clock | January 6, 2009Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Remember that every satire has to contain a grain of truth....
clock | January 5, 2009Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
- Jane E. Brody
clock | January 5, 2009Hotel Scienceblogs, that is. Do you remember David Dobbs and the blog Smooth Pebbles here on Sb? Well, David left the Borg, blogged for a while at his own non-Sb version of Smooth Pebbles and now he's back - with a new blog and a new title - Neuron Culture.
Welcome back, SciBling!
clock | January 5, 200920th Carnival of the Blue is up on Biomes Blog
Carnival of the Green #161 is up on Tao of Change (a blog very local to me, here in Carrboro, NC).
Cabinet of Curiosities #12 is up on Walking the Berkshires
Edition #12 of Berry-Go-Round is up on Foothills Fancies
Festival of the Trees # 31 is up on Rock Paper Lizard
Encephalon #61 is up on SharpBrains
Change of Shift Volume Three - Number Thirteen is up on Nurse Rached's Place
Four Stone Hearth the New Year edition is up on Testimony of the spade
Gene Genie #41 is up on ScienceRoll
Cancer Research Blog Carnival #17 is up on Blind.Scientist…
clock | January 5, 2009The next edition of Praxis will be arriving on January 15th 2009 at Pod Black Cat.
The 7th edition of The Giant's Shoulders will be held on January 15th 2009 at The Questionable Authority.
Start submitting your entries.
clock | January 5, 2009Journey Of A Green Turtle From Indonesia Into Australian Opens Mystery Of 'oceanic Superhighway':
The remarkable journey of a green turtle from Indonesia into Australian waters is helping conservationists to track the migratory route of this species to the Kimberley-Pilbara coast - one of the few relatively pristine coastal areas left on Earth.
Microbes In The Intestine: Friend Or Foe?:
Micro-organisms in the intestine live in symbiosis with humans but can cause illness or even death. Together with an international team, Nicola Harris of ETH Zurich researched the factors that make a person…
clock | January 4, 2009Tis the reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | January 4, 2009Anne-Marie Hodge, the author of the delightful blog Pondering Pikaia has just started a new blog on the Nature Network and named it Endless Forms.
The Dispersal of Darwin has moved from Blogger to Wordpress, so please adjust your bookmarks and feeds for both of them.
clock | January 4, 20092009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species, so a lot of organizations are going full steam in promoting science, evolution and the history of science this year. Here are some of the examples:
The New Scientist has published Darwin's dangerous idea: Top 10 evolution articles (see Larry for some commentary).
Nature is ready for the celebration with a special page - Darwin 200 - collecting all the articles. Check out the most recent one - 15 evolutionary gems (pdf)
Over on The Loom - a three-part interview with Ken Miller…
clock | January 4, 2009Star Wars Starships and Fighters Clock:
12 o'clock Star Destroyer
1 o'clock TIE Interceptor
2 o'clock Darth Vader's Tie Fighter
3 o'clock Jabba's Barge
4 o'clock Bespin Twin-Pod Cloud Car
5 o'clock Y-Wing Fighter
6 o'clock Super Star Destroyer
7 o'clock Rebel Blockade Runner
8 o'clock TIE Bomber
9 o'clock X-Wing Fighter
10 o'clock Rebel Snowspeeder
11 o'clock A-Wing Starfigher
clock | January 4, 2009And the winners in these two categories are:
xkcd: Purity
Digital Cuttlefish: The Evolutionary Biology Valentine's Day Poem
clock | January 4, 2009
Let's highlight the rest of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Theresa Van Acker is a science teacher at the Morehead Montessori Elementary School in Durham.
Dani Vasco is a student at the Riverside High School and was a part of Duke's Summer research program which includes obligatory student blogging - Dani's blog is here.
Robyn Walker is the Communications Assistant at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment.
Robin Walls and Nathan Walls are software developers for McClatchy Interactive.
Adnaan Wasey is the Web Editor for The Takeaway at WNYC Radio…
clock | January 4, 2009In Many Fungi, Reproductive Spores Are Remarkably Aerodynamic:
The reproductive spores of many species of fungi have evolved remarkably drag-minimizing shapes, according to new research by mycologists and applied mathematicians at Harvard University.
Physical Disability Brings Marital Happiness:
A new study finds that the onset of physical disability boosts marital happiness more often than not. Brigham Young University professor Jeremy Yorgason's findings - reported in the academic journal Research on Aging - show what happens with couples when one of them loses the ability to perform…
clock | January 3, 2009A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
clock | January 3, 2009I know many of you are trembling in anticipation: "Did I make it this year?". Well, it's like the Oscars - the Academy Awards are kept tightly under wraps until the moment the envelope is opened.
The list of entries was long, and full of excellent posts - this was hard to judge!
And, Jennifer Rohn, this year's Editor, just handed me the envelope. Trust me - I have not seen the list of winners myself until now.
And, the winners are.....
Adventures in Ethics and Science: Research with vulnerable populations: considering the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (part 1).
All My Faults are…
clock | January 3, 2009
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Dixie-Ann Sawin is a Research Fellow in the Neurotoxicology Group at NIEHS.
Amy Sayle is the Educator in the Adult Programs at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center in Chapel Hill, NC.
Scicurious is a graduate student in Physiology and Pharmacology and my SciBling, on Neurotopia (v.2.0). She will co-moderate the session on the Web and the History of Science.
Sciencewoman is, well, my SciBling and a Sciencewoman.
Allison Scripa is a Science Librarian at Virginia Tech.
Megan Scudellari is a freelance…
clock | January 3, 2009
New Breeding Ground For Endangered Whales? High Numbers Of Right Whales Seen In Gulf Of Maine:
A large number of North Atlantic right whales have been seen in the Gulf of Maine in recent days, leading right whale researchers at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center to believe they have identified a wintering ground and potentially a breeding ground for this endangered species.
Aquaculture's Growth Seen As Continuing:
Aquaculture production of seafood will probably remain the most rapidly increasing food production system worldwide through 2025, according to an assessment published in the…
clock | January 2, 2009Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody.
- Andre Maurois