Pouring oil on 'troubled waters'. Historically, sailors believed they could calm choppy water by pouring oil on it, and small-scale tests indicate at least a partial truth to this. Could…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Grandpa vs. the oil, inadvertent cloud-seeding, faith and science, and hip-hop evolution
Reflections on the Gulf Oil Spill - Conversations With My Grandpa. Over at Observations of a Nerd, Christie hits it out of the park by talking about the Gulf oil…
The Giant’s Shoulders #24 is up!
The Giant’s Shoulders #24 is up over at Jost a Mon, and to celebrate the 24th edition it includes a timeline of discoveries made in the 24th year of each…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: primate risk-assessment, not-quite-life on Titan, and 65-year-old precursor to the Web
A Bonobo in the Hand or Two Chimps in the Bush? Do different species of primates have the same perception of risk, or does it depend on their feeding habits…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: a serendipitous lion hunt, Iceland’s volcano preparedness, tabletop relativity, and doggie dimensions
Atlatls to Bows: A Serendipitous Lion Hunt. Continuing his series of posts on the transition of the ancient North Americans from atlatls to bows, teofilo of Gambler's House talks about…
9 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #24!
I've been very distracted by the addition of a new dog to our household, but I wanted to be sure and remind people that there's 9 days until the deadline…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: prestigious chimps, eye color domination, and synthesising Souffles
Prestigious Chimps and the Emergence of Cultural Innovation. In society, some individuals are natural "trend-setters", developing new styles and fashions that others follow. One might be tempted to call this…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: scale in oceanography, majestic Megatherium, strange atlatls and virtual slaps
Varieties of Oceanographic Experience. Sam at Oceanographer's Choice looks at a classic paper that considers how the scale of a measurement influences -- or distorts -- the results. The majestic…
The Giant’s… ahem… Leviathan’s Shoulders #23 is up!
The special marine science edition of The Giant's Shoulders, dubbed The Leviathan's Shoulders, is up at Deep Sea News! Many thanks to Kevin Zelnio for putting together this lovely oceanic…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Antikythera, sports fan anthropology, bad oil theories, and false memories
Planets and Anomalies in the Antikythera Mechanism. The Antikythera Mechanism is one of the fascinating relics of the ancient world -- a 2000 year old clockwork "computer" that could be…