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Scientia Pro Publica -- It's Almost Here! Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a blog carnival devoted to sharing the best science, medical, environment and nature blog writing with the public, and it is seeking submissions and hosts!
Are E-Readers Value-Added? A recent paper from the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy came across my desktop yesterday called e-Reading and e-Responding: New Tools for the Next Generation of Readers. In it, Lotta C. Larson describes her observation of 10 fifth-grade students...
Lituites lituus If you were here today, I would show you this lovely Ordovician fossil shell. The Ordovician Period started at a major extinction event called the Cambrian-Ordovician extinction events roughly 488.3 ± 1.7 million years ago, and lasted for about 44.6 million years. Despite a world filled with destruction, death and mass extinctions, this little animal managed to live.
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify I'm pretty sure I know what species this is, but I could very well be mistaken, so I hope you can help me ID this mystery bird
Ask Dr. Free-Ride: Ethically, which field of science is the worst? And what kind of empirical evidence could we get to answer the question?
Versteinerung Muschelschale This is a gorgeous fossil shell photographed at the Senckenberg Naturmuseum .. how old is this? What species is this? I don't know .. but I will return and collect more detailed information to share with you (this first visit was a quick pass through the museum to see what they have on display).
Would a Lava Lamp work on Jupiter? Let's see.... Neil Fraser was curious about this question, so he built a centrifuge at home and recorded a lava lamp at 3G (which is higher than Jupiter, actually). He explains the details here. [hat-tip]...
Why is Science Cool? Why is Science Cool?? The Kavli Science Video Contest is exploring that question at the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Tell us why you think Science is cool! Find out more about entering...
Scientia Pro Publica -- Will Publish Monday! Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a blog carnival devoted to sharing the best science, medical, environment and nature blog writing with the public, and it is seeking submissions and hosts!
Friday Sprog Blogging: watershed field trip. Dr. Free-Ride: So, you went on a field trip today to a lagoon. Younger offspring: Yeah, I went to [Name redacted] Creek and [Name redacted] Lagoon. Dr. Free-Ride: You know, I'm going to redact the names to protect your privacy....
Go Right to Hell, Voice Mail. Go Right to Hell and Die. I realized I just posted something about FASEB and iPhone apps, but I got another post in me and this one is just burning to come out. What the fuck is the matter with my voicemail? Seriously! How can a...
So Smart FASEB. So, So Smart!! This morning I got an email from the kind folks at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). They have created an iPhone app to navigate the program from this month's Experimental Biology meeting in Anaheim. So good,...
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify This is one of those remarkable and aesthetically-pleasing birds that I would love to see in real life
Optics Quiz Answer Around 470 people voted in yesterday's optics quiz. I continue to be amazed at the power of radio button polls to bring people into the blog. As of early Friday morning, the correct answer is solidly in he lead-- 63%...
USA Science & Engineering Festival - Science Video Contest USA Science & Engineering Festival Calls for Entries to New Kavli Science Video ContestCalls for Entries to New Kavli Science Video Contest: WASHINGTON -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Science is cool and The Kavli Foundation is challenging K-12 students across the...
MA Academy of Sciences Has a Big Shinding This Weekend at Boston's Museum of Science It's supposed to be rainy, so why not attend? Carl Zimmer will be there.
Koralle, 1 If you were here today, I would show you around the Senckenberg Natural History Museum. During your visit, this is one of the many natural wonders you would see.
An update on NIH Grant success rates Women caught up with men? n00bs no longer screwed? can it be?
It Is Never Too Early... also think it is important, as we study events and history (we're homeschoolers) that my kids ask the question "where are the women" and "where are the people who aren't white" whenever they aren't at the center of the story and "what does the world look like through the people who weren't the victors or the center."
Important Thursday Notes If you all have been around the blogs of late, there's been some interesting posts from DrugMonkey and DrPal or how narcotics abusers are perceived by doctors and why (comment threads are especially interesting). It's an interesting issue and one...
Optics Quiz: What Do You Get With Half a Lens? I was starting to type up the next Laser Smackdown entry, when it occurred to me that this was a good point to talk about a neat little thing from optics. It further occurred to me that this would be...
Mystery Bird: Egyptian Goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus Here's a close look at a particularly cooperative bird that I photographed yesterday
Oppositional Defiant Disorder is Alive and Well (Source) But which one should be diagnosed? Diagnostic criteria for 313.81 Oppositional Defiant Disorder A. A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, during which four (or more) of the following are present: (1) often...
Help the National Postdoc Association Lobby for Higher Postdoc Salaries I can't lie to you, little muffins. I haven't filed my taxes yet. And by "haven't filed," I mean that I haven't even started them. Science, teaching, children. You know how it is. So, in the next day while I...
Alert: Evolution Suppressed in Connecticut "Mr. Tangarone, a 17-year veteran of the Weston school system, claims that a program he wanted to teach about Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln was rejected by the school administration because it involved teaching evolution -- the scientific theory that all life is related and...
“I LOVE it when my students show up with forms and tell me where to sign, or when they give me several weeks' notice for recommendation letters, with nice neat lists of addresses and deadlines. I wish they would bug me more often about stuff, as I tend to forget what I've agreed to do and let things get buried in my inbox.” Asphericity on Ask Dr. Isis - Can I Be Bossy With My Boss?
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Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
The Loom January 31, 2008
Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006