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Over the summer, I posted a list of words I banned from my science writing class at Shoals Marine Lab. Readers offered some equally abysmal suggestions. And this fall, teaching a seminar at Yale, I came across some others. I suspect that this list is just going to keep growing. So I’m ...
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Greetings, people of Denver. On Thursday I will
be speaking at the Denver Museum of Natural and...
Science about The Tangled Bank and my favorite creature of the season, swine flu. Here are the details . See you there!
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Denver: Get Tangled This Thursday!
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On this happy anniversay–the 150th anniversary of the
Origin of Species –let us contemplate one of evolution’s...
great works: the origin of giants. Whales are the biggest animals to ever live. Blue whales can get up to 160 ...
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The Origin of Big
blogs.discovermagazine.com - 9 days ago
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To find out how orchids exploit sex-crazed wasps
for their own reproduction (and for lots of other...
marvels of coevolution), check out the November issue of Discover , which has an excerpt from my new book, The Tangled Bank .
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Sex Pranks of the Orchid World
Ryan writes, “I am a mechanical engineer, and this tattoo was inspired by the cover of my mechanical engineering design textbook.”
Click here to go to the full Science Tattoo Emporium.
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blogs.discovermagazine.com - 9 days ago
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Today at 5 pm EST I am going
to be on Science Fantastic , the radio show...
hosted by physicist Michio Kaku. You can call in at 800-449-8255. Here’s a list of stations that carry the show, either live or repeated later this week.
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Radio Alert: Science Fantastic Today At 5
blogs.discovermagazine.com - 9 days ago
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I’m waiting to board my Air Canada flight
to the rain-drenched city of Vancouver. Residents of that...
fair city are invited to come to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, dry off for a spell, and hear my talk tomorrow at 7 about Darwin, the flu, and ...
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Vancouver BC: Infection Commences Tomorrow
blogs.discovermagazine.com - 9 days ago
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Math is the subject of my new Discover
column on the brain. How do we do it,...
and when did we (or our primate ancestors) start doing it? The answer, or at least some intriguing new research, is here .
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Math Monkeys
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Here’s a fun talk I had Saturday on
Science Cabaret, a radio show on WICB in Ithaca....
The host, Jennifer Nelson, is a graduate student at Cornell and has only been interviewing people about science for two months, but she’s clearly a ...
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Science Cabaret
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Palin “didn’t believe in the theory that human
beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish...
that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea” or from “monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees.” Quoted in Michiko Katutani’s ...
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Sarah Palin On The Origin of Species
This is definitely going into the swine flu talk! From Colin Purrington’s The Axis of Evo .
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Tomorrow morning I’m hopping a plane and spending the afternoon at Cornell. On Saturday, I’ll be giving a talk about The Origin of Species just down the road in downtown Ithaca. Caren Cooper, an ornithologist at Cornell, has used my upcoming talk as the hook for a lovely essay in ...
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Just a reminder to my fellow Nutmeggers: I will be speaking tomorrow at 5:30 pm at the Peabody Museum at Yale in New Haven. The title of the talk is “Darwin Gets Swine Flu.” Pigs, ducks, sneezes, and more.
Details here .
Life Science
This post is really just an excuse for me to put up this cool poster. If you want the details on my talk in Vancouver on November 18, you can find them here . Tickets are free, but registration is required.
Life Science
If you ever find yourself in the forests of Ecuador, you may have the good fortune of spotting a club-winged manakin. The closest the rest of us will probably ever get will be to watch this video. But don’t just watch it. Listen.
If you said to yourself, “Hold on, is that ...
Life Science
If you ever find yourself in the forests of Ecuador, you may have the good fortune of spotting a club-winged manakin. The closest the rest of us will probably ever get will be to watch this video. But don’t just watch it. Listen.
If you said to yourself, “Hold on, is that ...
Life Science
The winners of this year’s AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award have just been announced . I’m honored to be the winner for large newspapers. (I submitted some of my articles over the past year in The New York Times .)
The whole enterprise of handing out awards for science ...
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blogs.discovermagazine.com - 23 days ago
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Supermodel microbes? You bet. Check out this gallery
of lovely, sometimes whimsical microbe colonies....
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Microbial Art
Duygu writes, “I am a developmental biologist by training. Actually, my Ph.D. thesis does not really have an evolutionary focus because I study joint regeneration in embryonic chick limb. However, I have been an evolution enthusiast and also an activist for educating public about the ...
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Charles Darwin
Duygu writes, “I am a developmental biologist by training. Actually, my Ph.D. thesis does not really have an evolutionary focus because I study joint regeneration in embryonic chick limb. However, I have been an evolution enthusiast and also an activist for educating public about the ...
