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  • Earth Day: Pogo and our responsibility
    [image: 20250422-pogo-earth-day-1970] Explore how Walt Kelly's beloved character Pogo highlights environmental responsibility and pollution awareness in the...
    6 days ago from Doc Madhattan
  • What I Read 2024
    My brief thoughts on the books I completed (reading not writing) last year. B Holly by Stephen King. Good detective story, that lacks the horror eleme...
    4 weeks ago from Angry by Choice
  • I've moved to Substack. Come join me there.
    Hello readers, After blogging on this site since 2007, and at Forbes since 2010, I've moved all of my content over to Substack, at https://stevensalzber...
    2 months ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Preventing misuse of chemistry cloud labs by bad actors
    Cloud labs promise to significantly accelerate synthesis and testing by lowering cost and technology barriers - for both good and bad actors. Potential s...
    3 months ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Friday Fabulous Flower - Bottle brush buckeye
    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...
    1 year ago from The Phytophactor
  • The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site
    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...
    2 years ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site
    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...
    2 years ago from Variety of Life
  • The political brainwashing by the rich
    How to reach the people who think Obama is the anti-christ, the racists who think Democrats are communists, and those who believe the global climate crisis...
    5 years ago from Pleiotropy
  • Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs's Mineralogical Legacy
    *Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs, lithography by Joseph Kriehuber (1832).* *Talc – Gypsum – Calcite – Fluorite – Apatite – Feldspar – Quartz – Topaz – Cor...
    5 years ago from History of Geology
  • How do we mourn human civilization?
    2019 was a lot of things. But for what I want to say here, 2019 was the year that I realized we might not save ourselves. Just on its face, 2019 was a ter...
    5 years ago from PLEKTIX
  • Histological Evidence of Trauma in Dicynodont Tusks
    *Whitney, M. R., Ting Tse, Y., and C. A. Sidor. 2019. Histological evidence of trauma in tusks of southern African dicynodonts. Palaeontologia Africana 5...
    6 years ago from Chinleana
  • Why doesn't all the GTA get taken up?
    I've been modelling the production and uptake of GTA particles in a culture, hoping to understand the cause of the surprising GTA-accumulation curve I desc...
    6 years ago from RRResearch
  • Hunting up the ghosts of elements
    *This post originally appeared at the UNESCO International Year of Light's blog, in October 2015. The site is no longer available.* Interior of an antique...
    7 years ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • December 2015 Desktop Calendar
    Do you know this moss? After our run-in at the herbarium last week we are besties. Stay tuned for a post later in the week about my mossy adventures with t...
    9 years ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Unrealistic Scientific Optimism
    Not enough published studies replicate. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the most difficult to address is statistical power. *Why is lo...
    9 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 ...
    10 years ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • Re-Blog: June Was 6th Warmest Globally
    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......
    10 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...
    13 years ago from Disease Prone
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