To find out, and to read some of the best recent blogging on evolution, visit the new Carnival of Evolution, 35th Edition, at Lab Rat. And go to the official carnival page to learn more about the Carnival of Evolution and perhaps to sign up as a future host.
Welcome to Quintessence of Dust and to the 14th Edition of the monthly Carnival of Evolution. Thanks for stopping by, and for supporting scientific carnivalia, members of a taxon that seems to be flirting with extinction. One good reason to visit a carnival: brain stimulation.
The 14th edition of the excellent Carnival of Evolution will go up here at Quintessence of Dust this Saturday, 1 August 2009. Send submissions and links, to your own work or to good stuff you've seen elsewhere. Images welcome too!
Hello and welcome to the 28th edition of the genetics blog carnival known as Mendel's Garden, where we celebrate blogging on topics related to anything touching on what Mendel discovered (or thought he discovered). While reading these interesting and informative pieces, please think about work that should be featured in a future edition and/or blogs (like yours) that would serve well as future hosts. So do tomato seeds get you excited? No? Oh.
The 28th edition of Mendel's Garden, a genetics blog carnival, will appear here at Quintessence of Dust on Sunday. Please send submissions, whether you wrote them or not.
Mendel's Garden is a genetics blog carnival overseen by Rich over at evolgen. The new edition is up at Another Blasted Weblog and there's some excellent stuff in there, including some very Mendelian tidbits. Next month's edition will be right here at Quintessence of Dust.
1. A nice new Tangled Bank went up yesterday at The Beagle Project Blog, which is a cool site worth visiting at other times, too. Last week saw the unveiling of the Evangelical Manifesto, "an open declaration of who Evangelicals are and what they stand for," which seeks "to rally and to call for reform." The document has sparked some pretty intense discussion among Christians I know.
Two excellent new carnivals have gone up in the last day or so. Yesterday it was Encephalon at SharpBrains. Encephalon is a neuroscience and psychology carnival that had been in hibernation for some months, and it's nice to see it back. My post on endocannabinoids is included in yesterday's edition. And just posted on Greg Laden's Blog is Tangled Bank #99. It's loaded, as usual, with excellent and varied contributions.
Hey! Welcome to Tangled Bank #98, and thanks for stopping by. If you've never been to Quintessence of Dust, the lobby is below and to the right. I hope you'll poke around a little. PZ didn't give me a budget for refreshments, but if you come to the house I'll make sure we at least have plenty of guacamole. Chips are here, and beer is over there.
This week's theme is, um, "fun with biology." Seemed apropos after all the bickering I did this week. Which I'll mention as well. So I assume you saw that Craig Venter's outfit produced the first "synthetic genome" recently. All this means is that they synthesized a very long piece of DNA, and included within it all the components known to be necessary for bacterial life.