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Massive cleanup underway
TPP always makes a point to clean things up enough for the start of each semester to ascertain that his desk is still there under the piles of paper, and it's a big old wooden desk too. Things tend to...
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What are the top five most memorable chemistry papers that you have read?
Here's a question I have wanted to ask the chemoblogosphere for some time, just for fun: What are the most memorable chemistry papers that you have encountered in your career as a student and working...
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The B mesons and the new physics
posted by @ulaulaman via @LHCbExperiment #newphysics #Bmesons #LHC #CERN #particlephysics The search about B mesons decays has a great importance in physics for the possible clues of new physics that...
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We should continue to study camels if we care about zoonotic diseases
Dromedarian camel Inspired by the latest evidence suggesting that camels may have been infected with a close relative of the MERS-CoV (read this from CIDRAP for a nice coverage of the paper) , here's a...
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Why Yellowstone's Grizzlies Should Be Grateful for Wolves
There's only one time a giant domino chain isn't fun: when you're a domino. Humans are great knockers-down of ecosystem domino chains, and sometimes we don't even know which species we've felled until...
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TMI Friday: Smell This !
Imagine that you have just been recruited into a study. The researcher sits in front of you, impassively. You are presented with a series of bottles, and asked to judge the smell of each one of them on...
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Who edits books for Apple Academic Press
More poking around in the Apple Academic Press 2011-12 catalog, now focusing on the editors. Consider Harold H. Trimm. He's Chair of the Chemistry Dept. at Broome Community College and an adjunct at...
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How many for-profit publishers are repackaging CC-BY articles into books?
As I and others have recently noted, Apple Academic Press is selling what appear to be ordinary multi-author collections of specially written chapters on a scientific topic but actually consist mainly...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - Naked Ladies
In early August "naked ladies" pop up from their napping places and flower. TPP grew up hearing them called "magic lilies" although they are neither magic nor lilies, although what with all the...
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Why authors are concerned
Most of the authors I've spoken with are quite concerned that their open-access articles might be edited and re-published in 'edited' books. To get a better handle on what authors are concerned about,...
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August 2013 Desktop Calendar
Two weeks ago I was in New Orleans for the Botany 2013 meeting, this past week I took some vacation time to do some hiking in New Hampshire, and this upcoming week I am off to a Plant Development...
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Wilting squash plants
About this time every year, people's squash vines will often wilt, by day at first and then severely, sometimes just collapsing completely and suddenly. The problem is quite simple: the interior of...
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Orchid pollination facilitated by rain
This is a really nifty study of something completely new, an orchid that gets self-pollinated by rain. Orchids have a funny arrangement where two waxy masses of pollen are spacially separated from the...
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What reading a scientific paper reveals about you
What do you believe science is ? How do you think that belief affects your life ? One way of answering t comes from the way we treat the foundation upon which modern science is built. The medium that...
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Gordon Conference impressions
What goes on at the Gordon Conference stays at the Gordon Conference, goes the saying. In keeping with this tradition I am not going to divulge the details of the science at my very first medicinal...
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Majids: Crabs with Stylish Hats
Aggregation of large spider crabs Leptomithrax gaimardii, photographed by Peter Fuller. The subjects of today's post, the Majidae, commonly go by the names of spider crabs or decorator crabs. The first...
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Gibbon Moms Help Daughters Practice Their Singing for Future Mates
Before their daughters grow up and leave home, mothers may impart some lessons in the womanly arts—for example, the proper way to whoop and hoot with your mate while sitting in a tree branch. As an...
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A great hybrid concept!
Welcome to the Crown and Anchor a truly a great hybrid concept, a TARDIS hybridized to a tavern. No matter when you enter it's happy hour inside, and no matter when you decide to leave, the hour is...
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Druggability: An optimistic assessment.
Derek has a good post that takes a philosophical approach toward the whole question of "druggability". The main question is; given a disease state and biochemical knowledge of all the mechanisms...
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