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June 19, 2013

10:52 PM | LEGO Faces are Getting Angrier; So What?

Transport yourselves back to sprawling across the living room floor—colored blocks scattered like confetti about the carpet—building the highest towers and fattest spaceships (without directions, of course), all the while ignoring your parents' yelps as they step on a rogue piece. There's nothing quite like LEGO. And certainly there's nothing quite like those ubiquitious yellow, blocky LEGO faces. But a piece in The Daily Mail last week cites that "LEGO faces are getting angrier," and that […]

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10:45 PM | World Food Prize Honors Ag Biotech Pioneers

Three scientists lauded for helping to usher in the era of genetically modified crops

10:28 PM | Prominent Turkish Academic Attempts Suicide in Jail

Former Council of Higher Education President Kemal Gürüz has been detained for almost a year

10:15 PM | The Musical Fiber Diet

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different. — Kurt Vonnegut. When I started to do research on fiber in diets, I quickly found that dietitians drone on and on … Continue reading →The post The Musical Fiber Diet appeared first on Notch by Notch.

10:11 PM | Why Art and Science?

Linkages between art and science are proliferating, and fast, but to what end? Whether it is a formal collaboration between artists and scientists, a call for artists in residence at scientific institutions, or a simple ‘jumping on the bandwagon’ to …

9:54 PM | Rogue Wheat Now Found in 127 Countries!

Rogue wheat is growing in wheat fields in 127 countries around the world! Should consumers be concerned? Ok, I’m indulging in a poor imitation of the emotive language common in sensational writings about food issues. What I said in the paragraph above is all true, it’s just misleading because of a lack of context. After the “crisis” of glyphosate tolerant wheat being found in an Oregon field, I thought it would be useful to put that event into perspective. So… […]

9:47 PM | On leakage

Apparently there’s a word for it. I did it once, when I went to work at a small (and doomed) startup company in Cambridge, back in the tail end of 1997. I did it again four and a bit years … Continue reading →

9:45 PM | House Science Committee Wants NASA to Return to the Moon

Draft bill revives lunar mission, nixes asteroid capture

9:15 PM | The universal language is in our minds As a deaf person in a...

The universal language is in our minds As a deaf person in a hearing world, “I am bound to negotiate in the realm of non-verbal communication,” says UC Berkeley linguistics lecturer Patrick Boudreault. “I’m adept at communication with anyone, every day of my life — people who know sign or don’t know sign.” Born deaf to deaf parents, Boudreault’s first languages were Quebec Sign Language, then French, which he learned to read and write as a child. He added English and American […]

9:09 PM | http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2013/06/19/2185/

Sorry for the slowness of the blog lately. I finally got myself back onto a semi-regular schedule when I posted about the Adria Richards affair, and that really blew up. The amount of vicious, hateful bile that showed up, both in comments (which I moderated) and in my email was truly astonishing. I've written things [...]

9:06 PM | Smithsonian Names New Director of Global Marine Observatory Network

Ecologist J. Emmett Duffy aims to develop long-term, comparable data sets on coastal ecosystems

9:00 PM | The Brain Scoop: Episode 29 Chicago Adventure, Part III: Little...

The Brain Scoop: Episode 29 Chicago Adventure, Part III: Little Skeletons via thebrainscoop: Our third installment in the Chicago Field Museum adventures! In this episode, Andria blows my mind with some pretty impressive lettering skills, and we talk about a mammal with some of the most highly specialized teeth of any animal on the planet: the crabeater seal (it doesn’t actually eat crabs). Watch Part I and Part II! Tumblr: http://thebrainscoop.tumblr.com Twitter: […]

8:52 PM | Digitization through DNA Barcoding and Informatics

This landed in the inbox today:The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) at the Smithsonian Institution and CSIRO in Canberra, Australia, are the co-organizers of a full-day symposium/workshop on "Connecting Biodiversity Collections in the Pacific: Digitization through DNA Barcoding and Informatics". The event will take place during the 12th Pacific Science Association Inter-Congress, Suva, Fiji 8-12 July 2013. To make the event as accessible as possible, it […]

8:48 PM | Iatrogenic Hyperthyroidism in a Boxer Treated with Massive Doses of L-T4

My problem case is a 9-year-old F/S Boxer (weighing 30 kg) that was diagnosed as hypothyroid by another veterinarian about a year ago. She has been on 1.2 mg of levothyroxine (L-T4) every 12 hours. Clinically, the dog is doing very well, but she has mild polyuria and polydipsia. I have never had a dog on this high of a L-T4 dose, so I'm worried about thyroid hormone overdose and cardiac complications.I did a complete thyroid profile at Michigan State University's Endocrine Laboratory (see […]

8:41 PM | Overview of the Aetosaurs

Desojo, J. B., Heckert, A. B., Martz, J. W., Parker, W. G., Schoch, R. R., Small, B. J., and T. Sulej. 2013. Aetosauria: a clade of armoured pseudosuchians from the Upper Triassic continental beds; From Nesbitt, S. J., Desjo, J. B., and R. B. Irmis (eds.) Anatomy, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and their Kin, Geological Society Special Publication 379: doi:10.1144/SP379.17Abstract - Aetosauria is a clade of obligately quadrupedal, heavily armoured pseudosuchians known from […]

8:40 PM | Encore Auction: Win a Photo Shoot @ CONvergence for You and a Friend

Are you coming to CONvergence? Planning to wear one or several amazing costumes? Then you and a friend should seriously consider bidding on this auction to commemorate your cosplay with professional quality photographs. Nothing sucks more than to wear your best costume to-date only to have your photos turn out crappy or even so-so, because you really can’t go back. You can put it on again at home, but it’s just not the same. –Experience Jamie (aka UAJamie, the Skeptical Ninja) […]

8:18 PM | “Gene Patents”: What’s the Fuss?

By guest blogger Doug Calhoun Patent attorneys operate in a netherworld between science and law. We find it challenging to try to explain the law to scientists and the science to lawyers; and even more challenging to try to explain … Continue reading →

8:01 PM | Archae-Facts: Louis XIV Fashionable BY LAW! Welcome to...

Archae-Facts: Louis XIV Fashionable BY LAW! Welcome to Archae-Facts, the place to find bite-sized chunks of Archaeological Trivia! Today, we hear of how fashion was a matter of law in the court of Louis XIV. via Archaeos0up.

8:00 PM | AT&T Wins on Speed and Verizon Wins on Reliability in National LTE Test

Which carrier in the United States provides the best mobile network? It's a simple but extremely tough to answer question that PC Mag tackles every year by driving around the country and testing 3G and LTE speeds everywhere they go. This year's results may surprise you: AT&T, which took ages to get its LTE network off the ground and into cell towers nationwide, now leads Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint when it comes to network performance. Their LTE speeds are the fastest of the bunch.In the […]

7:56 PM | ABB Presents a Solution for Transmission Grid Management

ABB, a multinational corporation operating mainly in the power and automation technology areas, has recently presented an innovative software solution, which helps utilities and industries to ensure the reliability of critical infrastructure like power transmission grids. This technology supports cost-effective expansion of grids as they evolve to integrate renewable energy sources and new loads such as electric vehicles. Read more »

7:49 PM | CNBC stands for Could Not Be Correct?

… or Climate Noobs Bork Climate-science? … or Can’t News Be Correct? (add your own below) The thing is, CNBC, which is supposed to be a news station, is fueling public misunderstanding of climate science. This is bad journalism, and virtually criminal given the importance of climate change and the need for good science based…

7:38 PM | Weird Frog Discovered by Charles Darwin May be Extinct

It looks like we’ve lost another one. The weird and unusual Chile Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma rufum), whose tadpoles grew inside the vocal sacs of adult males, appears to be extinct: a four-year quest failed to turn up any evidence that the species still exists. The frogs were last seen in 1980. As you might guess [...]

7:35 PM | Cancer immunity of strange underground rat revealed

Naked mole rats may have their supple skin to thank for their cancer resistance.

7:34 PM | "The Pace of Modern Life" (xkcd comic)

You don't have to read every word of this xkcd comic to be reminded that new technologies tend to be perceived as dangerous threats to familiar ways of life:

7:34 PM | Megapixels: A Mars Simulation In The Sahara

Astrobiology Simulation Katja Zanella-Kux If Mars is a little far, try scenic eastern Morocco. In February, astrobiologist Gernot Grömer found himself on Mars in the midst of a desert storm. Well, he felt like he was on Mars. In reality, he was in the Sahara, participating in a monthlong simulation in eastern Morocco. While there, Grömer and his 10-person crew from the Austrian Space Forum (a volunteer organization of aerospace professionals) tested lasers, weather stations, and deployable […]

7:32 PM | 9-Year-Old Discusses the Meaning of Life and the Universe

The most wise 9-year-old I’ve ever seen. I hope my kid is this smart.

7:24 PM | A look at the Rube Goldberg contraptions that sort our recyclables

Chances are, what happens to your recycling once you set it out by the curb is a mystery. Maybe once a week, or like in Austin, every two weeks, the good people from the City swing by in large trucks and take away 96 gallons worth of cardboard, glass, and plastic. I feel good about [...]

7:23 PM | Can iguanas swim, and what would it mean for conservation?

Charles Knapp, Vice President of Conservation and Research John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois USA Last week, you learned about how Shedd Aquarium’s long-term citizen science research program is helping to save endangered iguanas in the Bahamas. This week, we’ll explore another facet of our 2013 trip: an effort to understand whether the Andros…

7:22 PM | The Beautifully Strange Photography of Roger Ballen

A retrospective exhibit includes 55 works and the artist's video collaboration with South Africa's hip-hop-rave duo Die Antwoord

7:02 PM | House Spending Panel Votes to Gut Clean-Energy Research

Markup of proposed 2014 budget would cut spending for ARPA-E by 80%

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