Photo of the Day #320: Western Gorillas
Laelaps
Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla, a silverback male [top] and females [middle and bottom]), photographed July 23th, 2008...
Volcano War Erupts
the buzz in the blogosphere
When Deep-Sea News declared Sunday that volcanoes are evil—citing their occasionally disastrous effects on marine life—ScienceBlogs's resident geologists rushed to their defense. Green Gabbro argued that "volcanoes were here before we snotty, ungrateful hydrocarbons metamorphosed from the goo," and Highly Allochthonous added that volcanoes "may cause the odd extinction event or two, but they're also a big part of why there are things to go extinct in the first place."
Volcanoes: our noble allies in the battle against export productivity
07.23.2008 · Chris Rowan
... Finally, a blogospheric spat that actually matters. Craig McClain over at Deep Sea News has accused volcanoes of being the implacable enemies of marine life, based on new research linking them to some bouts of extreme ocean ano...
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I'm sorry to say that I only aspire to be a teeny-tiny bit evil, and my target is a handful of virtually inedible crackers in my possession.
Pharyngula · The Great Desecration · July 24, 2008
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Life Science
Look, up in the sky, it's... Supertree
Evolving Thoughts
Strange cladogram from another method, able to leap large evolutionary distances in a single bound, faster than...
New and Exciting in PLoS this week
A Blog Around The Clock
Isolation-by-Distance and Outbreeding Depression Are Sufficient to Drive Parapatric Speciation in the Absence of Environmental Influences: A commonly...
Physical Science
JPL has a blog
Dynamics of Cats
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a nice little group blog Lots of pretty pictures. h/t NASAwatch...
Colleagues behaving badly: symmetry considerations.
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Go to Cosmic Variance at once to read Julianne Dalcanton's musings on why spherical jerks (not the word...
Numeric Pareidolia and God in Π
Good Math, Bad Math
There's one kind of semi-mathematical crackpottery that people frequently send to me, but which i generally don't...
Physics and McSweeney's
The Frontal Cortex
Funny stuff from McSweeney's: General relativity is your high-school girlfriend all grown up. Man, she is amazing. You...
Environment
Latest no-no for climateers: tropical vacations
The Island of Doubt
Jet flights near the equator do more damage than at high latitudes.
Monckton and the APS
Deltoid
Catherine Brahic, at the New Scientist enviromental blog has more on Monkcton and the APS: [Al Saperstein, an...
Geopuzzle #13
Highly Allochthonous
Whilst I struggle to cope with the suddent onset of dementia in my beloved but aging laptop (which...
"The Cave Where Turtles Die" Video
Deep Sea News
Earlier this year, I highlighted a post from the amazing dive blog The Right Blue. Their story about...
Humanities/Social Science
A few words from Paul Sereno
Laelaps
I haven't interviewed Paul Sereno (yet) but there are a few short interview clips up on YouTube where...
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway Art 18 [Detail]
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another lovely tile and glass mosaic artwork from the NYC subway system for you to enjoy, courtesy of...
Style is timeless
Gene Expression
I've been reading Critique of Pure Reason and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding in the evenings. It should...
Politics, Brain and Technology Weekly Channel Highlights
In this post: the large version of the Politics, Brain & Behavior and Technology channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week.
Why do you blog, and how does blogging help with your research?
Education & Careers
The Innumeracy of Intellectuals
Uncertain Principles
I know nothing about art or music. OK, that's not entirely true-- I know a little bit here...
An Editor Lays Down the Law
DrugMonkey
Incoming Editor in Chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology David J. Linden has written a fascinating editorial. As...
Write to UCF
Pharyngula
I guess that since the Catholic League was unable to fire up a stake in Minnesota, they're going...
Head of UMN Morris Backs PZ Myers
Greg Laden's Blog
It appears that the Chancellor of the University of Minnesota, Morris put out a statement today regarding PZ...
Politics
More Police Interference with Critical Blogs
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Balko finds yet another example, the third one recently, of a police department trying to identify a blogger...
Michelle Malkin, Call Your Office
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
OMG! McCain's daughter is a terrorist! She wears a keffiyeh, just like Yassir Arafat and, worse yet, Rachael...
Another School Flyer Distribution Lawsuit
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
The Alliance Defense Fund has filed suit against a New Hampshire school district because they allow non-profit organizations...
Medicine & Health
Produce industry and Bush administration's short sighted and costly mistake
Effect Measure
Hoist on their own petard, with help from the Bush administration.
Sex, Gender, Reproduction
A Blog Around The Clock
I have not done a Friday Weird Sex Blogging post in ages, and I won't do today either,...
Oh no! My cell phone's going to kill me!
Respectful Insolence
I'm very puzzled. Now, I know that my being puzzled isn't particularly unusual. I'm frequently puzzled. I can't...
Brain & Behavior
Perpetually falling woman learns to balance with her tongue
Neurophilosophy
Today's Daily Telegraph contains a fascinating extract from Norman Doidge's new book The Brain That Changes Itself, about...
Hacking Vision?
The Quantum Pontiff
An interesting idea from Mark Changizi from RPI: can one design pictures which, when interpreted by your vision,...
Loss Aversion and Real Estate
The Frontal Cortex
The latest report on home sales is bleak: Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh...
Butterflies of the soul
Neurophilosophy
This quote comes from Recollections of My Life, by Santiago Ramon y Cajal: Like the entomologist in search...
Technology
Blog Carnivals - what is in it for you?
A Blog Around The Clock
I keep getting asked: why should I participate in blog carnivals? The Wikipedia page about blog carnivals is...
Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop?
Greg Laden's Blog
Some current news in the Linuxosphere, and some things going on on my very own desktop, have me...
Blogrolling: Dr. Professor Chaos
DrugMonkey
I've been enjoying the Professor Chaos blog authored by River Tam of whom the about blurb says: I...
Robofish
Deep Sea News
Robotic sea bream from researchers at the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. Go to the Pink Tentacle to get...
