Blogged From at 30. Mar 2007 18:35 under Object, Object, Object, Object
Somehat apropos to the prosecutor firing flap, a study updated last month by University of Minnesota graduates (and now communications professors) Donald Shields and John Cragan uncovered an interesting data point: The Justice Department has investigated or indicted seven times as many Democratic elected officials as Republicans during the Bush administration. That's out of a pool of officials that is 50 percent Democratic, 41 percent Republicans and 9 percent independent.Dig a little deeper, and that startling number only holds true for local officials. There's no apparent bias in investigations of statewide and federal officeholders, and overall Democrats get investigated four times as often, not seven.The researchers postulate that media scrutiny explains[...]
http://midtopia.blogspot.com/2007/03/political-profiling.html
Blogged From at 30. Mar 2007 18:11 under Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object
Sitting here at lunch about to get hammered again by monster storms. I am so behind on posting here -- have notes dating back a couple of weeks of really cool stuff, great links, some new videos etc. i hope to get to posting this weekend -- really i do.Meanwhile, here's a vid Carol put up on her site of Holly Riedel receiving the Harvard Prize last year. Or watch it down below.It's the last couple of days to send submissions in for Circus of the Spineless #19, being hosted at Burning Silo -- get them to Bev at this address.And there's a great idea blooming at Voltage Gate for a Blogging BioBlitz -- i like things that are fun, get you in the field, and make no pretense about being scientific effort. I'm signed up for this one.Looking to do a survey this weeke[...]
http://milkriver.blogspot.com/2007/03/com-blogarithmic-223.html
Blogged From Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD at 30. Mar 2007 13:46 under General Genetics and Health
A webcomic by xkcd Tags: comics, humor, scientists, science
http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/b5media/GeneticsHealth/~3/105352980/
Blogged From Laurie at 30. Mar 2007 05:50 under Laurie and Debbie's blog
Debbie says: Via Zuzu at Feministe, I find Echidne of the Snakes, the blogger I have clearly been looking for for a long time without knowing it. Echidne is on a crusade against junk science, and she’s really good at it. The linked posts above, both from Echidne and from Zuzu, discuss the media attention to [...]
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=363
Blogged From Jinger at 29. Mar 2007 20:22 under Internet Marketing News and Tips
Simpleology It isn’t often I will admit that I am wrong about someone, but this time I’m admitting I am wrong because I want you to benefit. First, let me explain something. I want you to understand what an internet marketing “guru” is, at least the way I understand it. An internet marketing “guru” is someone who started [...]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskJinger/~3/105206175/
Blogged From Jinger at 29. Mar 2007 20:19 under Internet Marketing News and Tips, Writing
It isn’t very often I talk about my personal life, or my faith, simply because one of my readers wrote me one time and complained that I was being “too personalâ€?. I guess I took it to heart, and so I don’t say a whole to people online about my life. However, I feel that [...]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskJinger/~3/105206176/
Blogged From at 29. Mar 2007 14:42 under Object, Object, Object, Object
Here is the photo of the Southern Lapwing photographed in Mexico. Below is the information on the bird as posted to the Mexico-Birding Lserv. Thanks to Tom Ryan for making the photo available.Southern Lapwing in San Blas Nayarit Posted by: tryanbio@aol asaxatalis Date: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:08 pm ((PDT))Hi all, Bill & Doreen Stair reported a Southern Lapwing in San Blas, Nayarit on March 21, 2007. It was found in the fields just east of the little pond near the San Blas Suites. It was in the small fields between the road and the flooded area with the dead trees. This is west of the sewer ponds, between Suites San Blas and the Sewer Ponds. Apparently it has been seen by other birders who were in the area. I have a photo that they sent . . . if you would like for[...]
http://milkriver.blogspot.com/2007/03/env-southern-lapwing-in-mexico.html
Blogged From phoenix at 28. Mar 2007 02:18 under Environment, Rights and Freedoms, Inside the Beltway, Science
The White House is at their information control game again, out to quiet any reports, studies, or information that might paint them in a negative light, attacking one of their favorite whipping boys - the scientific community. The White House under President Bush has had a long and unprecedented history of attacking science when it [...]
http://www.notsohumble.net/?p=283
Blogged From at 27. Mar 2007 23:07 under Object, Object
You read that right. From MSNBC:Residents of Tainan learned a lesson in whale biology after the decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours.The 56-foot-long whale had been on a truck headed for a necropsy by researchers, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan.There are pictures on the link. I'm not going to reproduce them here.And then there's this:Once moved to a nearby nature preserve, the male specimen -- the largest whale ever recorded in Taiwan -- drew the attention of locals because of its large penis, measured at some five feet, the Taipei Times reported."More than 100 Tainan city residen[...]
http://midtopia.blogspot.com/2007/03/whale-explodes-in-taiwan.html
Blogged From Aileen Thompson at 26. Mar 2007 16:12 under General, Featured, Science
Spring Is Here! After too many dark, cold February days spent poring over seed catalogues and nearly 5 months worth of winter time-switching designed for no rational purpose I can think of other than to mess with our internal clocks and depress half the population with induced SAD [Seasonal Affective Disorder], it’s about time! But [...]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogherald/~3/104477066/