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New Triassic Trackway from Switzerland
Cavin, L., Avanzini, M., Bernardi, M., Piuz, A., Proz, P.-A., Meister, C., Boissonnas, J., and C. A. Meyer. 2012. New vertebrate trackway from the autochthonous cover of the Aiguilles Rouges Massif...
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Math Shows Today's Writers Are Less Influenced by the Past
When Charles Dickens wrote It was the of, it was the of, the immortal first words in A Tale of Two Cities, he can't have imagined that 21st-century computer scientists would parse his prepositions and...
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Neotropical morning
This was an unusual morning for the upper midwest. The weekend was dreary, cold, gray, and rainy, so not much gardening got done, but the Phactor did help the F1 move her belongings to a nice little...
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The anatomy of peer review: Why airing dirty laundry in public is important
Since everyone is talking about Ron Breslow, I thought I might bring readers' attention to a truly fascinating (from the point of view of the sociology of science) article published in Nature in 1992...
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Bad fonts decrease belief in God
So, do you believe in God? OK, well how about if I ask it like this: Do you believe in God? Surprisingly, according to a new study by Will Gervais and Ara Norenzayan at the University of British...
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Interaction effects (yes, again...)
I'm mostly very confident that the ideas I wrote in my last post were correct, but the postdoc still has doubts, and each time I try to explain my position to him I come away with my own little...
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A universe from nothing
I would share with you a talk by Lawrence Krauss, physics and writer (The Physics of Star Trek) about the universe: Thanks to Fabio De Sicot (twitter, Google Plus)
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Cracking seed germination
Let's put this bluntly; some seeds are just a bitch to germinate. Once when using morning glories for an experiment, to get good germination all at once, the seeds were washed in concentrated sulfuric...
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Titles
Last weeks interesting papers on evolution: Adaptive evolution of facial colour patterns in Neotropical primates Selection in a fluctuating environment leads to decreased genetic variation and...
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CoE #47: All the evolution news fit to blog
47th Carnival of Evolution has been posted on Evolving thoughts. All the evolution news that fit to blog includes this interesting post on the caveman diet: Except for Captain Caveman and Fred...
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Attack of the clones!
You get a lot of funny, some funny ha-ha, some funny sad, surveys when you work at a university because lots of younglings are engaged in what passes for research in the non-sciences. So the Phactor...
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Berry-Go-Round Plant Blog Carnival #50
It has been a long late spring over at the Seeds Aside blog, but worth it for the collection of nifty plant blogs from March & April. Click on over and have a look. You can find out about the...
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The checklist for reading (and writing) science news
Emily Willingham (also on Field of Science) writes a little how to read science news. Because I'm a scientific blogger, this checklist could be useful in order to write better posts. In particular I...
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Moss Sperm Surviving Desiccation
When I think about moss reproduction, I usually think about the fact that mosses have flagellated sperm that require water to swim to the female archegonium that holds the egg. Researchers at Portland...
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Prickly Pears
Indian-fig prickly pear Opuntia ficus-indica in fruit, photographed by Luigi Rignanese. A couple of months ago, I engaged in something of an experiment. One of the houses alongside the park where we...
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Memory-Improving Gene Tied to PTSD
A superior visual memory is the best friend of artists and competitive card memorizers. But to people who've lived through traumatic events, it might be the enemy. Researchers in Switzerland and...
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A history of metallocenes: Bringing on the hashish
Following on the heels of the comprehensive article on metal-catalyzed reactions noted by Derek, here's another one by Helmut Werner specifically about the history of ferrocene and other metallocenes....
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Stranger in a strange land - Magic Gardens
Without question BGT (Botanical Geek Tour) #4 included a range of gardens and garden personalities probably greater than the span of all gardens previously visited, no small number, and that was...
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John LaMattina on the new NIH drug discovery center
There's a post by ex-Pfizer research chief John LaMattina about the new NIH drug discovery center, and predictably he does not seem too happy about it. While the initial center was supposed to be all...
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When waiting is not an option
I have an article published in The Economist's Babbage blog about how some patients with a terminal diseases are second-guessing pharmaceutical companies and medicating themselves. Here's the blurb:...
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