to think beyond money, money, money. They want to drill in Chaco Canyon, of all places! Apparently, there is more time to act, as the drilling is being assessed. During that brief respite,…
The April Fool's Day edition of the Tar Heel Tavern will appear on Sunday, April 1st, on Scrutiny Hooligans, so send your entries by Saturday at midnight to: scrutinyhooligans AT yahoo DOT com
Heureka is an online popular science magazine in Austria which you should check out, especially if you can read German. But some things are in English, including this interview with yours truly...
There also blurbs about it (in German) in derStandard online and hardcopy, as well as on their…
On The Scientist website you can find their new experimental feature - an article with questions to the public that will be used in forming the articles for the print version of the magazine next month. Go see Special Feature: Stem cell cloning needs you: In a unique experiment we're inviting you…
Ewwwww! UCLA Anthropologist Studies Evolution's Disgusting Side:
Behind every wave of disgust that comes your way may be a biological imperative much greater than the urge to lose your lunch, according to a growing body of research by a UCLA anthropologist.
The Delayed Rise Of Present-day Mammals:…
Times are changing and the variety is endless. See what Anton and Erin, The Woomers and Jenny F. Scientist ended up doing and why.
Then, read the posts and comment threads by Amanda and on Chaos Theory.
And in the marketplace. Jean-Claude Bradley was one of the people interviewed for a segment on Open Science on NPR's Marketplace this morning. You can read the transcript and hear the podcast here. Thanks Anton for the heads-up.
Migratory Birds: Innocent Scapegoats For The Dispersal Of The H5N1 Virus:
A review to be published shortly in the British Ornithologists' Union's journal, Ibis, critically examines the arguments concerning the role of migratory birds in the global dispersal of the highly pathogenic avian influenza…
