The podcast version of Everything You Know is Sort of Wrong with me, and Bonobo Handshake with Vanessa Woods, all on Skeptically Speaking with Desiree Schell, is available on line here

For those of you waiting for the Berry Go Round carnival: It will be out on Monday some time. I sniffed the breeze and decided that not enough people were on the Internet for this important iteration of this important web carnival. But late Monday and through Tuesday they’ll be chomping at the bit.

I’ve restarted my occasional weather-watcher blogging here. So far the weather’s been uninteresting but that is bound to change.

Meanwhile, I’m busy working on a couple of interesting new writing/blogging projects. Nothing that will surprise you, but hopefully you’ll like it.

The Nature of Things / Martin Gardner from Wagner Brenner on Vimeo.

Hat Tip: Ana

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div id=”more”>You probably know that there is a new primate fossil, nicknamed “Ida,” and that there is quite a buzz about it. (Well, you certainly do know by now because this is a repost!)
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Think of penguins as ocean sentinels, says Dee Boersma — they’re on the frontlines of sea change. Sharing stories of penguin life and culture, she suggests that we start listening to what penguins are telling us.

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Many years ago, a sudden event occurred that changed everything. Or at least, that is what we think now. But in truth, the event took longer than many today believe, and many of the specific details, the exact order of events, the actual meaning of each detail, are not fully understood. Indeed, in the process of describing this event today, we find considerable disagreement, or at least, it is clear that one person’s version is different than another’s. I’d be happy to give you my version of it. What qualifies me to do that? Well, for one thing, I was there when it happened…
Continue reading Extinction of the Old, Evolution of the New: What really happened to the dinosaurs? →

is at the Prancing Papio (= Dancing Baboon) at THIS LINK HERE. click it. enjoy.

Today, many biotechnology blogs focus on genomics (especially personal genomics) and the business side of biotech. The blogs listed below are produced by professors, students as well as law firms and researchers. One other focus in these top 50 biotechnology blogs is bioinformatics, represented in both in molecular biology as well as in databases, algorithms, computational and statistical techniques and theory.

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According to a study just coming out in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, “variations in emotional intelligence–the ability to identify and manage emotions of one’s self and others–are associated with orgasmic frequency during intercourse and masturbation.”
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