Humor
What is the difference between a scientist and an engineer? Cowbirds in Love boils it down to its essence:
Has science education become a male dominated field? ... Possibly a silly question.
No Boys Allowed!
200 years ago today, Charles Darwin was born.
Who better to wish him a happy birthday than his own sister? There’s more family news [omitted] in the letter, but I was especially charmed by a middle-section about the only thing a certain young “Parky” remembers about uncle Charles.
From Susan Darwin 12 February 1836
Shrewsbury
February 12th. 1836
A video about attention. Watch this card trick:
Hallmark has announced a recall of its jumbo snowman snow globes due to the possibility of fire.
If only the designer had read the same newspaper article as a young lady who was working on a report for the laser teaching center at SUNY Stony Brook.
Warning: Contains adult language (and laughs).
The Snodgrass Observatory, a vessel of scientific research and insight devoted to the study of soils of all types, both near and far.
Imagine a creature with breath so foul it reminds you of your worst date!
Long missing from the fossil records, and now newly discovered in the fossil beds of an ancient sea that once covered New Hampshire, the world was stunned today to learn of the discovery of a unknown species of tremendous size.
Join the Science Blog crew this Friday, October 24 at noon in Los Angeles to discuss Obama, McCain and the sciences, courtesy of Farmlab.
The investigation has begun on reports of giant, man-eating catfish in the Great Kali River in India. No, I'm not kidding.
Only the awesomest thing I've ever found to give a biologist this holiday season.
PETA inspires headlines yet again, asking Ben & Jerry's to replace the cow's milk in their ice cream with human breast milk.
Scientists from the Evolutionary Acceleration Research Institute (EARI) announced that the first test of the Giant Animal Smasher (GAS) will begin on December 19, 2008, the 41st anniversary of the premiere of Dr. Dolittle.
