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When is the logically impossible possible?
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Child's Play has posted the latest in a series of provoking posts on
language learning. There's much to recommend the post, and it's one of the
better defe...
51 minutes ago
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Science Online London
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I will be attending Science Online London or #solo10 on September 3-4 at the
British Library. The conference theme is *How is the web changing science?*
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5 hours ago
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The difference between being religous and being a believer
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One of the big news stories from last year was the revelation that Americans
are leaving their churches and religious institutions in droves. They are
beco...
7 hours ago
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Stimulating quasi-erotic excitement through organic structure determination
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Thanks to the graces of the intertubes I came across this rare and
fascinating video of R B Woodward put up by some kind soul a couple of
months ago. The...
11 hours ago
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Virginia's war on science and academic freedom
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The attorney general of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, is waging a war on
science. Earlier this week, a federal judge dismissed Cuccinelli's lawsuitagainst the U...
15 hours ago
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NGC 4666
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Visible light image of the starburst galaxy NGC 4666 (center) and
neighbouring galaxy NGC 4668 (lower left) from the ESO's La Silla
Observatory in Chile.
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1 day ago
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Getting OMPs to the membrane - SGM series
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[image: ResearchBlogging.org] This is the first post of my SGM conference
series: I'm going to try and write about seven topics from the Society for
Genera...
2 days ago
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Taxon of the Week: Protoperidinium grande
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I can't really award anyone the prize for identifying yesterday's image;
identifying it as a "dinoflagellate" doesn't really cut the mustard
considering ho...
3 days ago
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Inside the Mathematician's Studio
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One of the aims of this blog is to give the general public a sense of what
we applied mathematicians and other non-laboratory scientists actually do
with o...
3 days ago
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Update
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Thanks to all for your well-wishes in the last post. My symptoms are getting
a little worse (and a little more disgusting) but my mental state is getting ...
4 days ago
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Richest Yet Planetary System Discovered: HD 10180
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The era of complex planetary systems is here. The solar-type star HD 10180
is just 39 parsecs away and hosts at least 5 extrasolar planets; this is the
ric...
1 week ago
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Hiatus until 01 Sep + MORE random doodles!
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Flying out very soon, for an underserved vacation smack in the middle of
"OMG I don't have "all summer" anymore!!1! *flailing arms*" season. This is
what h...
1 week ago
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Blogging with substance - the AbC edition
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Lab Rat tagged me with the "blogging with substance" meme, which I think
constitutes a tagging FAIL since I would hesitate to use the term substance
as a ...
2 weeks ago
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Defining Science Blogging
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The Virginia Heffernan piece in the NYT Magazine about science blogs (link
not necessary for the few people reading this post) has gotten a lot of
traction...
4 weeks ago
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Kepler Poll: Hold the Data?
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Edit: 5/3/10 - FWIW, I (mostly) used this opportunity to experiment/learn
how to use Google Docs to create a poll. By way of follow-up, I've mad...
4 months ago
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Funny advert placement
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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...
7 months ago
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