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Hare Krishna devotees are prone to jump to conclusions
Suppose I were to tell you that I had a jar, hidden behind a screen, filled either with 85 red and 15 blue marbles, or with 15 red and 85 blue marbles. Now suppose I take out a marble at random and...
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A is for atom
#video posted by @ulaulaman about #nuclearenergy A is for atom is a promotional animation written by True Boardman and directed by Carl Urbino with music by Eugene Poddany. It was commisioned by...
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Relative activities of comM from strains Rd and NP
A month or so ago I described four experiments I wanted to do. I've now done the last of them, testing whether the comM gene of strain NP could be partly responsible for that strain's 100-fold lower...
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What next? Now threat to cacao.
Only two days after reporting to you that climate change is threatening wild coffee in its native land, now cacao is threatened in western Africa, not its native land, but an area that provides a lot...
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Mayflies in their Spring
Armoured mayfly Baetisca obesa, photographed by Jason Neuswanger. Mayflies have occasionally put in an appearance here at CoO, most notably in an earlier post where I explained how the one thing that...
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Open Science Collaboration's first paper
Perspectives in Psychological Science is making history this issue by publishing a paper by a blogger under the blogger's pseudonym (reportedly the first such paper), as well as the first paper by the...
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Give them an mile, and they'll still take more
TPP likes breaks and days off as much as anybody, but he was instilled with a good old-fashioned work ethic that meant you didn't take days off just because and you only took sick days when you...
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Mumps in New York - it's the size that matters
Two Jewish men in New York (Flickr by Kynan Tait). The site of 2009/10's near-4,000 large mumps outbreakIt started during the middle of 2009 when an eleven-year old boy returned home to the U.S from a...
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What you missed lately on the Web: 11/12/2012
I've switched the title of these posts from "last week" to "lately", since apparently posting every week is too ambitious (last Monday my excuse was the hurricane + BUCLD, but that wasn't the first...
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How to predict an election? Ask the math geeks.
Mark Newman's rendering of the 2012 U.S. election, weighted by population It's time for a bit of gloating. No, not for Democrats over Republicans, though I'm sure that's going on. It's time for the...
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City Birds Adapt to a New Enemy: Cats
Moving from a rural home into the city brings challenges like figuring out trains, maneuvering couches up staircases, and not being eaten. Birds that move into urban homes have to worry about a...
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Occam, me and a conformational medley
Originally posted on the Scientific American Blog Network.William of Occam, whose principle of parsimony has been used and misused (Image: WikiCommons)The philosopher and writer Jim Holt who has...
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Seared fruit lasagna
OK, almost forgot that you all were promised a new recipe that the Phactors recently worked out. The major innovation is searing the fruits.Ingredients: 6-8 tsp olive oil; 6 cups peeled diced...
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Is Psychology a science?: Redux
The third-most read post on this blog is "Is Psychology a science?". I was a few years younger then and still had strong memories of one of my friends complaining, when we were both undergraduates,...
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Post-hoc thoughts on Sandy
No question about it, Hurricane Sandy socked the greater NY-NJ metro area good and solid. There are a couple of real good points to consider. Notice how fragile our modern infrastructure actually is....
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Choosing a journal for your manuscript
Listening to Bruce Dancik's talk about choosing a juornal and submitting your manuscript got me thinking about issues he didn't emphasize. I started with a few, but my list keeps getting longer and...
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Can we do something to save a science radio show?
BBC East radio is getting rid of the Naked Scientists and replacing it with country music. You can stop that In one hour, the Naked Scientists, an award-winning radio show on BBC East, gives its...
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hfq knockout results
I've now examined the effects of knocking out the small RNA-regulating protein Hfq under a wide range of conditions, testing our hypothesis that it regulates competence by helping unfold the...
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Knowing what I know now...
I'm an evolutionary and computational biologist doing my second postdoc at Michigan State University. I have learned all sorts of thing in this short career, and Jeremy Yoder has asked for advice for a...
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Figgy fruit
With a few minutes to spare, which is largely an illusion, so let's say, while wasting a few minutes, TPP stepped into our teaching greenhouse a few short steps from his botany classroom to inhale...
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