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Yes, today, PZ is 50 years old!
Archy, Grrrlscientist and myself are compiling linkfests today. Just make sure that you have the word "Myers" in your post (having just "PZ" messes up with some search engines - too short).
This year, Dan Rhoades is the first out of the box with a cool tentacled…
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, ever minutes so filled with the life I love, that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
- Aga Khan III
Regarding my yesterday's post about EurekAlert! dismissing blogs as irrelevant and refusing to disembargo articles to bloggers, I suggest you read what Reed Cartwright wrote about this.
If we all - hundreds of science bloggers - simultaneously go to EurekAlert! registration form and request being…
Growing up in Eastern Europe, there was no avoiding March 8. It was an official holiday, though still a workday (only in the USSR did people get a day off from school and work). It has also evolved over time into an incredibly kitchy holiday, a combined crass commercialized equivalent of Mother's…
I'll have to sift through Neurophilosopher's long, extensive and growing lists of Natural History blogs and Neuroscience/Psychology blogs - I know there are some blogs there that are not yet on my blogroll and deserve to be.
Jonah points to link by Kottke to series of close-up photos of insects splatered on windshields. The images are truly cool and not gross at all.
This immediately reminded me of a funny, yet excellent book I read a few years ago, That Gunk on Your Car: A Unique Guide to Insects of North America by…
Despite Their Heft, Many Dinosaurs Had Surprisingly Tiny Genomes:
They might be giants, but many dinosaurs apparently had genomes no larger than that of a modern hummingbird. So say scientists who've linked bone cell and genome size among living species and then used that new understanding to…
EurekAlert which is run by AAAS is a useful and timely (though not foolproof) source of science news that many science bloggers use to keep up to date on what's new. However, they seem to be behind the curve in at least one way - they categorically do not disembargo the papers to blogs of any kind…
I am still a little under the weather, but I managed to get online and read and see what I missed - what an eventful week! And a bad week for the Right. Libby is guilty. Heads are falling around the Walter Reed affair. Newt Gingrich blames the NOLA victims for not being good enough citizens to…
'Mafia' Behavior In Cowbirds? Study First To Document Evidence:
Cowbirds have long been known to lay eggs in the nests of other birds, which then raise the cowbirds' young as their own. Sneaky, perhaps, but not Scarface. Now, however, a University of Florida study finds that cowbirds actually…
Apparently, neither Anton nor Brian nor me can make it to the Chapel Hill/Carrboro meetup tonight - watch BlogTogether for announcements for the replacement date.
Also, get your graphic design juices flowing and submit your suggestion for the BlogTogether logo - there is a cool prize to be won.…
You may have heard that Libby was found guilty today. Apparently, the decision for the jury was easy.
But what do you think the FoxNews-watching mouthbreathers are hearing? The official spin, of course. Which they will continue to believe for years to come. As in "Libby not guilty":
Keep it…
Red Pepper: Hot Stuff For Fighting Fat?:
Food scientists in Taiwan are reporting new evidence from laboratory experiments that capsaicin -- the natural compound that gives red pepper that spicy hot kick -- can reduce the growth of fat cells. The study is scheduled for the March 21 issue of the ACS…
Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- Tennessee Williams
And you don't even have to believe in dinosaurs to share their fate.
From here. And the preceeding paragraph? Another great quote:
"You know how taking so long to end slavery is a shameful part of our history, and how long it took us to give the vote to women is a shameful part of our history?…
We had to wait on Saturday until the Moon rose above the trees and the houses, by which time the eclipse was half over, but my daughter managed to take a few pictures anyway and this one turned out the best:
Scientist Discovers New Horned Dinosaur Genus:
A scientist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has announced the discovery of a new horned dinosaur, named Albertaceratops nesmoi, approximately 20 feet long and weighing nearly one half ton, or the weight of a pickup truck. The newly…
I am glad to see that I am not the only one who keeps growing my Blogroll instead of purging it - Mike, PZ, skippy and Jon Swift are doing it as well. Here are additions for today:
Small Things Considered
The Divine Afflatus
Cannablog
The Thermal Vent
The Adventures of Tobasco da Gama
ERV
I am the…
