Interview of Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator, on NPR:

Q: Do you have any doubt that [Global warming] is a problem that mankind has to wrestle with?
A: I have no doubt that … a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we […]

B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip Hop
Exhibition: June 21 - September 9, 2007
Summit: June 28 - July 1, 2007
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I and the Bird # 50 is now available at Blog around the Clock.
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Scientists at Xerox (the company, not the English word for “making a copy”) have perfected a method to print invisible ink, hidden fluorescent printing, on your printer. The ink is visible only under UV light.
I suppose one could “erase” the words by covering them with a good sunblock…
But it gets much, much freakier.
The “glow […]

It won’t be long before “googling” someone may actually mean walking up to their house and peering into their window to see what they are doing.
This morning Google gave their 2D maps an incredible realworld addition. Its a street-view, that in certain cities, will let you get a street side view of the area you […]

There is a new report in Nature pertaining to the evolution of limbs.
Simply put, the genetic material … in the form of HOX genes … that underlies the development of limbs in tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals) was identified in fish, and the expressio of this genetic materail in the paddlefish …
Regular […]

Have you seen the TV show House? I like the show. I try to get the diagnosis before Dr. House figures it out, and on evenings when I use the internet I sometimes succeed. Also, he has a nirvana-like personality. He has achieved perfect assholeosity. I wouldn’t want to work for […]

Remember framing?
I got an email today from Chris Mooney giving a link to a challenge being issued by Mooney and Nisbet:
At this point, I’d also like to issue something of a challenge. I would hope that those bloggers who criticized the “framing science” idea as originally published will now check out the talk […]

…taken back by the lions, but then the buffaloes go get help and come back and ….

I have to say that I’m not entirely convinced that this actually happened. It is possible that this is a fake video. Or maybe not. I’m just sayin..
[hat tip to The Voltage […]

Randy Olson has posted an interesting commentary regarding communication, called “Siclo Films and Attention Whores: Conformity versus Independent Thinking.”
This is an interesting and important comment that I highly recommend. My reaction:
In the long and broad view of history, it is sometimes (often?) the person or institution […]

This frog has a cat in its mouth (warning: Worst camera work of the year award nominee):

[hat tip: Dan]
ADDED: Part Two of Frog:

… and this frog has something else in it’s throat…

I think that one of the most exciting and interesting blog carnivals going these days is Oekologie, which is currently in its fifth edition, at The Voltage Gate.

Oekologie is a traveling blog carnival reviewing the best ecology and environmental science posts of the month from all across the blogosphere.
You may be thinking “What […]