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A Blog Around The Clock: What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?
A Blog Around The Clock: My latest scientific paper: Extended Laying Interval of Ultimate Eggs of the Eastern Bluebird
A Blog Around The Clock: Evolutionary Medicine: Does reindeer have a circadian stop-watch instead of a clock?
A Blog Around The Clock: A Farewell to Scienceblogs: the Changing Science Blogging Ecosystem
A Hot Cup of Joe: About Cognitive Archaeology
A Hot Cup of Joe: Application of Cognitive Archaeology
A Meandering Scholar: Back to basics: The Evolution of a Postdoc
A Replicated Typo: Phoneme Inventory Size and Demography
A Wonderful Day for Anthropology: Sexual Dimorphism in Human Breasts: An Examination of Three Evolutionary Perspectives
Abstruse Goose: World View (cartoon)
Academic Ecology: Dear Menses
Addiction Inbox: Impulsivity and Addiction
Addiction Inbox: Heroin in Vietnam: The Robins Study
Addiction Inbox: Cannabis Receptors and the Runner's High
Addiction Inbox: Marijuana and Memory
The Allotrope: Deconstructing Homeopathy: An Indian Perspective
Ambivalent Academic: Everything I Needed to Know About Grad School...
Anna's Bones: The Ape That Wouldn't Grow Up
Anna's Bones: Stripped, Part III - 'Back'
The Anthropology of Everyday Life: Step Right Up and Give Us Your DNA
The Anthropology of Everyday Life: The Angels are Flying
The Anthropology of Everyday Life: Dancing by the Nile, Ladies Loved His Style....
The Anthropology of Everyday Life: If The Shoe Fits
Anthropology in Practice: The Irish Diaspora: Why Even Trinidadians Are a Little Irish
Anthropology in Practice: RSVP--A Cultural Construct?
Anthropology in Practice: Death 2.0: Digital Mourning
Anthropology in Practice: Is Your Time My Time? Deconstructing "Social" Time (2)
Anthropology in Practice: Dealing With 'Digital Distractions' in the Classroom
Anthropology in Practice: Extra! Extra! (Some) Print Media Is Not Dead!
Anthropology in Practice: Bullying and Emotional Intelligence on the Web
Anthropology in Practice: Standardized Time and Power Relations
Anthropology in Practice: The Psychology of Liking
Anthropology in Practice: Why Do Some Like It Hot?
Anthropology in Practice: Is Farmville Making Us More Neighborly?
Anthropology in Practice: Manufacturing The Coffee Culture
Anthropology in Practice: A Trail of Coffee Beans
Anthropology in Practice: Driven By Coffee: Creating a Culture of Productivity
Anthropology in Practice: Peruvian Coffee: Matching Consumption With Production
Anthropology in Practice: Can Peruvian Coffee Gain a Foothold at Home?
Anthropology in Practice: Sourcing the Social Web
Anthropology in Practice: Unmasking Eoanthropus dawsoni, The First Englishman
Anthropology in Practice: Hoarding Connections: The Boundaries of the Network
Anthropology in Practice: Eid Mubarak At Last
Anthropology in Practice: The Mother Theresa Stamp and the Cultural Legacy of Postage
Anthropology in Practice: What Are Those Darned Neanderthals Up to Now?
Anthropology in Practice: Recycling for Profit: Rise of the Can Collectors
Anthropology in Practice: Anatomy of a Superstition: When Your Eye "Jumps"
Anthropology in Practice: C is for Cookie: Cookie Monster, Network Pressure, and Identity Formation
Archy: Mammoths, floods, and whatnot
Archy: The first trilobite
Arthropoda: Samurai Crabs: Transmogrified Japanese warriors, the product of artificial selection, or pareidolia?
Arthropoda: Unraveling Arthropoda
Arthropoda: How mantis shrimp see circularly polarized light
Arthropoda: Is 'the Drosophila' actually Drosophila? or: Drosoph-Apocalypse Now
Arthropoda: Why do cryptozoologists hate arthropods?
Arthropoda: Creationists love mantis shrimp
The Atlantic (Carl Zimmer): How Writers Can Turn Their Archives into eBooks
The Autism Crisis: Are you high or low functioning? Examples from autism research
Back Re(action): To whom it may concern (poem)
Back Re(action): What is a scientific prediction?
Bad Science: Is it okay to ignore results from people you don't trust?
Basic space: MACHOs, WIMPs and the mystery of the missing mass
Beaker: Close to the Heart
Beaker: Proteins 101
Beaker: Differentiation Therapy - a Different Approach to Treating Tumors
Beaker: La Jolla Collaboration Helps a Young Iranian Girl
Beaker: Brown Fat: Not Just for Babies and Bears
Beaker: Food, Energy and Orexin
Beaker: Fish Story
Bering in Mind: Is killing yourself adaptive? That depends: An evolutionary theory about suicide
Bering in Mind: Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself
Bering in Mind: An ode to the many evolved virtues of human semen
Bering in Mind: Laughing rats and ticklish gorillas: Joy and mirth in humans and other animals
Bering in Mind: One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot
BioStatMatt: Eigenimages: The AT&T Cambridge Faces Database
Biotech Bitchfest: The Art of Lying
Biotech Bitchfest: Marketing Dictionary for Newbies
Bjoern Brembs Blog: In which potatoes in France are like high-ranking journals in science
The Black Hole: Say NO to the Second Post Doc!
The Black Hole: Devils of Details: Getting Scientists to Understand How Policy Making Works
The Black Hole: Two heads are better than one: Making a case for jointly run labs
Blag Hag: In the name of science, I offer my boobs and A quick clarification about Boobquake and Head of Iran's Guardian Council supports Sedighi's earthquake hypothesis and And the boobquake experiment has begun..., And the Boobquake results are in!, Why boobquake isn't destroying feminism and The Iranian and Muslim response to Boobquake collected and edited as a single entry.
Built On Facts: The Theory of Theory
Byte Size Biology: Highly Evolved
Byte Size Biology: Well, color me surprised
Byte Size Biology: Obesity: the Role of the Immune System
Byte Size Biology: Comparative Functional Genomics: Penguin vs. Bacterium
Byte Size Biology: Protein function, promiscuity, moonlighting and philosophy
Byte Size Biology: This is what it smells like when mice cry
Byte Size Biology: Goat breath causes aphids to drop to the ground
Byte Size Biology: When is it a good idea to cheat?
Byte Size Biology: Life serves viruses
Byte Size Biology: But did you correct your results using a dead salmon?
Byte Size Biology: When is it a good idea to cheat?
Byte Size Biology: Now that's a f***ing big genome!
C6-H12-O6: Menopause as an evolutionary strategy.
C6-H12-O6: I also dig their clever use of the word 'sinister'.
C6-H12-O6: Weird sex physiology, Halloween edition
C6-H12-O6: On detecting stress endocrines in hamster poop
C6-H12-O6: Shark week!
C6-H12-O6: Pushing towards acknowledging sex differences in physiology and treatment efficacy.
C6-H12-O6:
Canadian GirlPostdoc in America: Dissent gets a fat lip.
Canadian GirlPostdoc in America: Slow Science Gets the Shaft - Part Deux
Candid Engineer in Academia: Is it Luck, or do I Suck?
Cephalove: The heart of an octopus is a fickle thing...
The chicken or the egg: Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: too good a match for the immune system
Child's Play: Don't Bite: Self Control and the Classic Cookie Task and Don't Bite: A Cognitive Primer and Don't Bite: The Defenestration of Cookie and Don't Bite: Does Self Control Determine Class? and Don't Bite: A Personal Best and Don't Bite: In Sum, Dear Reader edited into a single essay.
Child's Play: But Science Doesn't Work That Way: Miller and Chomsky (1963)
Child's Play: Eyes Wide Shut: A Field in Search of a Science
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Crispy on the Outside (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Molecules of Song (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Cryosat-2, Orbital Mosquito Hunter (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Now You See It... (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Military Objective (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Avoiding the Sugar Buzz (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: 2010 GA6, Space Yacht (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Gut Instinct (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: The Search For Night Life (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Unruffled Tuxedos (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Her Sense of Timing (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Watching Their Backs (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Disorienteering (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Floral Rearrangement (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: In Development (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Power Plant (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Breathless Find (poem)
Chronicles From Hurricane Country: Eyjafjallaj