Science

Scientists: ‘Birdbrained’ doesn’t mean stupid Jarvis, who studies how birds learn vocalizations such as songbird songs and imitated speech in

Check out the article on tracing the evolution of bats. This relates some of the information from a publication in

Over on New Scientist, they have a short piece on the mechanism of the Venus Fly-Trap. The leaves that make

Carl Zimmer has a very nice post that examines research on an evolutionary event in the human lineage, the loss

Tangled Bank #19 is up for viewing. This is a collection of links to recent science blogging. The “Biosonar and

Over on Imago Dei, much is being made of the unfairness of logical asymmetry. Once again, how can we have

An activity that has been put off far too long due to the various health issues I had last year

Showdown at Sea – National Wildlife – National Wildlife Federation This is an interesting article that relates an observation of

Tyler Hamilton, Olymic gold medalist, may lose that gold medal. A test newly implemented at the Athens Olympic Games came

I’m working on a draft of a paper that will report more findings from the dataset that was collected with

Common Worm Provides Insights Into Salmonella Virulence Researchers at Duke University are using a nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, to study

Discoverer of modern coelacanths dies The article gives some background on Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and her discovery of an extant coelacanth.

Let me start this off with a quote from Charles Darwin: I have been struck with the likeness of many

For several years of my Ph.D. studies, I was part of research into marine mammal hearing and biosonar. My introduction