Summer Ecology Research Opportunity for Undergrads

Remember when I was saying that undergraduate research is a good thing? Well, fresh off of the Ecological Society of America ECOLOG presses, here is a FABULOUS opportunity.Summer Research Program in the Arkansas Ozarks Assessment and Sustainable Management...

Wordless Wednesday: Snow Tunnel

I’m participating in Thematic Photographic 33 - Surprise. I was in Racine, Wisconsin for the holidays and discovered this perfect hole in the 18 inch snow next to my parents’ home. There was also a trail of small animal tracks leading away from that...

Book Review: Books about Bugs!

Bugs Up Close Author: Diane SwansonPhotographs by: Paul DavidsonPublisher: Kids Can Press, LimitedThis is a great introductory book to bugs for kids. When I was younger I would run, screaming and kicking if an icky bug got too close to me. Yes, despite...

Where are the books on cancer for general readers?

This is a question about a situation that seems very odd to me.I mean books about the biology of cancer, of course, not cancer in general and how to cope with it. There must be thousands of those, as there should be.Browsing around at Amazon for books...

DNA repair and cancer II

I just wrote about this at some length, here.It's funny, sometimes, how there are a bunch of results released in a short time period on the same topic. Usually it's because there's a big meeting that covers the topic, or else the editor of some journal...

Appreciating Sharks and other Predators in an Ecosystem

Today there is a Shark Fin Soup Protest in San Francisco's China Town. I'm sure the organizers planned this protest as an awareness campaign to coincide with the first day of Chinese (Lunar) New Year.Shark Fin Soup is Chinese meal that has been enjoyed...

Hubble Snaps Images of a Nebula Within a Cluster

Hubble Snaps Images of a Nebula Within a ClusterThe unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside over 10,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis (the Compass).NGC...

DNA repair genes and cancer

DNA encodes genes needed for the production of essential proteins in a cell, and this DNA is vulnerable to damage in a number of ways. Perhaps the most common way is a consequence of inevitable errors that occur in the copying of all of a cell's DNA...

Urban Wildlife Watch: Squirrels and Dreys

This is my second post in honor of Squirrel Appreciation Day. When I first asked myself - "What wild animals live in big cities?" Squirrels (and birds) were the first animals that came to mind.Squirrels are rodents, so that means they are cousins to...

Squirrel Appreciation Day

Chubby Squirrel in a Crab Apple Tree on my campus. Yesterday was Squirrel Appreciation Day. I didn't know that fact at the time of my wordless wednesday preparation. Surely I would have prepareda two-for-one post. But anyway, I decided I could still...

Wordless Wednesday: Wintergreen

All photos taken in Chicago, Illinois.This post is dedicated to the Memory of Robert Fourte, ...

Theory vs. observation

I wrote the following for another context, but I think it might be of interest here.What it's all about is a debate between people with two different views of how the scientific process operates. One group claims that science is based, first, on careful...

Book Review - Blog Carnival is up

A happy and hearty Good Day to everyone. Monday is Book Review day, but since am still recuperating and beaming from the 3rd Annual Science Blogging Conference, I'm trying to do a two-fer.I learned at the ScienceOnline09 Workshop - Blog Carnivals: Why...

100 + Things You Can Do Outside!

In a previous post, I recommended spending more time outdoors by taking a walk through your neighborhood or local park. It’s a perfect (cost-effective) way to make memories, get some fresh air and exercise, and nurture those scientific minds.I take strolls...

Discussing Diversity in Science - online and offline

What do scientists look like?.....If you weren't told about the identity of the scientist, what image comes to mind? For many people, school children to adult, the image of an older European male comes to mind. However, there are scientists who are young,...

ScienceOnline09 Conference Begins

Okay, so I flew out of St. Louis very early in the a.m. today headed to the long awaited science blogging conference - ScienceOnline09. The weather in St. Louis was cold. So cold in fact that the Rivers were frozen. The plane to Raleigh-Durham was small,...

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