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Green Solutions
A pragmatic approach to solving real environmental problems is something much needed and this online publication may help: Solutions. Looking for pragmatic solutions involves dealing with people as...
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The Muslim creationists refuse proper education
A second wave of creationists are making trouble, following Christian creationists (who are not done, but seems to be get less media attention these days). Muslim creationists are now walking out of...
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Braincase of the Temnospondyl Gerrothorax from the Middle Triassic of Germany
Witzmann, F., Schoch, R. R., Hilger, A. and N. Kardjilov. 2011. Braincase, palatoquadrate and ear region of the plagiosaurid Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Middle Triassic of Germany. Palaeontology...
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Caffeine gives brain a jolt
Without doubt this is good research, but really, you needed rats to document that caffeine gives your brain a jolt? All you have to do is observe everyone participating in the five-day rat race, and...
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It's Harder to Dodge Sharks When Pregnant
Although it would be nice to hatch our babies from eggs Anne Geddes-style, or deliver them while still tiny and carry them around in a pouch, humans and other placental mammals are stuck lugging their...
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The future of computation in drug discovery
Computational chemistry as an independent discipline has its roots in theoretical chemistry, itself an outgrowth of the revolutions in quantum mechanics in the 1920s and 30s. Theoretical and quantum...
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Choosy plants & picky flowers
When choosing a mate, lots of animals are choosy; females look for desirable traits exhibited by males, and males often compete for females. Although it surprises many people, plants do the same thing,...
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Get a shopping bag, Rachel
Some one decided a few years back that the conservative movement needed to have some attractive women as spokes persons. Back a bit ago, Noelle Nikpour performed intellectually for everyone to see....
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War on Christmas and Christmas tree farmers
Oh, the Garden Rant really does a number on this one, and it makes you ask, who really hates Christmas, not to mention Christmas tree farmers and sellers? And who will try to make anything and...
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Academic prestige
Some people attach a great deal of importance to your academic heritage, your alma maters, and typically such people attach considerable significance to school rankings: most selective, most elite,...
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Botanical booze
In case people missed Colin's info-comment, here's a beverage to be newly released in the USA, and of course, who wouldn't like the name? Squared shoulders, elegantly refined, clearly clear, why it's...
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Why do the religious give to charity: learning from Taiwan
It seems likely that religious people in the West give more to charity - in the narrow sense of financial donations, at least (see Atheists are generous - they just don't give to charity for more...
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The complexities of flu in the summer time - where does it go?
Publishing in the journal, PNAS, (free paper here) a group of researchers have uncovered the secrets to the success of influenza viruses in the human population. Using extensive genetic analysis from...
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Crab Eats Bacteria Grown on Hairy Arm Farms
When you live in near-blackness at the bottom of the ocean, you can't rely on plants to turn sunlight into food for you. The yeti crab, a pallid creature with woolly arms like an ill-conceived Muppet,...
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Aesop's Fable - The Triassic version - the Dinosaur and the Crocodile
You can read it here: http://www.economist.com/node/21540979 Triassic palaeontology in the Economist.
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The genesis (parthenogenesis?) of my role in an all-woman evolution video
Our late dachshund, Daisymay Fattypants, who inexplicably gotherself stuck into the leg of a pair of footie pajamas.A few months ago, a group of people from Project SCOPE put out a call to women in...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - A Corpse
Friday finds my main PC suffering from some malware and while the geeks are busily putting things back in place, it makes access to my archives on a secure server difficult, so to post a fabulous...
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New Paper on Permo-triassic Therapsids from Eastern Europe
M. F. Ivakhnenko, M. F. 2011. Permian and Triassic Therocephals (Eutherapsida) of Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal 45: 981-1144 DOI: 10.1134/S0031030111090012 Abstract - Cranial morphology of...
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Bacterial genes in eukaryotes - function and phylogeny
There have been a couple of interesting papers recently on those eukaryotic genes that are more closely related to bacterial, than archaeal homologues. Such proteins are often organellar (athough they...
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Misplaced Gratitude: God 1 Teammates 0
Probably all of you know Tim Tebow, the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos, is a man of great faith and conviction. If you don't know, he'll probably be stopping by your house soon to let you...
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