Carnival of Evolution #47 now up at Evolving Thoughts

Carnival of Evolution 47: All the Evolution News that’s Fit to Blog

Now at Evolving Thoughts:

Welcome to the 47th edition of the Carnival of Evolution. We have had our science reporters out in force hunting down the best of the blogosphere on evolution and related subjects, and here they are for your delectation and delight and other d-words.

Go there now, and see what the big white ape has in store…

The Carnival of Evolution is now up!

The latest edition of the Carnival of Evolution is now up at Splendour Awaits!  And this 45th edition really bugs me!

If you wish to submit to CoE #46, visit the Carnival of Evolution for guidelines and to see previous issues. You can submit your blog posts at Blog Carnival, or contact the next host at Synthetic Daisies.

Related articles

• Proceedings of the 44th Carnival of Evolution (genome-engineering.com)

The Carnival of Evolution hits 40!

The latest edition of the Carnival of Evolution is up at EvoEcoLab, Kevin Zelnio’s blog at Scientific American. Visit now for a barrel full of evolutionary blog links.

Carnival of Evolution Now Up!

Greg Laden is hosting the 36th edition of the Carnival of Evolution. Lots of evolutionary goodness–go there now!

 

Another Sunday Link Fest

A bit of old and new–but all interesting:

• Salamander Has Algae Living Inside Its Cells from Wired Science
• The Woodpecker Book from BibliOdyssey
• 10 April, 1815: The Great Tambora Eruption from History of geology
• It flies! Da Vinci’s Dream Comes True from NPR Topics: Science
• Natural history collections –- why are they relevant? from Science: GrrlScientist
• Running scared from mainly mongoose
• Going the distance from Science Musings Blog

That’s all for Easter Monday…

The Sunday Week Link Fest 2

A selection of good links that caught my attention in the last week:

Nature

• Vultures use tools. Ravens use vultures. Vultures are tools from Not Exactly Rocket Science
• Stygian Orchids Sucking on the Broom Bush Roots — And Shedding Chloroplast Genes from The Artful Amoeba

Evolution

• Evolvability: My story in today’s NY Times from The Loom
• Canada Is Darwinist and Must Be Destroyed! from The Sensuous Curmudgeon

Environment

• Media stunner: New York Times partners with Shell Oil to peddle elite access from Climate Progress
• In a Scrape: Seafloor Trawling Threatens Deep Ocean Species from Scientific American
• Three Quarters of Coral Reefs At Risk from SeaWeb
• A Forest of Blue: Canada’s Boreal Forest, the World’s Waterkeeper from Pew Environmental Group

Reason-able

• Which Kinds of Secularism does Atheism Endorse? from Center for Inquiry | Free Thinking
• Christianity gave birth to science – a myth? from Open Parachute

Science

• Why Scientists Are Never Certain from Women in Wetlands
• The Species Seekers [Book Review] from Science: GrrlScientist
• Scientists finish a 53-year-old classic experiment on the origins of life from Not Exactly Rocket Science

The Sunday Week Link Fest

Its a new Spring!

A collection of  (strong) links to some of the articles that caught my attention during the last week:

Understanding the Japanese Catastrophe

• Science and engineering of earthquakes and tsunamis at Scientific American from A Blog Around The Clock
• The Tsunami’s Ripple Effect from Wired Science by Brian Romans
• Anatomy of a tsunami from guardian.co.uk by GrrlScientist
• Fukushima Crisis: Radiation exposure, beyond the numbers from The Great Beyond
• Why Iodine Tablets Come Out When Radiation Threatens from NPR Topics: Science
• Interactive: A Visual Guide Inside Japan’s Reactors from NPR Topics: Science
• Explainer: What Are Spent Fuel Rods? from NPR Topics: Science
• Historic tsunamis in Japan from History of geology

Environment

• Non-nuclear clean energy to double by 2020; Clean-energy companies jump for second day after Japan nuke disaster from Climate Progress
• More jobs could be created with strong climate policies than without: report (blog) from Pembina Institute News
• Reducing Pollution, Creating Jobs (publication) from Pembina Institute News

Evolution

• Our closest relatives – a visual tour of the primates from Not Exactly Rocket Science
• Glimpses of the Fourth Domain? from the Loom

Anthropology

• What’s New With Hobbits from Inside NOVA

Conservation

Costa Rica Creates Giant Marine Reserve from Oceanic Defense

Natural History

• Corvid Cousins from The Last Word On Nothing
• A blessing of bee-eaters from mainly mongoose

Unfaithful

The evidence for god: an exchange with Anthony Grayling from Why Evolution Is True
Can There Be a Testable Hypothesis for the Existence of God? from Tangled Up in Blue Guy