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Obama regret

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:00:13 +0000

I had my reservations before the election, but I voted for Obama as the better choice (and I have not changed my opinion on that at all). I had hopes that he'd get in office and stand up for some principles…but no such luck. There are several reasons for my dissatisfaction. He has ...

Thoughts from Kansas found this 4 hours ago on scienceblogs.com

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Overcoming Obstacles to Evolution Education

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:13:32 +0000

NCSE - National Center for Science Education - ... found this 14 hours ago on springerlink.com

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An alternative cloning strategy: yeast recombinational cloning

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:40:00 +0000

As part of my Ph.D thesis, I have to generate a lot of transcriptional fusions (constructs in which a promoter of choice is cloned in front of a reporter gene in order to evaluate transcriptional regulation. Such plasmids can then be transformed into your model organism to study this regulation ...

aemonten posted 5 hours ago from amontenegro.blogspot.com

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On Determining the Structure of a Protein

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:00:39 +0000

Michael Clarkson is a biotech postdoc who blogs at Discount Thoughts. One of his recent thoughts is Don't look for "the" structure. He is referring to the fact that the crystal structure of a protein doesn't actually represent the only structure that the protein can adopt. The figure shown ...

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Comment moderation

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:14:00 +0000

The time has come when I am too annoyed with the spam. I get links to dating-sites and bots posting Viagra advertisements.Comment moderation is on for posts older than seven days, and I've added a captcha image for commenting.

Bjorn posted 6 hours ago from pleion.blogspot.com

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How Humanlike Was "Ardi"?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:53:05 +0000

For such a petite creature, the 1.2-meter-tall " Ardi " ( Ardipithecus ramidus ) has made big waves in the paleoanthropology world. The momentous find--announced 15 years ago and formally described in Science this October--has deepened academic debates about when bipedalism evolved, what our last common ancestor with chimpanzees looked like, and how some ancient primates gave way to modern humans. [More]

TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History found this 9 days ago on scientificamerican.com

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everyONE – the PLoS ONE community blog

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:30:00 +0000

everyONE – the PLoS ONE community blog

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Deepak Chopra: The Perils Of Skepticism

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:55:43 +0000

If you've ever used Google Alert, you know the jolts it can deliver. Whenever anyone in the blogosphere decides to blow a poison dart your way, Google is happy to deliver the news, along with the more positive mentions, of course. Most of my stinging darts come from skeptics. Over the years I've ...

Bad Astronomy found this 34 hours ago on huffingtonpost.com

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How Raptor Talons Fit Their Prey

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:01:57 +0000

Most birders learn through field guides that different raptor groups have recognizable body shapes adapted to the way they hunt. Accipiters, for example, have short rounded wings and long tails to facilitate short pursuits through close quarters. This is, in fact, a key to identifying many ...

Greg Laden's Blog found this 10 hours ago on dendroica.blogspot.com

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Deepak Chopra: redefining “wrong”

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:04:55 +0000

I am no fan of Deepak Chopra. For years he has gone on TV, in print, and ...

Science After Sunclipse found this 15 hours ago on blogs.discovermagazine.com

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25 Essential Open Courseware Classes on Holistic Healing

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:13:54 +0000

To learn about holistic healing, many practitioners learn about the basics of both worlds beforecombining them into a complementary and alternative medicine [CAM] practice.

healthylivinggal posted 21 hours ago from phlebotomytechnicianprograms.org

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The Top 40 Self-Help Blogs

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:07:12 +0000

To get you started, the article has listed 40 of these blogs focusing on the important aspects like Personal Development, Physical & Mental Health, Finance, Relationships, Career Development & Personal Branding, as well as some motivational resources.

webstar01 posted 21 hours ago from onlinepsychologydegrees.org

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Back to the Earth: taking below-ground processes seriously for plant coexistence

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:09:19 +0000

Some of the earliest ecologists, like Eugen Warming and Christen Raunkiaer , were enthralled with the minutia of the differences in plant life forms and how these differences determined where plants lived. They realized that differences in plant growth forms corresponded to how different ...

Seeds Aside found this 16 hours ago on evol-eco.blogspot.com

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Supremely incompatible accounts of an ID/evolution debate

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:53:00 +0000

This is really strange.It's not that I don't know that when two opposing sides debate, they will often walk away with different observations of what went down. We are human, and we are biased. We will naturally focus on the wins we get in, and automatically downplay our losses. So when ...

Bjorn posted 24 hours ago from pleion.blogspot.com

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Battle in Beverly Hills: Reflections on the Prothero/Shermer vs. Meyer/Sternberg "debate," Nov. 30, 2009

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:05:32 +0000

By Don Prothero http://faculty.oxy.edu/prothero/index.htm Don Prothero is a paleontologist and Professor of Geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why ...

Evolution News & Views found this 31 hours ago on pandasthumb.org

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Ouch. Intelligent Design Guys Put the Sleeperhold on Darwin's Defenders

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:37:21 +0000

The great debate over the adequacy of evolution continues. Sort ot. The latest head to head meeting had Dr. Stephen Meyer and Dr. Richard Sternberg debating Dr. Michael Shermer and Dr. Donald Prothero. Heading into the debate I was quite excited; these aren't lightweights, after all. The ...

The Panda's Thumb found this 33 hours ago on evolutionnews.org

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Ocean Denizens Strike Back

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 07:45:00 +0000

Science fiction and the marine world come together, thanks to Peggy Kolm, who covers this and other biology-related topics in science fiction for her blog, Biology in Science Fiction , a site that discusses everything from engineering to cloning to mutants throughout science fiction books, ...

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Lecture on why it doesn't matter that Nidal Malik Hasan is Muslim

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:22:00 +0000

Here's a little lecture I would very much like to go to. It is, incidentally, right in my hood, but I am afraid I most likely won't be able to go.Responding to the Fort Hood TragedyImam Zaid Shakir will be presenting a talk to the Claremont College community to address the Fort Hood tragedy: the ...

Bjorn posted 31 hours ago from pleion.blogspot.com

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Donald Prothero’s Imaginary Evidence for Evolution

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:53:00 +0000

Need evidence for Darwinian evolution? Just make it up. That’s the lesson of Donald Prothero’s book, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Prothero is a professor of geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles. On November 30, he ...

Pleiotropy found this 24 hours ago on evolutionnews.org

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Funny ad

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 22:13:00 +0000

I'm looking intensively for a postdic job for when (if) I graduate in the end of Spring 2010, and today I came across one of the funnies at the Broad Institute:Job Title: Associate Computational Biologist - Infectious Disease InitiativeGeneral abilities required: multi-task, work independently, ...

Bjorn posted 33 hours ago from pleion.blogspot.com

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