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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE!

English - Environment, Wildlife, Conservation
http://ohfortheloveofscience.com
OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 3M ago

Take a Trip Down the Mississippi with Nat Geo WILD

Apple pie. Baseball. The Mississippi River. Some things are just iconic for America. This Sunday, starting at 8pm, Nat Geo WILD takes us on a 2,350 mile journey down the Mississippi River, starting at Lake Itasca in Minnesota, and ending in the Gulf of Mexico. In the first part of the three-part min
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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 5M ago

The Explosive Erection of the Duck

Who doesn’t love a good duck penis? Carl Zimmer has written about them for The New York Times and The Loom. Ed Yong has written about them. So have I. In fact, duck penises are what won me a signed copy of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks signed by Rebecca Skloot at Science Online [...]
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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 5M ago

The Open Lab 2011: Sneak Peek

I’m excited to announce that my Friday Weird Science guest post for Neurotic Physiology was chosen for publication in The Open Lab 2011! For those unfamiliar with The Open Lab series, it is an annual anthology of the best writing on science blogs. A note from Sci: The authors took the opportunity in
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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 9M ago

Sci-Fri: Skloot, Spunk, and Storify

For some reason, in the pre-Paris shuffle, this post did not successfully get posted.  I SWEAR I hit publish.  Oh– by the way, have you seen my head? Proof that great writing can make a difference?  The government now proposes a rule change that would require consent for all tissue research, citing
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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 10M ago

It’s time for Google+ to brush up on Shakespeare

The internet has been abuzz in the past week or so with the controversy surrounding Google+’s real name policy.  If you use a pseudonym on Google+, not only do you run the risk of having your Google+ profile deleted, but you also run the risk of your entire account being suspended, meaning goodbye G
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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 10M ago

Sci-Fri: The final shuttle edition

With the final return of the shuttle Atlantis, NASA’s Space Shuttle program is officially done.  The end of the shuttle program could spell a bumpy ride for biomedicine in space. It’s a citations kind of week.  Google Scholar citations and how to formally cite a blog post seemed to be big hits this
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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 11M ago

The 3QD Winners are Announced

The 3QD Science Prize winners were announced this morning, and I’m so happy that a post by my dear friend SciCurious has been selected as Top Quark by Lisa Randall!  CONGRATS SCI! The winners are: 1.  Top Quark, $1000: SciCurious, Serotonin and Sexual Preference: Is It Really That Simple? 2.  Strang
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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 11M ago

And on to the finals!

I am proud to announce that my post “Prehistoric Clues Provide Insight into Climate’s Future Impact on Oceans” has been selected by the 3QD editors as a finalist in the 3QD Science Prize! My post was one of six finalists chosen from the semifinalists, and 3 wildcard entries were added.  The posts fr
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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 11M ago

The 3QD semifinalists have been announced!

I'd like to give a big thank you to everyone who voted for my article "Prehistoric Clues Provide Insight into Climate’s Future Impact on Oceans" and made it the 9th most-voted for post out of the 87 entries in the 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize.
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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE! · 11M ago

Vote for the 3QD Semi-Finalists

The 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize is back for the third year, and yours truly has 2 posts in the running: Bufotoxin Tolerance in Keelback Snakes: Recent Adaptation to a New Threat, or Preadaptation From An Ancient Foe? Prehistoric Clues Provide
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