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  • Ignored
    There is a website I am ignoring. Sometimes the best action to take is to ignore. The organization and the man leading it want to influence society in a ma...
    1 day ago from Pleiotropy
  • Gardening the hole day
    TPP is bushed, tired, not politically inept. Yes, hole not whole, because that's what he did today; TPP dug holes. That's the bloody trouble with new shrub...
    1 day ago from The Phytophactor
  • Simulate the transit of extrasolar planets
    by @ulaulaman about #exoplanets #planetary_transit #kepler_mission #nasa #astronomy The search for extrasolar planets (or *exoplanets*) had its first succ...
    1 day ago from Doc Madhattan
  • #MicroTwJC 47: Total Synthesis of a "Functional" Designer Yeast Chromosome
    1 day ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
  • Turning to God for reassurance in the face of wonder
    ‘Agency detection’ – seeing purposeful minds at work behind seemingly random events – is a powerful human instinct that is thought to play an important rol...
    2 days ago from Epiphenom
  • Education, breastfeeding and gender affect the microbes on our bodies
    Trillions of microbes live in and on our body. We don’t yet fully understand how these microbial ecosystems develop or...
    3 days ago from The Allotrope
  • A new mutation causing hypercompetence
    I described last month how we were revisiting on old hypercompetent mutant whose causative gene was unknown. I rechecked its phenotype and prepped DNA to ...
    3 days ago from RRResearch
  • Vitruvian Geology – Leonardo da Vinci and the Realistic Depiction of the Earth’s Surface
    Leonardo da Vinci studied rocks and landscapes not only to improve the realism of his paintings, but also in an attempt to understand how the earth works. ...
    3 days ago from History of Geology
  • Rule of 6ix has moved
    If you are looking for more virological-related blogging head over topostdocinvirologyas Rule of 6ix is no more. I have decided to slightly alter my blogging...
    3 days ago from Rule of 6ix
  • Learning mosses at SOBEFREE
    At the end of March I attended the SOBEFREE foray with amateur and professional bryologists from across California and beyond. I highly recommend attending...
    5 days ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Fire Burn and Caldron Bubble: A chemistry set for the iPad
    From BlueCadet's design for the appRound about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Sw...
    5 days ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Life and Lemons: Follow-up on 'the' conversation
    I told you we would get back to Dr. Ego Tistical… This isn't really about Dr. Tistical specifically, but the medical doctor (as opposed to nurses, EMTs, et...
    6 days ago from Angry by Choice
  • Star-Grass
    *Common star-grass *Hypoxis hirsuta*, photographed by Merel R. Black.* It does not require a great deal of insight to understand why the plant pictured ab...
    1 week ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Anteholosticha
    *Views from life (A-D) and after protargol impregnation (E, F) of *Anteholosticha pulchra*, from the Laboratory of Protozoology, Ocean University of China....
    1 week ago from Variety of Life
  • Brian Arthur's vision of Complexity Economics
    My friend Daria Roithmayr alerted me to a working paper of Brian Arthurlaying out a vision for a new approach to studying economics. Brian Arthur is one of...
    1 week ago from PLEKTIX
  • Raw milk enthusiasts want you to drink a bacterial stew. Yum.
    Sometimes it is astonishing how ignorant people can be. Now it's the turn of fans of "raw milk," a new fad that is sweeping the U.S. I still remember read...
    1 week ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
  • "Designing drugs without chemicals"
    As usual Derek beat me to highlighting this rather alarming picture from an October 5, 1981 issue of Fortune magazine that I posted on Twitter yesterday....
    2 weeks ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Pale Terraqueous Globes
    [image: Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/Tim Pyle] Imagine the closest star beyond the Sun has a planet orbiting it about the size of Earth. Visualize wh...
    1 month ago from The Astronomist
  • New Neopterygian Fishes from the Chinle Formation of Utah
    This is an important new paper describing some new fishes from the Chinle Formation of Utah. Well-preserved fish are rare throughout much of the Chinle and...
    2 months ago from Chinleana
  • Doing your homework
    I just finished a radio interview about birth order. Apparently not very much research goes into booking guests for radio & TV shows. Lately, I've been get...
    2 months ago from Games with Words
  • Out of Office
    Hi friends, I'm very excited to share with you that Inkfish has moved to a new ocean-floor crevice. You can now find me at *blogs.discovermagazine.com/i...
    2 months ago from inkfish
  • AMRC guest blog - the opening of the MND DNA Bank
    This blog has been pretty quiet due to me passing my PhD and now working full-time at the MND Association and writing lots of blogs for them at www.mndrese...
    6 months ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Live coverage of Big Protist Conference (ICOP) in Vancouver, 28 Jul -- 02 Aug
    There's a big protist meeting in Vancouver starting tomorrow, and I've been generously supported by ICOP and ISOP to attend as a reporter. I'd like to invi...
    8 months ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • The Molecular Circus
    This blog has now moved. Join me for more pharmacological fun, and new and exciting explorations into the minute and magical world of molecules at.... http...
    1 year ago from A is for Aspirin
  • Hey girl. Have you heard about the war on women?
    Image credits (if not credited, public domain) Ron Paul Timothy Dolan Rick Santorum Mike Huckabee Chris Christie Marco Rubio
    1 year ago from The Biology Files
  • The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl
    Image from Hochwagen Lab This proposal was shouted out as “…one of the most important papers on the control of meiotic crossing over…” (Hawley 2006). Since...
    1 year ago from Sex, Genes & Evolution
  • Finding a new translation factor, and verifying it with help from my experimental friends
    Joy of joys my most recent paper has just been published in Nucleic Acids Research! Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Mar 28. [Epub ahead of print] Evolutionary and ...
    2 years ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
  • Girlybits 101, now with fewer scary parts!
    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...
    2 years ago from C6-H12-O6
  • Do Science Bloggers Exercise Free Will?
    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...
    2 years ago from Labs
  • The Large Picture Blog Has Moved
    Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
    2 years ago from The Large Picture Blog
  • Lab Rat Moving House
    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...
    2 years ago from Life of a Lab Rat
  • 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...
    2 years ago from Disease Prone
  • Branson getting into microbial diversity in the deep sea
    Quick post here ... just read this article - Richard Branson launches Virgin Oceanic: deep-sea exploring submarines - Boing Boing which discusses how Katri...
    3 years ago from The Greenhouse
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