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Ireland have agonizingly missed out on winning the Six Nations 2007 despite beating Italy 51-24 in Rome. Ireland's win meant that France faced Scotland knowing they had to win by a margin of 24 points or more. The French did what they had to, winning by 46-19 thanks to a last-gasp try.
March 17th
1764 - Death of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
1780 - Birth of Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist
1782 - Death of Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician
1834 - Birth of Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor…
March 16th
1750 - Birth of Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer
1789 - Birth of Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist
1794 - Birth of Ami Boué, Austrian geologist
1859 - Birth of Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist
1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister…
This beauty is a Bornean clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi ), a new species native to Borneo and Sumatra.
For many years the clouded leopard was traditionally regarded as a monotypic genus with four subspecies. But recent molecular genetic analyses (mtDNA, nuclear DNA sequences, microsatellite…
March 15th
1713 - Birth of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer
1813 - Birth of John Snow, English physician
1854 - Birth of Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate
1890 - Birth of Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician
1898 - Death of Henry Bessemer, English…
March 14th
1835 - Birth of Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer
1854 - Birth of Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1879 - Birth of Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1882 - Birth of Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician
1995 - Death of William…
Mike Dunford responds to a pedophile ("Sam") that has appeared at Shelley's blog - an idiot who compares the treatment of pedophiles to the treatment of Jews and African-Americans and feels that "[p]edophilia needs no endorsement, it is a beautiful and natural part of the world's culture." Mike…
March 13th
1720 - Birth of Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer
1733 - Birth of Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1781 - Charles Messier publishes final catalog of Messier objects.
1781 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovers tungsten.
1784…
Image of Io taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons at 11:04 Universal Time on February 28, 2007. The picture shows the enormous 290-kilometer (180-mile) high plume from the volcano Tvashtar. See here for more details.
March 12th
1824 - Birth of Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist
1838 - Birth of William Perkin, English chemist
1863 - Birth of Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist
1907 - Birth of Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer
1925 - Birth of Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
1991 - Death of…
Once again, my sheep-like characteristics manifest themselves and I find myself dutifully following Orac, PZ, Bora, Joseph, John, Rob,
and Afarensis in listing (in bold) those of the "Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years" that I have read.
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R.…
March 11th
1811 - Birth of Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician
1822 - Birth of Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician
1870 - Birth of Louis Bachelier, French mathematician
1880 - Birth of Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist
1910 - Birth of Robert Havemann, German chemist
1920…
Egnorance: The egotistical combination of ignorance and arrogance. First coined by Burt Humburg Reed Cartwright to describe Michael Egnor, neurosurgeon, ID-flak, and no-nothing (at least when it comes to biology).
Ireland won its third Triple Crown in four years with a 19-18 victory over Scotland and Murrayfield. No further comment.
March 10th
1585 - Death of Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist
1628 - Birth of Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
1670 - Death of Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist
1709 - Birth of Georg Steller, German naturalist
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone…
March 9th
1564 - Birth of David Fabricius, German astronomer
1758 - Birth of Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist
1851 - Death of Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist
1900 - Birth of Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer
1923 - Birth of Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of…
Ode to a Trilobite
Timothy A. Conrad (1840)
Thou large-eyed mummy of the ancient rocks,
The Niobe of ocean, couldst thou tell
Of thine own times, and of the earthquake shocks
Which tore the ocean-bed where thou didst dwell;
What dream of wild Romance would then compare
With the strange truths thy…
As it turns out, today is Myers' fiftieth birthday. Posting a squid would appear to be appropriate, and Dawkins raised the bar by writing him a poem. Being untalented, I'd rather link to one of my favorite posts by PZ, "The proper reverence due those who have gone before". Enjoy ... and happy…
Featuring Kent Hovind.
Update: Ah, only now I see that PZ posted this yesterday.
March 8th
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1712 - Birth of John Fothergill, English physician
1886 - Birth of Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1914 - Birth of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian…
Apparently, an unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without "In God We Trust." Seems like a good development.
March 7th
1625 - Death of Johann Bayer, German astronomer
1788 - Birth of Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist
1792 - Birth of John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer
1837 - Birth of Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer
1857 - Birth of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian…
A large-billed reed-warbler (Acrocephalus orinus), one of the world's least known birds, is seen in this photo released by Birdlife International. A wetland bird that has eluded scientists for nearly 130 years, it has been rediscovered at a wastewater treatment plant in Thailand. More details here,
Back in July I reported on the "ID Arts Initiative" - an attempt by Access Research Network to establish the relevance of their particular brand of creationism to the fine arts. Well now they have a website and a blog featuring some fairly horrific poetry. Witness "GIGANTOPITHECUS, WE HARDLY KNEW…
Four new species of Loricariid catfish have been described from the upper RÃo Orinoco of southern Venezuela: (A) Hypancistrus inspector, (B) H.
lunaorum, (C) H. furunculus, and (D) H.
debilittera, Full details are in Armbruster et al. (2007) "Four New Hypancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)…
March 6th
1787 - Birth of Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist
1866 - Death of William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science
1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and…
I really have to stop paying attention to Ann Coulter, but this quote that Steve highlights just shows her as the ignorant troll she really is:
Professors are the most cosseted, pussified, subsidized group of people in the U.S. workforce. They have concocted a system to preemptively protect…