carnivals
voltagegate | September 27, 2007Martin has Tangled Bank #89 up at Aardvarchaeology. Bring a packet of something light; a vinaigrette perhaps, but never something as uncouth as ranch or blue cheese. The shoots are tender, after all.
clock | September 26, 2007Four Stone Hearth #24 is up on _Paddy K_
Tangled Bank #89 is up on Aardvarchaeology
The 138th edition of the Carnival of Education is up on Global Citizenship in a Virtual World
Carnival of the Liberals #48 is up on Liberal England
The 91st Carnival of Homeschooling is up on The Voice of Experience
clock | September 25, 2007What's Up, Postdoc? September Carnival is up on ... ponderings of a fool.
Grand Rounds is starting its 4th year of existence up on Kevin MD's blog. Congratulations!
Carnival of the Green #96 is up on Karavans.
clock | September 24, 2007Encephalon #32 is up on Living the Scientific Life.
Gene Genie #16 is up on Neurophilosophy.
neurophilosophy | September 24, 2007Grrl Scientist has just posted the 32nd edition of Encephalon at Living the Scientific Life. As usual, the carnival includes entries from the best neuroscience and psychology blogs on the web.
The next edition of Encephalon will be hosted at GNIF Brain Blogger on October 8th. If you'd like to contribute, send permalinks to your blog posts to encephalon{dot}host{at}gmail{dot}com, or use this submission form.
pharyngula | September 23, 2007A few carnival notices, and an opportunity to speak your mind. Go for it!
Friday Ark #157
I and the Bird #58
Humanist Symposium #8
A new Tangled Bank will be coming up next Wednesday at Aardvarchaeology — send those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net.
neurophilosophy | September 23, 2007
(Gene Genie logo created by by Ricardo Vidal)
Welcome to the 16th edition of Gene Genie, the carnival of genes and genetic diseases.
In this edition, genetics gets personal. The recent publication of Craig Venter's genome (and, before that, James Watson's) was big news. It ushered in the new era of personal genomics, to which a special section of this edition of Gene Genie is devoted.
So, without further ado, let's take a look at the entries for this edition.
Genes & genetic diseases
First off, we have several posts about cancer genes. BRCA1 is a tumour suppressor gene that…
clock | September 23, 2007The XVIth edition of Radiology Grand Rounds is up on Sumer's Radiology Site.
Friday Ark #157 is up on The Modulator.
clock | September 20, 2007I and the Bird #58 is up on The Nightjar.
Change of Shift: Volume Two, Number 7 is up on Emergiblog.
The Carnival of Space - week 21, the XPrize edition - is up on Why Homeschool
clock | September 19, 2007The 135th Carnival of Education is up on The Education Wonks.
The latest edition of the Homeschooling Carnival is up on About:Homeschooling.
clock | September 18, 2007Grand Rounds 3.52 are up on Six Until Me.
Carnival of the Green #95 is up on Green Style Mag.
The latest Carnival of the Godless is up on Ain't Christian.
neurophilosophy | September 17, 2007I'm hosting the 16th edition of the genetics carnival Gene Genie on Sunday. If you've written something about genes or genetic diseases on your blog and would like to submit it, you can do so using this submission form.
pharyngula | September 15, 2007It's late, I'm going to be unconscious in my bed, those of you with insomnia or living in distant time zones need something to chat about — so here, just for you, it's a Pharyngula Late Night open thread, primed with a few fun carnivals.
Oekologie #9
Friday Ark #156
Carnival of the Godless
Carnival of the Liberals #47
Skeptics' Circle #69
What's that? It's not enough? Late night chats need something really weird to keep them lively? OK, here, how about Creation Ministries International. Be sure to read their "What we believe" page — this is the Christianity everybody assures me…
clock | September 15, 2007Oekologie #9 is up on Fish Feet
Boneyard #5 is up on The Ethical Palaeontologist
voltagegate | September 15, 2007Sarda has some great posts for this months edition, perfect with a cup of coffee on a cool Saturday morning.
clock | September 14, 2007Carnival of the Liberals #47 is up on Plural Politics.
Friday Ark #156 is up on the Modulator.
voltagegate | September 14, 2007Get your last minute submissions to Sarda now - sardasahney [at] gmail.com.
denialism | September 13, 2007At Unscrewing the Inscrutable Brent Rasmussen brings us the 69th skeptics circle with a fun, old west feel.
One of the first entries was particularly interesting to me as an example of crank magnetism. The Socratic Gadfly found Lynn Marguilis embracing 9/11 conspiracies, which shouldn't be surprising given her HIV/AIDS denial - also requiring a conspiratorial world view.
It would be interesting to study this problem systematically, and see how many times a crank adopts more than one crank belief. I suspect given that it takes a certain kind of broken mind to believe this nonsense that…