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Penguins Recognize the Squawk of a Champion
It was the middle of the night when researchers snuck up to nesting penguins on the coast of New Zealand and stole the eggs out from under them. Placing the warm eggs in an incubator for safekeeping,...
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CoE #45 - the bug edition
Adrian Thysse has done something new. He has slaved through all 45+ submissions to this month's edition of Carnival of Evolution (which, in case you have never hosted, you might not know is a lot of...
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Are religious identity and national identity interchangeable?
source Kenneth Harttgen (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and Matthias Opfinger (Leibniz University Hannover) have developed an index of National Identity based on survey responses to eight...
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Beaver Fever
Eurasian beaver Castor fiber, from here. Beavers are one of those animals that are familiar even to people who do not live in parts of the world where you can find beavers. The two living species of...
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Results: Replication in Psychology
My paper with Adena Schachner on replication in psychology is now published. The paper contains 3 main sections: a reasonably thorough literature review on replication rates in psychology, a proposal...
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Higgs' research: CDF and D0 confirm ATLAS and CMS results
Do you remember the conference of ATLAS and CMS about their Higgs' preliminary results? Well. Today during Moriond 2012 conference, the two Tevatron's collaboration, CDF and D0, presented their results...
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Possible New Plateosaurid Sauropodomorph From Brazil
Bittencourt, J.S., Leal, L.A., Langer, M.C. & Azevedo, S.A.K., iFirst article. An additional basal sauropodomorph specimen from the Upper Triassic Caturrita Formation, southern Brazil, with...
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Reevaluation of Therapsid Fossils from Antarctica
Huttenlocker, A. K., and C. A. Sidor. 2012. Taxonomic Revision of Therocephalians (Therapsida: Theriodontia) from the Lower Triassic of Antarctica. American Museum Novitates Number 3738 :1-19. Abstract...
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How to run a university - cutting costs one paper towel at a time
The Phactor's Scot ancestry makes him very frugal, and no one dislikes waste and inefficiency more. But at times you have to wonder if the people in charge have any idea at all about how the...
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Don't go nuts, go berries!
Eating berries has beneficial effects on your brain and may help prevent age-related memory loss. Right. Hmm, now where was this published? Oh, yes, just ate a grape, and there it is, the Journal of...
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The witch of Agnesi
The first woman known as mathematichian was the italian Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) and hermost famous work was Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventù italiana (Analytical institutions for...
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The unstoppable Moore hits the immovable Eroom
Thanks to Derek I became familiar with an article in the recent issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery which addresses that existential question that has been asked by so many plaintive members of the...
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Bees and Humans Crave Novelty for the Same Reasons
You might not expect to find much in common between a human brain and the brain of a flying insect that’s happy to sacrifice itself, for its colony’s safety, by tearing off its entire back end in your...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - ??
The family is obvious; this is an orchid, a quite colorful orchid whose flower is some 4-5 cm across, so 5 or 6 of these open on the same inflorescence makes showy display. And orange is just not a...
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A Day at the Zoo
Had a great afternoon with my son at the local zoo. The Como Zoo is a great place to spend a few hours at frequently. For anyone on a tight budget, it is free to visit both the zoo and the...
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Early spring Saturday garden chores/exercise
It's a Saturday, and Spring Break! What a relief to not be hustling around to prepare materials for the coming week. That will be next weekend. Let's see what's on the agenda. Limbs. It's only...
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Using fruit flies' sweet tooth
From my article in Chemistry World: Australian researchers have used fruit flies' sweet tooth to help in attempts to develop new sugar alternatives.The Drosophila melanogaster species of fruit fly has...
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Are religious Americans more careful with money?
Dan Hess, at Seattle Pacific University, has looked at whether US cities with more religious people also tend to have fewer people getting into debt trouble. He analysed data from 120 "Metropolitan...
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Macromolecules from miniature templates
From my article in Chemistry World: UK researchers have designed a new highly effective method to construct large molecules of a defined size using simple templates.Recent approaches to the...
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