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3 Quarks Daily has finished gathering nominations for its science blog prize, and you can now vote for your favorite. From the top 20 vote-getters, the editors of 3QD will then select six finalists, from which the winners will be chosen by Steven Pinker. The public voting closes at midnight, June 8 EST.
Originally published June 1, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.
Next week the second annual World Science Festival hits New York. I’m now going to be involved in three events that I hope Loom readers can attend. Continue reading “My Tendrils Extend Deeper Into Next Week’s World Science Festival”
Stevens Johnson , a physics professor, writes:
Continue reading “The Jokes Physicists Tell About Chemists [Science Tattoo]”
More and more, scientists are figuring out the molecular changes that have taken place over the course of our evolution. It’s one thing, however, to have a good idea of the ways in which our DNA was altered, but it’s quite another to figure out how those changes affected our ancestors, and how those changes may have spread from an individual to the entire species through a process such as natural selection.
Monday night, Darwinius masilae (a k a Ida) had her television debut on The Link, which aired on the History Channel. A lot of people saw it, says Broadcasting & Cable in a surprisingly accurate article, which managed to do a better job on the scientific side of the story than a lot of regular media outlets:
Continue reading “Big Ratings For Darwinius Day. So How Was It, Cable-Viewers?”