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• Extreme Monotremes: Why Do Egg-Laying Mammals Still Exist?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  Only two kinds of egg-laying mammals are left on the planet today--the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, or spiny anteater. These odd “monotremes” once dominated Australia, until their pouch-bearing cousins, the marsupials, invaded the land down under 71 million to 54 million years ago and swept them away. New ...
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• Tiny tyrannosaurs rewrite evolutionary rules

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  Looming larger than a double-decker bus and baring teeth that have been likened to serrated bananas, Tyrannosaurus rex has long been considered one of the most fearsome creatures ever to have walked the earth. Other familiar tyrannosaurs, such as Albertosaurus and Tarbosaurus , were likewise terrifying in their ...
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• The Cyber Sea: Worlds First Internet Undersea Science Station Boots Up [Slide Show]

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  Thanks to a new, wired undersea observatory, when it comes to exploring the deep blue sea, there will be no more of this tethered buoy business or taking ships out to upload data from brief time snapshots taken by instruments. The NEPTUNE network set to go online Tuesday will stream data from hundreds of undersea ...
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• December 8, 1947 (a Monday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 124
  Schematic diagram illustrating ribozyme cleavage of RNA.On this date, the American biochemist and molecular biologist Thomas Robert Cech was born. Thomas Cech and Sidney Altman were awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discoveries concerning RNA (ribonucleic acid), which overturned the notion that RNA ...
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• December 7, 1857 (a Monday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 124
  On this date, the French vertebrate paleontologist Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo was born. Dollo is noteworthy for establishing the intellectual foundations of paleobiology. He was a specialist in fossil fishes, reptiles, birds, and their paleoecology.Dollo completed his degree in civil engineering in 1877. ...
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• The intestinal fortitude of Freeman Dyson

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 461
  The evening started ominously. Dyson had a stomach bug -- he declined to eat anything at dinner, and made several emergency trips to the bathroom. After dinner he fell asleep on a couch in the physics building. Facing a packed auditorium, with people sitting in the aisles and filling an adjoining overflow room with ...
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• Scientists Respond to "Climategate" E-Mail Controversy

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  With all the "hot air" surrounding climate change discussions, none has been hotter in recent weeks than that spewed over a trove of stolen e-mails and computer code from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in England. Longstanding contrarians, such as Sen. James Inhofe (R–Okla.), who ...
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• Royal Societys Online Birthday Party

  
  TierneyLab — Authority: 580
  To mark its 350th birthday in 2010, the Royal Society is featuring an online exhibit called Trailblazing , which features a timeline of social and scientific developments along with links to 60 of the most important publications by the society.
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• Jovial skepticism…

  
  FideCogitActio : omnis per gratiam — Authority: 129
  "Scientists Behaving Badly" by Dr. Stephen M. Barr Scientific knowledge is a highly reticulated structure of mutually supporting facts and inferences. Every well-established scientific fact is held in place by numerous links to other known facts, both closely related and seemingly distant. There are many scientific ...
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• The Internet at 40

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  Although the Internet did not get its name until the mid 1980s, December 5, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the day when the Defense Departments Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) connected four computer nodes to create a "network of networks"--a fateful link-up that would evolve into the Internet [More]
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• Connecting with an Internet Pioneer, 40 Years Later

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  Forty years ago--on December 5, 1969--the U.S. Department of Defenses Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) connected four computer network nodes at the University of California, Los Angeles, (U.C.L.A.), the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif., U.C. Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah for the ...
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• Readers Respond on "What Now for Nuclear Waste?"

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  Terrible Thing to Waste One of the most important messages in Matthew L. Wald’s “ What Now for Nuclear Waste? ” is that we really have several options for handling nuclear waste. All the options, whether aboveground storage for a couple of hundred years until we decide on the next step, reprocessing fuel to ...
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• Doing my work for me?

  
  FideCogitActio : omnis per gratiam — Authority: 129
  I have been working on a couple largish pieces the last few weeks about naturalism and scientific explanation. Needless to say, I am critical of naturalism as a sound metaphysics for sound science, despite the fact that science is commonly conscripted as "proof" of naturalism. I still intend to post the pieces as time ...
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• You, Sir, Are No Galileo

  
  The Intersection — Authority: 654
  Over at the rightwing Wall Street Journal editorial page, Daniel Henninger is invoking Galileo and painting the Swifthack episode as an “epochal event”: The East Anglians’ mistreatment of scientists who challenged global warming’s claims—plotting to shut them up and shut down their ability to ...
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• Did Christians believe in a flat earth during the Middle Ages?

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  Consider this post from Matt Flanagan of MandM. (H/T Thinking Matters New Zealand ) Flanagan cites Jeffrey Burton Russell’s book “Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians”. Dr. Bussell is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Russell writes: [W]ith ...
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• December 3, 1831 (a Saturday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 124
  On this date, Charles Darwin was in Plymouth, England and started sleeping onboard HMS Beagle, believing that its departure was imminent. This evening, in a letter to his friend and mentor, Professor J.S. Henslow, he wrote:My dear Henslow,It is now late in the evening, and to-night I am going to sleep on board. On ...
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• Textbooks, Revolution, Patches and Paradigms

  
  Hundie Jo [dot] Com — Authority: 126
  Tonight, as I was watching Reed as he woke up in the middle of the night (full happy awake – he has gas), I pulled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions off the shelf and began re-reading it.  I came across this insightful quote: Textbooks being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have ...
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• An evening with Freeman Dyson

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 461
  This is turning into a bit of a production -- 4 HD cameras and professional editing will hopefully result in a nice documentary video. Click for larger version of poster. See Questions for Dyson .
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• Huffin and puffin...

  
  FideCogitActio : omnis per gratiam — Authority: 129
  "CO2 is Not a Pollutant: Debunking a Global-Warming Myth" -- an article by William Happer c/o the Witherspoon Institute In the wake of the "Climate-gate" controversy, a scientist at Princeton University argues for a sensible view on climate change and CO2. I believe that the increase of carbon dioxide is not a ...
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• The Species That Domesticated Itself

  
  Laelaps — Authority: 518
  The skull of Paranthropus boisei ("Zinj," "Dear Boy," "Nutcracker Man," etc.). Louis Leakey had a problem. During the summer of 1959 he and his wife Mary recovered the skull fragments of an early human scattered about the fossil deposits of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. The skull had been deposited among the ...
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