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Much is made of the apparent fact that religious people are happier and
better adjusted than the non-religious. However, as regular readers of this
blog wi...
3 hours ago from Epiphenom
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Learning to tell time when I grew up was a challenge. Clocks were analog -
not digital. Everywhere. I can still see the little stiff pink paper clocks
we w...
5 hours ago from The Culture of Chemistry
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It seems that are some experimental problems in OPERA:
The OPERA Collaboration, by continuing its campaign of verifications on the
neutrino velocity meas...
12 hours ago from Doc Madhattan
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*Paper daisy *Helipterum roseum*, from here.*
*Belongs within:* Asteroideae.
*Contains:* *Helichrysum*.
The Gnaphalieae is the tribe of composite-flowered...
17 hours ago from Variety of Life
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http://gizmodo.com/5887454/first-photos-of-chinas-298+million+year+old-buried-forest
20 hours ago from Chinleana
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Here's some sculpture that may give the bibliophiles among you a strange
feeling. On one hand, a book, rather than being destroyed, is utterly
transforme...
1 day ago from The Phytophactor
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Prion protein in red on dendritic cell beside neuron (green) This blog
focuses on trying to understand how viruses cause disease in their hosts -
whether...
1 day ago from Rule of 6ix
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Hartmut Michel from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics has an editorial(open access!) in
*Angewandte Chemie* with a title that makes his views clear: "T...
2 days ago from The Curious Wavefunction
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The news of the resuscitated "*Ice Age plant*", regenerated from 30.000
year old tissue conserved in permafrost, is an intriguing discovery that
will help...
2 days ago from History of Geology
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Confession: As a nerdlet of nine or ten, I decided to help flowers get
fertilized. I loved seeing the glossy seeds hidden inside the fat green
ovaries o...
2 days ago from inkfish
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Part two in the RAP series is the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).
This little protein really is brilliant. It’s a crucial part of your body’s
defen...
2 days ago from A is for Aspirin
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*Male of *Forsteropsalis fabulosa*, photographed by Neil Fitzgerald.*
Technically, I had a paper last week. I say 'technically' because, at only
one page ...
2 days ago from Catalogue of Organisms
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Via WikiMedia CommonsI'm a "special needs" parent. What that means is that
I've got *children* who *fall into the category*, "special needs," needs
that ex...
4 days ago from The Biology Files
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Mary Grover at Salon has distilled the essence of using Dragon Dictate into
a brief post. I couldn't possibly do better -- or even as well -- so I
refer yo...
6 days ago from Games with Words
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The mosses crept out of the ocean, covering the bare rocks on our desolate
planet over 400 million years ago. They sped up the chemical weathering of
the r...
1 week ago from Moss Plants and More
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In today's eSkeptic, which celebrates Darwin's 203rd birthday, Donald
Prothero write about the most cited paper in all of paleontology: Eldredge
and Gould'...
1 week ago from Pleiotropy
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A scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes
printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of
each page equals one...
1 week ago from The Astronomist
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We've been going back and forth and around and around on the part of our
CIHR grant proposal where we propose to ... well, part of the problem is
that we'...
1 week ago from RRResearch
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With Valentine’s day fast approaching and *love* being well and truly in
the air it got me thinking, could the bacteria we live with be somewhat
involved?
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1 week ago from The View from a Microbiologist
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We all hope to get old one day. But if we do, our chances of getting
Alzheimer's disease increase dramatically as we move into our 80s. As many
as 50% ...
1 week ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
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To allow the scientists to do good science, governments and the industry
need to fund it. Not long ago I pondered why all the governments of big
nations s...
2 weeks ago from The Allotrope
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Use Thundershock you Fool! Books are weak to Electric !
It's over, and I'm overwhelmed. I've finished my last set of
experiments. My feelings upon leaving...
2 weeks ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
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As a number of people have already pointed out, the Fordham Institute has
released its 'The State of State Science Standards 2012'. This is of
particular i...
3 weeks ago from Angry by Choice
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Having got my Estonian Science Foundation grant funded recently, I have an
open PhD position available! See below.
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We are seeking a hi...
1 month ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
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(of course all IJ macros and IJ itself are free...)
So I got sick of constantly clicking away just to resize an image and add
some citation text to the bot...
2 months ago from Skeptic Wonder
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Inequality is a national conversation topic now, thanks largely to the
efforts of Occupy Wall Street and the broader Occupy mo...
2 months ago from PLEKTIX
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I was deeply considering a blog hiatus, dear readers, but sometimes you get
hit with sledgehammers, and the only thing you can do to make sense of it
all i...
4 months ago from C6-H12-O6
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That's the question--as I stare at the census data in search of a juicy
trend--that would seem the most sensational and draw the most readers. A
trend...t...
4 months ago from Labs
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Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
5 months ago from The Large Picture Blog
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Trying to keep both this and my new sciam blog going has been a bit of a
strain. I've decided therefore that from now on all my science writing will
be hos...
5 months ago from Life of a Lab Rat
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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...
7 months ago from Disease Prone
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Quick post here ... just read this article - Richard Branson launches
Virgin Oceanic: deep-sea exploring submarines - Boing Boing which discusses
how Katri...
10 months ago from The Greenhouse
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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...
2 years ago from Sex, Genes & Evolution