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  • How the 2004 Tsunami affected the religious beliefs of Norwegian tourists
    Does a traumatic experience encourage people towards religion, or does it have the opposite effect? In a previous post, I ran through the evidence that A...
    27 minutes ago from Epiphenom
  • Writing about disability: No science, no disabled point of view? No good
    Image via WikiMedia Commons. Originally posted to Flickr. A flurry of articles has emerged in the last few weeks in which mental health professionals voice...
    3 hours ago from The Biology Files
  • Conference Cycle
    Got a quicker response from our campus transportation chief than expected RE the student powered van. He also suggested that maybe the campus was ready f...
    4 hours ago from The Phytophactor
  • Science, funding, impact - some more questions
    To allow the scientists to do good science, governments and the industry need to fund it. Not long ago I pondered why all the governments of big nations s...
    10 hours ago from The Allotrope
  • Hymenophyllum
    *Hymenophyllum polyanthos*, from here. *Belongs within:* Hymenophyllaceae. *Hymenophyllum* (used here in the broad sense) is one of the main groups of fi...
    18 hours ago from Variety of Life
  • Elemental tales: Strong waters
    I ran across a reference to aqua fortis in one of the commentaries in Chemical News (1891). The conversation is about a suit in court where a chemist was i...
    2 days ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • When We Talk about Snow
    "Excuse me," the man next to me on the train said mildly, turning in his seat. "Do you remember what you did in the snow?" "Sorry?" "They say it was ...
    2 days ago from inkfish
  • Video abstract: Diffusion in curved spacetimes
    In the following video, that I uploaded on youtube, *Matteo Smerlak* speaks about his recently published paper, *Diffusion in curved spacetimes* (arXiv): ...
    2 days ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Don't just focus on bats and their viruses
    Spot the bat I just wanted to alert people to this opinion piece on an Australian websitediscussing the role that bats play in harboring deadly viruses. Th...
    3 days ago from Rule of 6ix
  • What's lurking in the tomato ketchup?
    Turkey breasts, Cucumbers, Korma sauces and now.. Watermelons! It seems no food is safe when it comes to microbial contamination. Barely does a month go by...
    3 days ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Brown Ticks
    *Brown dog tick *Rhipicephalus sanguineus*, from here.* In an earlier post on this site, I gave a brief overview of the hard ticks, those lovable suckers ...
    3 days ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Book review: Philip Anderson's "More and Different"
    The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Philip Warren Anderson is one of those rare species - a scientist who is not only world-class in his own field but who se...
    4 days ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Indiana's clumsy attempt at theocracy
    An edible FSM Those state legislators are meddling with science again. This time it's Indiana, trying to promote their religious views in public schools...
    4 days ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
  • In Memoriam
    With great consternation I heard about the sudden and tragic death of *Dr. Lorenz Keim*. I meet him on various field trips and respected him as enthusiast...
    4 days ago from History of Geology
  • Timing of the Earliest Known Feathered Dinosaurs
    Edging a bit closer...... * * *Liu, Y.-Q., Kuang, H.-W., Jiang, X.-J., Peng, N., Xu, H., and H.-Y. Sun. 2012. Timing of the earliest known feathered dino...
    5 days ago from Chinleana
  • Write Up Mode : Activate !
    Use Thundershock you Fool! Books are weak to Electric ! It's over, and I'm overwhelmed. I've finished my last set of experiments. My feelings upon leaving...
    6 days ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
  • Molecular Biology: Not So Sexy Science
    A couple of things recently have got me thinking. Following the success of BBC Stargazing Live, @xtaldave on Twitter jokingly suggested the BBC should comm...
    6 days ago from A is for Aspirin
  • Authorship without responsibility?
    I'm becoming increasingly disturbed by the behaviour of Wolfe-Simon's arseniclife coauthors. She shared the credit for the work with 11 other authors but,...
    6 days ago from RRResearch
  • A Desktop Calendar Experiment
    I change the background image on my computer once a month and I really like having a calendar on my computer desktop, since I don't have a wall calendar in...
    1 week ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Program of the Proceedings of the 44th Carnival of Evolution
    We are happy to announce the program for the Proceedings of the 44th Carnival of Evolution to be held at The Atavism: Session 1. Symposium on the evolution...
    1 week ago from Pleiotropy
  • Fordham's review of state science standards
    As a number of people have already pointed out, the Fordham Institute has released its 'The State of State Science Standards 2012'. This is of particular i...
    1 week ago from Angry by Choice
  • The Thorium Dream
    Thorium may be the nuclear fuel of the future. It is clean, abundant, and safe. Check out this video made by the crafty folks at motherboard.tv documenti...
    1 week ago from The Astronomist
  • PhD position available in Molecular Evolution!
    Having got my Estonian Science Foundation grant funded recently, I have an open PhD position available! See below. ----------------- We are seeking a hi...
    5 weeks 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 month ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • The Origins of Inequality
    [image: ResearchBlogging.org] Inequality is a national conversation topic now, thanks largely to the efforts of Occupy Wall Street and the broader Occupy mo...
    2 months ago from PLEKTIX
  • More on DragonDictate
    DragonDictate continues to do a decent job of writing my email, so long as I don't talk about work. For writing papers, etc., it continues to be of limited...
    3 months ago from Games with Words
  • 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...
    3 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...
    4 months ago from Labs
  • The Large Picture Blog Has Moved
    Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
    4 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...
    5 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...
    7 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...
    10 months 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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