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Satellite Smash!

2009-02-16T07:49:02Z

Satellite Smash! at Astroblog

The worst fears of the satellite community have been realised. Two satellites, Kosmos 2251 and Iridium 33 crashed into each other approximately 800 km over northern Siberia. How this happened is unclear as the orbits of these satellites were pretty well known,

Kablam! Satellite collision math, and a correction at Bad Astronomy Blog : OK, so last night I posted about satellites that collided in orbit. I mentioned that the energy created in the collision was about the same as detonating a ton of TNT. I got asked how I did that math. That’s no problem (well, a little one), but a bigger

Ringworld at Astroblog : Ringworld: Earth is ringed by around 6000 satellites, of which only 800 are operational. Image from ESA.In the light of the great satellite smash, I though it would be interesting to direct you to the European Space Agencies article on Space Debris. Lots of

Texas fireball: what’s known so far at Bad Astronomy Blog : So my blog post from earlier about the Texas fireball is now a bit of a mess from all the updates, so I thought I’d post a cleaner version of what’s going on now.1) A tremendous fireball — also called a bolide, or a very bright meteor —

Banning Open Access

2009-02-16T05:33:06Z

Banning Open Access at The n-Category CafÃ©

On February 3rd, Dave Conyers of the US House of Representatives re-introduced a bill to repeal the National Institute of Healths public access policy, which says that research funded by this agency must be made freely available on a database called PubMed

Comments on the Conyers bill #3 at Open Access News : Here are some more comments from the press and blogosphere on the re-introduction of the Conyers bill (a.k.a. Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, HR 801), which would overturn the OA policy at the NIH. Also see our past collections (1, 2).From The Bioinformationista:For

Congress to repeal open access science provisions? at John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : Putting science back in its proper place, Congress has taken up a bill to eliminate the requirement that publicly-funded research be freely accessible by the public. Open access watchdog Peter Suber writes:The Fair Copyright Act ... would repeal the OA policy

New Bill Would Repeal NIH Open Access Policy at Slashdot: Science : pigah writes "The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act has been reintroduced into Congress. The bill will ban open access policies in federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These policies require scientists to provide public access

Podcast interview with Stevan Harnad at Open Access News : Stephen Michael Kellat, Interview on Open Access with Dr. Stevan Harnad, February 13, 2009. Abstract: In light of the recent Conyers bill that would remove the NIH mandate on Open Access, LISTen (LISNews.org) talked to Dr. Harnad about Open Access so that librarians

Breast Cancer Network of Strength joins the ATA at Open Access News : The Breast Cancer Network of Strength has joined the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.PS: If you appreciated the ATA's recent call to action to save the NIH policy and oppose the Conyers bill, think about having your organizing join as well.

Heather Joseph on the Conyers bill at Open Access News : Elie Dolgin, Heather Joseph: Q&A, The Scientist, February 9, 2009. Heather Joseph is the executive director of SPARC, and one of the four witnesses testifying at last September's hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the NIH policy and the

AAAS: Happy Days are Here Again

2009-02-16T00:59:04Z

AAAS: Happy Days are Here Again at Nature Newsblog

Last year, we sent two people to cover the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This year, we're going back with three, so you can count on us covering a broader diversity of topics than the year before. This year's theme

Burning rainforests, melting tundra could accelate global warming well beyond current projections at Mongabay.com news : Projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimate the scale and rapidity of climate change, warned a Stanford University scientist presenting Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement

Pricing emissions from farming, logging could shift land use towards conservation at Mongabay.com news : Putting a price tag on carbon dioxide emissions resulting from various land use practices could dramatically change the way that land is used, including reducing deforestation and limiting agricultural expansion on carbon-rich lands, said a researcher presenting

80% of agricultural expansion since 1980 came at expense of forests at Mongabay.com news : More than half of cropland expansion between 1980 and 2000 occurred at the expense of natural forests, while another 30 percent of occurred in disturbed forests, reported a Stanford University researcher presenting Saturday at the annual meeting of the American

Science gleans 60TB of behavior data from Everquest 2 logs at Nobel Intent : Researchers ranging from psychologists to epidemiologists have wondered for some time whether online, multiplayer games might provide some ways to test concepts that are otherwise difficult to track in the real world. A Saturday morning session at the meeting

War on Science at Muck and Mystery : By the Democrats, of course, who are the most avid warriors and always have been. [C]onsider the reaction of the scientific community to Al Gores invited speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) last week (a video can be found

AAAS: US visa woes at Nature Newsblog : Posted on behalf of Karen KaplanA terrific session about global partnerships that's part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting this week fell a bit afoul of US visa regulations this morning. The panel presentation, "New

Happy Darwin Day at decorabilia : Seems pretty appropriate that on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, scientists have released a sequence of the Neanderthal genome.Early glimpses of the genome, which was sequenced by Svante Pbo, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Ars returns to the AAAS meeting at Nobel Intent : Last year, we sent two people to cover the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This year, we're going back with three, so you can count on us covering a broader diversity of topics than the year before. This year's theme

New free computational geometry journal?

2009-02-16T00:47:40Z

New free computational geometry journal? at Ernie's 3D Pancakes

Joachim Gudmundsson and Pat Morin are discussing the possibility of establishing a new open access computational geometry journal, which would be completely free to both readers and authors. So far, there are three relevant posts at Joachim's blog:The initial

Joachim's poll on free computational geometry journals at 0xDE : After these two earlier posts on the possibility of starting a free online computational geometry journal, Joachim Gudmundsson's latest blog entry contains a poll for the community on whether this is a good idea. If this is something that would affect you,

A new open access CG journal at The Geomblog : The last few years has seen many attempts by researchers to break free from the shackles of (commercial) journal publishers. There's the whole-sale exodus that produced the ACM Transactions on Algorithms, as well as other journals, and technology aided creation

Are scientists making "misleading climate change claims"?

2009-02-15T16:51:00Z

Are scientists making "misleading climate change claims"? at The Island of Doubt

Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at the Met Office Hadley Centre, says scientists should be careful not to exaggerate the evidence for climate change:The reality is that extreme events arise when natural variations in the weather and climate combine

Pot, meet kettle at James' Empty Blog : Stoat got there first (he's probably not got any ume to photograph), but being a muesli-munching lefty I also saw this interesting rant by Vicky Pope in the Grauniad:Climate change scientists must rein in misleading extreme weather claimsIt seems like she's

Runaway climate change? at Stoat : Wiki has an article on the subject, created by over enthusiastic folk. I tried to kill the witch on the grounds that it had no good definition; alas that didn't fly. My best effort at a defn that fitted reality was this but it didn't last. The wiki article

'Apocalyptic climate predictions' mislead the public, say experts at Stoat : I was going to rant about Lord "I know what you should hear" Ahmed but that's just the religious suppressing freedom of speech, which is hardly news.But then along comes a much more interesting rant, from Vicky Pope, about the good old Arctic sea ice. 'Apocalyptic

Designer babies

2009-02-14T21:58:13Z

Designer babies at Information Processing

At its simplest, fertility medicine is about helping couples have children. But, as the old phrase “test-tube baby” suggests, the field is full of possibilities for sliding into ethical gray zones. This week brings a few reminders of that fact.A

The era of designer babies. We're there? at SciGuy : Pretty much. Here's more from The Wall Street Journal: A Los Angeles clinic says it will soon help couples select both gender and physical traits in a baby when they undergo a form of fertility treatment. The clinic, Fertility Institutes,...

The Fringes of Fertility Medicine: From Octuplets to Designer Babies at WSJ.com: Health Blog : At its simplest, fertility medicine is about helping couples have children. But, as the old phrase “test-tube baby” suggests, the field is full of possibilities for sliding into ethical gray zones. This week brings a few reminders of that fact.A

A Cure for the Common Cold? Don't. . .Ah, Hold Your Breath

2009-02-14T07:00:37Z

A Cure for the Common Cold? Don't. . .Ah, Hold Your Breath at In the Pipeline

If you want a good example of the way that the popular media handle a drug discovery story, take a look at all the headlines this morning on the news of the sequencing of the common-cold rhinoviruses.There are a couple of "Cure For the Common Cold Unlikely"

A cure for the common cold? at Medical Museion Weblog : Over and over again I’ve praisedDerek Lowe’sblog ‘In the Pipeline’(see for example here). Derek deliversalmost daily insights into the world of drugresearch,from chemical lab work routines toBig Pharma management and economics.Yesterday’s

How the flu virus performs cap snatching at Effect Measure : Nature has just published another new paper on the basic biology of influenza virus. Unlike other recent papers it doesn't purport to reveal the secret of why some flu (e.g., H5N1, 1918 H1N1) is so virulent and "normal" seasonal influenza much less so. Instead

Holdren and Lubchenco sail through Senate confirmation hearing with flying colors

2009-02-14T04:36:09Z

Holdren and Lubchenco sail through Senate confirmation hearing with flying colors at ClimateScienceWatch

It was pretty much smooth sailing, with questions about climate change, climate science, and scientific integrity at the February 12 Senate confirmation hearing for John Holdren, director-designate of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,

Confirmation hearings for Obama nominees at Open Access News : U.S. President Barack Obama's nominees to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco, received a confirmation hearing from the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,

Want to get involved in high level science policy? Here's what you need to know. at The Questionable Authority : If you've ever wondered what kind of knowledge base is required to become involved at high levels in science and technology policy, you might want to watch a Senate confirmation hearing sometime. Earlier today, Drs. John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco sat down

Senate Confirmation Hearings - NOAA and Science Advisor at The Questionable Authority : Due to technical problems, this liveblog of the Confirmation hearings for Jane Lubchenco and John Holdren begins in progress. Dr. Lubchenco is giving her opening statement. ....... In her opening statement, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, just announced that she'll create

Is Holdren Cabinet-Bound? at Science Progress : The science community wants John Holdrens expected confirmation to the Office of Science and Technology Policy to be followed by his elevation into Obamas cabinet.

Satellites collide in orbit

2009-02-13T21:39:09Z

Satellites collide in orbit at Bad Astronomy Blog

Wow: two satellites have collided in orbit, destroying both. This is the first time such a major collision has ever occurred.The satellites were Cosmos 2251, a Russian communication relay satellite that’s been defunct for a decade, and an Iridium satellite,

Satellite Smash! at Astroblog : The worst fears of the satellite community have been realised. Two satellites, Kosmos 2251 and Iridium 33 crashed into each other approximately 800 km over northern Siberia. How this happened is unclear as the orbits of these satellites were pretty well known,

U.S., Russian sattellites crash at Lubo Motl's reference frame : Soyuz-Apollo, collider editionIt's been the first time when full-fledged satellites collided. Both were communication satellites - one ton (Kozmos 2251) against half a ton (Iridium LLC, both above Siberia). The Russian vehicle won, turning Iridium into smoke,

Speaking of Education

2009-02-13T16:53:13Z

Speaking of Education at Astroblog

The Astronomy Education Review, a web-based journal/magazine about astronomy education and outreach, has announced the on-line publication of its 14th issue at http://aer.noao.edu. Access to this journal is free. In light of recent discussions here, this article

NCSE Evolution Education Update for 2009/02/13 at AntiEvolution.org - The Critic's Resource on AntiEvolution : (by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch) Dear Friends of NCSE, The 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth is in the headlines far and wide. A new issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now available, and so is selected content from a new issue of Reports

New Evolution: Education and Outreach Online at The Panda's Thumb : The new issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now online. It is, of course, a Darwin issue. It includes the late Michael Majerus final word on the pedagogical utility of Biston betularia, the peppered moth. The papers are linked below the fold. Links

Don't Call It "Darwinism" at Sandwalk : Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch have written an article for the latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach in which they urge everyone to talk about evolutionary biology but Dont Call it Darwinism. Using Darwinism as synonymous with evolutionary biology

Andrew Wakefield exposed as a fraud, the autism-vaccine belief is based on falsified data

2009-02-13T15:00:00Z

Andrew Wakefield exposed as a fraud, the autism-vaccine belief is based on falsified data at Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog

Just in case anyone hasn’t heard about this already:THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times

Another perspective on the vaccine/autism issue at Health business blog : From The New York Times (Court Says Vaccine Not to Blame for Autism)In a blow to the movement arguing that vaccines lead to autism, a special court ruled on Thursday against three families seeking compensation from the federal vaccine-injury fund.In a case

Court sides with science, says no vaccine-autism link at Nobel Intent : Yesterday, the United State's Vaccine Court Omnibus Autism Proceeding delivered its ruling to three families who claimed that vaccines were the cause of their children's autism. The courts ruled that "the evidence does not support the general proposition that

I marvel every time at a president who speaks good English at Pharyngula : Obama made a Lincoln's birthday speech, and a fine speech it was. It was a call to work for the common good, for strong government, and for investment in things I happen to value: education and science. It also includes a brief nod to Charles Darwin..msnbcLinks

A death in the family at Respectful Insolence : I would like to thank all of you who have notified me of the decision for the three test cases in the Autism Omnibus hearings before the Vaccine Court. Science actually won in the courts, something you just can't count on with any reliability. It even won resoundingly.

Non-personal but still exciting at penn : Very, very happy to see that the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program court rejected the concept that vaccines cause autism. As has been stated in the literature for a number of years, there is no causal link nor even really a good correlation. Definitely not

The Data Fake That Set the World Afire at blog.bioethics.net : If it is actually the case that Andrew Wakefield faked, fudged, or whatever you want to call "making up" one's data, in his original studies regarding the effects of vaccines on children who later came to have autism, as reported...

First Three Autism Omnibus Test Cases Dismissed [1] at neurodiversity weblog : Court accuses petitioners’ physicians and experts of “gross medical misjudgment”This morning, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Office of Special Masters released decisions in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) claims, Cedillo v.

Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine at Slashdot: Science : wiredog writes "From The Washington Post comes word that three special masters have decided that MMR vaccines do not cause autism. 'Special master George Hastings said the parents ... had "been misled by physicians who are guilty, in my view, of gross medical

Court rules no link between autism and vaccines! at Bad Astronomy Blog : REALITY WINS IN COURT!Three separate test cases were before special courts, all alleging that autism was caused by vaccines. The courts were set up by the government as part of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, done basically to look at the

Federal Judges Put the Smack Down on Lawsuits Alleging Vaccines Cause Autism at Pure Pedantry : A trio of Federal judges have ruled against three separate plaintiffs who alleged that vaccines caused their child's autism:These three decisions, each looking into a different theory as to how vaccines might have injured the children, are expected to guide

Gracias a Dios! at Stayin' Alive : A special court ruled Thursday that parents of autistic children are not entitled to compensation in their contention that certain vaccines caused autism in their children. "I must decide this case not on sentiment, but by analyzing the evidence," one of the

Autism and Vaccines: Boiling Over Yet Again at In the Pipeline : As you may well have heard by now, Ben Goldacre over at Bad Science has been involved in a wonderful altercation with both the anti-vaccination people there and with one of Londons big talk radio stations, LBC. And yes, this is happening just as Andrew Wakefield,

Andrew Wakefield, autism, vaccines and science journals at Effect Measure : My sciblings at Scienceblogs have done a pretty thorough fisking of the Andrew Wakefield affair.To recap breifly, a paper by Wakefield and others in The Lancet in 1998 raised an alarm that the widely used measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine was the cause of

Keith Olbermann: Played for a fool by the antivaccine movement at Respectful Insolence : Stick a fork in Keith Olbermann. He's done.He has now officially degenerated into a liberal version of Rush Limbaugh, except that Rush Limbaugh is occasionally funny. Maybe he's more like Sean Hannity, particularly in his apparent dedication to the truth, or,

What the Court Said In the Autism Vaccine Cases at WSJ.com: Health Blog : A federal vaccine court ruled today against parents who argued that vaccines had contributed to their children developing autism. Here’s are reports from the Associated Press and Washington Post.The cases before the vaccine court are complex, and some

Andrew Wakefield: Worst person in the world at Respectful Insolence : I'm not as big a fan of Keith Olbermann as I used to be. Indeed, sometimes he strikes me as the liberal version of Rush Limbaugh, not to mention a blowhard. However, occasionally, he still has it, and when he's on, no one skewers the dishonest better than he

The Buzz: Bunk Data Formed Vaccine-Autism Link at Page 3.14 : The author of the 1998 paper that fueld the anti-vaccination movement by asserting a link between MMR vaccinations and autism was recently found to have falsified his original data. The Sunday Times reports that the study's author Andrew Wakefield "changed

Anti-vaccine child deaths based on lies at Mystery Rays from Outer Space : Just in case anyone hasn’t heard about this already:THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times

The Genetics of Financial Risk Taking and Norms of Reaction

2009-02-13T10:41:51Z

The Genetics of Financial Risk Taking and Norms of Reaction at Mike the Mad Biologist

A recent paper in PLoS argues that variation in genes that regulate dopamine (5-HTTLPR) and serotonin neurotransmission (DRD4) influences financial risk taking: at the 5-HTTLPR gene, one homozygous form (two identical copies or alleles) took on 28 percent less

Risk taking 5-HTTLPR and DRD4 at Gene Expression : Genetic Determinants of Financial Risk Taking:Individuals vary in their willingness to take financial risks. Here we show that variants of two genes that regulate dopamine and serotonin neurotransmission and have been previously linked to emotional behavior,

Selfish Genes and Gene-Centered Evolution at The Molecular Biology Blog : I doubt that anyone reading Bitesize Bio has never heard of Richard Dawkins. He’s always been controversial in one way or another, ever since the release of arguably his most popular book, The Selfish Gene (Amazon US/UK). But despite Dawkins’ notoriety,

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE at A Blog Around The Clock : There are 16 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon,

Support for the aberrant salience account of schizophrenia

2009-02-13T05:00:00Z

Support for the aberrant salience account of schizophrenia at BPS Research Digest

The February edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry has a thought-provoking editorial by psychiatrist Jim van Os, arguing that we should reject the diagnosis of schizophrenia owing to its lack of validity and replace it with a concept of a 'salience dysregulation

Formerly schizophrenia at Mind Hacks : The February edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry has a thought-provoking editorial by psychiatrist Jim van Os, arguing that we should reject the diagnosis of schizophrenia owing to its lack of validity and replace it with a concept of a 'salience dysregulation

Psychosis and Salience dysregulation at The Mouse Trap : Regular readers of this blog will know that I subscribe to the incentive salience theory of doapmaine propounded by Berridge et al. As per this theory dopamine mediates the salience of an internal/ external stimulus and endows and activates the motivational

Formally schizophrenia at Mind Hacks : The February edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry has a thought-provoking editorial by psychiatrist Jim van Os, arguing that we should reject the diagnosis of schizophrenia owing to its lack of validity and replace it with a concept of a 'salience dysregulation

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHARLES DARWIN!

2009-02-12T20:08:23Z

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHARLES DARWIN! at Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding

In 1859, Louis Pasteur was just beginning a series of experiments disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.In 1859, diseases were thought to be caused by miasma — bad air — despite John Snow’s work on the 1854 cholera outbreak in London.In

Happy Darwin Day! at Hairy Museum of Natural History : February 12, 2009 marks the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, and 2009 also marks the susquecentennial of his most famous work, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. There are a ton of posts, projects, and events celebrating these facts all over

Happy Darwin Day at Cosmic Variance : Today is Darwin Day, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species. If you prefer your classics in modern Web 2.0 form, check out John Whitfield’s Blogging the Origin, or Discover’s

Darwin & Lincoln Birthdays at THE ART OF TEACHING SCIENCE : Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin’s and Abraham Lincoln. Yes, these two important people were born on the same day in the same year, February 12, 1809. One would go on to explain how humans evolved as part of nature, and the

Appreciating evolution on Darwin's 200th birthday at Nobel Intent : Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and later this year will see the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Scientists have a reputation as being a bit unsentimental, but we do have a habit of marking major intellectual

In 1859 at Live Granades : In 1859, Louis Pasteur was just beginning a series of experiments disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.In 1859, diseases were thought to be caused by miasma — bad air — despite John Snow’s work on the 1854 cholera outbreak in London.In

Senate Stimulus Package Update: Part II

2009-02-12T19:36:59Z

Senate Stimulus Package Update: Part II at The Intersection

Follow up reposted from ScienceDebate: Several people have emailed asking about the cuts to the proposed increases to DOE/Office of Science, and what about NIH, USGS and other agencies we didn't mention. Some clarifications are in order. 1. These are

Money For Everything at Not Even Wrong : It now appears that the final US stimulus bill will include very large amounts of spending on scientific research. See here for a copy of the conference agreement. It has $3 billion for the NSF, $1.6 billion for the DOE office of science, and $1 billion for

Whew, again. at nanoscale views : Thankfully, my bad feeling was off-base. According to Speaker Pelosi's summary of the conference committee version of the stimulus (word document here), the NSF will end up with $3B, DOE Office of Science gets $1.6B, there will be an ARPA-E with $400M, NIST

Update on research funding in the US at Open Access News : Here are three recent developments on US research funding. The OA connection is indirect: where we have OA mandates in place, such as the NIH, then higher funding translates into new OA literature and lower funding reminds us of the need to maximize

Money Motivates Smokers to Kick the Habit

2009-02-12T19:13:38Z

Money Motivates Smokers to Kick the Habit at WSJ.com: Health Blog

From its earliest conception, gene therapy held the promise of correcting inherited diseases by inserting a normal copy of the relevant gene into somatic cells.(Donald B. Kohn and Fabio Candotti)This beautiful concept was working perfectly fine in many animal

A Side Effect of Playing the Tuba? at On The Wards : In today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, there is the case of a 13-year old tuba player who was found to have left facial pain and swelling. Palpation of the parotid gland produced foamy secretions from the duct. There were otherwise no

Prasugrel saves Clopidogrel??? at Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You : You gotta love it. The other day I was talking to a pharma rep, yes I do speak with them.....and they were all excited about Effient (generic name Prasugrel). What are these medications and why was the Pharma Rep excited?Well, you see Plavix(generic name Clopidogrel)

Sanofi Heart Drug Poised for a Comeback at WSJ.com: Health Blog : Remember Multaq?The FDA and European Medicines Agency are expected to decide in the coming months whether to allow Sanofi’s drug for atrial fibrillation, or AF, onto the market. If they do, it could be big bucks for Sanofi; about 7 million people in the

A new hope for gene therapy of immunodeficiency - how to get out of the bubble? at Hematopoiesis : From its earliest conception, gene therapy held the promise of correcting inherited diseases by inserting a normal copy of the relevant gene into somatic cells.(Donald B. Kohn and Fabio Candotti)This beautiful concept was working perfectly fine in many animal

Happy Darwin Day!

2009-02-12T13:38:57Z

Happy Darwin Day! at The Panda's Thumb

Get out and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important scientists of all time, Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important books in biology, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural

Happy Darwin Day! at Pharyngula : Get out and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important scientists of all time, Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important books in biology, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural

Darwin Day 2009

2009-02-12T13:19:44Z

Darwin Day 2009 at Astroblog

Tomorrow, 12th February, is Darwin Day. As it happens, this is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth (and "On the Origin of Species" was published 150 years ago in 24 November 1859). Sadly there are no dawin Day evnts in Adelaide, but there are in several

10 simple ways to honor Charlie D (aka Darwin) at The Tree of Life : If you do not know, Thursday is a big day - Darwin Day 2009. A global celebration in honor of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. Today I am making a suggestion of 10 simple things you can do to honor Darwin:Read one of his books OTHER than Origin

200 years since Darwin's birth, what about medicine? at Respectful Insolence : Today is Darwin Day. But, more than that, it is a very special Darwin Day in that it is the 200th anniversary of the birth of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. This day is meant to celebrate not just the life, but especially the discoveries, of Charles

Happy Darwin Day, every one at A Somewhat Old, But Capacious Handbag : I was going to write a bah-humbug post about how this Darwin Day stuff is getting on my wick a bit, and we should be cheering for all the thousands of people who've given us 150 years of cool science, rather than just one Founding Father. But today's Araucaria

Darwin Day at Sciencebase Science Blog : Life on earth began several billion years ago when the small chunk of rock that orbits the fast fusion reaction that is our sun cooled sufficiently to allow it to emerge. It will last until the sun begins to die and its atmosphere vaporises the inner planets.

Born This Day: Charles Darwin at PALAEOBLOG : Feb. 12, 1809 April 19, 1882Find out what's going on in your city to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth HEREFrom the AMNH introduction to their exhibit on Darwin:Keenly observing nature in all its formsfrom fossil sloths to mockingbirds,

Darwin Day has Arrived! at The Panda's Thumb : On this auspicious occasion - the 200th birthday of English naturalist Charles Darwin - hundreds of groups around the world are pausing to celebrate his accomplishments and his impact upon science and society. Darwin has been featured in numerous magazine ,

A Lesson on Darwin, Fossils and Other Stuff at THE ART OF TEACHING SCIENCE : Some of the wonderful students at Greenbrier. Evan in the red shirt.I was invited by one of our grandsons’ teachers to visit her 7th grade life science class at Greenbrier Middle School, Evans, Georgia (about 15 miles west of Augusta). I had not taught