The Independent | Opinions | Leading Articles | Commentators | Letters. Circus of the Spineless 55: Museum of Invertebrate Art « Wild About Ants. On loan from another museum, The Museum of Curiosities , Tom Clarke has on exhibit Symbiosis . He shows a mauve stinger jellyfish ( ) and a larval fish that seems to be using the jellyfish as both protection and food.
Classic, guns and butter from one source. Are corals that start showing bright neon colors about to bleach? Rick at Deep Sea News addresses the question in his post Color Me Stressed . Craig, another blogger from Deep Sea News, wonders How Many Deep-Sea Nematodes Are There & Why We Many Never Know. As he correctly points out, we are losing species faster than they are being named. Dave Ingram at Dave Ingram’s Natural History Blog is doing some Slug Name Dropping. Mike Lisieski at Cephalove takes a look at the intricacies of color changes in Cuttlefish Body Patterning . Ever felt like straightening out the misinformation being given to children at the zoo? At Deep Sea News , Miriam finds that Female snails in Australia are just happy to see you . In his post 1,000 Legs? </i>*} Blog Festival | Science.
Anthropology in Practice: Four Stone Hearth 102: At the Hatter's Tea Party. Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing. Welcome to the Hatter's tea party!
Eric Michael Johnson continues to wander in exile. When these affluent American and non-Western populations are compared there are important differences in domains as seemingly unrelated as visual perception, fairness, cooperation, spatial reasoning, moral reasoning, reasoning styles, and even the heritability of IQ. Eric uses this information to lead readers through a discussion on the confirmation bias: the tendency to favor interpretations that support our beliefs even when the evidence to suggest this is true is actually weak to nonexistent. Kris Young at Ge-Knit-ics reports on Berkeley's personalized medicine project, which offers personalized genetic testing for all incoming freshmen. Mad Hatter: Clean cup, clean cup. Carnival of Space 169. Ad Support : Nano TechnologyNetbook Technology News Computer Software 1.
Urban Astronomer looks at the question Are the universal constants changing? The two fundamental assumptions about modern cosmology (the study of the origins of the universe) and astrophysics are homogeneity and universality. The first means that matter is evenly spread out through the universe (if you average out over large enough scales), while the second means that the laws of physics are the same throughout the universe. The principle of homogeneity has always seemed arbitrary to me, and unjustified; at the local level we find matter is quite clumpy, from everyday objects to planets and stars, to galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
The second assumption, universality, feels much more solid. The Planetary society has several pictures of two natural bridges on the moon. 21st century waves indicates that the NASA Osiris-Rex mission could be a stepping stone to a Mars mission. 5. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Mathematics and Multimedia Blog Carnival #2 « Mathematics and Multimedia. Hook, Line and Linker Welcome to the second edition of the Mathematics and Multimedia Blog Carnival. One of the new developments is that I am giving a title to each edition of the carnival. The title of second edition: Hook, Line and Linker . As you read, you would know why I have chosen the title. The Number 2 Before our reading spree, let us first know what is so imporant about the number 2: is the first positive even number and the only prime number that is even. is equal to (1+i)(1-i). is very special because 2×2 = 4 and 2+2 = 4.
Fermat’s Last theorem: the equation xn + yn = zn has no integral solutions when n is greater than 2. Goldbach’s Conjecture: Every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers. And the killer trivia: It takes 2 to tango (grins). Mathematics Entries Content Mathematics First, let’s have some useful basic math. Who says conditional probability is hard? American? David Pilarski or Mr. And some serious math. John D. Mathematics Teaching Multimedia Entries. Carnival of Mathematics 69 « JD2718. I wish that I knew what I know now... Tools for a scientist: September Scientiae. Anthropologists can study civilizations by examining their tools. This month, we can learn a lot about what some science bloggers do by hearing about the tools that they use in their daily science lives. You might pick up a useful suggestion or two along the way, be it software, pens, or notebooks! Rocketscientista calls this the most wonderful time of the year.
I knew there'd be at least one person who wanted to effuse their love of office supplies! She tells us about her quest- and success- in search of the best lab notebook ever. Rocksinspace has a great list of supplies that keep her organized including multiple colors of pens and special notebooks. FrauTech literally has a toolbox. Ecogeofemme doesn't obsess over school supplies but associates this time of year with new clothes. Jaxwolf does a lot of her science in the field and has to be ready for anything with the ten essentials. Sarcozona gets the prize for most unique tool: the cone guillotine. Like NJS, Alyssa's (aka Mrs. The Molbio Carnival: second edition « Thoughtomics.
Welcome everybody! I’m glad you found us here at the second stop of the traveling MolBio carnival. If you’ve got an eye for the small and tiny you have arrived at the right address, as our rides and bazaars are specialized in molecular and cellular biology! I’ll be happy guide you along the carnival grounds and show you all the great contributors. Getting thereNo point in organizing a carnival without means of getting there! Lab Rat discusses the problems of getting proteins to the outer membrane of bacteria and folding them properly among the way. An anonymous contributor on the ‘You’d Prefer an Argonaute’ blog discusses a paper on microRNAs. Grant Jacobs from Code for life has submitted a great primer on the coiling of bacterial DNA. In for the thrillIn this section of the carnival grounds, you’ll find thrill rides that are not for the faint of heart. in here you’ll find posts on extreme colds, the highest altitudes and zombie enzymes to statisfy your need for adrenaline and thrills.
Carny of the Spineless rolls in (on a trail of slime) « hectocotyli. Like the best of deviant affairs, it pulls in to town in the deep of night, not to mention behind schedule. Buzz on the midway is that the circus manager’s son was busted for running a meth lab and they blew through the caravan gas money to bail him out. A day late, and more than a few dollars short. So no elephantine parade through Main Street, this. Rather a disheveled caravan of rust-stained trailers towed behind emphysemic flat-beds. Strange, misassembled metal beasts ringed in colored incandescence that promise who-knows-what pulse-quickenings when unfolded. This is the Circus of the Spineless, rubes! So bring a full pack of smokes and wear your cleanest heavy metal tshirt. Bad rides. Just look at that nudibranch! From the ink-stained hand of Phineas X. Did someone mention food?
Just look at that jaunty gait! What’ll it be, funnel cake or corn dog? Ant eating takes us on a different direction at Roberta Gibson’s Wild About Ants where we get ring-side seats to the Praying Mantid vs. Welcome to Grand Rounds, year 7! As you're all aware, I was asked to host online Grand Rounds this week. So thank you all for coming! I'll be returning to my regularly scheduled whining tomorrow. Coffee and bagels are in back. Sign in on the sheet. Food was provided by our drug rep Rikki, on behalf of Wirfliss Pharmaceuticals. Before beginning, I'd like to thank Dr. A big thank you to everyone who sent stuff in. And we're off! To start, I present: THE PHARMACISTS!
The king of pissed-off pharmacists, The Angry Pharmacist, submitted this post about an issue that drives him (and many docs) nuts- the prevalence of meds ending in -XR, -XL, -CR, etc. from the other side of counter. Next up in the center ring: THE NURSES! From the Florida keys, we have Mojito Girl. Nurse Running Princess (like many of us) finds herself stymied by some of the asinine ideas that drift down from hospital management. Here they are: THE MEDICAL RECEPTIONISTS! My idol, Dr. Crayzee 1, Crayzee 2, Crayzee 3, and Crayzee 4. Next up: THE PARAMEDICS! Dr. Dr. A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor. Carnal Carnival #1 – Essentials of Elimination. It is a good thing that transmission of smells over the Web has not been worked out yet, as this carnival would unlikely be smelling of roses… This month’s topic of the Carnal Carnival is, as you may already have heard, poop.
Yes, excretion, defecation, elimination and the resulting products. All things colonic. The response by the blogosphere was amazing so the carnival is quite big. So fix yourself some coffee (and you may learn how and if that will affect your stool once you read some of these posts), relax (that is also important for the process) and enjoy (yes, it is supposed to be pleasure)! DeLene Beeland, of Wild Muse, knows how informative animal poop is to ecologists when they play nature detectives: Divining the secrets of scat. And sometimes, the poop animals leave around is not just tiny little droppings…. Coprolites! And if that is not enough, can you imagine how much one can learn by combining the study of coprolites and coprophagy?!
Brian Switek is not done yet. The Giant’s Shoulders. Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 49 – a conference in a tropical island resort. The summer is almost over, but we can try to remain in the summery mood just a little bit longer. Perhaps we can go to a medical conference held at a luscious tropical island resort, listen to presentations, chat in the hallways, and then have great fun at the bar in the evenings.
And call it Grand Rounds. No coats and ties allowed – this meeting is supposed to be fun! Day 1 – Morning session: Biomedical Science Let’s start with controversy! Laika’s MedLibLog digs into the XMRV controversy with another comprehensive treatment prompted by the newest paper in the field – Does the NHI/FDA Paper Confirm XMRV in CFS? Well, Ditch the MR and Scratch the X… and… you’ve got MLV. Diane Meier at The John A.
Day 1 – afternoon session: The Brain and The Mind SharpBrains contributors have two entries this week. How to Cope with Pain reviews exciting, new, non-invasive and non-medication treatments for pain, in Brain Re-training To Decrease Pain. Day 2 – morning session: Medicine and Technology Like this: Scientia Pro Publica #38. Despite it being summer holidays there were a lot of submission for the latest Scientia Blog Carnival: Scientia Pro Publica. So let’s start. If you want to know more about the dance of bees, the waggle dance (yes it really exists) have fun over at More than Honey, The Making of a Bee Documentary and it’s post Out with the Radar Bees. It has all the ins and outs on he famous „dance-language“ of the honeybees.
Quantum Mechanics something very complicated or a conspiracy of instrumentalists? The Truth Re-Revealed at This Scientific Life. As human beings, believe it or not, we’ve a lot of microorganisms living on and in us. Their is a name for those studying these microorganisms, they study human microbiome. Influenza or not influenza, a case report of 2000 years ago in Biblical time, substantiated with bible text was published in Virology Journal and critically commented on This Scientific Life. Does this horrible catastrophe teach us something positive? The cost scientific conduct?.