Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
000 ABNT20 KNHC 140910 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 530 AM EDT SAT JUL 14 2007 FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO... TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS. $$ FORECASTER FRANKLIN (Read on Source)
No La Nina This Summer, NOAA Says
(AP) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted that La Nina - a cooling of Pacific Ocean waters that generally brings a more active Atlantic hurricane season - will be absent for the next two months. (Read on Source)
Tests start on world's largest infra-red telescope in Spain
Tests on the world's largest infra-red telescope began Friday ahead of its scheduled opening in 2008, the Canaries Astrophysics Institute (IAC) announced. (Read on Source)
Know your science news? Try our week-in-review quiz
The quiz covers July 9-13, and is based on stories from the AP, Reuters, Bloomberg and New York Times. Check back Sunday for a list of science events coming next week. 1. Reuters reported that melting sea ice is driving mother polar bears to _____________ to give birth in northern Alaska. 2. Scientists say they could curb global warming some by ... (Read on Source)
Three-Legged Tiger Spotted in Sumatra
Automatically triggered camera in Indonesian national park snaps rare Sumatran tiger, albeit with one missing limb. (Read on Source)
Sales Strong for Seats on Virgin Galactic's Spaceliner
GOLDEN, Colo. — After witnessing the initial surge of public interest in suborbital space tourism that followed the successful flight of the X Prize-winning SpaceShipOne three years ago, officials at Virgin Galactic thought the pace of paid reservations might slow down in 2007 — particularly since SpaceShipTwo is not slated to launch ... (Read on Source)
Games Take Center Stage at Expo
(AP) -- The focus of this year's E3 Media and Business Summit was the hundreds of video games that will be debuting in the coming months and years. (Read on Source)
The Fires of Heaven
In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times best seller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into his extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world.... (Read on Source)
Amazon dam project gets the go-ahead
The Brazilian government gives preliminary approval for two huge hydroelectric dams, but environmental groups protest (Read on Source)
07-13-2007: Electric Church
The photo above was captured during a fantastic electrical storm over the stone ruins of a church in the Mojave Desert of California. Church steeples are often targets for lightning strikes, but it's unlikely that a thunderstorm led to the demise and abandonment of this still solid appearing structure. (Read on Source)
07-14-2007: Venice, Italy
The image above shows Venice, Italy, as seen from the Landsat-7 satellite. Venice is one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. It's located in northeastern Italy along the coast of the Adriatic Sea. The Grand Canal can be observed as it meanders through the city -- from the bridge that connects Venice to the mainland (Ponte sulla Laguna) ... (Read on Source)
Chromosome Glue Repairs Damaged DNA
When a strand of DNA breaks in the body's cells, it normally does not take long until it has been repaired. Now researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new mechanism that helps to explain how the cell performs these repairs. The results are presented in the journal Science. [click link for full article] (Read on Source)
Two NASA officials to step down
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. — Two top NASA officials, including the man in charge of developing new spacecraft for future missions to the moon and Mars, plan to leave the space agency, a spokeswoman said Thursday. (Read on Source)
Torturing myself
Speaker for the Dead
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared... (Read on Source)
I Am Legend and Other Stories
In I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and those unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night.... (Read on Source)
SF Tidbits for
Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain is being developed as a miniseries by Ridley and Tony Scott for A&E network in late 2008. Biology in Science Fiction looks at Julie E. Czerneda and her Species Imperative trilogy. David Louis Edelman asks " When will science fiction end? " -- "So maybe that's the problem with science fiction these days. (Read on Source)
Discovery will aid in mammoth's gene map
MOSCOW — The discovery of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost gives researchers their best chance yet to build a genetic map of a species extinct since the Ice Age. (Read on Source)
For Chernobyl birds, color is a curse
Gaudier species seem to be more affected by radioactive fallout. Scientists say that's because they have fewer antioxidants to spare. Radioactive fallout near the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in northern Ukraine has reduced populations of brightly colored birds more than those of their drab cousins, scientists reported ... (Read on Source)
Julie Czerneda's Species Imperative Trilogy
Fantasy Book Spot reviews Canadian Science Fiction writer Julie E. Czerneda's 2005 novel, Survival, Book 1 of her Species Imperative trilogy (via Andrew Wheeler at ComicMix). (Read on Source)
Radical Life Extension and the Singularity
I agree with this point made by Michael Anissimov . The technological Singularity - in its older, more useful definition relating to information and intelligence - has little to do with greatly extended longevity. " Radical life extension (people living to 100, 200, 300, and beyond) seems very plausible to me, and I believe that we are going to ... (Read on Source)
Indigenous Landscapes Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The American Indian Culture and Research Journal is now accepting manuscript submissions between 15-35 pages (including notes) for a special edition focusing on the current status of American Indian Nations, tribes, and communities impacted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Articles should focus on tribal invisibility during ... (Read on Source)
Nuclear Energy Company Threatens Djok Aboriginal Land
One of the largely overlooked issues in the nuclear industry’s public relations overdrive about nuclear energy, is the impact of uranium mining on Aboriginal lands. Australia is home to 40% of the world’s uranium reserves. It is also home to a strong anti-nuclear movement, to a large extent led by Aboriginal traditional owners in ... (Read on Source)
Another Telomere Length and Longevity Study
There is definitely a relationship between telomere length and human longevity; it remains to definitively and fully describe the mechanisms involved . Is this sufficiently close to the biochemical roots of aging - is it an independent form of accumulated damage - that the many research groups working to lengthen telomeres are onto something? ... (Read on Source)
Adult stem cell therapy for autism
Once again from the business sector : Stem Cell Clinic Publishes First Peer Reviewed Paper on Autism Stem Cell Therapy Smart Multimedia Gallery Stem Cell Therapy for Autism: A Proposal SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Institute for Cellular Medicine ( www.cellmedicine.com ) announced today what appears to be the first publication in a peer ... (Read on Source)
Senate panel quizzes NOAA on satellite programs
The latest industry news from WashingtonTechnology.com (Read on Source)
Killer monkey angel!
I may have to add a pareidolia category. Another day, another angel sighting (with video goodness). A couple saw this face in the clouds while vacationing in Florida. “While we were in the elevator, I began to look at my pictures, and I told my wife, I said, ‘Look at these pictures and tell me what [...] (Read on Source)
The Ultimate Eco-Home
Living in a New York City apartment on a journalist's budget is one way to rein in your greenhouse gas emissions. But a woman in Olympia, Washington, has it all over our two editors who are vying for green bragging... (Read on Source)
EPUB and Adobe Digital Editions
Bill McCoy from Adobe came in to give us a talk yesterday, the main part of which was a demo of Adobe Digital Editions and an overview of the document packaging standard EPUB (aka IDPF OPS / OCF ). Digital Editions is alpha-quality software that I really wish was written in XUL and used the Gecko rendering engine and was extensible using XPI ... (Read on Source)
Lush Goes Naked to Protest Packaging
"Cheeky!" "No ifs just butts" "Baring a Message" This week, Lush staff went naked to get the message out: packaging is waste. As employee Wendy Reiding of Wimbledon points out, "the main bits were covered." Staff wore a white apron with the words "Ask me why I'm naked" as they plied the streets drawing stares and in some cases being shooed back ... (Read on Source)
Banning Skeletons in Chinese Games
Early this year, Hu Jintao, China?s president, ordered his government to start promoting a healthier online culture ? a move that applies to games, too. The official press agency, Xinhua News, reported that 500 players signed a petition saying they... (Read on Source)
Michael Moore puts Sanjay Gupta into intensive care
Michael Moore, whose movie on US health care, Sicko , is said to be a devastating indictment of said system (haven't seen it yet), had a bit of dust up recently with CNN's health correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. You can see it on the video linked below. Here's the scenario. With Moore as an upcoming guest of Wolf Blitzer (one of the least bright ... (Read on Source)
Evolution of a sex ratio observed
If you've been reading that fascinating graphic novel, Y: The Last Man ( amzn / b&n / abe / pwll ) , you know the premise: a mysterious disease has swept over the planet and bloodily killed every male mammal except two, a human named Yorick and a monkey named Ampersand. Substantial parts of it are biologically nearly impossible: the wide ... (Read on Source)
When It Comes To Walking, It's All Good, Says Mayo Clinic Researcher
These days, it's easy for people to get confused about exercise -- how many minutes a day should they spend working out, for how long and at what exertion level? Conflicting facts and opinions abound, but one Mayo Clinic physician says the bottom line is this: Walking is good, whether the outcome measurement is blood pressure, diabetes, ... (Read on Source)
SCANDAL AT THE PANDA'S THUMB!
Professor Steve Steve, how could you? He will be going into rehab, and promises never to do it again. (via Zeno ) (Read on Source)
China firm sues Google over name
Beijing Guge Science and Technology Ltd told Reuters news agency that people were constantly phoning its office trying to contact search engine Google. (Read on Source)
Simpsons' Harry Potter Spoof
tags: Harry Potter , Simpsons spoof , streaming video Since we have been playing with making our own Simpsons avatars here on SB, I thought you all might enjoy seeing the Simpsons Hallowe'en Spoof of Harry Potter -- this is hilarious, especially for you HP fans! I have been sitting here in the library watching it, wondering if they are going to ... (Read on Source)
'Jules Verne' set for sea voyage
Europe's biggest, most complex spacecraft is packed up for despatch to the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. (Read on Source)
Some Smokers Have Genetic Predisposition To Develop COPD, Research Shows
Some people have a genetic variation that makes them more susceptible to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease if they smoke tobacco, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues. (Read on Source)
Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest
Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that seem to be some sort of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla. (Read on Source)
Laser Used To Help Fight Root Canal Bacteria
High-tech dental lasers used mainly to prepare cavities for restoration now can help eliminate bacteria in root canals, according to research published in the July issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association. (Read on Source)
Cancer Cures Could Work For Canines And Humans
One of the major issues associated with longer life expectancy in man and his best friend is an increase in the incidence of cancer. Even though they cannot talk, it seems dogs might be able to tell us why and how certain cancers develop. In turn that could lead to better treatments for both canine and human cancer patients. (Read on Source)
Giant Squid Washed Ashore in Australia
Twofish writes "Yahoo News is reporting that the carcass of a giant squid, nearly 8 meters in length, washed ashore in Australia on Wednesday. The creature's mantle is over two meters in length and almost a full meter across. The creature, stretched out, is in total more than eight meters long. 'Scientists would take samples from the creature, ... (Read on Source)
Can exa and atto be far behind?
It was just nine years ago that my Boston Globe column welcomed the arrival of teraflops. Tera is the prefix for trillion. Flop is short for "floating-point operation," a kind of computer calculation performed with a movable decimal point. A teraflop computer can do a trillion floating-point operations per second. That's a thousand gigaflops, or ... (Read on Source)
In the relatively near future there will be no more Greeks
Scary thought, isn't it? Almost as scary as the fact that Mike Huckabee is apparently not the dumbest, most benighted person making a serious run for the highest office in America. If his willingness to run his mouth uncontrollably is any idication, U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, the source of the claim in the title field of this post, ... (Read on Source)
Podcast: Listener Survey
It's time to answer questions again, but this time we hope that you'll take a minute and answer ours. We've written a brief survey that we hope you'll take a minute to fill out. This survey will allow us to collect some general demographic information about our audience so we can make the show even [...] (Read on Source)
Mars Once Shuffled Its Icy Poles
Mars, as it turns out, once had a propensity for juggling its polar ice caps from one end of the planet to the other. A perennial wobble in Mars' tilt pushed one pole closer to the sun, causing water ice to evaporate and refreeze at the colder pole. Every 51,000 Martian years, the wobble would bring the colder pole closest to the sun and shuffle ... (Read on Source)
Friday Random Ten, July 13th
Marillion, "If My Heart Were a Ball It Would Roll Downhill" : Very neat track from one of my favorite neo-progressive bands. Catchy, but with lots of layers. Mandelbrot Set, "Constellation of Rings" : math-geek postrock. What's not to love? The Police, ;Every Breath You Take" : I've always been a fan of the Police. But what I like most about ... (Read on Source)
Larry Moran refuses to be assimilated?
Curses — we almost had Sandwalk in our grasp. If only we'd sent the borg queen in a little earlier, we might have overcome his resistance . Ah, well. There are other blogs to conquer, although I must say the swooning and shrieking and histrionics among the SciBlings as we absorbed yet another godless evilutionist into the hivemind would ... (Read on Source)
Sandwalk Resists
Afer considerable debate, and much agonizing, I've decided not to join ScienceBorg ScienceBlogs at this time. When I first started Sandwalk, I was anxious to be part of that group but now, seven months later, there doesn't seem to be a good reason to give up this site for one in the SEED consortium. There are very few advantages to joining ... (Read on Source)
Friday Ark Available
tags: animals , blog carnival Calling all animal lovers .. the latest edition of the Friday Ark is now available. It's packed with lots of animal images for you to enjoy. Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)
Making the Cover of Seed
In this video by Seed video producer Jacob Klein, Seed 's art director, Adam Billyeald, narrates the creation of the cover art for the August 2007 issue of Seed —from special E. coli -covered stamps and an agar-filled petri dish. The cover art hails author and ScienceBlogger Carl Zimmer 's feature article, "The Meaning of Life." Read the ... (Read on Source)
Real Science Journalism
(via fellow Vancouverites DesmogBlog) Tony Jones does an excellent job of exposing the fraud that is Albert Einstein....er, I mean Martin Durkin (I always get those two mixed up!), the producer of The Great Global Warming Swindle. You can watch his entire interview on YouTube in two parts, embedded below. Suffice it to say, you won't ever hear ... (Read on Source)
Rabbi Jonathan Kendall: Are Darwin's evolution and creationism really just two sides of the same coi
A religious body or faith community that speaks only with exclamation points but no question marks misses the complexity of creation and the beauty of evolution. (Read on Source)
Feet That Know What Hands Are Doing
Monkeys imitate what they see, but so do humans, only more discreetly. Whether any muscles actually flex, our brains fire up the same pathways needed to perform any action we observe another person perform. But new work on disabled volunteers indicates that the brain instead activates alternate circuits when faced with an action its body cannot ... (Read on Source)
Fighting for Flamingos
The world's most important breeding site for lesser flamingos, whose colorful gatherings at East Africa's Rift Valley lakes are one of the continent's greatest spectacles, will be threatened if an industrial building plan in Tanzania goes forward, conservationists are alleging. Although the proposal has not yet gained government approval, the ... (Read on Source)
Nanotechnology risk governance to include weapons
In the postal mail today was the paper copy of a 6-7 July 2006 conference report: “The Risk Governance of Nanotechnology: Recommendations for Managing a Global Issue” (link to PDF) held at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue last summer. This well-run and highly international meeting is the highest profile meeting to include [...] (Read on Source)
Supernova Theory Strengthened by New Observation
Type Ia supernovae are used as cosmic yardsticks to measure distances in the Universe. That's because they always explode with roughly the same intensity. The theory goes: Type Ia supernovae occur when a white dwarf star consumes a specific amount of material from a binary partner. It can't hold the extra mass, and so it [...] (Read on Source)
Should we all have a spotless mind?
While we often rue our difficulty remembering things, the ability to let memories fade is a feature of our brains, not a bug. Memories of emotionally traumatic events can be debilitating. So it's of great interest to researchers how... (Read on Source)
Curtain Call for the Evening Star
Venus has been a prominent evening object since last winter. But it will finally relinquish the title of "Evening Star" in less than three weeks. (Read on Source)
Houston, We Have a Shuttle Typo
NASA scrambled someone out to pad 39A with a new sign that has the orbiter Endeavour's name spelled correctly, and then posted a photo at the Kennedy Space Center's web site. (Read on Source)
Festival of Good Books #5
Greetings! Welcome to the 5th edition of the Festival of Good Books. We have received 9 posts for this edition. I hope our readers will enjoy reading these. Here are the posts in the order they were received. (Read on Source)
Democrats may be hurt by antiwar divisions in 2008
Cooperation between diverse antiwar groups helped the Democratic Party in the 2006 congressional elections. However, the changing relationship between the Democratic Party and the antiwar activists could hurt the Democrats in the upcoming 2008 presidential election, according to research published in the current issue of American Politics ... (Read on Source)
Fast approaching: The Skeptics' Circle
After all this hot air contributing to global warming over, well, global warming, I can't forget that the blog carnival bequeathed to me, The Skeptics' Circle, is fast approaching. This week, the host will be none other than neurologist and skeptic Dr. Steve Novella , who also happens to be the host of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast ... (Read on Source)
SoSF Interview With ?Kyle XY? Actress Chelan Simmons
With Season 2 underway, Chelan Simmons, who plays ?Hillary? on the ABC Family Network ?Kyle XY? took time from her busy schedule to talk to our Slice of SciFi reporter/interviewer Linda Craddock about the show. Chelan has played in a variety of movie and television shows other than “Kyle XY.” She starred in the horror/thriller [ (Read on Source)
No molecule, but if you've never seen it...
My Science Project Answers Your Questions. Pretty terrific. Back Monday. Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)
The World?s Largest Solar Energy Farm
WorldChanging Team: by Warren Karlenzig: Fresno, California sits at the south end of one of the sunniest and hottest valleys in North America, the San Joaquin. The... (Read on Source)
A branch of learning that 'need not be learned'?
Prompted by my discussion of Medawar and recalling that once in the past I called him a gadfly (although obviously I meant it in the good way), Bill Hooker drops another Medawar quotation on me and asks if I'll bite : If the purpose of scientific methodology is to prescribe or expound a system of enquiry or even a code of practice for scientific ... (Read on Source)
Daily Dump -- Product Service in India
Sarah Rich: A new product-service company called Daily Dump just launched in Bangalore, India, with the goal of helping citizens achieve zero waste in their homes, offices,... (Read on Source)
Low birth weight not necessarily cause for alarm: study
Babies of South Asian and Chinese ancestry are smaller at birth than those of European ancestry, say B.C. researchers who suggest standardized growth charts aren't the best way to evaluate a newborn's health. (Read on Source)
A genome of one: researchers get genome sequence from single bacteria
Researchers probe "biological dark matter" using a device that allows them to sequence the genome of a single bacterium. Read More... (Read on Source)
Plugging the "gaps" in the fossil record
Ethiopia unveils new find of ancient fossils : Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human evolution. Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)
Community Choice
Thanks to the enactment of Assembly Bill 117 in the fall of 2002, cities and counties now have the option of pursuing Community Choice to meet the electrical energy needs of their residents, businesses and municipal facilities. (Read on Source)
Looking way up at "crank"
It's Friday, which means that a lot of my Sciblings are busy taking their whacks at the cranks of the blogosphere. I'll play! I haven't picked on Gribbit in something like a week, so I'm due. Thing is, I don't know if he qualifies as a bona fide crank, because he doesn't know enough science terminology to come up with the type of crazy crap the ... (Read on Source)
Food for thought
The Female Science Professor lays it down: ...would you rather be a professor at: 1. A university that is located in a city/region in which you would love to live, but at which most of your faculty colleagues would be insane and/or unpleasant; or 2. A university in a not-great place to live, but at which you would have interesting colleagues ... (Read on Source)
Water Found on Distant Planet
Scientists find water on a distant planet. Someday, maybe they'll find life (Read on Source)
Friday Fractal LIII: Cream in my Coffee
I’ve never liked the taste of cream in my coffee, but I like to watch the way it swirls as you add it in. Such elegant forms appear when you add one liquid to another, especially when they are contrasting colors. It seems like the viscosity of the cream adds more complexity to the patterns than milk. Since the cream is poured in at a ... (Read on Source)
Best Curve-Fitting Ever
From Mark Thoma, via Brad DeLong, comes what will henceforth be my absolutely favorite example of twisting data to fit your theories. Observe the following graph of corporate tax rates vs. revenue in units of GDP: Pretty straightforward, really. As you raise taxes, the government collects more revenue. Norway seems to collect more [...] (Read on Source)
Most Dishonest Wall Street Journal Editorial Ever
Yes, it's the Wall Street Journal editorial page reporting more American Enterprise Institute-quality research from Kevin Hassett. This is the most mendacious ever. (Read on Source)
Simplicity - SciFri Podcast - 2007071312
Do you have a super-duper cell phone with a thousand functions that you don't know how to use? Is your home filled with digital displays blinking 12:00? In this hour, Ira talks with John Maeda, a designer and researcher at the MIT Media lab who believes in the value of simplicity. How can complicated technology be designed with humans in mind? We ... (Read on Source)
Syd Barrett in the American Journal of Psychiatry
From the 'images in psychiatry' column from July's American Journal of Psychiatry , written by Dr Paolo Fusar-Poli : Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was both the founding member of one of the most legendary rock bands and probably the most famous rock star to develop psychosis. He formed the band that would become Pink Floyd in 1965, amalgamating the ... (Read on Source)
South Korean Bioscience Institute Uses Integrated Genomics' ERGO Software
NEWSBRIEF (Read on Source)
Sensigen Options Rights to Lupus Dx Biomarkers from Univ. of Michigan
NEWSBRIEF (Read on Source)
Henri Poincaré and the Order of the Polynomial
I'm conflicted. I read the first Harry Potter book and decided that while it is a good thing that many people are reading more as a result of them, I could not really recommend it highly as great work because it's just so derivative. Having grown up reading all those boarding school books J. K. Rowling borrowed from (for example) without adding ... (Read on Source)
Spanish Telescope to Search Skies
July 13, 2007 — One of the world's most powerful telescopes will be trained on the skies on Friday, searching for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands. (Read on Source)
Flogging mythical dead horses
Bill Dembski has another triumph under his belt. He has shown that James Cameron's math in the Lost Tomb of Jesus show was wrong . It seems a little late, given that even the show's statistician has made a retraction . But of course, Dembski's got to claim that the analysis is tangentially related to his debunking of evolution, and further, he's ... (Read on Source)
New Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
A study by researchers in Oregon finds that secondhand smoke increases the levels of a known carcinogen in waitstaff and bartenders at a surprisingly fast rate (Read on Source)
How to Handle a Medical Crisis
In her new book, AfterShock , a psychologist draws on personal experience -- and a sense of humor -- to help guide patients through the first 48 hours after receiving devastating medical news (Read on Source)
Intel and $100 laptop join forces
Intel and the One Laptop per Child foundation bury their differences and agree to work together on the project. (Read on Source)
Walking robot offers clues to human movement
LONDON (Reuters) - A walking robot that adapts to different terrain is helping scientists understand how humans move and could one day lead to improved treatment for spinal cord and other injuries, German researchers said on Friday. (Read on Source)
New breath test detects lung cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Testing exhaled breath with a small sensor array can detect lung cancer with moderate accuracy, researchers report. (Read on Source)
Purple not Pants
Or becoming less ?pants? every day. Fantastic! On Wednesday, the House appropriations committee repealed the ridiculous and trumped-up 1986 Congressional ban on tunneling to complete the Wilshire subway line project. This was pushed through by Congressman Waxman, the same person who misguidedly got the ban instated in the first place. Funny ... (Read on Source)
Maker Faire Austin: "auditions" this Sunday!
REMINDER: Maker Faire will descend on Austin on October 20-21 at the Travis County Fairgrounds. It's our first full-blown Maker Faire outside of the Bay Area and it's sure to be a DIY extravaganza of tech, science, art, craft, and family fun. Are you a maker or crafter who would like to show off your project at the Faire? The call for makers is ... (Read on Source)
More fat-activist denialism
You can't find a better example of denialism and spin than Big Fat Blog and its acolytes, and they've lived up to their usual standards in grousing about the media coverage of this study as well as the comments from the study's researchers. With their keenly selective interpretation of reported findings, their twisting of what the study reveals ... (Read on Source)
NIH Funding: A Bit Disturbing
I'm not the best one to comment on this, not being a starving grad student, but I find it a bit disturbing. In Science today: an article on the unintended consequences of increased NIH funding. NIH funding was doubled from 1998 to 2003, but then the rate of increase dropped to zero, and in fact has not kept pace with inflation. The rapid ... (Read on Source)
Big Food Makes Squirrels More Vigilant
July 13, 2007 — Giving a squirrel a big, sweet cookie can be a kind gesture, and now scientists have found it also encourages the critter to watch for predators. The conclusion, in a newly published study, has implications for other species, including the survival of those facing human-caused changes to their habitats. (Read on Source)
Serbia’s One and Only Science Blog: Help Save It!
What is the cost of having and maintaining a science blog? What does science blogging mean for the scientific community and education of a country like Serbia, especially after years and years of sanctions, war and political disturbances? (Read on Source)
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