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Friends, You Know Who You Are
.. and I think I've finally figured out who you are, too.Angelwing.Ruth Bernhard, 1943.Gelatin Silver Print.Broken heart, brokenwings. Suspended, I don't fall.Your hands, my refuge.If a person's...
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Gifts From the Birds For the New Year
Female Broad-billed hummingbird, Cynanthus latirostris. Photo by Ralph W. Scott.Click image to see more.May the owl give you wisdomMay the crow bring teachings from the invisible realmMay the jay show...
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Blog Carnivals, Writing Contests and Blog Awards
The blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing, the Tangled Bank, issue #44 is available today at Afarensis: Anthropology, Evolution and Science. Besides linking to 38...
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Visual Trickery
Or, why you shouldn't necessarily believe everything you see.If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. But if you stare at the black + in the center,...
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The Tale of Lake Birdbegon Now Available
The blog carnival that celebrates the best writing about wild birds, I and the Birdissue #14 is now available for your reading pleasure at Bird-brained Stories. Written as a spoof of Garrison Keillor's...
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Birds in the News #42 -- Welcome to the New Year
Horned Puffin, Fratercula corniculata, on St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs, Alaska.Photo courtesy of Paul West © - all rights reserved.Birds in ScienceThe effects of overfishing may have driven marbled...
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Coneheads
Yesterday, I experienced an adrenaline surge of terror after opening my electricity bill from good ol' ConEd (a name that I always mistake as spelling out "Cone head" for reasons I didn't quite...
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Executive Decision
I really hate to do this because it reduces the spontaneity of a blog (and therefore, it diminishes at least some of the fun), but I am moderating blog comments for an undetermined length of time...
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RedHot
Wow, someone out there named Shawn Rawls likes me! And he sent me a cute little graphic to put on my sideboard to prove it (see it there? see? poke poke).So who are these peeps who like me? How did...
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The Truth About BoB and the Owl
Yesterday, despite my illness, I managed to struggle to an upright position (someone has to feed the birds so they don't riot), checked my email, and then discovered that Scientific Life is listed as a...
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The Rumors Are True
To the best of my knowledge, I haved never been the subject of gossip before, probably because I am the most boring person whom you could ever know. However, an e-magazine, Element broke the news today...
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Birds in the News #43
Western Grebe, Aechmophorus occidentaliscopyright by Ted Steinke.Birds in Science;Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, believe they have located a place in the brain where...
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Blog Award Poll
I am a finalist for a Best of Blogs (BoB) Award in the category of "Biggest Blog Whore". If you would like to vote for me, please go here and scroll down to this category. You can vote once every 24...
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I am in third place! Out of 231 votes cast so far, Scientific Life has only received 27 votes for "Biggest Blog Whore"! Where did you go, dear readers? We've got to do better!
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Scientific Life is still in third place, my peeps, although it appears to be picking up a little momentum because now it has 14% of the popular vote.
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Big Apple Blog Festival Shows Outstanding Support in Polls
Nominated (!!) to the Big Apple Blog Festival Issue 24.I am getting an unexpected show of support in the polls from this issue of the Big Apple Blog Festival! Many thanks to Shouting Thomas for...
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Who Are You, Dear Readers?
Reader demographics for the previous 100 visitors to this site.I love looking at my stat meter, mostly because I am intensely curious to know who reads my blog and what country you are from. I know...
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Slipping in the Polls!
Even though I try not to obsess about the polls, I do check them several times per day and I am sad to report that, after yesterday afternoon's peak support level of 16%, I have fallen to a mere 13% of...
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Tangled Bank Available .. I think!
The latest edition of the Tangled Bank is online at Greythumb, however, I am having trouble accessing that site. Can anyone else see it? If so, what is the magical OS-browser combination that you are...
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Gaining on Second Place!!
I am not sure how many more hours this poll is open, but today's results show that I am gaining on second place! Not bad for a scientist, huh? If you haven't voted yet, or if you are using a different...
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Birds in the News #44
Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis.Photo by Arthur Morris, Birds as Art.Birds in ScienceTwo University of Canterbury biologists are part of a team whose evolutionarily-informed approach to...
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Birds in the News #45
Female Snowy Owl, Bubo scandiacus.By Bill Ferensen, Seattle.(click image for Bill's site)People Hurting BirdsDeceived by all the bird flu sensationalism, an Egyptian farmer abandoned 10,000 newly...
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100,000 Dead Mice
Yesterday, Scientific Life surpassed 100,000 visitors. In fact, visitor number 100,000 popped into here shortly before 6pm. What brought this visitor here? Dead mice, that's what! This person googled...
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Migration
Living the Scientific Life is keeping its original name but it has moved to its new home at ScienceBlogs, a project of Seed Media. This original site will remain here because I don't want to break any...
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Web Award News
I wasn't going to post anything else here, but I just learned that Scientific Life was awarded the first runner up in the "Biggest Blog Whore" category for the 2005 Best of Blog (BoB) Awards!...
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