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The Empire of the Odd

Oh Roswell! - If ever you are in Downtown Roswell, (and why wouldn’t you be?) You may see a very singular place. As a matter of fact you’d have to be blind and pretty me...
2 hours ago
Sandwalk

A Platypus Describes Humans - Ryan Gregory invents The Platypus Fallacy to illustrate an important concept in evolution. Here's how a platypus describes humans. See if you can spot the ...
6 hours ago
Bad Astronomy

WANT Part XIV: Citric acid for blood - Of *course* I want one of these! It would give me something to eat while crawling through service corridors looking for the cat. *Tip o’ the sawed-off ...
8 hours ago
Mystery Rays from Outer Space

Recuperation - Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza (1919) (During recovery) Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza (1919) (Later in recovery)
16 hours ago
Mind Hacks

A delusional life on film - A curiously recursive case of psychosis, reported in the latest issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, about a person who worked on a reality TV show who had ...
1 day ago
The Biodiversity crew @ NUS

Mon 04 Jun 2012: 10am – Nanthinee Jeevanandam on figs & fig wasps in urban Singapore - “The phenology of four dioecious figs and their obligate pollinators, the fig wasps, in urban Singapore.” Nanthinee Jeevanandam PhD Candidate Terrestrial E...
4 days ago
The Flying Trilobite

Explosions of activity - Detail from Incredible Hulk Anatomy. Recent news from my studio: - - The *Incredible Hulk Anatomy* image did very well. - Published it on Symbiartic, g...
6 days ago
Pro-science

Time traveling polaroids - Earlier today I came across this "feel-good" article at the *Los Angeles Times*. Old Polaroid yields eerie development — a long-dead uncle A random garage...
1 week ago
Entertaining Research

Dr. Watson, Mr. Holmes and Faraday - Apparently, Michael Faraday evaluated two proposals to electrify the lighthouses — one by Dr. Watson and another by Mr. Holmes according to Frank A J L Jam...
1 week ago
microecos

But I don’t even *like* tyrannosaurs… - I mean, I don’t not like them, but they always seemed bit … gauche you know? Like truck nuts or something. No, no … truck nuts are obviously odious, but fo...
1 week ago
The Biology Refugia

Scientific turnover and the fate of old theory - The Arts and Sciences are often seen as non-overlapping complements, as naturally opposed as North and South, or the two sexes male and female. It's there...
2 weeks ago
Epsilon Clue

Lens Flare in the Eye of the Beholder - We’re all familiar with lens flare, those circles of light that appear in a photo or video when the camera points too close to the sun. When the scene is t...
2 weeks ago
β.Log [ Computational Biology News ]

Why mistakes are often repeated? - *“Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” * - Narcotics Anonymous I have been wondering about this for a long long...
4 weeks ago
Microarray Blog

Processed EHR text can be used to develop CDS tools Read more: Processed EHR text can be used to develop Clinical decision support tools with automated text processing - See on Scoop.it – inPharmatics Free text in electronic health records, with the help of natural language processing (NLP) technology, can be used to create...
4 weeks ago
Total Drek

And that would be desirable because...? - As an atheist, I'll be the first one to admit that I don't always understand why people do things. I don't get praying or speaking in tongues, I don't real...
5 weeks ago
Anders Rasmussen Blog

Nice experiment on Baboons show that monkeys can distinguish words and non-words - There is a common misconception that all animal experimentation has to be painful. Most people have seen pictures of rats being "tortured" or monkeys with ...
5 weeks ago
Bayblab

ACHOO - Some people sneeze when they look at the sun. This trait, known as thephotic sneeze reflex, or ACHOO (Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outbu...
5 weeks ago
Evolutionary Middleman

Who's afraid of the N.R.A.? - Fuck the National Rifle Association! "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand"? OK! We can do that!Look, you NRA people are all pussie...
1 month ago
Bay of Fundie

Dog Bites Man - This was a typical headline today: Why is that news? They don’t start every day with the headline: Earth Still Spinning on its Axis Some things just aren’t...
1 month ago
Yann Klimentidis' Weblog

Predicting pigmentation phenotypes with genetic information - This is a very short paper and their methods are fairly simplistic. They pick some SNPs from the literature, and count the number of homozygous SNPs relate...
2 months ago
Braving the Elements

- Our Corporate MastersAs an academic I interact with many groups of professionals on a daily basis. Students, colleagues from various disciplines, and adminis...
3 months ago
Hermes' Journeys

Sneaky Catch-22 in Higher Ed - stolen from a friend's FB:Apparently there's a push to measure "student success" in higher education based solely/primarily on retainment and graduation ra...
3 months ago
Cosmic Afterthoughts

Survive the Zombie Apocalypse - Many people proudly boast of their preparations for catastrophic emergency scenarios, such as nuclear war, plague, or - tangentially related - a zombie apoca...
4 months ago
The Lord Geekington

A Change of Scenery - After blogging on Blogger since 2006 I've decided to give WordPress a try. There is a lot of juvenile baggage on this page and I think a move will help me ...
4 months ago
neurodudes

Hippocampus may still have a role in recalling old memories - Prevailing theory suggests that long-term memories are encoded via a two-phase process requiring temporary involvement of the hippocampus followed by perma...
5 months ago
Labtutorials in Biology

Tons of Resources for High Resolution Melt Analysis - In this self-guided slideshare presentation you will learn the basics of High Resolution Melt Analysis HRM, applications, important considerations, assay ...
9 months ago
Science Avenger

Best Comment on the Downgrade - From a tweet whose source I've forgotten: "The Tea Party has been downgraded to KK+"
9 months ago
Pink Tentacle

Time-lapse video of slightly darkened Tokyo - + Video By fading back and forth between scenes of pre- and post-quake Tokyo, this time-lapse video by YouTube user darwinfish105 shows how the metropolita...
1 year ago
darwinian remiix

Quotes Roundup- Fall- Winter 2010 - Anatole France: An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do k...
1 year ago
Scientifically Open Source

Sci-fi mania - Greetings to one and all! Yeah... so that thing about being back. Turns out that breaks are great times to start up on pet projects. It's something I highl...
1 year ago
BackStage

In a Muddle - Captain of the Obvious states, “I have not been blogging.” This is really because I have no idea what to blog about. I found a job, finally (FINALLY) defen...
1 year ago
Orbital Teapot

Heaping in count data - Survey questions are often open for interpretation for the respondent. One type of question may ask the respondent for the 'number of times' something has ...
1 year ago
The Ethical Palaeontologist

The Carnival Is Over - It has preyed heavily on my mind over the last year - every time a colleague or a student has asked me about my PhD I have felt like more and more of a fra...
1 year ago
Laelaps

This Blog Has Moved - Laelaps is back up and running at my author website, http://brianswitek.com. Go there for new posts and updates on where this blog will ultimately settle...
1 year ago
The Other 95%

What in the larval world is this? - No one at Duke seems to know what this is. Southern Fried Scientist has allowed me to copy verbatim his post in the hopes that maybe someone out there in T...
2 years ago
Biocurious

I am not wasting my Ph.D. - I suppose the common assumption is that, in taking on other types of jobs, all of my knowledge and training will go to waste.
2 years ago
Principles of Parsimony

Hiatus - So, the more observant of you may have noticed this site has been quiet for the last two years. I guess I've said most of what I felt I had to say. However...
2 years ago
Asking the Little Questions

Not Blogging - Not been blogging and don't feel the need to anymore. :) Still do read blogs, esp. wifey's... maybe I'll do some guest posts for her once in a while... (alr...
2 years ago
Biological Obsessions

A play about cancer - Sarah’s Daughters” is an example of the use of theatre in healthcare education for the purpose of education and to influence health care policy. “Sarah’s ...
2 years ago
Rat in the Lab

What’s that bright ball of fire in the sky again? - From this article: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY We’re using thermal, which is far cheaper than solar. (There are) panels on our roof, but instead of using sunlight, ...
2 years ago
Illusion Sciences: why are we surprised by only some of the things that we see?

Illusion contest: The break of the curveball - “The Break of the Curveball” won first place in this year’s Best Visual Illusion of the Year contest. I created the illusion with Zhong-Lin Lu (University ...
3 years ago
The Stone of Tear

Quote of the Day - Always nice to have context for other people's shitty lives, to compare to yours. Fuck My Life is a great site for that. Recent favorite: Today, I received...
3 years ago
Discovery News: Deep Sea News

Farewell - Today marks the end of our tenure here at Discovery Channel. We've enjoyed ourselves here over the last few months and appreciate the opportunity afforded to...
3 years ago
Hyphoid Logic

Cthulhu's Bar and Grill for the Holidays - Just in time for the holidays, I'm happy to announce the grand opening of Cthulhu's Bar & Grill! It's a one-stop shop for vaguely Cthulhu-related t-shirts a...
3 years ago
Life Under the Microscope

Metastatic carcinoma from the bladder - *Answer: *Metastatic carcinoma from the bladder *Exposition:* *Criteria for diagnosis clinically:* Violaceous papules, but mostly plaques of shapes b...
3 years ago
The Second Enlightenment

My historiographical paper on “Expelled” and the misuse of the Holocaust - So for my final paper for History 444 (The Holocaust) I was so intrigued at the controversy over “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” and its accusation tha...
4 years ago
neurocontrarian 2.0

back in the saddle - Yes! After a relocation and a long, long time, Neurocontrarian is back in business and live from London.
4 years ago
CELL*WISE

If Humans were on the Microscale - As usual, I've been way too busy to write all the posts that I really want to write about for this blog in progress. Eventually. I promise. For now - I gues...
4 years ago
evo devo

Improving EvoDevo blog - Dear all, I just added a sitemeter to my blog today. It created very powerful motivation for me to improve my blog. If there are any comments which you wo...
4 years ago
SLOG (Singapore Snakes Blog)

Singapore Wildlife Stampede - Singapore's first parade for endangered animals and environment, led by Dr. Jane Goodall, happened on 2 November 2007 4-7 pm at Singapore Botanics Garden. ...
4 years ago
The Positive Aspects of Negative Thinking

Check one off the list - Remember that stuff about loving thy neighbor and helping the underserved? Apparently the agnostic and atheists of the medical world are actually more like...
4 years ago
The DesignInterference

The Scoville scale of dangerous questions - Taped to the wall just next to where I am writing this is a cut-out from an old issue of "New Scientist" that describes the Scoville scale. This scale desc...
4 years ago
The Science Lists Blog

Polymers can get “older than universe” - Maybe CDs and DVDs won’t lose their data so fast after all? New research has shown that certain polymers may actually have cosmic life spans. read more | d...
5 years ago

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