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Berry Go Round #66
The latest edition of the plant carnival Berry Go Round has been posted at Notes of Nature. Here in California the weather has been unseasonably warm, so I have not been going through much plant...
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What is Inula verbascifolia?
By recommendation of the Committee for Spermatophyta (Brummitt 2005), this is. Photograph by L.R.Inula verbascifolia is a herbaceous, composite-flowered plant from the eastern Mediterranean. It is...
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Darn those germy students!
This has been happening for years. Students go home for the winter break, wallow in the local germs at that location, and then they bring samples of all these different germs back to campus and begin...
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Strolling in other fields
The lack of activity on this blog only means that I am spending all my time writing on my Scientific American blog, so I am just going to link to the posts there. One thing I am doing there is to write...
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Got a new question on the reddit AMA
post replyIamAn evolutionary biologist. AMA!from NorrisChuck via /r/IAmA/ sent 4 days agoWho is more evolved? White man or a Black man?contextreportmark unreadreplybjornostman[S] 1 point 108...
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But it's MY figure!
The postdoc and I have a minireview coming out in an ASM journal, and we're at the 'permissions' stage.One of the figures is an explanatory diagram I drew for this article (figure on the left below)....
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Triassic Period: Reptiles Rule. Video from the Discovery Channel.
I assume this is supposed to be the southwest U.S. during the Late Triassic, but there is a hodge-podge of animals from different ages. Still pretty cool though; however, I wish the aetosaur and...
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Poor US Education Meme Infects the Minnesota Daily
It's bad enough to reading the standard misinformation regarding K-12 education in the popular press, but now its infected our student paper too. The editorial compares the curricula of Germany with...
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Lone Star Science
Well, it don't surprise me none that all of the candidates for Lt. Gov. of Texas wants to teach creationism in schools. This is a special brand of ignorance that doesn't see any difference between...
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Does A High Population Guard Against Extinction?
Rocky Mountain locusts Melanoplus spretus, from the Minnesota Historical Society.The Cloud was hailing grasshoppers. The cloud was grasshoppers. Their bodies hid the sun and made darkness. Their thin,...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - Royal Hort Society photographic competition 2013
TPP is surprised people have not been dunning him for the lack of FFF blogs even though it is the off season for flowers. Really, you people are just too polite, too quiet for your own good. Well,...
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Plans for RNA-seq analyses
I should have posted this after last week's lab meeting but am only now getting to it. I sensibly took snapshots of the whiteboard at the end of that lab meeting, so I could check what we'd...
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Meta-spam
WTF?! A spam email advertisement for spam! Here's an unsolicited email I've just received offering bulk email solutions. I hope this is a sign that the business is floundering, though I have my...
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Atomic origin of the Bohr effect
Biochemistry. 2013 Nov 26;52(47):8539-55. doi: 10.1021/bi401126z. Epub 2013 Nov 13.Hemoglobin Bohr effects: atomic origin of the histidine residue contributions.Zheng G, Schaefer M, Karplus M.Author...
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2014, one month gone already?
My how time flies when you're busy and/or sick. Nothing at all makes me sad to see the end of a month with so much bitter cold and nasty weather. So best that we're done with it, and that much closer...
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Just When You Thought the Triassic Couldn't Get Any Weirder
http://qilong.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/im-not-sure-that-name-is-appropriate/
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NPR - Yes! Phlox News - What?
This is just great. Watch Phlox News and know less! Now presently no evidence is suggesting that regular doses of Phlox News actually damages your brain, it is now certain that you get less accurate...
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Why Bill Nye will win this debate
In just two days Bill Nye and Ken Ham are having a public debate in Kentucky over evolution vs. creationism. The question to be debated is “Is creation a viable model of origins?”Update: Sign up for...
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Andrew Fraknoi interviews Frank Drake
by @ulaulaman about #SETI #DrakeEquation #FrankDrake #video #youtube Sometimes, people who are unfamiliar with the scientific picture of cosmic and biological evolution think the equation is highly...
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Nitrogen in the snow
We are expecting another round of wintry weather tomorrow, and an article in the local paper noted that the snow and bitingly cold weather we have had recently are good for farmers. The cold reduces...
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