Every weekend, I publish a roundup of the week’s SciLogs.com blog posts along with some reactions from the comment feeds and social media. Big news this week is that SciLogs.com bloggers won two of the eleven Science Seeker Awards with an additional two of our bloggers nominated as finalists. The winners are Nathalia Holt and Pete Etchells; Nsikan Apkan and Jalees Rehman (highlighted by BoingBoing’s science editor) were finalists. Needless to say, we’re all very excited! To keep in […]

I’d had success using py2app for building Mac binaries for distribution but wanted to give cx_Freeze a go since it’s cross platform - allowing builds for Windows, Linux, and more. Unfortunately, attempting to build using cx_Freeze was resulting in errors: libpyside-python2.7.1.1.dylib: No such file or directory If found a tip suggesting you can do a touch libpyside-python2.7.1.1.dylib in you’re applications folder to get rid of this error by creating a dummy file. But […]

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Note: This entry was originally posted here on 27 February 2011. With all of the recent wonderful news regarding the publication and analysis of the Utricularia gibba genome and the implications of the evolution of its minimal genome, I thought it worthwhile to repost this entry and remind ourselves the other ways in which bladderworts are amazing and interesting. See elsewhere (here is ok) for coverage of the genome research or read the paper!----"Hi." Trap of Utricularia inflata, clearly […]

It’s the May Long Weekend – in Canada at least. The flower above is the Trillium, commonly seen in cottage country at this time of year.  Here’s some links, articles, and podcasts I enjoyed this week: Dirty Medicine. If you read one link, make it this. I don’t think I’ve ever read an article about […]