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Egretta garzetta 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Photograph by Marilyn Susek. Photography contest, Honorable Mention. Egretta garzetta – little egret, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, December, 2011.
Giant panda gives birth 24 Aug 2013 | 09:59 pm
Professor Steve Steve reports that his distant relative Mei Xiang gave birth to a cub at the National Zoo yesterday. NPR reports that the zoo did not know that the panda was pregnant until recently, w...
Y and mtDNA are not Adam and Eve: Part 3 - Resolving a discrepancy 23 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
Part 1: Y and mtDNA are not Adam and Eve. Part 2: What it means to be the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) On to part 3. Except, what’s this? Someone has beat me to it? Gasp! Okay, go read Dienek...
Tim White video on Science Friday 21 Aug 2013 | 10:36 pm
Tim White, discoverer of Ardipethicus ramidus, among other significant hominin fossils, is featured in this short video (7 minutes) from NPR’s Science Friday. Well worth a watch. Via John Hawks.
Stephen Meyer: workin' in the quote mines 20 Aug 2013 | 07:43 am
Stephen Meyer’s new book, “Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design,” has received highly critical reviews from several working scientists. Don Prothero ...
NCSE launches "Science League of America" blog 20 Aug 2013 | 12:34 am
Via Facebook, we learn that the National Center for Science Education has launched a new blog called Science League of America. From Josh Rosenau’s intro post: In August of 1924, Maynard Shipley–a sc...
Egretta thula 19 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Photograph by Vincent Connors. Photography contest, Honorable Mention. Egretta thula – snowy egret, Bennett’s Point, South Carolina, May, 2010.
Scientists discover new mammal 19 Aug 2013 | 04:56 am
Photograph by Mark Gurney, Smithsonian Institution. Well, discover in the same sense that Columbus discovered America. The “new” mammal, the olinguito, was formerly mistaken for its closest relative,...
Magnesium burning 12 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Photograph by Andrey Pavlov. Photography contest, Semi-Finalist. Magnesium burning with copper. Mr. Pavlov writes, “My setup involved a hunk of pure magnesium (harvested from a campfire starter) set...
Hollywood High Students to Receive Movie Debunking Evolution 10 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
That is the headline of a press release printed unedited in the Sacramento Bee. The movie, by Ray Comfort of banana fame, is an excruciating 35 minutes of quote-mined sound bites, mostly from undergra...
