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Does a pet share your bed?
A rather shallow study concludes that you get a better nights' sleep if you don't let a pet sleep on your bed. You must be kidding? Like it's your decision! Like it's your bed! Yes, the kitty-girls...
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Updated results on the relationship between English dialects
I've updated the interactive visualization of the relationships between the Englishes of the world to include a couple dozen additional native languages. Check it out.
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Portrait of an atom
by @ulaulaman about #hydrogen #atom #orbitals #Bohr #Rutherford #quantum_mechanics The study of the structure of the atom is long story, and it begins with Democritus, or from the point of view of the...
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Mike Riddle: Does Evolution Have a . . . Chance?
It's all very well to have a degree in mathematics and try and calculate the probability for proteins forming, but if you don't know - or choose to ignore - the current models of how new proteins are...
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Early summer flowering slump
Early June is a quiet time for our gardens; late spring plants are done and real summer-flowering plants just haven't begun. Two weeks ago, festoons of columbine and Mrs. Phactor's iris cheerfully were...
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Raphitoma hystrix
The shell in the photo above (from G. & Ph. Poppe) belongs to Raphitoma histrix (Bellardi 1847)*, a small marine gastropod (the shell shown is just over 6 mm long). Raphitoma histrix was first...
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Crystallography and chemistry: The culture issue
Image: Charles Reynolds and ACS Med Chem LettersAs the old saying goes, beware of crystallographers bearing ligands. Charles Reynolds who is a well-known structure-based drug design expert has an...
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Ubergeek to dork in a blink
TPP entered his local coffee emporium this morning having ridden his BikeE from home and thus was in need of caffeinated fuel for the rest of the morning. Your position on this bike, while very...
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The Changing Climate of Science in the USA (not a post on climate change)
One of my heroes: from hereI have seen a shift in the way science is being conducted in the United States. This shift still reflects of minority of the science being done, but it also represents the...
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CHIGGERS! ARRRGH!
TPP hates chiggers; chiggers love him. Hate is a strong emotion, and there are very few things, very few people, that can elicit this emotion. Chiggers make the grade. Now those of you who belong to...
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More cell preps for RNA-seq analyses
Unfortunately we have to repeat most of the cell preps I made for the big planned RNA-seq analysis , because our RNA preps used up all the cells without producing any RNA. The main problem was that we...
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Atheism not linked to cognitive decline (but it is linked to intelligence)
In Scotland, they've been following a group of people ever since they were born in 1921 (the Lothian Birth Cohort). Cohorts like this are great to see what factors early in life affect how people turn...
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Video: Visualizing coevolution in dynamic fitness landscapes
The fitness landscape is the framework for thinking about evolutionary processes the same way the phylogenetic tree is how we think about evolutionary history. It can guide our thinking and even enable...
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Student debt. Are universities responsible?
Student Debt Isn’t the Problem. Colleges Are.We need to make universities responsible for their students’ outcomes. It is egregious that students, parents, and taxpayers are the ones who suffer when...
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Maps in books quiz.
Here you go a nice little Friday quiz via the Guardian.The quiz shows you 10 maps; you pick the book it's from (multiple guess). TPP got 8 of 10 right, but Mrs. Phactor hasn't reported in yet and...
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Algal architecture
Here is a new concept: algal culturing architecture, real green architecture. Could your abode grow both your energy and your food (Soylent green? Chlorophytobits? Algal patties?). TPP has his own...
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Soccer balls
#abstract about #soccer #WorldCup Soccer balls are typically constructed from 32 pentagonal and hexagonal panels. Recently, however, newer balls named Cafusa, Teamgeist 2, and Jabulani were...
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Smoke trees
Sorry for the misleading title if there are any stoners out there, but in this instance "smoke" isn't a verb. Our smoke trees (Cotinus obovatus) usually flower and then produce a hazy purple display...
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Sleepers
Hawaiian sleeper Eleotris sandwicensis, from the Hawaii Biological Survey.Fishes of the genus Eleotris are a group of gobioids commonly known as the spinycheek sleepers. I haven't found a definite...
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