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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • *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
  • http://gizmodo.com/5887454/first-photos-of-chinas-298+million+year+old-buried-forest
    20 hours ago from Chinleana
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • *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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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? ...
    1 week ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Having got my Estonian Science Foundation grant funded recently, I have an open PhD position available! See below. ----------------- We are seeking a hi...
    1 month ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
  • (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
  • [image: ResearchBlogging.org] 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
    5 months ago from The Large Picture Blog
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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