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***Spoiler Alert*** This post may contain plot details and quotes from
Parts 1 & 2 of The Signature of All Things. Proceed with caution! The
second part of...
7 minutes ago from Moss Plants and More
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TPP has been going to Costa Rica for research and teaching for 20 years, so
discovering completely new things outside of the rainforest happens a lot
less ...
16 hours ago from The Phytophactor
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You might never spot them if not for the jumping. On the coast of Guam,
Pacific leaping blennies blend in perfectly with the rocks they live on,
their li...
16 hours ago from inkfish
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*Common quail *Coturnix coturnix*, photographed by Wr.*
*Belongs within:* Phasianidae.
*Coturnix* includes the Old World quails: small, short-tailed, ofte...
1 day ago from Variety of Life
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It was a century ago today that the word *isotope* first appeared in print,
in a letter to Nature from Frederick Soddy, who would go on to win the
Nobel p...
2 days ago from The Culture of Chemistry
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You may not be aware of it, but there is a battle afoot in the theory of
evolution. The fight is over inclusive fitness theory—an approach to
studying the...
2 days ago from PLEKTIX
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Imagine yourself walking on your own through a dark forest. Each and every
movement that you perceive will result in the feeling that another person
or a...
2 days ago from Epiphenom
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Here are two new books on evolution. I wrote chapters for both :o
Predicting Evolution and Visualizing High-Dimensional Fitness Landscapes
Effects of Epi...
3 days ago from Pleiotropy
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From hereOne of the courses I teach culminates with blog posts written by
the students. This is the third year I have used this assignment and is one
assig...
3 days ago from Angry by Choice
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*Hyperammina elongata*, photographed by Onno Groß.
Agglutinated foram time again! In previous posts, I've described how these
aquatic amoeboids construct ...
4 days ago from Catalogue of Organisms
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When things go wrong, often we turn to the humble telephone to help us out.
Whether we turn to it to call for services found in the yellow pages,
family, f...
6 days ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
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by @ulaulaman about #RichardFeynman #physics #universe #wine
Once upon a time, *Richard Feynman* telled a story about the universe and a
glass of wine:
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1 week ago from Doc Madhattan
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Graphene, a wonder material which was made by scientists using a version of
Scotch tape (Image: Wikipedia)
I was a mere toddler in the early 1980s when the...
1 week ago from The Curious Wavefunction
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Deepak Chopra is upset.
Why? Well, it all goes back to statements like this one, from Chopra
himself:
“Consciousness may exist in photons, which seem to ...
1 week ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
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A question that has been on my mind for the last few months is this: how do
viruses interact with cellular carbohydrates? You may find that a dull
question...
1 week ago from Rule of 6ix
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The post-doc is polishing up has latest manuscript, and on reading it over
yesterday I realized that we have data to clarify a very old issue. Here's
a li...
2 weeks ago from RRResearch
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[image: Comet ISON photograph by Damian Peach.]There is a new object in the
sky. Comet ISON is an icy wanderer making its first and probably last last
trip...
2 weeks ago from The Astronomist
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Coring is currently underway in Petrified Forest National Park targeting
the Chinle and Moenkopi Formations.
You can read about the project and follow the ...
3 weeks ago from Chinleana
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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...
2 months ago from The View from a Microbiologist
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Today's issue of *Science *carries the most meta sting operation I have
ever seen. John Bohannon reports a study of open access journals, showing
lax peer ...
2 months ago from Games with Words
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On July 16th at least 23 children in the Indian state of Bihar died after
eating a midday meal that was provided for free by their school. Nearly as
many a...
2 months ago from The Allotrope
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It's probably the most famous volcanic eruption of all times - the 79 A.D. eruption
of *Mount Vesuvius *that destroyed the cities of *Pompeii *and *Herculan...
3 months ago from History of Geology
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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...
4 months ago from Skeptic Wonder
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
1 year ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
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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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago from Labs
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Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago from The Greenhouse
16 hours ago from inkfish
1 day ago from Variety of Life
2 days ago from The Culture of Chemistry
2 days ago from PLEKTIX
2 days ago from Epiphenom
3 days ago from Pleiotropy
3 days ago from Angry by Choice
4 days ago from Catalogue of Organisms
