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  • Fasciolariidae
    *Tulip snail *Fasciolaria tulipa*, copyright Amy Tripp.* *Belongs within:* Sorbeoconcha. *Contains:* *Fusinus*, *Latirus*. The Fasciolariidae, band shells...
    8 hours ago from Variety of Life
  • Fifty years of CP violation
    via @CERN http://t.co/9Rac42mBVh #CPviolation #CPsymmetry #matter #antimatter The CP violation is a violation of the CP-symmetry, a combination between t...
    22 hours ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Fundamentalists try to set those godless Unitarian-Universalist heathens straight
    In a total and absolute reversal of the golden rule, a group of fundamentalist Christians (they come in other flavors) invaded a UU church, well known to b...
    23 hours ago from The Phytophactor
  • Giant Centipedes (That Aren't All Giants)
    *Scolopendra morsitans*, copyright Jiri Lochman/Lochman Transparencies. It was a dark night, but not stormy (nights tend to be dark, as a rule). We were o...
    1 day ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Robert Kennedy's Anti-Vaccine Craziness
    Robert Kennedy is obsessed with the notion that vaccines cause autism. He’s particularly obsessed with the discredited idea that thimerosal, a preservativ...
    3 days ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
  • Death of the fittest
    This is imho *an excessively beautiful figure! *I keep staring at it getting thrills, and bliss pours over me as I explore its intricacies. This is evoluti...
    5 days ago from Pleiotropy
  • The problem with Food Babe
    The Charlotte Observer has a good article on Food Babe, a health and nutrition activist who has been responsible for many a scientist and science writer's ...
    6 days ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Turve = Peat in Finnish
    A postdoc pal recently came back from visiting family in Finland and brought me this gift for managing the postdoc seminar series here at UC Davis while sh...
    1 week ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Re-Blog: June Was 6th Warmest Globally
    In the UK, we've been rather lucky *touch wood* and had a rather lovely summer thus far. But, it seems that there's a darker side to this lovely weather......
    1 week ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Possible work with the new rpoD mutation
    I'm up to my ears preparing materials for the new version of Useful Genetics, but we have a great new technician through UBC's Science Co-op program. She'...
    2 weeks ago from RRResearch
  • What does the latest research say on religion decreasing the risk of suicide?
    And so to this thorny topic again! This time with a batch of new studies - but what light do they shed on this complicated topic? First up is a straightfor...
    2 weeks ago from Epiphenom
  • Geology and Generals: How Geology influenced the Gettysburg Campaign (Part I.)
    “*Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your vic...
    3 weeks ago from History of Geology
  • Uncommondescent Unfockinghappy Unfockingfortunately
    Uncommondescent makes Jesus facepalmAbout a week or so ago, I noticed a spike in traffic to a post I wrote. The post was about how I see science being writ...
    4 weeks ago from Angry by Choice
  • Magic Singlish
    A number of non-native English speakers get "Singaporean" as the top guess for their native language. You can actually see that by playing around in our di...
    4 weeks ago from Games with Words
  • Microtwjc 49: Discussion and Criticisms
    1 month ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
  • Palaeontology Online: Fossil Focus: Placodonts
    This link is to a new article at Palaeontology Online providing an overview of Triassic marine placodonts. Palaeontology Online is a website sponsored by t...
    1 month ago from Chinleana
  • Welcome to Curious Bends
    A few years ago, I formed a group of science enthusiasts. Our goal was to fix the problem of poor science communication...
    1 month ago from The Allotrope
  • Rule of 6ix has moved
    If you are looking for more virological-related blogging head over to postdocinvirology as Rule of 6ix is no more. I have decided to slightly alter my blog...
    3 months ago from Rule of 6ix
  • 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...
    3 months ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Brian Arthur's vision of Complexity Economics
    My friend Daria Roithmayr alerted me to a working paper of Brian Arthur laying out a vision for a new approach to studying economics. Brian Arthur is one ...
    3 months ago from PLEKTIX
  • 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...
    4 months ago from The Astronomist
  • 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...
    6 months ago from inkfish
  • 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...
    11 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...
    2 years 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...
    3 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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