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  • Peak blue: Is it a blue bell?
    A youngish neighbor politely asked if the carpet of blue flowers were blue bells. No. But it illustrates the uselessness of common names in general. Has...
    1 day ago from The Phytophactor
  • No, megadoses of vitamin C won't cure a coronavirus infection
    The world is awash in treatments for COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus. Or at least that's what you might think if you just searched the interne...
    2 days ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Mutisioideae
    *African daisy *Gerbera jamesonii*, copyright Dinesh Valke.* *Belongs within:* Asteraceae. The Mutisioideae are a cosmopolitan group of composite-flowered...
    3 days ago from Variety of Life
  • The last great contrarian?
    Freeman Dyson, photographed in 2013 in his office by the author On February 28th this year, the world lost a remarkable scientist, thinker, writer and huma...
    6 days ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Abel Prize 2020: Furstenberg and Margulis
    The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2020 to *Hillel Furstenberg* (left in the photo), Hebrew University o...
    1 week ago from Doc Madhattan
  • A semi-quantitative framework for long-term thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic
    I think the current rush to invoke extreme flatten-the-curve measures needs to be accompanied by careful thought about what we'll do once the measures have...
    2 weeks ago from RRResearch
  • Rugosofusulinids?
    We return once again to the fusulinoids, large, complex Foraminifera of the late Palaeozoic. For this post, I'm taking a look at the Rugosofusulinidae, a g...
    2 weeks ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Daily routine
    7:00 am coffeeeeeeeeeee 8:00 am more coffeeeeee 9:00 am more coffee maybe shower, maybe already showered. Regardless let's assume already showered 10:00 ge...
    2 weeks ago from Angry by Choice
  • 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 weeks ago from Pleiotropy
  • De La Beche's Awful Changes
    Caricatures are exaggerated sketches of a person or human behavior. However, such cartoons appear only at a superficial glance as simple drawings, as they ...
    1 month 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 terr...
    2 months ago from PLEKTIX
  • Easter fires: Rainbow demonstration rises again
    It the the custom in many Christian denominations to light a Pascal fire at their Easter rites. For Catholics, this is done after sunset on Saturday night...
    11 months ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • A New Placodont from the Late Triassic of China
    *Wang, W., Li, C., Scheyer, T. M., and Zhao, L. 2019. A new species of Cyamodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) from the early Late Triassic of south-west C...
    1 year ago from Chinleana
  • Bryophyte Herbarium Survey
    Are you #Herbarium Staff? We recently began a multi-year research study examining how bryophyte specimens are stored and organized at scientific institutio...
    2 years ago from Moss Plants and More
  • WE MOVED!
    *DEAREST READERS, * *THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. WE WILL BE DEPARTING FROM THE FIELD OF SCIENCE NETWORK. * *FIND US AT OUR NEW BLOGGI...
    3 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 ...
    5 years ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez
    Hi guys, I've set-up a new science/education blog called* Science Bitez *so I'll be blogging from there from now on! Here's my first Science Bitez post: On ...
    5 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...
    8 years ago from Disease Prone
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