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A calendar celebrating the aesthetic qualities of marine
invertebrates is available now at
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along with a full line of items relating to marine biology, evolution,
paleontology, and rationalism. She also has tons of
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There is a whole series of photos illustrating this unusual
relationship. It originally was posted in the Boston
Herald, but that page is no longer with us. The
text and photos still can be found at
href="http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2007/03/unusual-friendship.html">Fresh
Pics…
In the book, The Blind Watchmaker,
Richard Dawkins makes a statement that led one reader to feel the need
to check up on him:
I've been reading through Richard Dawkins'
books and am currently half way through The Blind Watchmaker (2006
paperback edition) and on page 119 he writes:
…
Uprising Radio reports on an item of social justice:
href="http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=2134">San Diego
County Searches Welfare Recipients’ Homes
Published on 28 Nov 2007 at 12:06 pm
GUEST: Eric Isaacson, Partner in the law firm,
Coughlin-Stoia, and cooperating attorney with the…
You would think it would take a sociopath to put
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in a children's toy. You'd be right. Yet, it has
happened. Stranger yet, Canada has adopted legislation that
explicitly permits this.
Asbestos became infamous…
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deal of evidence has accumulated that there is a problem with
regulation of cortisol levels in persons with posttraumatic stress
disorder. Several years ago, it
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For years, universities have struggled to find ways to move
esoteric technologies from the lab to the commercial sector.
Now, scientists at UC Merced have begun to grapple with
another problem: how to move technology from the toy shop into the lab.
Chemical & Engineering News has a…
1. Good music can neither be created, nor destroyed.
All the good music already exists. It does not matter how
many hours you spend at the keyboard trying to come up with something
new. All of your efforts are in vain.
2. The degree of disorganization in music increases to a maximum…
I've rarely linked to Kos before; this is probably the
second time (I'm a liberal, just not that kind of
liberal). However, the recent post on the reality of the Iraq
war demands some commentary. Plus, there is no point in being
one out of >100 commenters. Note: the
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Using my new Firefox search box to search ScienceBlogs, I
learned that
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Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
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neural growth,
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is a new chemical entity that is nearing approval for treatment of
depression. It was developed by
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Laboratories; they have entered into an…
The treehuggers at
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saw right through this one. Safeway is now selling "organic
water."
I find the last point especially amusing: "No Genetic Modification."
Greenwashing
to the extreme.
HT:
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On 24 November, 1859, Charles Darwin's
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, was
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Apparently, it is not only possible to run a household with
a battery,
but to run 25,000 with a battery: a battery that uses uranium hydride.
The device is being developed from technology from
Los Alamos National
Laboratory, by a
company called
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Turkey is considering adding the letters "Q," "W," and "X"
to their alphabet. The idea is that it would appease the
Kurds.
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including X, Q, W in…
Why use Google, which will give you ten million irrelevant
hits, when all you really want to do, is to find the juicy stuff on
ScienceBlogs?
Well, you can navigate to the ScienceBlogs home page, and search there,
or go to any of the blogs and use the search boxes there. Or,
to simplify…
MTV is taking some heat for its refusal to broadcast an
advertisment for Buy
Nothing Day.
MTV, the channel that markets itself to
hip youth, has decreed that our Buy Nothing Day public service spot
"goes further than we are willing to accept on our channels". Gangsta
rap and sexualized, semi-…
We found a recipe for pecan pie that does
not use corn syrup. I would not try to argue that this
confection is salubrious, mind you, but at least there is no corn syrup.
Most pecan pie is so sweet that it is annoying.
That is
unfortunate. We are hopeful that this will not have…
Here is a part of a screenshot, showing the most-viewed
pages:
Notice that the page on homosexuality has 78% as many visits
as the main page. The site?
rel="tag" href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Statistics">Conservapedia:
"The Trustworthy Encyclopedia." It is a…
Any time something related to a
medical use for cannabis is found, it
makes headlines. Mostly, the interest is generated by the
relationship to an illegal drug. Sometimes, though, the media
do a decent job of reporting the real issue.
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America missed her chance to elect a sane pro-environmental
candidate
in 2000. Or rather, the Supreme Court missed its chance.
Whatever. The critical point is that
environmentalism cannot be understood as an isolated issue.
Pro-environmental thinking must pervade everything…
It is common for tension to occur in the doctor-patient
relationship occurs when the patient reports symptoms that are
distressing to the patient, but which do not seem serious to the doctor.
Each instance of this is different, so it is hard to make
generalizations. However, in the case of…
According to the
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...because it minimally adheres to certain
superficial conventions, it can masquerade as a "news" outfit and enjoy
all the rights that accrue to that...
Sun Microsystems
is
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to put a data center in an old coal mine. The idea is to save
on energy costs. In fact, they expect nine million dollars
per year on electricity. This is because much of the…
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The cost of health insurance has been increasing, typically
at
double-digit annual rates.
With the expansion of information technology, particularly electronic
claims processing, one would expect that the insurance companies would
be operating much more efficiently now that they were ten…
rel="tag">Simon N. Young, PhD, the Editor-in-chief
of the Journal of
Psychiatry and Neuroscience, has written an editorial: How
To
Increase Serotonin In The Human Brain Without Drugs.
In is
published in this month's edition of the Journal of
Psychiatry and Neuroscience.
The Journal…