I started getting serious about backing up my data the other day, so i wrote a few little scripts to sort it out ( Read more... )

My own scientific career was a decent from higher to lower dimension, led by a desire to understand life. I went from animals to cells, from cells to bacteria, from bacteria to molecules, from molecules to electrons. The story had its irony, for molecules and electrons have no life at all. On my way life ran out between my fingers.
Albert Szent- ( Read more... )

Boy Marked for Death By the BBC
(sorry, i couldn't resist)
Incedentally, FrinkTank, the blog this links to is a verry funney read for those with a casual interest in sciency things

Now, this is kind of interesting. It's been pondered for quite a while what lay behind the diversity of European hair colour. Consider that hair and eye colour in people from other parts of the world are very uniform - what caused Europeans to have so much variation ( Read more... )

So what do a British historian, a Californian archaeologist and a Danish cartoonist have in common ( Read more... )

Ted Haggard: "We fully embrace the Scientific Method, as American Evangalicals. And we think, as time goes along, as we discover more and more facts, that we'll learn more and more about how God created the heavens and the earth."
Richard Dawkins: "The Scientific Method clearly demonstrates that the earth is four and a half billion years old. Would ( Read more... )

This is from this month's Trends in Ecology and Evolution ( Read more... )

Damn I love the Spanish ( Read more... )

The trouble with spam-filtering is that you don't just get less spam, but the spam you do get makes a lot less sence: preface to the volume which we have described, points ( Read more... )

Jesus of the Week!!!!

Personally i'm quite partial to this one:
http://jesusoftheweek.com/jesii/239/index.html