Greg Laden is a biological anthropologist and science communicator. His research has covered North American prehistoric and historic archaeology and African archaeology and human ecology. He is an OpenSource and OpenAccess advocate. Greg's wife, Amanda, is a High School biology teacher, his daughter Julia is a world traveler and his son Huxley is 2.
How big is a blue whale?
A blue whale is so big that a person can swim through it's largest blood vessels. A blue whale is so big that there are cars smaller than its heart. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth, now or ever, as far as we know. Its tongue is as large as the largest…
Every now and then there is a moment ... I see something, hear something, learn something ... that makes me want to jump to my feet (if I'm not already standing) and shout "To the blog mobile!"
Well, I don't actually have a blog mobile. So when that happens, I just run into the basement.
What…
Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal
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Next Week's Four Stone Hearth will be hosted at Remote Central. Please have a look here to find out about submitting stuff.
This is the most diverse of all of the blog carnival that I know. So you probably have something. So send it in, OK?????
Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.
...Paul Stamets believes that mushrooms can save our lives, restore our ecosystems and transform other worlds
... or at least, according to the Discovery Institutes's own Michael Medved.
The idea of a distinctive, unifying, risk-taking American DNA might also help to explain our most persistent and painful racial divide - between the progeny of every immigrant nationality that chose to come here [the…
MIT researchers found that phalaropes depend on a surface interaction known as contact angle hysteresis to propel drops of water containing prey upward to their throats. Photo by Robert Lewis The Phalarope starts out as an interesting bird because of its "reversed" sex-role mating behavior. For…
May 18, 2008 -- A tiny abalone specimen 5.9 mm in length and approximately 78 million years old (putting it in the middle Campanian Stage of the Late Cretaceous) has been documented from rocks in the Garapito Creek area of Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles County by Lindsey T. Groves and John M. Alderson…
Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs.
Have you noticed? Did you hear the other shoe drop? (very very quietly, yes, but I'm sure I heard it...)
The present news cycle appears to not refer to Hillary Clinton. At all.....
"Rock star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project. ... Physicist Brian Cox has two jobs: working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN…
In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk.
In a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007. ... John Linnell and John Flansburgh are They Might Be Giants: multi-instrumental, tech-savvy and implacably prolific, they are the musicians of choice of geeks, tinkerers and curious kids of all ages.
AMD CEO Hector Ruiz talks about his dream of giving the whole world access to the Internet. AMD's 50x15 initiative hopes to connect 50 percent of the world to the Net by 2015. Sharing his own life story, Ruiz shows how access to ideas is life-changing.
The Hofstra University Library, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Hofstra Cultural Center present a conference:
Darwin's Reach examines the impact of Darwin and Darwinian evolution on science and society in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Robert…
Emperor Han Aidi Keep an eye on the hanging tree. There will be a fresh astronomer hanging there soon. Mark my words.
This story is sometimes told:
During the reign of a particular emperor in China, the role of the historian was becoming more significant. An historian sat in the Emperors…
This is big. This is really big.
The Tangled Bank Web Carnival Number One Hundred and Five is at The Beagle Project!!!!!! And it's the Tag Team Edition with Peter McGrath and Karen James!!!
Go there now!
...... OMG, did I say that out loud? Maybe this election has gotten a little too racialized.....
Anyway, yes, just this very moment, seconds ago, Edwards Endorses Obama.
What do you think? Was there a phone call? "John, hey, I've got an idea. You go in and help undo the damage Clinton has…
Grand Rounds 4:34 is at Health Business Blog
The Carnival of Home Schooling is here. I don't know why I'm telling you that. They always reject my posts for some reason.
The Carnival of Cinema is requesting submissions: Go here to submit.
You must watch this to the end.
"Just because you were born here, doesn't make you an American...."
(The good news is that the racist haters are even more hateful than the hateful racists. As needed.)
Hey, don't forget to Hit This Poll!
[Hat Tip: Boris Milicevic]
Submit your blog posts (deadline: Wednesday) to Tangled Bank now, right now ...
(hint: klick the kitty to get to the Beagle Project Blog, where Tangled Bank will be hosted, and make your submission)
Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he's peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with "Obama in '08" scrolled underneath, are "cute." But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.
"It's…
On August 6th, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States Army. The bomb successfully exploded instantly killing about 80,000 people and destroying a majority of the physical structure of the city.
Someone with a camera took a series of photographs of the post-bomb…
