Field of Science Blogs...
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Simple but neat atypical calculation of energy released in fission (from
Glasstone and Sesonske, “Nuclear Reactor Engineering”). It’s a nice
illustration...
2 weeks ago
from
The Curious Wavefunction
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I think I’ll have to add calcium to my list of the Top Six Supplements You
Should Not Take. Here’s why.
A year and a half ago, I reported on a very large...
5 weeks ago
from
Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
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Fine-tuning of the universe is not a cogent objection. It gets causality
wrong. The idea of a set of knobs that God tunes to get it just right for
life t...
2 months ago
from
Pleiotropy
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It seems like yesterday I was knee deep in determining final grades, but
Wednesday I am back in the thick of it. Luckily, my teaching is much less
in t...
3 months ago
from
Angry by Choice
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Not too many plants blossom in the middle of summer. But the bottle brush
buckeye is reliable shade tolerating plant. Not only that but once
establish...
9 months ago
from
The Phytophactor
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I'm moving house.
Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly
behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...
1 year ago
from
Catalogue of Organisms
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I'm moving house.
Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly
behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...
1 year ago
from
Variety of Life
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In the world of black hole researchers, there is a group led by *Tomer
Shenar* that, so far, has mostly demonstrated the non-existence of black
holes prev...
1 year ago
from
Doc Madhattan
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This week, a conversation flared up on Twitter on whether mathematics can
carry human biases, and what such a possibility could even mean.
The spark was...
3 years ago
from
PLEKTIX
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*"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as
such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws." *
*"The Colou...
3 years ago
from
History of Geology
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I've been trying to think carefully about what our world will be like once
the current pandemic is over. Most people are rightly focused on the
current si...
3 years ago
from
RRResearch
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It the the custom in many Christian denominations to light a Pascal fire at
their Easter rites. For Catholics, this is done after sunset on Saturday
night...
5 years ago
from
The Culture of Chemistry
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*Wang, W., Li, C., Scheyer, T. M., and Zhao, L. 2019. A new species of
Cyamodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) from the early Late Triassic of
south-west C...
5 years ago
from
Chinleana
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Are you #Herbarium Staff? We recently began a multi-year research study
examining how bryophyte specimens are stored and organized at scientific
institutio...
6 years ago
from
Moss Plants and More
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*DEAREST READERS, *
*THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. WE WILL BE DEPARTING FROM
THE FIELD OF SCIENCE NETWORK. *
*FIND US AT OUR NEW BLOGGI...
7 years ago
from
Games with Words
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There arose a need for a new tree for a parasitology meeting, so after
almost five years, I finally updated the tree of eukaryotes. There are
still things ...
9 years ago
from
Skeptic Wonder
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Hi guys,
I've set-up a new science/education blog called* Science Bitez *so I'll be
blogging from there from now on!
Here's my first Science Bitez post:
On ...
9 years ago
from
The View from a Microbiologist
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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...
12 years ago
from
Disease Prone