6 days ago by Shaun CG

Del.icio.us links for January 30th through February 5th: Tiger Beatdown › Getting People With Disabilities Out of Sheltered Workshops and Into the Community- Not only are workers trapped in positions with limited opportunity for advancement, but they’re also forced into poverty. This is a very diffe ...

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29 days ago by Jeremy Yoder

Embrace the mask. Photo by Annamagal. Welcome to postdoc-dom! DNLee takes a fresh Ph.D. to the Oklahoma State University. Recognition by his colleagues, finally. The American Astronomical Society will honor gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny. Suck it, George Lucas. This one's real. Astronomers have pro ...

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38 days ago by PeterMBall

I was given a particularly silly hat for Christmas, and the first thing my mother said was oh god, it’ll be up on his blog by tomorrow morning. My mother is a wise woman, but she failed to take into account the delays inevitably caused by moving house and cleaning and the other minutia of the last f ...

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43 days ago by Jeremy Yoder

I think it's safe to assume this quail is totally high right now. Photo by Hiyashi Haka. Last call! If you haven't taken my reader survey yet, you have until the end of tomorrow! Thanks to everyone who's already answered! Do this now, please. Pitch in to help Jacquelyn Gill fund her trip to Science ...

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50 days ago by Jeremy Yoder

How would you measure scientists' performance?. Photo by MarcelGermain. Tell me who you are, and what you think! Have you taken the D&T reader survey yet? Please do! Making sense of your holiday gift list. At Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!, Will Godsoe suggests some books for the biologist in your ...

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51 days ago by William Teach

I never got around to this story yesterday, as it was worthless without the photo, and it would have been difficult using only my ‘Droid ( CBS News) VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia – A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule on Wednesday when two women s ...

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55 days ago by aztecskin

Stephen Franklin gives generic interview: The senior forward dishes on generic topics like "What is one thing people don't know about you?" Answer: He really loves basketball and doesn't like cold. (That is two things.) We skipped Wayland Baptist and play Houston on Tuesday: I was running my mouth o ...

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56 days ago by Shaun CG

Hey all, it looks like Postalicious has lost the ability to interpret non-comma divided tags from Delicious properly. So, all the tags on this post are absurd, in a fun little way. Sorry about that! I’ll try and remember to switched to comma-separated tags in future. Del.icio.us links for December 1 ...

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57 days ago by Jeremy Yoder

Hummingbird in flight. Photo by Jason Paluk. Congratulations! The winners of this year's NESCent science blogging contest have been chosen. We're really not that expensive. Want more scientific discoveries? Well, then maybe we should pay for more scientists. Darwin wasn't a jerk. Nineteenth century ...

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58 days ago by Nancy Friedman

The A.V. Club looks back at the year in band names. It was a good year for punctuation themes: W-H-I-T-E, Friend Slash Lover, TL;DR. (Hat tip: Henry Alpert.) * In Word Routes, Ben Zimmer looks at the year in words. His list partially overlaps mine, but he also singles out a few I didn’t catch: twink ...

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