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  • Spore Dispersal by Snakes
    I tend to avoid snakes in life in general, but this snake is having a super cool interaction with a moss. If you look closely, it appears that this smooth...
    3 hours ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Titles
    Yet more papers from the ToCs that I'd like to live longer to read. - Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests an evolutionary risk management...
    4 hours ago from Pleiotropy
  • The Long (wood) and short of it
    Longwood Garden is the best known and largest of the gardens included on this geek tour. It does not disappoint. Longwood has lots of everything, lightly...
    5 hours ago from The Phytophactor
  • Striking Alzheimer's before it strikes
    Those following the news on trials of drugs against Alzheimer's disease must be familiar with the depressing outlook from the front lines. There was a s...
    8 hours ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Dennstaedtiaceae
    *Lace fern *Microlepia strigosa*, photographed by David Eickhoff.* *Belongs within:* Pteridales. The Dennstaedtiaceae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly t...
    19 hours ago from Variety of Life
  • Why does white gunk develop on the anode?
    The gunk is soft, almost-gel-like. In the photo it's sitting in lumps in the buffer in the bottom tank, but only because I gently scraped it off the ...
    1 day ago from RRResearch
  • Distrust of atheists is reduced if people have confidence in law and order
    If you read this blog regularly, you'll have come across work by Will Gervais and Ara Norenzayan, at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Previous...
    1 day ago from Epiphenom
  • When waiting is not an option
    I have an article published in The Economist's Babbage blog about how some patients with a terminal diseases are second-guessing pharmaceutical companies ...
    2 days ago from The Allotrope
  • Memory-Improving Gene Tied to PTSD
    A superior visual memory is the best friend of artists and competitive card memorizers. But to people who've lived through traumatic events, it might be...
    2 days ago from inkfish
  • Prickly Pears
    *Indian-fig prickly pear *Opuntia ficus-indica* in fruit, photographed by Luigi Rignanese.* A couple of months ago, I engaged in something of an experimen...
    2 days ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Viruses This Week in Bats
    OK they're cute, but are they deadly? I was lucky enough to appear alongside the guys over at This Week in Virology (thanks Vincent, Alan, Rich and Dickso...
    4 days ago from Rule of 6ix
  • 1098 reasons why women are genetically superior to men
    Calico cats prefer Mother's Day Everyone knows that women have two X chromosomes, while men have just one. Instead of a second X, men have a Y chromosom...
    4 days ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
  • Scrat and the Stevin law
    The pressure in a fluid depends only by the deep $h$ and the density of the fluid $\rho_f$: \[p = \rho_f h g\] where $g$ is the gravity. We could consider a...
    4 days ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Fusion for the Future: ITER
    The way of the future is fusion. I dream of a world where humans have harnessed the power of the Sun. Clean, safe, energy. But there is no clear path to fu...
    5 days ago from The Astronomist
  • Skull Mechanics of Capitosaurs (Amphibia: Temnospondyli)
    *Fortuny, J., Marcé-Nogué, J., Gil, L. and Galobart, À. 2012. Skull Mechanics and the Evolutionary Patterns of the Otic Notch Closure in Capitosaurs (Amphi...
    6 days ago from Chinleana
  • Since one can't be snarky in a response to a review...
    I'll do it here. I am currently revising a paper for resubmission. On the whole, the reviews are fairly reasonable, with the exception of one cranky comme...
    1 week ago from Games with Words
  • On math and magic
    I've been on a kick lately of re-reading my old favorite fantasy novels. I started with some of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, and am now going ba...
    2 weeks ago from PLEKTIX
  • Need to clear my reading list so I can start...
    3 weeks ago from Angry by Choice
  • In which I am elsewhere
    Today I am featured on the ace Any Other Woman, writing about the pill and how it works. Clare, Aisling and Anna have built a truly wonderful community of ...
    4 weeks ago from A is for Aspirin
  • The Thesis / Paper Spiral
    [image: Step 7. Draw Comic. Step 10: Profit !] Currently I can only describe my writing style as "Brute force" which is to go through every conceivable...
    1 month ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
  • Chocolate and Microbes this Easter
    With Easter Sunday this week, and before we all start munching on chocolate eggs, I thought I'd write a blog post about chocolate and microbiology. You may...
    1 month ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Finding a new translation factor, and verifying it with help from my experimental friends
    Joy of joys my most recent paper has just been published in Nucleic Acids Research! Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Mar 28. [Epub ahead of print] Evolutionary a...
    1 month ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
  • March 23, 1769 William Smith - Pioneer of applied Geology
    *"It´s all there locked in the stone,* *the truth is told in fossilized bone."* *Devonian blues *by *Ray Troll *(2005)* * *"Fossils have been long st...
    1 month ago from History of Geology
  • Cordial Chemistry: Syrup of Violets
    Today's talk at the Chemical Heritage Foundation was by one of my fellow Fellows, Rebecca Laroche, on syrup of violets and Robert Boyle. It had long been ...
    2 months ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Don't like labels? How inhuman of you
    Just a few ingredients that might be on the label for the average human. Via Wikimedia Commons.Humans like to classify things so much that we've got entire ...
    2 months ago from The Biology Files
  • Free ImageJ Macro -- for citing images
    (of course all IJ macros and IJ itself are free...) So I got sick of constantly clicking away just to resize an image and add some citation text to the bot...
    4 months ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • Girlybits 101, now with fewer scary parts!
    I was deeply considering a blog hiatus, dear readers, but sometimes you get hit with sledgehammers, and the only thing you can do to make sense of it all i...
    7 months ago from C6-H12-O6
  • Do Science Bloggers Exercise Free Will?
    That's the question--as I stare at the census data in search of a juicy trend--that would seem the most sensational and draw the most readers. A trend...t...
    7 months ago from Labs
  • The Large Picture Blog Has Moved
    Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
    8 months ago from The Large Picture Blog
  • Lab Rat Moving House
    Trying to keep both this and my new sciam blog going has been a bit of a strain. I've decided therefore that from now on all my science writing will be hos...
    8 months ago from Life of a Lab Rat
  • Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs
    Moving house again… Well almost, moving addresses anyway. It wasn’t that long ago I moved from Disease of the Week to here at Disease Prone to take advanta...
    10 months ago from Disease Prone
  • Branson getting into microbial diversity in the deep sea
    Quick post here ... just read this article - Richard Branson launches Virgin Oceanic: deep-sea exploring submarines - Boing Boing which discusses how Katri...
    1 year ago from The Greenhouse
  • Funny advert placement
    I'm sorry to my more serious readers, but I just could not resist when I saw this. The ad placement next to a story about our work on sexual *versus*asexual...
    2 years ago from Sex, Genes & Evolution
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