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  • Overview of the Aetosaurs
    *Desojo, J. B., Heckert, A. B., Martz, J. W., Parker, W. G., Schoch, R. R., Small, B. J., and T. Sulej. 2013. Aetosauria: a clade of armoured pseudosuchian...
    1 hour ago from Chinleana
  • Oversharing and zero point energy wands: pseudoscience in the NY Times
    While poking around the other day for some general reading material on the zero point energy, I discovered zero point energy wands (which claim to access n...
    3 hours ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Compost Program Could Bring Dangerous Fungus into NYC Homes
    If Mayor Bloomberg's wildest decay-related fantasies are realized, New Yorkers will soon be sparing their food scraps from the garbage. A new composting...
    7 hours ago from inkfish
  • Garden spruce up & rain paradox
    Our garden/yard spruce up is going well and things are looking pretty nice. A new patio area and a flagstone pathway were finished up on Monday and look v...
    8 hours ago from The Phytophactor
  • Umbilicaria section Polymorphae
    *Umbilicaria cylindrica*, from here. *Belongs within:* Umbilicariaceae. The section *Polymorphae* in the lichen genus *Umbilicaria* is characterised by a ...
    12 hours ago from Variety of Life
  • Bradybaenids: The Little Freaks
    Just a quick one this week, as I'm busy preparing for the International Conference of Arachnology in Taipei next week. The wonderful assembly in the photo...
    14 hours ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Antibiotics & Agriculture Part 4: The Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance
    The patient was in dire condition. A forty year old woman from Michigan, she had suffered badly from diabetes, kidney failure and a number of complications...
    1 day ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
  • Keeping up to date
    Recently, we've added several methods of keeping up to date on GamesWithWords.org projects (finding out when results of old studies are available, when new...
    1 day ago from Games with Words
  • People reminded of religion become intolerant of ambiguity
    Around the world, religion is often linked to conservative attitudes. In fact, religion is famous for being socially ossified - the last bastion of the soc...
    2 days ago from Epiphenom
  • Supreme Court bungles the science in DNA patent decision
    [This is slightly modified from my post 2 days ago at Forbes.] The Supreme Court ruled this week that Myriad Genetics doesn't own your DNA after all. My...
    4 days ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
  • Everyone wants to be called a Moss
    There are plants that we call mosses that are not really mosses. Spanish moss (in the pineapple family), clubmosses (a fern friend), and carrageen moss (a ...
    6 days ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Repo Men and gender roles
    Scene 1: Man comes home to find that his key doesn't work anymore. He rings the bell, his wife opens the door, and tells him hers works just fine. She has ...
    2 weeks ago from Pleiotropy
  • Physics and multidimensions
    posted by @ulaulaman about @lirarandall conference at #wirednextfest in #milano One of the most famous theoretical physicist in the world, *Lisa Randall*...
    2 weeks ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Google Hearts Microbiology
    Today is a great day to do a google search. Google celebrates the 161st birthday of Richard Petri with a Doodle. Petri is the inventor or the plate that be...
    2 weeks ago from Angry by Choice
  • Thanksgiving
    When the Protein Data Bank releases a much-awaited protein structure which shows you *exactly* what you wanted to see, it's much like looking at a newly w...
    3 weeks ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Naming a viral disease around the world
    OK so I need a little help. I am a final year PhD student studying the molecular biology of mumpsvirus. As part of my final written thesis I would like to i...
    3 weeks ago from Rule of 6ix
  • Bioengineers go retro to build a calculator from living cells
    Scientists in the US have developed a calculator from living cells, using old-fashioned analog programming. Their hope is that the technology could be used...
    4 weeks ago from The Allotrope
  • Formatting figures for PLOS journals
    A tweet by Jon Eisen last night reminded me what a pain it is to format figures so they are acceptable to the PLOS journals' system. Kate Stafford was ...
    1 month ago from RRResearch
  • In the Dark
    Dark matter is the commonest, most elusive stuff in the universe. Can we grasp this great unsolved problem in physics? [image: Interior view of the LUX da...
    1 month ago from The Astronomist
  • Happy Easter with a (fake) Dozen Dinosaur Eggs
    *Roy Chapman Andrews* was not only an intrepid explorer and palaeontologist, but also a gifted promoter. The *Central Asiatic Expeditions* in search of fo...
    2 months ago from History of Geology
  • The Molecular Circus
    This blog has now moved. Join me for more pharmacological fun, and new and exciting explorations into the minute and magical world of molecules at.... http...
    7 months ago from A is for Aspirin
  • Welcome to Jurassic Park?
    A fictional book that became a dino blockbuster, and it was on the telly last weekend! Jurassic Park is currently the 23rd highest-grossing film of all tim...
    8 months ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Hey girl. Have you heard about the war on women?
    Image credits (if not credited, public domain) Ron Paul Timothy Dolan Rick Santorum Mike Huckabee Chris Christie Marco Rubio
    9 months ago from The Biology Files
  • The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl
    Image from Hochwagen Lab This proposal was shouted out as “…one of the most important papers on the control of meiotic crossing over…” (Hawley 2006). ...
    1 year ago from Sex, Genes & Evolution
  • 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...
    1 year ago from PLEKTIX
  • 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 year ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
  • 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year ago from Labs
  • The Large Picture Blog Has Moved
    Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    2 years ago from The Greenhouse
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