Science

Science is Not Based on Faith

I was intrigued by Joe’s recent post and the hubbub of comments that ensued, so I decided to weigh in on a tangent to the issues Joe and a number of commenters raised. The issue [...]

Thinking in a Marrow Bone
Saturday Cinema: Can we domesticate germs?

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Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could [...]

MicrobiologyBytes
One more chunk of SUSY parameter space ticked off

I am preparing the slides for the PPC08 conference, which will be held in Albuquerque next week, and I thought I would post here two slides that show how present Tevatron data is [...]

A Quantum Diaries Survivor
Introducing the Carnival of Elitist Bastards

Some folks are much better writers than I am. Most folks are better drivers. And nearly everyone is a better singer. Naturally, all those folks are elitist bastards — so far [...]

Café Philos: an internet café
Math

I’ve been thinking about math a lot recently. Learning it has become a bit of an obsession.

I’ve come to believe that there is a fundamental mistake in the way society [...]

Thinking in Circles
Chaitén volcano still going strong - more ash and aerosols

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The Chaitén volcano is maintaining its eruptive activity unabated.

Yesterday, the Oficina Nacional de Emergencia (ONEMI) reported that military [...]

Watts Up With That?
A New Genus of Ant

Opamyrma hungvuong Yamane et al 2008
Vietnam
It isn’t every day we get a whole new genus. In this week’s Zootaxa, Seiki Yamane, Tuan Vet Bui, and Katsuyuki Eguchi report [...]

Myrmecos Blog
How overrated is phoshorylation? - an opinion

David Secko writes: “Today, it is thought that one third of the proteins present in a typical mammalian cell are covalently bound to phosphate (i.e. they are phosphorylated at one [...]

Pimm - Partial immortalization
China Seismologist's Prediction of Earthquake Ignored, Says Scientist

By Xinfei, Epoch Times staff, May 14, 2008-

The same night of Sichuan’s May 12 earthquake, Chinese scientist Li Shihui revealed on his blog that Chinese seismologist Geng [...]

Status of Chinese People
3 Facts About Clean Coal

Hailed as one of the possible solutions to the fossil fuel emission problem, clean coal is coal whose sulfur dioxide is removed and whose carbon dioxide can be recovered easily. [...]

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