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*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
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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
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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
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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
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*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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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*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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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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
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Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
1 year ago from The Large Picture Blog
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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
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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
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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