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July 4, 2008
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Friday Parrot Blogging: Independence Day Just an update about my parrots on this holiday, and yes, I include pictures for you to enjoy!
Laelaps
Thomas Jefferson's All-American incognitum Edouard de Montule's 1816 painting of the mastodon reconstructed in the Peale Museum. Note the down-turned tusks. Thomas Jefferson had an axe to grind when he wrote his Notes on the State of Virginia in 1781. Twenty years earlier...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Seeing is believing. Blogging has been a bit light lately, in part because I was persuaded to teach half of a graduate seminar during the summer session. The first half of the seminar looked at philosophical approaches to epistemology (basically, a set of...
Greg Laden's Blog
Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival: The Fourth Of July Everything is Just Fine We've Got It Under Control In America Edition (... makes me laugh .. ) The previous Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival was Four Stone Hearth Number 43, here, at Swedish Extravagaza. It was the Lard Edition. Go check it out. The home page for Four Stone Hearth is here. The next...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears Losing an animal companion is so difficult.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
4th of July: A Fancy Excuse To Blow Up Shit Another Independence Day is here, along with the attendant home fires and loss of limbs in small children, sigh!
The Scientific Indian
Thomas gives birth to his child normally Thomas Bertie, 34, male, has given birth to his child normally. Many men with imagination might wonder at times (like me, not admitting to anyone, perhaps, but wonder) about how it would be like to be pregnant - just...
Gene Expression
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind They say that to understand the present you need to understand the past. This seems likely to be true, but when it comes to understanding human affairs in their historical and sociological detail I have to admit that I'm skeptical...
July 3, 2008
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
West 34th/Penn Station Subway Art 5 This is the last artwork from this station that I will show you, so stay tuned to see what's next!
Gene Expression
Women aren't interested in science? Jonah pointed me to this artice, The '60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire, which chronicles the shift toward political moderation among the professoriate. That moderation seems to be less about changes in views toward the center of the...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Update: Housing (Again) More details about the process of trying to prevent the landlord from victimizing his tenants (including me).
The Intersection
The Chicken, The Egg, The Woman In Science According to ABC, a new study reports that women tend to drop out of research between their postdoc positions and running their own labs. I can't say I'm shocked. While personal anecdotes are not reliable evidence, by age 28 I've...
Afarensis
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same I'm not sure what the point of this post is, I'm just kind of thinking out loud and I'm sure that those who know a lot more about genetic analysis will be able to point out some errors in all...
Laelaps
Geese from barnacles In 1751 the Royal Society of London faced a bit of a problem. Someone had started spreading the myth that the Brent-Goose (probably Branta bernicla) was born not of eggs but of seashells dropped like fruit from a particular type...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Smells Like Teen Spirit Some of my readers are trying to get me ready to visit London.
Aardvarchaeology
Film Review: Journey to 10,000 BC Late Palaeolithic people sail across the Atlantic to illustrate the Solutrean hypothesis, and the mast is at the aft of the boat. Painful stuff.
Evolving Thoughts
Off in the wilds of... Melbourne Hi folks. It's conference time again, and of course we have organised to have the Australasian Association of Philosophy/Australasian Association for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAP/AAHPSSS) conferences in the coldest place on the mainland -...
July 2, 2008
Afarensis
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Taino: An Abuse of Power The Voice of the Taino People Online has an interesting post up concerning the discovery of a five acre site near Jácana, Puerto Rico:...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Nature Versus Open Access Methinks that NATURE (and Butler) is afraid of PLoS!
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
West 34th/Penn Station Subway Art 4 Another wonderful tile mosaic artwork from NYC's subway system for you to enjoy, courtesy of me!
Gene Expression
Nature vs. everyone else? Nature came out with a piece today, PLoS stays afloat with bulk publishing: Science-publishing firm struggles to make ends meet with open-access model. The title basically says it all. There have already been some negatives responses, see Mike Dunford, Alex...
Laelaps
Who is more important: Me or Michael Bolton? Michael Bolton and I share the same birth date, February 26th (he being considerably older than I, of course). Who is better? It's an absurd question (I opted out of comparing myself to Johnny Cash and Victor Hugo; I know...
A Blog Around The Clock
Mammoth Hunting: does the memory still survive in the Native American oral folklore? Archy tackles that question expertly. He's on a roll these days! And this is the mammoth story, so of course, his blog is the place to go for such answers....
Developing Intelligence
Does Self-Selection Affect Meditation's Influence on Attention? Self-selection refers to the fact that certain kinds of people may be drawn to certain kinds of lifestyles or practices (including participation in human research). When the effects of those lifestyles/practices are observed scientifically, they are confounded with myriad other...
The Intersection
Paradigm Sheep That's the title of my latest Science Progress column....even though the column itself is not entirely about sheep. Rather, it's a recounting of the Mooney-Nisbet science communication "boot camp" at Caltech....but, well, sheep came up, and believe it or...
“Tis a shame to be in Tuscany with your itinerary fashioned by someone who just wants gelato and a pool. Towse on Tuscany with Children
