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The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 6th, 2012)
Blog of the Week: Musings of a Dinosaur is a blog written by a physician, family practitioner, Lucy E. Hornstein, author of the book Declarations of a Dinosaur: 10 Laws I’ve Learned as a Family Doctor....
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The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 13th, 2012)
Blog of the Week: Contagions is a blog written by Michelle Ziegler (Twitter, Facebook, the other two blogs by Michelle – Heavenfield and Selah – are focused entirely on history and not on medicine or...
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The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 21th, 2012)
Blog of the Week: Life is short, but snakes are long is written by Andrew Durso who is a PhD student at Utah State University, where he studies the behavior, physiology, and ecology of toad-eating...
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The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 27th, 2012)
Blog of the Week: Science Decoded is a wonderful mix of science, book reviews, and thoughts about the media, written by Erin Podolak, alumna of the University of Wisconsin program for Science...
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The Scienceblogging Weekly (August 4th, 2012)
Blog of the Week: Beatrice the Biologist says this about itself: it is “part science blog, part comic, and part incoherent rambling: science edutainment at its finest.” Written – or rather drawn – by...
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The Scienceblogging Weekly (August 11th, 2012)
Blog of the Week: Kristina Killgrove (Twitter) is a bioarchaeologist. Her blog Powered By Osteons covers a wide spectrum of topics on archaeology, bioanthropology, and the classical world. But what it...
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The Scienceblogging Weekly (August 18th, 2012)
Blog of the Week: Do you believe in dog? is a brand new blog. It is written by two dog researchers, one in New York City, the other in Yarra Valley just outside of Melbourne, Australia. Julie Hecht you...
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The Scienceblogging Weekly (August 26th, 2012)
The week was too busy to finish this on Friday. Then on Saturday the news broke that Neil Armstrong died – something I wanted to highlight as a special topic – so I decided to wait another day and give...
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Tigers take to the night – for peaceful coexistence with humans
In an ideal ecosystem, each species has its own niche – a different “job description”: what it does, what it eats, where it sleeps, and more. But world is often not an ideal place. In many instances,...
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Stumped by bed nets, mosquitoes turn midnight snack into breakfast
Anopheles mosquito (unknown source) One of the most effective methods for the control of spread of malaria is the use of bed nets infused with insecticides. Most species of mosquitoes (the Anopheles...
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Charlotte’s Web: what was she smoking?
“Don’t touch those webs!” Me and an enormous spider, at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, 2008. A couple of decades ago, my wife and I worked on a horse farm where everyone was explicitly...
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#2012SVP – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
I am at the 72nd annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Raleigh, NC, this week. My colleague Kate Wong will be covering the most interesting presentations from the meeting on the...
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#2012SVP – what do Vertebrate Paleontologists talk about?
If you are not a vertebrate paleontologist, or play one on TV, what do you think vertebrate paleontologists do? If you were a kid who knew all dinosaur names, but now only remember that period...
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Did NYC rats survive hurricane Sandy?
Floodwaters enter Hugh L. Carey Tunnel. MTA photo How many of the NYC rats survived hurricane Sandy? This question has been asked in the wake of Sandy’s flooding of lower and east Manhattan. See, for...
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No rats in Ryder Alley
Last week, in the wake of superstorm Sandy, I saw a number of people asking questions on social media (and some traditional media picking up on it) about a potential for ratpocalypse, i.e,. the...
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Let’s Not Spring Forward.
Cross-posted from Zocalo Public Square. Even cows don’t like Daylight Saving Time. Come Sunday morning, when the milking machines get attached to their udders a whole hour too early, the otherwise...
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FtBCON: Science Communication
Earlier today I was on Google Hangouts, with the host P.Z. Myers, discussing science communication, the changing media ecosystem, how to push back against anti- and pseudo-science, and more. Take a...
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Good Night, Moon! Now go away so I can sleep.
Mars has two moons - Phobos and Deimos. Here we see Phobos passing in front of the sun, as seen from the surface of Mars. How would having two moons with different phases affect behavior of Martians?...
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Sharks have rhythm, too
Sharks are not known for being good at running in running wheels. Or hopping from one perch to the other in a birdcage. Which is why, unlike hamsters or sparrows, sharks were never a very popular...
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“My Beloved…” and other dinosaurs.
How does one review a book written by a friend? I guess one doesn’t, so this is not an “official” review, but a personal blog recommendation, and you can make up your own mind. Perhaps the best...
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