The octopus grabs its unsuspecting prey. Credit: Stevan Hogg
Tuesday, Feb. 28
Octopus eats shark
The not-quite-squid and the not-at-all-whale duke it out in this video. Spoiler: The octopus wins easily. (Thanks to Afarensis for the link)
Quantum interrogation
Maybe someone's explained quantum interrogation to you. Maybe they've explained it well. But have they explained it well...with puppies? Sean Carroll rocks out.
World Population Hits 6.5 B, People Have Sex More than Ever
Only a paper from Sofia, Bulgaria, could report a population increase so eloquently.
The real reason we haven't cured AIDS...
Welcome FrinkTank to ScienceBlogs. This post should give you a pretty good idea of what they're about.
Advice to Corporate Giants
Grrlscientist has something to get off her chest. Caution, this is a textbook case of TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
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Monday, Feb. 27
Top Eleven: We Have a Winner!
The greater ScienceBlogs community has spoken! "The Greatest Physics Experiment Ever" is...a colossal failure.
Turn out the lights, the "Teach the controversy" party's over
Controversy, eh? Then how come over 97% of university biology department heads surveyed said that there's absolutely no scientific controversy between evolution and ID. (Obviously, the one who said their was a controversy came from a theological university.)
Science Friday: The Science of Deception
Daily Kos' DarkSyde talks about how hurricanes form and how the media has convinced us they have nothing whatsoever to do with global warming.
Reflecting on your flaws
Salon's feminist blog Broadsheet discusses a study that claims women can improve their body image by looking in the mirror and describing what they see.
Casual Fridays: Moving dots!
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's just a bunch of oscillating dots, but tell the Mungers what you see in them. No psychoanalysis involved.
Friday, Feb. 24
Twin Cities Creation Science Association Science Fair
While the instructions tell participants to "pray your exhibit will witness to non-Christian visitors," the projects look pretty cool. (Thanks to Pharyngula for the pointer.)
Why not just castrate them?
Dense (but awesome) science post #1: Orac tells us why we shouldn't chemically castrate autistic kids. Apparently, we were considering it.
Discussion of the Padian paper
Dense (but awesome) science post #2: Tara tells us why we should believe HIV/AIDS is sexually transmitted. Apparently, we believed it was not.
You Can't Get There From Here
Dense (but awesome) science post #3: Chad tells us how we can keep a quantum particle from ever decaying: Just keep observing it.
Speaking as a scientist ...
In light of Larry Summers' resignation, Janet of Adventures in Ethics and Science digs up an old post about his remarks on women in science.
Thursday, Feb. 23
The Salem Hypothesis
Not all engineers are creationists with science degrees, but all creationists with science degrees are engineers.
Red Meat: mirth's tattered hand-me-downs
God comes down on one side of the evolution/ID debate.
Eros ex Mathematica
Artist Peter Miller creates pseudo-erotic images from mathematical algorithms. Barely safe for work. (Nod to Uncertain Principles for the link)
Dancer or octopus?
They give you the answer, but there's a striking resemblance.
Periodic Table of Blondness
Slate maps the blondness of news anchorwomen by channel. It's what Mendeleev would have done.
Wednesday, Feb. 22
Few Biologists but Many Evangelicals Sign Anti-Evolution Petition
New York Times writer Kenneth Chang investigates the Discovery Institute's claim that they have a list of 514 scientists who doubt evolution.
College professoring
Essential reading for college students: ScienceBlogger Kevin Vranes of No Se Nada discusses the whiny, dishonest and just plain rude emails he's received as a professor.
Letter from Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher
Apparently, teaching evolution = hating on the Declaration of Independence. (Tip from No Se Nada)