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One of the first things to get the Rauner-roundTM here in Lincolnland are
its universities. Our new GnOPe governor says he'd like to give
universities mor...
12 hours ago
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The Phytophactor
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From the NYT, a plea for not getting carried away with the vision of
'moonshot medicine' as precision engineering. The op-ed is written by
Michael Joyner,...
20 hours ago
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The Curious Wavefunction
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*Talc – Gypsum – Calcite – Fluorite – Apatite – Feldspar – Quartz – Topaz –
Corundum – Diamond* - “*Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness *” should be
familiar t...
1 day ago
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History of Geology
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by @ulaulaman a review of #Annihilator, a #cosmic #comics by Grant
Morrison and Frazer Irving
Rabbits are animals extremely prolific, almost legendary in ...
5 days ago
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Doc Madhattan
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Last week a blog post at Forbes on Wi-Fi devices went viral. That post, by
fellow Forbes contributor Robert Szczerba, claimed that Wi-Fi exposures
from ce...
1 week ago
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Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
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I have to weigh in on this.
I spend a lot of time discussing the idea that bacteria can use DNA as a
source of nutrients, and audiences are always surprise...
1 week ago
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RRResearch
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*Interpretive diagram of holotype abdomen of *Siberiogenites mongolicus*,
from Sinitshenkova (2002).*
*Belongs within:* Pisciformia.
The Siphlonuroidea i...
1 week ago
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Variety of Life
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*Violet-necked lories *Eos squamata*, copyright Niels Poul Dreyer.*
In taxonomic days of yore, it was a not uncommon practice for new genera to
be baptise...
2 weeks ago
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Catalogue of Organisms
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A very short edition of Carnival of Evolution is up today. A new blogger is
hiding behind a pseudonym, David Hume, with two excellent posts on
molecular ev...
3 weeks ago
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Pleiotropy
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I spent the holidays visiting family in Cincinnati, Ohio and got some nice
shots of mosses peaking through the cracks in my mom's back patio. I took
two ph...
3 weeks ago
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Moss Plants and More
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(Grade A-F, no E's) Title-Author Additional thoughts
B+ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Good story, can see why it was
wildly popular. Not a fan...
3 weeks ago
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Angry by Choice
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Space filling model. c. Michelle Francl*UPDATE: The Sceptical Chemist has
a quiz up on benzene structural formulae based on the article in Nature
Chemist...
1 month ago
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The Culture of Chemistry
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Greetings and welcome to this particular pond of microbes.
I'm back! My wonderful time at Scientific American at The Ocelloid has come
to a close, as I am ...
1 month ago
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Skeptic Wonder
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*Sookias, R. B., Sullivan, C., Liu, J., and R. J. Butler. 2014. Systematics
of putative euparkeriids (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) from the Triassic of
Chin...
2 months ago
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Chinleana
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Eight years ago, I had finished my first year of graduate school in math,
and I was at a loss as to what to research. My original focus,
differential geom...
3 months ago
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PLEKTIX
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In the UK, we've been rather lucky *touch wood* and had a rather lovely
summer thus far. But, it seems that there's a darker side to this lovely
weather......
6 months ago
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The View from a Microbiologist
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A number of non-native English speakers get "Singaporean" as the top guess
for their native language. You can actually see that by playing around in
our di...
7 months ago
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Games with Words
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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...
3 years ago
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Disease Prone
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