Science Fare

Catherine Peichel at the Fred Hutchinson cancer research center made an interesting discovery while studying the stickleback fish in Lake Washington. Over the last 40 years, the fish changed from a freshwater morphology, to a more marine one. This change is linked to a particular gene. She hypothesizes that pollution in the lake has selected for the marine allele, which causes the fish to have more bony armor and may help protect the fish from chemicals in the water.

Link: PDF and also a nice write up by the discovery channel.

Ok, I like this blog called Pharyngula.  The guy is totally outspoken, but I often agree with him.

Friday, March 7, 2008, 7 p.m.
Grace University Lutheran Church
324 Harvard Street SE

James Riccardo, conductor and director
Romeo & Juliet Overture Peter Tschaikowsky
Katherine on my Chest/ with you at your Grave Stanley Woolner
Symphony #1 in C minor, Op 68 Johannes Brahms

Reduced Parking available for event at Fairview-University Patient/Visitor Parking Ramp at Harvard and Delaware Street,SE

My Mom really wanted to see the filling — so here it is!

I noticed that my previous post used the word “Its” where I should have used “It’s”. Sigh. It is hard enough to keep up with all the one-off communications in life. Email messages. Instant messages. Who has time to craft grammatically correct sentences?

Well, I don’t try to be intentionally horrible about it, but blogging is one of those “conversational” formats that lends itself well to breaking the rules. Sentence fragments. Misspeelings. poor capitalization. Embrace chaos.

I used my handy USB microscope to check out my new cavity. It gets a filling on Monday, so I should be able to do a nifty before&after comparison.

Its in that crevice. The dentist said it probably wasn’t my fault, since a toothbrush bristle can’t reach into that space.

OMG. This is hilarious.

Look for the jammin’ EH & bass in the musical interludes at 1/2 and 15/16ths.

Are you a creationist? You’re not alone. But there is help: The National Academy of Sciences has updated its free booklet, “Science, Evolution, and Creationism“. Check it out, please; the modern world of science misses you.

Others have argued that science teachers should teach the “controversies” surrounding evolution. But there is no controversy in the scientific community about whether evolution has occurred. On the contrary, the evidence supporting descent with modification, as Charles Darwin termed it, is both overwhelming and compelling. In the century and a half since Darwin, scientists have uncovered exquisite details about many of the mechanisms that underlie biological variation, inheritance, and natural selection, and they have shown how these mechanisms lead to biological change over time. Because of this immense body of evidence, scientists treat the occurrence of evolution as one of the most securely established of scientific facts. Biologists also are confident in their understanding of how evolution occurs.

i keep finding these old stop motion flicks….

here we played a game of rummicube and I took a frame every move

also notice the tea (decaf of course).