Monthly Archives: January 2010

There are about 24 hours left until the deadline for submissions to the 20th Carnival of Evolution. The new edition of CoE will go up on Monday, February 1st. So get your posts on evolution featured on the one place … Continue reading →

My better half thinks this needs a caption too: a LOLproto-bird?

It’s Friday afternoon, so here’s an excuse to look like you’re thinking hard. This picture has been all over the science news -“for reasons best explained by GrrlScientist”:http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/01/orange_stripey_dinosaurs_fossi.php Artwork by Chuang Zhao and Lida Xing But it needs a better … Continue reading →

It’s coming soon. The next edition of the science carnival Scientia Pro Publica (which is slightly more popular than Scientia Pwns Publica) will appear next Monday at Kind of Curious. If you’ve written something about science, nature and medicine in … Continue reading →

This is an issue I can get behind: No, not the Topology for All.

My mate John is a Canadian with a problem. He’s also developed an interest in rap. I wouldn’t be worried if it was just any rap, though.

As it’s almost Friday, you can spend a bit of time wondering what this is all about: The location is in Kruger National Park.

Welcome, welcome to the latest edition of Scientia Pro Publica, here at Deep Thoughts and Silliness. This year is the International Year of Biodiversity, so in honour of that I’ll declare this the International Post of Blogodiversity! Grrlscientist, the carnival’s … Continue reading →

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!! Those of you who really should have a real life will rememebr a previous post of mine in which I bemoaned having a lower h-index that the mis-citations of one of D.R. Cox’s papers. Well, not that I’m anal … Continue reading →

I was bullied volunteered to host the next round of the science carnival – Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the people). This is a traveling blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing targeted specifically to the … Continue reading →