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CoE poster for Ottawa
BEACON has a booth at Evolution 2012 in Ottawa, and they have invited me to put up a poster about Carnival of Evolution. Here's a draft. Let me know what you think, plz. (Click image for larger version.)
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Nerdiest cartoon of all - xkcd
Without question the nerdiest cartoon of all is xkcd. If you do not know this cartoon, then you have no nerdy tendencies at all, and don't act like this is a good thing. This particular one, a...
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The shield of Captain America
posted by @ulaulaman #physics #chemistry #superhero #CaptainAmericaAfter the releasing of the movie Captain America: The first Avenger in 2011 by Paramount Picture, Suveen N. Mathaudhu, the Program...
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Best seller - Up in Smoke?
The Phactor took one look at this book title, and all that came to mind was Up in Smoke, the 1978 stoner film with Cheech and Chong. After all when you publish a book titled: Uses and Abuses of...
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Titles
Some times very technical papers are published that would be very good for me to read. Papers that on title don't look very sexy (to me). On the details of psedogenization, for example, whereby a...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - waterlilies
Yes, the Phactor is posting his Friday Fabulous flower a day early because a glance at tomorrow's schedule suggests he might not get to it otherwise. In fact for the next week or so, posting might be...
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Getting Angry: Lipstick Science
Anyone in the vicinity of my Twitter feed today might have noticed I’m just a teensy bit annoyed about this. And for teensy bit annoyed, you can read blackout-inducingly angry. I’m not used to writing...
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Goat Moms Recognize Their Kids Saying "Ma!"
The mother goat's floppy ears perk up. From across the field, she hears one of her kids—not the new baby that's still nursing, but the grown-up kid who's packed up and moved to a different pen. Even...
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Blog Update: The View From A Microbiologist
To my loyal Blog Followers: I am so sorry that I have not posted on this blog for the past couple of months (please forgive me!). This has been an incredibly busy time for me so I thought I'd fill you...
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Bourbon bar in Kentucky
OK, the Phactor must be on vacation because apparently he is in a bourbon bar in Lexington Kentucky. How very nice although a bit C&W for his taste. The Phactor has never really gotten along with...
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Turing patterns in coats and sounds
posted by @ulaulaman #AlanTuring #mathematics #biology #genetics #ecology One hundred years ago was born Alan Turing. He was known essentially for his role during the Second World War: he encrypted the...
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Religious people give to religious charities
The link between religion and charity is a fascinating one - not least because the assumption that the religious not only give more to charity but are more 'generous' as a result really does beg the...
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Southeast coast - somewhere
Well, it turns out that we have arrived, somewhere along the SE coast, actually right on the border between North and South Carolina, if my information from the naviguesser is correct. Quite a few of...
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In which I was elsewhere again, and I forgot to tell you
Last week I featured again on Any Other Woman, writing this time about the science behind anxiety and how to use the knowledge of how your body responds to panic to help deal with anxiety attacks. Just...
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You want to cut me where?
Say your doctor offers to run a PSA test, which might detect early signs of prostate cancer. The test is free to you, because insurance covers it. And you're already getting a blood test to measure...
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Birds of the Sun
Handsome sunbird Aethopyga bella, photographed by Tonee Despojo. This species was only recently separated at species level from the lovely sunbird Aethopyga shelleyi; one of the distinguishing features...
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Drat, more revisions!
One of the horrible, terrible, very-bad, no-good things about writing a book is that the scientific publishing never stops, and it takes a lot longer to get a book published than to get a scientific...
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Botanical flotsam
In general, algae adapted to coastal environments by anchoring are called seaweeds. Here's an exception, a seaweed that re-adapted to the open ocean by becoming free-floating again, Sargassum. The...
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What happens to bacterial communities under selection?
When one gene comes under a new selection pressure, a population can respond by increasing the frequency of the better alleles. This can involve directional selection, whereby the population shifts...
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