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  • Book review: An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
    [image: An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America]An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker A highly illuminat...
    3 hours ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Myriangiales
    Elsinoe veneta* on raspberry leaf, copyright James Lindsey.* *Belongs within:* Dothideomyceta. The Myriangiales are a group of mostly plant-pathogenic fun...
    8 hours ago from Variety of Life
  • Salty and saltier: fast food has more sodium than ever before
    High blood pressure is one of the biggest health problems in the U.S. today. The CDC estimates that 75 million American adults, about one-third of the adu...
    1 day ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Flies on Stilts
    Flies deserve a much better rep than they're usually given. They are animals of grace and poise that step lightly through the world. And perhaps few flies ...
    1 day ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • University admissions
    Things have really changed. There was no stigma to attending a state college. And certainly no one was in the business of bribing admissions people, altho...
    3 days ago from The Phytophactor
  • Darwin's First Botanizing Steps Followed His Geological Ones
    * “I collected every plant, which I could see in flower, & as it was the flowering season I hope my collection may be of some interest to you." - Charles D...
    4 weeks ago from History of Geology
  • A New Placodont from the Late Triassic of China
    *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...
    1 month ago from Chinleana
  • What I Read (2018)
    B High Deryni by Katherine Kurtz. Final of the trilogy. I like the antagonism between some leaders of the major religion (Christianity) and Deryni magic (I...
    2 months ago from Angry by Choice
  • Elements of revenge
    I seriously can’t write fiction. I suspect it's not lack of imagination, but some odd form of writer’s block. Or perhaps it is too many years devoted to si...
    2 months ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Quantum gravity without gravitons
    *Charles Choi* writes on *Scientific American*: In a paper recently accepted by the journal *Classical and Quantum Gravity*, however, astrophysicist *Ric...
    6 months ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Wrong
    6 months ago from Pleiotropy
  • Planning the GTA work
    My goal for the rest of my time in Andrew Lang's GTA lab is to gather data that constrains estimates of the efficiency of GTA transduction. I have lots o...
    8 months ago from RRResearch
  • Bryophyte Herbarium Survey
    Are you #Herbarium Staff? We recently began a multi-year research study examining how bryophyte specimens are stored and organized at scientific institutio...
    1 year ago from Moss Plants and More
  • You can win the Electoral College with 22% of the vote
    Donald Trump is poised to become the next US president, despite the fact that Hillary Clinton received over a million more votes than him (and counting). T...
    2 years ago from PLEKTIX
  • WE MOVED!
    *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...
    2 years ago from Games with Words
  • Update: Tree of Eukaryotes (parasitology edition)
    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 ...
    4 years ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez
    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 ...
    4 years ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • 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 years ago from Disease Prone
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