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Carnivalia ? 5/02 ? 5/08
2012-05-09 14:55:00 The past week's science-related blog carnivals -- bit of a thin crop, but still plenty of good reading... Continue reading →
Carnivalia ? 4/25 ? 5/01
2012-05-02 14:36:00 Here's the past week's crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals, presented for your reading pleasure... Continue reading →
The scientific tourist #220 ? Nautilus pompilius
2012-04-30 16:47:00 The largest species of chambered nautilus -- another fine specimen from the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate State Park, San Francisco... Continue reading →
Carnivalia ? 4/18 ? 4/24
2012-04-25 15:32:00 The past week's (somewhat thin) crop of science-related blog carnivals -- still plenty of good reading... Continue reading →
The scientific tourist #219 ? Desmatosuchus spurensis
2012-04-23 15:52:00 Seen at the Petrified Forest National Park’s visitor’s center in Arizona, it’s Desmatosuchus spurensis — and like all Aetosaurs, it was an odd looking thing: Aetosaurs were an order of reptiles that lived in the Late Triassic, about 200 – … Continue reading →
Carnivalia ? 4/11 ? 4/17
2012-04-18 15:44:00 The past week's crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals for you... Continue reading →
Quantum Biology: Physics Tricks from Microbes, Slime and Flies
2012-04-11 18:16:00 From CBC | Technology & Science News: Quantum physics is a strange world where, for example, very small particles can be in two places at once. Now, scientists are discovering that living things have been using quantum physics tricks for millions of year. Quirks & Quarks explores how, wh
Quite a full Easter
2012-04-11 12:56:00 With starting the new job the week before Easter, this is my first week of work holidays in over eight years! As we normally do, it was off to Portrush on Easter Monday. Usually, there’s a mass of traffic along the way, a traffic jam a mile or two long going into the town, pretty ... Related posts: Adjusting to a new subject Getting started on SK185 The booking season’s starting early this year Sort-of settled on the big courses, but what about the little ones? Traffic on the first weekend of August
Carnivalia ? 3/28 ? 4/03
2012-04-04 14:43:00 The past week's crop of science-related blog carnivals... Continue reading →
Carnivalia ? 3/21 ? 3/27
2012-03-28 14:04:00 The past week's crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals... Continue reading →
The scientific tourist #215 ? Eurypterus remipes
2012-03-27 05:42:00 An interesting collection of fossils from Herkimer County, New York (but on display at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science)... Continue reading →
Carnivalia ? 3/14 ? 3/20
2012-03-21 14:08:00 The past week's crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnival goodness for your reading pleasure... Continue reading →
The scientific tourist #214 ? Postosuchus kirkpatricki
2012-03-19 12:47:00 Another fine specimen from the Petrified Forest National Park visitor's center in Arizona... Continue reading →
Carnivalia ? 3/07 ? 3/13
2012-03-14 13:32:00 The past week's crop of science-related blog carnivals... Continue reading →
A seriously busy start to the year
2012-02-28 23:35:00 I’ve managed to pile in a massive amount of stuff into the first couple of months of the year, hence lack of updates on the blog. To begin with, the Chemistry course assignments have proved to be both more time consuming and less rewarding than expected. That’s had be starting to rethink the possibility of ... Related posts: A quiet summer for the blog = a busy real-life How many levels should you get through per year in Kumon? Posts becoming popular a year later The last few days of ED209 Finally making a serious start on TMA6 for ED209
VISUALLY COMPLEX
2012-02-27 18:32:00 Visual Complexity is a site dedicated to the visualization of complex everyday networks. Brainchild of Bing design lead, Manuel Lima, the goal of the platform is to help users comprehend the visual narrative of different disciplines like Biology, Social Networking and the World Wide Web. Mind-blowing and visually stimulating!
Carnivalia ? 12/21/11 ? 1/03/12
2012-01-04 15:50:00 A year-end-straddling collection of science-related blog carnivals await your reading attentions... Continue reading →
[Sweden] Doctoral Grants in Biology at Lund University
2012-01-03 09:02:00 The Lund University of Sweden offers Doctoral Grant to study adaptations to foraging and migration movements in of seabirds, such as lesser black-backed gull, common guillemots and razorbills. The project involves comparative work with seabirds of different species as well as at different locations. The movement patterns will be analyzed relative to winds, food availability, and topography as well as habitat type read more
Carnivalia ? 12/14 ? 12/20
2011-12-21 15:20:00 The past week's crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals... Continue reading →
Carnivalia ? 12/7 ? 12/13
2011-12-14 14:16:00 A svelte but satisfying batch of science-related blog carnivals for your reading today... Continue reading →
Biology – 1: Macy’s – 0
2011-12-09 02:07:00 Professor Ann Althouse: Natalie Johnson says Macy’s fired her for telling a male he could not use the women’s dressing room. The customer was shopping for women’s clothes… ... She’s trying to say that because her opinion is based on religion, she’s been discriminated against. I don’t see how that can work. It’s not her store The professor needs to get real. Human beings are one of two sexes, to wit male or female. Whereas gender is only a property of nouns, to wit masculine or feminine. Sex is not malleable, and gender is not a property of human beings. Those who are born male will die a male and vise versa. It is time for Macy’s to stop denying basic biology and get with the Twenty-First Century. Link to this post!
By: BitsBlog
Carnivalia 11/30 ? 12/06
2011-12-07 15:16:00 The past week's crop of science-related blog carnivals for your reading fun... Continue reading →
A sensible pass for S204 (biology)
2011-12-07 12:19:00 As usual, the Open University results were in earlier than planned so yesterday I found out that I’d passed S204 and was well clear of 40% too. Just as well really as there’s no way that I’d have been able to fit in even more revision for the resit in April. From the 297 students around ... Related posts:Finally winding down from the SK277 biology exam Analysing the ED209 course results Getting going on the biology (S204) revision The astronomy (S282) exam Exams are funny old things, aren’t they?
The 2011 biology (S204) exam
2011-10-13 19:55:00 This morning saw the final S204 exam as it’s being replaced by S294 from next year plus another course a year or two later. As usual the two short answer questions were all over the place requiring quite a comprehensive knowledge of the course contents to be able to fully answer 12 from the 18 ... Related posts:Finally winding down from the SK277 biology exam The final SK277 (human biology) tutorial SK277 exam strategy On to chemistry (S205) SK277: the 2010 exam
Carnivalia ? 10/20 ? 10/26
2010-10-27 16:54:00 The past week's selection of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals...
Carnivalia ? 10/13 ? 10/19
2010-10-20 14:06:00 The past week's crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals...
Carnivalia ? 10/06 ? 10/12
2010-10-13 15:09:00 A bit skinnier than last week's whopper of a list, but still plenty of good science-related blog carnival reading this week...
Casual Friday ? a birds? eye view of birds of prey
2010-10-08 14:37:00 The amazing abilities of a Peregrine Falcon and a Goshawk -- as seen by a camera mounted to their backs...
Carnivalia ? 9/29 ? 10/05
2010-10-06 14:06:00 The past week's huge crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals for you...
Guess Where your Fluoride Comes From? China!
2010-08-18 03:04:00 (NaturalNews) Much of the fluoride added to municipal water supplies across the United States is imported from China, and is contaminated with heavy metals, according to a warning by Bernard Miltenberger, president of the Pure Water Committee of Western Maryland. In a letter published in the Cumberland Times-News, Miltenberger notes that he first became aware ...
New ?Bio-gas? Car Unveiled
2010-08-13 07:04:00 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer Wednesday, August 11, 2010 (NaturalNews) British engineers have successfully converted the fuel system of a Volkswagen Beetle to run mostly on methane “bio-gas” produced from human waste. And according to reports, the converted vehicle operates just as well as the original version. The new vehicle still starts using regular unleaded ...
Junk Food-addicted Rats Chose to Starve themselves Rather than Eat Healthy
2010-08-10 23:26:00 August 5, 2010 by David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) A diet including unlimited amounts of junk food can cause rats to become so addicted to the unhealthy diet that they will starve themselves rather than go back to eating healthy food, researchers have discovered. In a series of studies conducted over the course of three ...
Switzerland,PhD position in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
2010-06-28 20:18:00 Firstly I hope good for all of youRetinal is the photon coupling cofactor of rhodopsin in the photoreceptors of the bearcat eye retina. The photon apprenticed cis-trans isomerization of the 11-cis-retinal triggers a avalanche of signaltransduction reactions amplifying the arresting and eventually consistent in the beheld response. Once isomerized 11-trans-retinal is no best alive and charge be exchanged for beginning 11-cis-retinal. Persistent eyes in vertebrates accordingly depends on the connected regene allowance of 11-cis-retinal from all-trans-retinal. This about-face is a multistep acknowledgment alleged the beheld cycle. The enzymes of this aeon are broadcast amid photo re ceptor beef and adjoining retinal colorant epithelium (RPE) cells. CRALBP, the cellular retinaldehyde-binding protein, chaperones the acknowledgment intermediates of the RPE amid the regenerating enzymes and prevents abortive cis-trans isomerization. It possesses a aerial affection 11-cis-retinoid bounden a...
F- Biology Confusion
2010-01-30 03:43:00 The Bing search posted the other day on the front page of MSN read, Another Pregnant Man.It further states, ?The man is Scott Moore, who grew up as Jessica. His parents helped him make the transition to being male at a young age.? According to the New York Daily News, Scott (aka Jessica) apparently told his/her parents that (s)he ?realized he wanted to be a man? around 11 years old. But, because (s)he is actually a female, (s)he had to start taking male hormones when (s)he was 16 years old. Although they did remove some female anatomy, the cost of surgery meant (s)he could not have the ?full sex reassignment surgery?; therefore, (s)he ?still has female reproductive organs?.Moore?s partner Thomas, was born as the female named Laura, but ?underwent sex reassignment surgery last year?. Thomas has two children ?from a previous relationship with a woman who has since passed away.?This story is just so bizarre, and apparently is not the only one of its kind. Just looking at the facts pres...
Carnivalia ? 9/16 ? 9/22
2009-09-23 13:56:00 The past week's selection of science-related blog carnivals...
Carnivalia ? 9/09 ? 9/15
2009-09-16 14:09:00 The past week's crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals awaits your reading attention...
Carnivalia ? 9/02 ? 9/08
2009-09-09 15:04:00 The last week's selection of science-related blog carnival goodness...
Biology or Biochemistry
2009-08-28 16:48:00 I wonder why and how Cyanobacteria can produce Toxin, like neurotoxin
zhengjingming wrote a new blog post: Evolutionary biology
2009-07-24 13:33:00 zhengjingming wrote a new blog post: Evolutionary biology Perspectives on emotions from evolution theory were initiated in the late 19th century with Charles Darwin’s book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin’s original thesis was that emotions evolved via natural selection and therefore have cross-culturally universal counterparts. Furthermore, animals undergo emotions comparable to our own (see emotion in animals). Evidence of ...
Required Reading for Biology Majors
2009-02-19 11:57:00 A few days ago, Grrlscientist blogged on an interesting meme: Imagine: YOU are asked to assign a half-dozen-or-so books as required reading for ALL science majors at a college as part of their 4-year degree; NOT technical or text books, but other works, old or new, touching upon the nature of science, philosophy, thought, or methodology ...
By: Migrations
Relativity and Biology: CR4 Challenge (01/27/09)
2009-01-26 23:01:00 This week's Challenge Question: As you well know, according to the theory of relativity motion reduces the speed at which a clock marks the time. Does this theory affect the biological clock of humans? The Answer will be posted right here on CR4 on February 3rd.
The Year in Biology
2009-01-02 18:55:00 From Discover Magazine | RSS: Self-aware birds, food from cloned animals, flowering plants' speedy sperm, and more... Top 100 Stories of 2008 #21: Plants Inspire a Better Way to Store Solar Energy One of the biggest obstacles to widespread use of solar energy is the lack
Frank Henenlotter's Bad Biology On DVD 16th February 2009
2008-12-17 17:27:00 Acclaimed shlock-horror director Frank Henenlotter (the Basket Case trilogy, Frankenhooker, Brain Damage) makes a deliciously perverse and hugely welcome return to outrageously repulsive form with his first film in 16 years, Bad Biology, a bizarre and twisted story of a genitally-endowed young woman's search for sexual fulfilment.Opening with the voice-over line, "I was born with seven clits," the film introduces us to Jennifer (Charlee Danielson), an insatiable nymphomaniac whose multi-pronged sexual organ has given her a constant craving for penile stimulation. Unfortunately, the sexual satisfaction Jennifer seeks is proving very hard to find. Worse, each disappointing sexual encounter she experiences results in a two-hour pregnancy period that produces an always-unwanted mutant baby.Unknown to Jennifer, just across town lies the solution to her frustration in the form of a young man called Batz (Anthony Sneed), whose own sexual shortcomings have led him to inject g...
By: podflower.com
Frank Henenlotter's Bad Biology On DVD 16th February 2009
2008-12-17 17:27:00 Acclaimed shlock-horror director Frank Henenlotter (the Basket Case trilogy, Frankenhooker, Brain Damage) makes a deliciously perverse and hugely welcome return to outrageously repulsive form with his first film in 16 years, Bad Biology, a bizarre and twisted story of a genitally-endowed young woman's search for sexual fulfilment.Opening with the voice-over line, "I was born with seven clits," the film introduces us to Jennifer (Charlee Danielson), an insatiable nymphomaniac whose multi-pronged sexual organ has given her a constant craving for penile stimulation. Unfortunately, the sexual satisfaction Jennifer seeks is proving very hard to find. Worse, each disappointing sexual encounter she experiences results in a two-hour pregnancy period that produces an always-unwanted mutant baby.Unknown to Jennifer, just across town lies the solution to her frustration in the form of a young man called Batz (Anthony Sneed), whose own sexual shortcomings have led him to inject g...
By: podflower.com
More on the Biology of Crime
2008-11-25 12:07:00 Updated November 29:This subject is absolutely deadly for progressives because there is a fear that an examination into the biology of crime will tend to focus on race. As is, in the US, Blacks, Hispanics, Amerindians and Polynesians have crime rates, 8, 3, 2 and 2 times higher than Whites, respectively. Asians have crime rates 5 times lower than Whites.Leaving aside race for a moment, it is reasonable to pry into the extra-racial aspects of crime. For the moment, let us look at testosterone and MAO-A levels.MAO-A inhibits the production of catecholamines, in particular serotonin. Persons low in MAO-A tend to be low in serotonin.Persons low in serotonin have elevated rates of impulsive violent behavior, including homicidal and suicidal attempts and successes. These studies have been done on successful suicides and impulsively violent criminals behind bars. Serotonin is an inhibitory chemical. It follows that low levels of an inhibitory chemical would make a person less inhibited in...
By: Robert Lindsay
Biology enters ?The Matrix? through new computer language
2008-11-17 02:28:00 Dr. Jeremy Gunawardena (left) and Dr. Aneil MallavarapuBOSTON, Mass. ? Ever since the human genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data?and its public access?is something that would have been unthinkable a generation earlier.But as molecules go, DNA is pretty straight forward. With its simple composition and linear structure, it easily lends itself to mathematical models. Not so with proteins. In fact, proteins are an order of magnitude more complex than DNA. It is proteins, not DNA, that carry out the cell's heavy lifting. However, with their intricately folded three-dimensional shapes determining a seemingly endless range of possible functions and their manifold interactions with other proteins and with DNA, the leg-work required to mathematically capture the protein universe seems absurd.And it is.That is why a team of Harvard Medical S...
Sarah Palin brings back the Culture Wars
2008-10-05 23:51:00 Although Hillary Clinton did not take the bait to have a smack down with the pro-life, death penalty diva, Tiney Fey and Amy Pohler did manage to portray them together on Saturday night live.
By: Evolution Minute
Tina Fey & Amy Poehler start the Palin dialogues
2008-10-05 23:50:00 Comedic impersonators Fey and Poehler came back to satirize another actual interview between CBS anchor Katie Couric and Creationist Sarah Palin.
By: Evolution Minute
Teaching Evolution and Biology, and Confronting Misconceptions
2008-09-20 19:51:00 Last month, the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology published an article that a lot of high school biology teachers might want to take a look at, to refresh themselves in their work - Teaching evolution (and all of biology) more effectively: Strategies for engagement, critical reasoning, and confronting misconceptions. It’s subscription only, but contact me ...
By: Migrations
A Creationist enters the presidential race
2008-09-03 18:00:00 John McCain?s decision to choose an anti-abortion, pro-creationism, death penalty diva as his vice-presidential running mate has stunned the nation.
By: Evolution Minute
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