Finding Q 16 Apr 2009 Elio Schaechter has a nice piece up on the recent success at growing a pure line of Coxellia pathogens, the cause of Q Fever. I have been told that fewer than 10% of all microbes are able to be grown in cell-free media, so perhaps this will be the start of a new set of methodologies. Doing this means that pathogens and other microbes will be able to be sequenced and studied in vitro. Ecology and Biodiversity Evolution General Science
Evolution A good German site 4 Apr 2008 Evilunderthesun is a German language blog that recently did two things: totally demolished the “Nazism was caused by Darwin” trope, with generous quoting of mich, and educated me that the word for April fool in German is Aprilschmerz, which I really like. Tometheus (Prometheus’ and Epimetheus’ little brother, responsible for… Read More
Biology Evopsychopathy 5: Conclusion 2 Jan 20133 Jan 2013 The criticisms of evolutionary psychology and its predecessors sociobiologies 1 through 3 focus on three major points: 1. It is adaptively-biased; 2. It is gene-centric (or biological determinist, which amounts to the same thing); 3. It is culturally biased in favour of the privileged classes of the people making the… Read More
Evolution How to get an improbable outcome 16 Jun 2008 Creationists and Darwinian skeptics often claim that natural selection could not produce the sort of improbability (often, for reasons that nobody is quite sure of, below 1 in 10 to the 500th power) that we see around us. So it comes as a pleasant surprise to find that UK skeptic… Read More
I hope MI5 don’t have as much trouble finding a new Q. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/18/mi5-recruit-scientific-adviser
I hope MI5 don’t have as much trouble finding a new Q. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/18/mi5-recruit-scientific-adviser
I hope MI5 don’t have as much trouble finding a new Q. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/18/mi5-recruit-scientific-adviser
I hope MI5 don’t have as much trouble finding a new Q. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/18/mi5-recruit-scientific-adviser