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January 14, 2010
Applied Statistics
Happiness in Latin America Interesting. The numbers should be rounded to the nearest percent--in a survey, you'll never get the precision to say anything like "45.2%"--but otherwise it's a clean display. Follow the link above for context and further discussion....
Uncertain Principles
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update Even when I'm on the road, I continue to be obsessed... A nice review at Lean Left that really gets Emmy's role in the book: The dog asks clear questions and Orzel uses those interjections well. They very often serve...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 20 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
Aardvarchaeology
Hoards and Offerings Although I am still just getting acquainted with the research background of my Bronze Age project, I wrote the first couple of paragraphs for my next book today.
Greg Laden's Blog
From Fit to Fat to Fit: Funny haha, funny strange Funny Thing Two and Funny Thing Three....
Uncertain Principles
Links for 2010-01-14 "There was a lot of smoke." « Quantum Moxie That is how my son, who is in 3rd grade, described a class science experiment gone awry. The experiment involved electrical tape, a battery, lightbulb, and a piece of insulated...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Painting the Eastern Painted Turtle, Chrysemu picta This is a fascinating stop-motion video of artist Carel Brest van Kempen's painting of an Eastern Painted Turtle, Chrysemu picta, a common and widespread American reptile
Neuron Culture
Ezra Klein - America spends way, way, way more on health care We don't have a government-run system. But our system is so expensive that our government's partial role is pricier...
Pharyngula
I had no idea it was so easy Have you ever seen the True Christian, the kind that will calmly and confidently tell you the most insane and ridiculous things as if he were ordering a cup of coffee? Meet Randy Demain. He has raised the dead, and...
Pharyngula
There's an app for that If you ever argue with creationists, you know that the Index to Creationist Claims is an incredibly useful site, as is the book version, The Counter Creationism Handbook. Life just got a little sweeter: it is now available as a...
Effect Measure
BPA cardiovascular findings replicated Earlier findings that increased BPA exposure associated with diagnosis of heart disease confirmed in second independent cross sectional study of NHANES participants.
Neuron Culture
NEJM study finds post-event morphine cuts combat PTSD rates in half This is a pretty big deal if it holds up in future trials.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
TEDTalks: Romulus Whitaker Talks about The Real Danger Lurking in the Water The gharial, Gavialis gangeticus, and king cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, are two of India's most iconic reptiles, and they're endangered because of polluted waterways. Conservationist Romulus Whitaker shows rare footage of these magnificent animals and urges us to save the rivers that sustain their lives and our own
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #823: California sea lion A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), photographed at the Central Park Zoo....
The Scientific Indian
Temple Stampede in India 14 Jan 2010. Seven die in India temple festival stampede Previous stampedes. Sep 30, 2008. Atleast 100 dead at Chamunda Devi temple in the city of Jodhpur. August 3. 140 dead. 40 children. Stampede at the Nainadevi temple, Himachal Pradesh....
A Blog Around The Clock
Clock Quotes Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. - Bertrand Russell...
Stoat
Climate and Cancer Ha ha, there you go, yet another provocative headline that won't really deliver. From the comments elsewhere (thanks F): At the rate newspapers keep pushing the boundaries of what nonsense they will publish, then Einstein's theories will be up for...
The Questionable Authority
Picture of the Day - 14 January 2010 The bird in this picture is actually sitting on a clutch of eggs. Notice how effectively they're camouflaged among the gravel. Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) John Boyd Thatcher State Park, New York 23 June 2009 1/500 sec @ f/9; Canon...
Respectful Insolence
James Randi speaks about chemotherapy People fear chemotherapy. Some of this fear is not unreasonable, but a lot of it is a vestige of older days, when chemotherapy was much more unpleasant and even at times horrific. However, contrary to the old alt-med trope of...
January 13, 2010
Pharyngula
It's another of those vote-for-the-sexy-atheist-but-NOT-pz polls They taunt me. Really, I know I'm an old lump, it's OK, you can stop mentioning how I'm not on the poll but all the young cool groovy atheist kids are. And then Hemant has to gloat that at last...
Tomorrow's Table
Give to Haiti Give to Haiti
Thus Spake Zuska
Picking at the Bones of a Dying Bookstore I couldn't help myself. The aroma of fresh cheap books was too strong.
Pharyngula
Ken Ham, baffled Crazy Ken Ham has learned about the Atheist Convention in Melbourne, and he has written his confused, garbled version of what it's all about. He's also done his typical cowardly routine of complaining about the convention and also, by...
Pharyngula
Say it ain't so, Brent! Brent Rasmussen is shutting down Unscrewing the Inscrutable. This is sad; Pharyngula is a lowly newbie to the atheist blogosphere, and when I set up shop way back in 2003 the godless blogs I followed included the Raving Atheist (which...
Good Math, Bad Math
Zippers: Making Functional "Updates" Efficient In the Haskell stuff, I was planning on moving on to some monad-related stuff. But I had a reader write in, and ask me to write another post on data structures, focusing on a structured called a zipper. A...
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Synthetic Biology
Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
“Playing God”
The Loom January 31, 2008
"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti
Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006
Build your own virus
