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Evolution of Bipedality and Herbivory Among Triassic Dinosauromorphs
Note that this paper is in Japanese with an English version of the abstract. Kubo, T. 2011. Evolution of bipedality and herbivory among Triassic dinosauromorphs. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural...
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People say they're good if they think God is watching
If you subliminally remind people about God, it can change their behaviour in all sorts of interesting ways. It can make people more honest, more obedient, more punishing, and even more persevering...
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Creation thinking impedes understanding
I have become aware of something during my recent blogument with a wall creationist. Actually it was a comment left on defense of the creationist's position that really nailed down an idea I had...
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Dances with Dung Beetles
You know that moment when you realize that in every unloved corner of the animal kingdom, there’s an ant or a bee or a beetle standing on its head and pushing a boulder of crap that has a better sense...
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Aetobarbakinoides brasiliensis, a New Aetosaur from the Late Triassic of Brazil
This is an interesting new specimen from the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil. I've had the chance to personally study this material and although poorly preserved and despite possesses a radial...
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The Tree Moss Climacium
This is a really cool moss that often grows in seepy, shady areas next to standing pools of water or streams. It's common name, tree moss, comes from the growth form of its leafy gametophyte, which...
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Save the Date: Lying to Children in the Name of God Poster Session
TCCSA science In a month (February 18-19), the annual Home School Science Fair is taking place at the Har Mar Mall in Roseville. I will of course be attending this year and will report to those of you...
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Origin of Species Book Club: Historical Sketch & Introduction
Alright apologies to those waiting for updates on OoS, but real life is a fuck-all-the-time-and-not-in-a-good-way (fattaniagw). Anyway, here are some of my thoughts on the Historical Sketch and...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - a tropical cucurbit
On miserably cold bleak days, a reminder of the tropics is always welcome. Although squash flowers can be pretty big, members of the gourd family, generally called cucurbits, are not thought of as...
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Growth of GFAJ-1 under phosphate limitation (correction)
Erika Check Hayden's otherwise-excellent Nature News report on our work contained one error, the statement that "Redfield was unable to grow any cells without adding a small amount of phosphorus"....
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Picky, picky, picky
Scientific publishing is not for the faint of heart or the delicate, sensitive personality. The blog title pretty well describes the reviewers, the editors, and scientific journals: picky, picky,...
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The Discussion for the post-doc's DNA uptake paper
The post-doc and I have been struggling, independently and together, to create a good Discussion section for his paper on the sequence specificity of DNA uptake. We have lots of things we could write...
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Squirrel appreciation day - you must be joking
According to an authoritative source today, or yesterday, is Squirrel appreciation day. As this is being written about a half dozen well-fed fox squirrels are hanging, literally, around our bird...
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Religious people want religious leaders - of any religion
A lot of people think that the Muslim world is just fundamentally different from the Christian world. That's the basis for the idea that we're facing a clash of civilisations (a theory put forward by...
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Certain strains put a strain on virus research
This is something I would like your input on: How important is strain choice in virus/microbiology research? Does it differ with certain aspects of research, like pathogenesis versus structural...
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Can a film dinosaur adapt to the digital age?
Kodak was king where the Phactor grew up. It was a mighty juggernaut of the film photography industry, unassailable, but Kodak failed to invest in emerging technologies, in innovative research, and the...
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Sudsy gel
Why did I put SDS into the buffer of this agarose gel before I loaded it? So the DNA from the lysed cells wouldn't rise up out of the wells and spread out over the surface of the gel buffer, of...
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Love those weird interactions
Biologists figured out that chloroplasts were descended from free-living cyanobacteria about 50 years ago, and lots of evidence has been accumulated since then, but many people have trouble...
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Science Online 2012: a touching moment
Badge now included!First, let me get the word "seminal" out of the way. There was a key moment for me at Science Online 2012, but I am only using the word seminal here before moving on because...
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Massospondylus Nesting Site from the Early Jurassic of South Africa
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/01/23/sci-dinosaur-nesting-site.html
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