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Behe on Behe, and Behe on evolution
I hadn't seen before that Leo Behe gave an interview last year. He says as well as anyone what is wrong with the argument from design:As for the arguments from design, such as irreducible complexity or...
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Berry-Go-Round #48
Good news everyone! The latest Berry-Go-Round blog carnival is up over at Moss Plants and More. Click on over and see what nice botanical and plant related blogs you may have missed this month....
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Santorum Is an Ass, a RANT (You Were Warned).
So here is Santorum going after colleges and universities last week: The question is 'Why?' Has America reached this point, where we cheer the demagogy of higher education. Fuck, we don't need no...
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A little note about the gyromodel of life
Some days ago I write a little tumblrpost about Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life by Erik D. Andrulis. In that occasion I expressed my skepticism comparing Andrulis' theory with...
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Open peer review of our arseniclife submission please
Our manuscript reporting the lack of arsenate in the DNA of arsenate-grown GFAJ-1 cells is now available on the arXiv server at http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6643. I posted it there mainly out of principle...
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Guest Post - Roland Sookias Discusses His New Study Examining How Dinosaurs...
Why were dinosaurs, and other archosauromorphs (the group of animals including crocodiles, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and several other extinct groups), so big? Was natural selection for increasing size...
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Interview with a PIO: speaking freely
Via Wikimedia Commons, Gnu free documentation license.A public information officer (PIO) I contactedabout the role of PIOs and the issues they face has agreed to respond as ananonymous source to some...
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This is my dream: I am science
This is my foot. On this foot and its partner, I learned to walk and then to run. When I was a young girl, I had a dream of using this foot--and my other one--as a ballet dancer. While the energy level...
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Stoopid plants! It's not spring yet!
Yesterday broke a 100+ year old weather record with a high of 63 F smashing the old record of 54 F. A young foreign student staying with us left this morning to visit Chicago for a couple of days, and...
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Taxonomic poetry
Thalictrum and Cimicifuga, married for life: “I love your filigreed purply curls.” “I love your pompous white spikes.” Look at them swaying there out in the wind, bowed by the nastiest weather: always...
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A curious invention: drawing chemical structures
I am currently wending my way through fragile but fascinating volumes of Chemical News - a journal published by Sir William Crookes in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was a major journal at...
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Fordham's review of state science standards
As a number of people have already pointed out, the Fordham Institute has released its 'The State of State Science Standards 2012'. This is of particular interest to me as I played a small role in...
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Groundhogs as geomorphologic factor
Biogeomorphology, also referred as ecogeomorphology, is the study of the relation of life forms with landforms. These interactions range from simple tracks left by an organism in the landscape to the...
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Program of the Proceedings of the 44th Carnival of Evolution
We are happy to announce the program for the Proceedings of the 44th Carnival of Evolution to be held at The Atavism:Session 1. Symposium on the evolution of noveltySession 2. Evolutionary ecology and...
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A Desktop Calendar Experiment
I change the background image on my computer once a month and I really like having a calendar on my computer desktop, since I don't have a wall calendar in the office. For the past several years I have...
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Where's his shadow?
Here's a nice picture of a groundhog, aka woodchuck. And the article about burrowing is interesting, but come on, where's his shadow? Or is Groundhog Day going to get all serious and sciency?
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More unnatural blueness!
Blueness is coming out of the floral woodwork, or out of the dye bottle actually, which is clearly a crime against nature. It was only the other day that the Phactor bemoaned the blueness of moth...
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Ephemeral Elements
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were hotbeds of elemental discoveries (literally and figuratively). New elements came — and on occasion went. Some were known elements in unknown guises, such as...
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Authorship without responsibility?
I'm becoming increasingly disturbed by the behaviour of Wolfe-Simon's arseniclife coauthors. She shared the credit for the work with 11 other authors but, in the year since the tide of support turned,...
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Would a mango by any other name taste as good?
No question the Phactor would not have gotten any further than "Bango", although put this misspelling together with the correct spelling, bango-mango, and you can sort of imagine a frou-frou tropical...
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