Atlantic Tropical Weather Discussion

AXNT20 KNHC 011049 TWDAT TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 805 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2007 TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION FOR NORTH AMERICA...CENTRAL AMERICA...THE GULF OF MEXICO...THE CARIBBEAN SEA...NORTHERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA...AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TO THE AFRICAN COAST FROM THE EQUATOR TO 32N. THE FOLLOWING ... (Read on Source)

Study Improves Breast Cancer Risk Prediction In Women With Atypia

Women with at least three sites of cellular atypia in breast tissue are nearly eight times more likely than average women to develop breast cancer, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic Cancer Center-led study of women with atypical hyperplasia. (Read on Source)

Some IPhone Customers Put on Hold

(AP) -- While many who snapped up Apple Inc.'s iPhone were using the latest must-have gadget even before leaving the store, some buyers were put on hold as they experienced frustrating delays in activating their cell phone service. (Read on Source)

Game Plan by Jim Manzi

The National Review, i`ve never heard of it or read it before but it is rapidly apparent that they don't take quite the same view on things that I do. This is made likely by the presence of American Enterprise and Cato Institute columnists. These Conservative think tanks have long been funded by Exxon to deny climate science, this may now have ... (Read on Source)

Smoking Interferes With Thinking And Memory In Recovering Alcoholics

After six to nine months of abstinence from alcohol, recovering alcoholics who were also chronic smokers showed a significantly lower rate of improvement in tests of memory, reasoning, judgment and visual/spatial coordination than non-smoking recovering alcoholics in a study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. (Read on Source)

Discovery Could Help Bring Down Price Of DNA Sequencing

One promising method for speeding up DNA sequencing is nanopore sequencing. Using a theory based on classical hydrodynamics, a Northwestern University researcher now has explained the nature of the resistive force that determines the speed of the DNA as it moves through the nanopore, which is just five to 10 nanometers wide. This understanding ... (Read on Source)

Where is the Deepest Canyon in the World? - Arequipa, Peru

No, it's not the famous Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, nor the Copper Canyon of northern Mexico. Come to southern Peru where high in the Andes exists the lesser known Colca Canyon, which for 100 kms averages 3400 meters deep (ca 2 miles). (Read on Source)

New Undersea Images Challenge Prevailing Ideas About The Antarctic Ice Sheet

Using echo-sounding equipment to create images and maps of areas below the ocean floor, researchers have begun to unravel a new story about the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Images of areas below the Eastern Ross Sea, next to West Antarctica, provide evidence that the subcontinent was involved in the general growth of the Antarctic Ice Sheet as it formed ... (Read on Source)

Barefoot Irreverence

Not Necessarily Relevant Quote of the Week: It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ? Jacob Bronowski Tag: quotes... (Read on Source)

Climate change sceptics criticise polar bear science

Evidence for declining populations is under attack - but others say inconvenient data is being ignored (Read on Source)

Debut of 'Transformers' highlights week ahead in science

ROCK 'EM, SOCK 'EM July 1: The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to be transported back to Florida's Kennedy Space Center today aboard a modified 747 carrier aircraft. The trip had been scheduled for Saturday but was postponed due to technical problems. July 2: Marc Rayman of the DAWN mission to Ceres and Vesta will be Mat Kaplan's guest on ... (Read on Source)

Bat Virus Name Offends Malaysian State

(AP) -- The state of Melaka is upset that scientists have named a new bat-borne virus after it, news reports said Sunday. (Read on Source)

Clean Tech: Review

"The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity" Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)

Hong Kong choked by growing pollution problem

Discarded cigarette packets, McDonald's wrappers and even old socks litter the shores of Lau Fau Shan in Hong Kong's far north, home to what remains of the territory's oyster farming industry. (Read on Source)

$650,100 Bid Wins Lunch With Buffett

(AP) -- Two investors put in the winning bid of $650,100 in a charity auction to break bread with billionaire Warren Buffett. (Read on Source)

Re:framing: A Challenge to Gene Theory, a Tougher Look at Biotech

The $73.5 billion global biotech business may soon have to grapple with a discovery that calls into question the scientific principles on which it was founded. (Read on Source)

Do flu vaccines really protect the elderly?

Studies show that shots save lives, but figures reveal little change in the numbers of elderly people dying from flu since vaccination became widespread after 1980 (Read on Source)

06-30-2007: Taunus Iridescent Clouds

These incredible iridescent clouds were observed around midday near Taunus, Germany, on March 6, 2007. Intense colors in altocumulus clouds rendered a sky that was breathtaking. The iridescent coloration results from diffraction of sunlight -- small water droplets composing these mid level clouds interfere with or deflect the Sun's rays. When ... (Read on Source)

07-01-2007: Slovakia Rainbow

This splendid double rainbow was captured in the southern Slovakian village of Tvrdosovce, in July of 2006. After a brief but intense, late afternoon summer storm, this primary and secondary rainbow decorated the eastern horizon. The darkened area between the bows is called Alexander�s Dark Band. Much of the sunlight reflected and refracted in ... (Read on Source)

When Eco-Friendly Shopping Doesn?t Help

HERE�S one popular vision for saving the planet: Roll out from under the sumptuous hemp-fiber sheets on your bed in the morning and pull on a pair of $245 organic cotton Levi�s and an Armani biodegradable knit shirt. (Read on Source)

Thirteen

Marsalis is one of a new breed...literally. He's one of the Thirteens, genetically engineered by the U.S. government for naked aggression and primal survival skills.... (Read on Source)

Eldest

Darkness falls...despair abounds...evil reigns.... (Read on Source)

China's terracotta tomb site hides mystery building

BEIJING (Reuters) - The tomb of China's first emperor, guarded for more than 2,000 years by 8,000 terracotta warriors and horses, has yielded up another archaeological secret. (Read on Source)

Weather extremes wither LA, drown Texas

AP - Barring a surprise arrival of the kind of gully washers Texas is getting these days, Los Angeles' driest year in 130 years of record-keeping will go into the books this weekend. (Read on Source)

?Bright Sky? & ?Spindrift? ? A Slice of SciFi Book Review

Reviewer: Debbie Walker (SoSF Contributor) � A Slice of SciFi Book Review: Bright of the Sky , by Kay Kenyon Titus Quinn wakes up on a distant planet six months after he piloted a colony ship through a black hole and it was destroyed. His explanation of spending 10 years in a parallel universe doesn’t fly [...] (Read on Source)

Shatner?s Absence From Star Trek 11 Pure Speculation

All the recent talk about William Shatner (Captain Kirk) not being asked to do a cameo for Star Trek 11, aka “Star Trek,” may be nothing more than pure speculation and Internet chatter. “Star Trek” screenwriters Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman, say all this talk is nothing more than talk without any real substance, according ... (Read on Source)

RNA tails and gene expression

Only a few years ago – definitely less than ten years – gene expression was thought to be a fairly simple process. One gene coded for one protein. The gene was "transcribed" from DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA), and in turn the mRNA was used to direct the manufacture of proteins in structures called ribosomes . But then there were a ... (Read on Source)

The tyranny of the discontinuous mind

A telling tale from Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale is the tale of the tailed salamanders that live in the mountains around California's Central Valley (but not on the valley floor). In the hills at the southern end of the valley there are two kinds of salamanders of the genus Ensatina , one with yellow and black blotches, and another ... (Read on Source)

Scientists fly into raptures over flightless Fred

BOIS CHERI, Mauritius (Reuters) - The remains of a dodo found in a cave beneath bamboo and tea plantations in Mauritius offer the best chance yet to learn about the extinct flightless bird, a scientist said on Friday. (Read on Source)

Yecke in Her Own Words

There has been controversy over a particular quote of Cheri Pierson Yecke. The Princeton (MN) Union-Eagle reported on October 9 th , 2003 that Yecke had said local schools districts could teach “intelligent design”. I copied that quote in a post on my blog on August 30, 2005 . A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from ... (Read on Source)

Vegetarian Zombies

By Tony Carrillo [See also on the Zombie Channel] (Read on Source)

Today in Science

Events 1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace ’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society . Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)

Discretion, deception, and communication between scientists and non-scientists.

A recycled post from the ancestor of this blog, before anyone read it. In my "Ethics in Science" class, we regularly use case studies as a way to practice reasoning about ethics. There's a case I've used a few times involving research with animals where the protagonist airs some of her concerns (specifically, about her PI telling her to change ... (Read on Source)

Re: Lucifer project

Here is a snippet explaining in part why this is impossible, specifically why a fission chain reaction cannot be started: "Fission bombs work in this (simplified) way. The nucleus of a plutonium atom naturally splits into two or more pieces when a neutron (a subatomic particle) hits it. When it splits (also called fissioning), it releases energy ... (Read on Source)

Citation Management

All users may click on the [Abstract] link to view the abstract of this article. If you are a subscriber, you may click on the [HTML] or [PDF] link to view the article. If you are not a subscriber, you may purchase and download the PDF version of the article using your credit card by clicking on the [Purchase] link. (Read on Source)

Bike City Berlin

Two years ago, the Berlin Senate decided that bikes should make up 15% of city traffic by the year 2010. Results released from the newest traffic study of the Berlin Development Administration show that the goal could be reached early: the number of bicyclists has more than doubled in the last decade to 400,000 riders daily, accounting for 12% ... (Read on Source)

ClockQuotes

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. - Bill Cosby Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)

New e-waste recycling laws begin

A law making UK producers of electronic goods responsible for the recycling of their goods finally comes into force. (Read on Source)

All Set

OK, I have scheduled to repost automatically some of the best clock-related posts. They will appear every day at 9am and 5pm from July 9th till August 12th. I hope you like them again.... Tomorrow, I'll schedule a bunch of ClockQuotes for the next month as well, every day at 4am. Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)

Galapagos Islands Listed as a World Heritage Site in Danger

Since 1994, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been concerned about the conservation of the Galapagos Islands. Founder and President Captain Paul Watson said at the time that the Galapagos was �our line in the sand when it came to conservation efforts.� (Read on Source)

Google Health: Where's a Psychiatrist When You Need One?

Google has established an Advisory Council for health-related googling. There are 20-something people on the Council, but no nurses and no psychiatrists (as far as I can tell... at least, no one is clearly representing these constituencies). Of course, you cannot put together such a group without others complaining that they didn't get a seat at ... (Read on Source)

Ratatouille

Saw Ratatouille today. Never once checked the time. Very good film. So far Yahoo Movie critics & users give it an A-, and it seems like it'll win the box office. Much recommended (Pixar animation is the bomb obviously, but the story is really good and could only be told in a non-live action context for obvious reasons). This is a movie whose ... (Read on Source)

Peer-to-Patent Opens in Second Life

Peer-to-Patent opens in Second Life. The custom-built auditorium and information space on Democracy Island is open to all to come learn about the project, view video tutorials and hold discussions about innovation and patent applications. On June 18, members of the project team held an introductory briefing. See Nobody Fugazi's report on the ... (Read on Source)

East is East, and West is West...

...and never the twain shall meet. Moslems and infidels. Christians and heathens. Whites and coloreds. Us and them. Right and wrong. Truth and falsehood. The tyranny of the discontinuous mind. See this week's Musing . Click to enlarge Anne's Sunday offering. (Read on Source)

Scientists Use Elephant Seals to Monitor Oceans

Elephant seals live at sea for months at a time, diving several thousand feet below the surface and swimming from northern California to Russia and back again. Now, the amazing creatures are being recruited by scientists. (Read on Source)

Catcam

Just some silliness: a guy attached a webcam to his cat’s collar, and the pictures it has taken are actually rather engaging. Some of his captions are a bit twee, but others made me LOL. And I wish I had thought of this! Someone should tell him to put Google ads on his site; he’ll [...] (Read on Source)

U.S. Air Force to End Orbital Express Mission

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Air Force will deactivate the Pentagon's Orbital Express satellites the week of July 2, eliminating any chance of NASA using the experimental spacecraft to test robotic techniques applicable to future Mars sample return missions. (Read on Source)

Feedback Wanted On ?The African Princess?

IMAGINE Picture Group and the “The African Princess” would like to hear your feedback. Please go to www.theafricanprincess.com and click on the feedback button. Your comments will be viewed by the IMAGINE Picture’s creative team. Here are a few questions to get you started: 1. What is your opinion of the “The African ... (Read on Source)

Birth Order: I Am Worm, Hear Me Roar

A study connecting birth order with differences in intelligence reminds us that the fight for self-definition starts much earlier than freshman year. (Read on Source)

Just for Me

As they did with the Incredibles , Brad Bird and the team at Pixar made a movie just for me! No, really! How could they know so accurately about my likes, loves and interests in conjuring up such a perfect combination of the various themes, story elements, images, scenes, characters (and rat facial expressions and gestures)? This time it is all ... (Read on Source)

Taco Medley

While on the way to see a film celebrating good food (among other things) it makes sense to have some. This is Lotería's taco sampler (click for larger) : I've told you about this excellent restaurant before, I think, but feel compelled to show [...] (Read on Source)

Plankton Heart Human Urine

So you've already tried using urine to power your batteries and to fill up your gas tank . Why not now try using it as food (and, no, we don't mean for your own consumption)? A team of ecological engineers at the University of Kalyani, India, discovered that plankton fed on a diet of ground water and human urine did better than those that were ... (Read on Source)

Ever wonder what you could do with the hole in CDs?

Orac is the nom de blog of a humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will. (Continued here, along with a DISCLAIMER that you should read ... (Read on Source)

No Logo: S�o Paulo Bans Outdoor Advertising

WorldChanging Team: by Chicago local blogger team, the FB crew: On the rare occasion I find myself channel surfing the 400 networks RCN provides, I inevitably... (Read on Source)

When Simple Things You Can Do Really Do Make a Difference

Emily Gertz: I'm wary of the "50 simple things you can do to save the earth" approach to environmentalism and economic justice. Some things just aren't... (Read on Source)

Our Biotech Future

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. Two facts about the coming century are agreed on by almost everyone. Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the ... (Read on Source)

Freeman Dyson On Open Source Biology

Kripkenstein sends us an article by Freeman Dyson in the NY Review of Books, in which the eminent physicist and big thinker takes on the possible end to the Darwinian era of speciation that has endured 3 billion years on this planet. He discusses the history and future of biology in terms that many in this community will find familiar: "[We can ... (Read on Source)

Nonrandom Ten

I'm out of town, here are some hints to the state, city, and organization I'm visiting, and my means of getting there: The means of travel and the organization: " Science Vs. Romance " by Rilo Kiley from the album Take Offs and Landings (2001, 5:43). The state: " California " by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from the album She's the One (1996, (Read on Source)

Gribbit issues a challenge, or something; I reciprocate

Gribbit is unhappy . He doesn't like the fact that when he casts his opinions into cyberspace, there will be people who disagree with him and point out his errors and, where appropriate, his lies. He has a special black place in his heart for Meatbrain , who consistently highlights Gribbits oratory malfeasance in a forthright manner Gribbit ... (Read on Source)

Duck testicles, beef tongues and rabbit stew - here I come!

While in San Francisco, I'd like to eat at Incanto (look around the site for their menu and progressive food and water policies, and they also have a blog ). It is at 1550 Church Street, on the southwest corner of Church and Duncan Streets in San Francisco's Noe Valley. Where is that? Anyone game to go with me? Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)

Geocentric Positions of Major Solar System Objects and Bright Stars

This data service provides geocentric position data for the major solar system bodies and selected bright stars. Data will be provided for a three year period from 1 January of the preceding year through 31 December of the following year. For dates outside of this range, see MICA and our other data services. (Read on Source)

"Witty bon mots and juicy innuendo"

Now for the lighter side: The Onion is no stranger to hilarious prose, but this week's column " Where Do Homosexuals Get All Their Energy? " almost put me on the floor. Just the hed shot of the "columnist" was enough to get the set the gigglebots in motion, and it was all guffaws from there. They pump iron and play racquetball like they were ... (Read on Source)

Bosnian Pyramid Loses Funds!

There are a lot of good science posts out there that deserve to be in the next edition of Open Laboratory, edited by Bora from A Blog Around the Clock. To submit a science blog entry from one of the great science blogs out there, click on the OpenLab 2007 link in my sidebar or right here. (Read on Source)

An open letter to Judy Paris, sharp-minded antihomo

Judy, thank you for gracing the the Concord Monitor's opinion page with your letter about the ills of gay civil unions and homosexing in general. Your stylish lack of enlightenment is just the sort of thing that makes me want to do a mad cannonball into a vat of nitric acid. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)

We don't have physics envy, but we still have to deal with physics snobbery

Peggy has an excellent discusion of the peculiar attitudes towards biology held by physicists and engineers , which includes this wonderful complaint by Jack Cohen : In summer 2002, I was at the Cheltenham Festival of Science. Lots of biologists presenting, for sure. But… one very popular event was a presentation by three famous ... (Read on Source)

Visualizing "Answer People" In Online Discussions

Marc Smith writes "'Answer people,' the folks who contribute much of the value in the Internet, are a small minority of all online users. According to a recent paper my co-authors and I have published in the Journal of Social Structure, less than 2% of authors in Usenet newsgroups are likely to be the helpful 'answer person' type — authors ... (Read on Source)

New Hampshire repeals parental notification abortion law

Yesterday, New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signed a repeal of a 2003 law requiring abortion providers to notify at least one parent 48 hours in advance of performing an abortion on a minor. The law was never enforced iowing to a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood. New Hampshire is the first state to repeal an existing notification law of this type. ... (Read on Source)

C-R-Newsletter #54

The latest edition of the C-R-Newsletter has been posted on our main website. CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE: CRN Announces Conference Speakers Early Bird Discounts From Basic Nanotech to MM Visions of the Future The Future, Actually Trends in Violence Talking... (Read on Source)

Lab notebooks and graduate research: what should the policy be?

An earlier post tried to characterize the kind of harm it might do to an academic research lab if a recent graduate were to take her lab notebooks with her rather than leaving them with the lab group. This post generated a lot of discussion, largely because a number of commenters questioned the assumption that the lab group (and particularly the ... (Read on Source)

What Will YOU ask the Presidential Candidates?

Now you can ask the Presidential candidates what we’ve all been wanting to know: What is their plan to cut carbon emissions 80% by 2050? As part of The CNN*YOUTUBE Debates , anyone can upload a 30 second video asking the Presidential candidates (or any individual candidate) a question of their choice. Right now YouTube is taking ... (Read on Source)

PZ is in Seattle

Yes, I am away for this week — I'm off wearing flannel, listening to grunge, and drinking coffee as I chop down trees in the rain (did I miss any stereotypes?). Updates to Pharyngula will still happen , though, so don't abandon me completely. They will be more sporadic, but when they do happen, they will be pungent with the tang of Puget ... (Read on Source)

Adventures in Flying American Airlines: Attack of the Clerks

Well American Eagle/American Airlines was not satisfied with messing up my trip to Halifax; they had to screw with me in my trip back to Raleigh. They lost my luggage on my way up there (see previous posts) and make me find my own way home from Canada on my way back. Moral of the story: American Airlines' staff sucks, American Airlines' planes ... (Read on Source)

Advocating Green Chemistry in the Lab

It's an age-old ritual for college science majors around the country: every year, a new wave of students takes a series of chemistry laboratory courses which, while interesting, often inspire much dread and stress. Students are expected to work with hazardous chemicals under cramped conditions to complete a set of preordained, stepwise ... (Read on Source)

NASA moves up next shuttle launch

Read full story for latest details. (Read on Source)

I get email

I have to go catch a plane to Seattle, so I'll leave you all with a little exercise. This random bit of creationist email just sailed in over the transom—it's simple and to the point, and isn't even afflicted with the usual random font stylings I get. It's still just as kooky in its substance, though. Can you spot the logical error? Can ... (Read on Source)

L'avenir des batteries passera peut �tre par les "nano-oursins"

Les travaux du 'Photonic Nanostructure Group' (PNG) du 'Tyndall Institute', basé � Cork dans le sud de l'Irlande, ont permis de créer une nouvelle nanostructure tr�s prometteuse.... (Read on Source)

Rétro 1928: Les myst�res du cerveau

Avertissement: Cette news rétro retranscrit des connaissances scientifiques, techniques ou autres de 1928, et contient donc volontairement les arguments, incertitudes ou erreurs d'époque. (Read on Source)

NASA Spaceline Current Space Life Science Awareness

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Dream of lunar liquid telescope not so distant

Read full story for latest details. (Read on Source)

The Most Terrifying Internet Timewaster EVAH!

Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology. Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address. I don't like anonymous trolls. (Read on Source)

Want Good Fish? Think Salmon.

Sport fishing ought to be a big input for any locally produced, 100-mile (or any other radius) diet. It's been seldom discussed here; but we aim to correct that. Now...it's true that there are many water bodies from which no fish should be eaten due to pollution. It's also true that there are several species of sport fish that, with perhaps some ... (Read on Source)

HYDRATION GUIDLEINES

3.5 cups (0.8 L), assumed to be from human milk and complementary foods and beverages. This includes ~3 cups (0.6 L) as total fluid, including formula, juices and drinking water. (Read on Source)

ESA Venus Express Status Report No. 83 - End of Quadrature Phase

On the last day of the reporting period, the spacecraft's 10* +Y tilt was removed as part of the ending of the quadrature operations. The tilt in the spacecraft attitude is required during the quadrature phases to prevent unacceptable illumination of the VMC. (Read on Source)

Around the Ponds

I'm going to be lazy today. Just a couple of photos, but they're both *real* dragonflies, suborder Anisoptera, and they're in the same family of Common Skimmers: Libellulidae. There might be puny spreadwings and damsels, but these are the real thing. Blue Dasher , Pachydiplax longipennis , in characteristic "hot daddy hot" pose. That's what's ... (Read on Source)

An Evening With WVFD

We haven't had a Wolfskin Training Session here in a while, so I thought we'd have one today. This one actually occurred on Thursday June 14, but it overlaps in some ways with last night's training so it fits reasonably well. The photographs are some of many taken by our civilian board member, Jerry Ledbetter, and many thanks to him for ... (Read on Source)

A Week to Recognize the Role of Pollinating Insects

This is the first annual National Pollinators Week, designated by the United States Senate and the USDA, to draw attention to the plight of disappearing honeybees and other pollinating insects. (Read on Source)

'First west Europe tooth' found

The tooth, a pre-molar, was discovered on Wednesday at the Atapuerca site in northern Spain's Burgos Province. It represented western Europe's "oldest human fossil remain", a statement from the Atapuerca Foundation said. (Read on Source)

Kids Like Science Weird

Started on June 3 by medical writer, "20-something geek," and ScienceBlogs fan Mina Murray, Weird Science is a blog written specifically for adolescents. But with posts on levitating light bulbs, antidepressants for pets, and new fingerprinting techniques, Weird Science will tickle kids of any age who are interested in the hows and whys of new ... (Read on Source)

Free offline science magazines

Well, it’s the weekend again and the last thing anyone should be doing is sitting in front of their computer, but, hey, you don’t always have a choice, right? You have to keep up with all that reading, just to stay ahead of your game. Well, there is an alternative, and it’s right here under your nose on Sciencebase. It’s ... (Read on Source)

Psychiatric Genomics Center Established At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has received one of the largest gifts in its history from Theodore and Vada Stanley to establish the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genomics on its Long Island campus. The goal of the Center is to unambiguously diagnose patients with psychiatric disorders based on their DNA sequence in 10 years time. [click ... (Read on Source)

The Cognitive Psychology of Baseball!

Ah, yes, a real game (kidding, Scrabble people). If you've watched many baseball games or baseball movies, you know that one of the things that makes for a successful hitter is the ability to predict what the next pitch will be. Is it going to be inside or outside? Will it be a fastball or a breaking ball? If you're expecting a fastball and get ... (Read on Source)

Bad covers

In keeping my (temporary), retreat from medical blogging for the weekend, I thought you might enjoy as much as I did this list of the 100 Worst Cover Songs . I do have a few objections, though. For one thing, I kind of like Marilyn Manson's cover of Personal Jesus , which clocks in at #90. I don't know why; I just do, and it's just a travesty ... (Read on Source)

Youtube Gems: The Police Tour 2007

For those who haven't been able to get tickets to see the Police tour this year, there are a ton of Youtube clips up from the tour or at least from the announcement of the tour at the famous Whiskey a Go Go in LA. They barely remember some of the songs, which makes it amusing as they're correcting each other during the songs. Read the rest of ... (Read on Source)

Hovind's Wife Sentenced

Kent Hovind's wife, Jo, was finally sentenced for her role in their tax fraud conviction. She was sentenced to one year and one day in prison plus $8000 in fines and 3 years probation. Far lighter than Kent's sentence but her attorney says he still plans on appealing. Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)

Bald Eagles Viewed Differently in Alaska

The bald eagle was taken off the threatened species list this week. In Alaska, bald eagles outnumber people and are not viewed with the respect they get in the continental United States. (Read on Source)

Movie Review: Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox

Is truth stranger than fiction? Have you ever used Dr. Bronner?s soap and wondered how this tingly product has so many uses? In Dr. Bronner?s Magic Soapbox, director Sara Lamm follows around the Bonner family in their quest to sell soap and unite everyone under one plan (the Moral ABCs), listed on the side of every bottle, along with a ... (Read on Source)

The Assault on Reason, Open Thread

UPDATE JUNE 30 : So. I've finished reading The Assault on Reason . I must say, it's not what I expected. My ultimate takeaway feeling is that this is a very powerful book, whatever flaws it may have. But that's getting close to giving away my review, which I'm still in the process of writing....so in the meantime, let's carry on the great ... (Read on Source)

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