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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Linnaeus’ Legacy: Send Me your Posts!
Linnaeus’ Legacy is “a monthly blog carnival devoted to the study of life’s diversity, and the science of describing and understanding this diversity.” The home page for the carnival is here.
The current issue of Linnaeus’ Legacy is at Laelaps.
The reason I’m telling you all this is to get you excited about the next edition of Linnaeus’ Legacy, which will be hosted here, on this blog.
The plan is to get the carnival up and running on the Fifth of January. Please send me your posts!
I’d like to have the posts in hand on the 4th of January but if you wake up on the morning of January fifth and suddenly remember that you forgot to send me the link to your latest post on Dinosaur Phylogeny, or whatever, send it anyway, I’ll squeeze it in. We never promised which time zone the deadline is in.
Linnaeus’Legacy: Send Me your Posts!
Linnaeus’ Legacy is “a monthly blog carnival devoted to the study of life’s diversity, and the science of describing and understanding this diversity.” The home page for the carnival is here.The current issue of Linnaeus’ Legacy is at Laelaps.The reason I’m telling you all this is to get you excited about the next edition of Linnaeus’ Legacy, which will be hosted here, on this blog.The plan is to get the carnival up and running on the Fifth of January. Please send me your posts!I’d like to have the posts in hand on the 4th of January but if you wake up on the morning of January fifth and suddenly remember that you forgot to send me the link to your latest post on Dinosaur Phylogeny, or whatever, send it anyway, I’ll squeeze it in. We never promised which time zone the deadline is in.
151st Carnival of Education
Robots to Control Robots to Control Oil Platforms
This is bad: They are now going to turn the control of the world’s petroleum supplies over to robots. Continue reading Robots to Control Robots to Control Oil Platforms
Hero Robot Now Available
Remember Heathkit? Then you are old. Anyway, Heathkit was a company that produced electronic devices (such as stereos). They were generally good, high quality devices that you could get much cheaper than market value, but they would arrive in the mail in pieces … totally unassembled, and sometimes with a free soldering iron. Continue reading Hero Robot Now Available
Many New Species from the Tasman Sea
This is not new, but it is cool: The NORFANZ sea sampling project. What is a little new is that many of these species are claimed on some crazy web site to have washed ashore during the Christmas Tsunami three years ago. That is not true….
Continue reading Many New Species from the Tasman Sea
Tiger Kills One, Injures Two, in San Francisco
One person has been killed and two others injured after a tiger escaped from its cage at San Francisco Zoo.All of the victims were visitors to the zoo, a spokesman for San Francisco emergency services said.The Siberian tiger, named Tatiana, was the same one that mauled a keeper just before Christmas last year. It has now been shot dead.The incident occurred as the zoo was closing around 1700 (0100 GMT). It is not clear how the cat escaped its pen.[source]
South Carolina Textbook Controversy
You already know about the controversy in South Carolina. Now is your opportunity to put in your two cents. Continue reading South Carolina Textbook Controversy
National Geographic’s Top Ten Archaeology Stories of 2007
No, not here, this is not the National Geographic Blog. Here, at the National Geographic Blog…But wait, don’t go there yet, I want to make a quick comment… Continue reading National Geographic’s Top Ten Archaeology Stories of 2007
Boxing Day Prayer
While making a statement about science, is it necessary … in your opinion … to always make a connected positive and supportive statement about religion, in order that the scientist not offend anyone who might be listening? I’d love to hear opinions on this. (There is some discussion on this at PZ Myers blog)
In the mean time, I offer a prayer, for Boxing Day.
Continue reading Boxing Day Prayer
My Linux Calendar
- Dec 25
- Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
- Dec 25
- Fellowship begins Quest
- Dec 25
- Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan
- Dec 25
- Children’s Day in Congo
- Dec 25
- Christmas
- Dec 26
- Chas. Babbage born, 1791
- Dec 26
- St Stephen (Boxing Day)
- Dec 26
- DPMA founded, 1951
- Dec 26
- Boxing Day
- Dec 26
- Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece
- Dec 26
- St. Stephen’s Day
- Dec 26
- Bank Holiday in Canada, Rep. of Ireland, and UK
- Dec 26
- Day of Goodwill in South Africa
- Dec 26
- Proclamation Day holiday (SA)
Happy Birthday Isaac Newton (according to the old calendar)
