Archive for the 'Science' Category
Scentless
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, April 20th, 2008
14 papers I’ve read recently whose titles I would consider using as titles of poems
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Best thing ever
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Navigating by reflected light
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 17th, 2008
Items
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Killing whales for empire
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Ground truthing
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Ha ha ha ha ow
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Syncopation
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, December 14th, 2007
jmartin has a question
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The Lost Country, part one
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Fires
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Belief in Evolutionary Psychology May Be Hardwired, Study Says
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Matthew Nisbet says entire environmental movement should just shut up
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, October 12th, 2007
And here you thought the early Seventies were uncool
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
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Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 8th, 2007
No, seriously, a river really runs through it.
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 7th, 2007
And then some other things translate pretty well without effort
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Breathing in, breathing out
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Animeme
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
File this under “Sentences I’ll likely hear spoken just the once”
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Words
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Billions and billions
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, September 16th, 2007
There is no balance of nature
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Field guides
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 20th, 2007
Context
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 13th, 2007
Earthly exuberance and tourism
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Panspermia
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Little quake
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 20th, 2007
Deadfall
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Mount Shasta
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
Rare Earth
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, May 13th, 2007
Xeric Conifer Woodland, then and now
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 5th, 2007
What really bothers the creationists
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Earth Day
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Understanding
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Soon to be sold on the Co-Discovery Channel
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, April 6th, 2007
As the Joshua tree book gets ever more complicated
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Useless Arithmetic
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Some names are just too common
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 4th, 2007
The pinnacle of bad movie science
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Also, a 1938 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Another boring backlash against the godless
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 8th, 2007
Agaves
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, December 18th, 2006
Joshua trees and extinction
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, December 8th, 2006
Racism and old dinosaurs
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 9th, 2006
Books and mass extinctions
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, October 6th, 2006
Chenopodiaceae
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Never get laser hair removal during cold and flu season
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Pedagogical abuse
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 28th, 2006
Another tedious weight-related post
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Hang up and drive
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Wasting
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, August 19th, 2006
Laws of planetary commotion
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Thus I refute Walt Whitman, again
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Hot as the devil
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 24th, 2006
Low and be holed
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Save the Australian lungfish
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 14th, 2006
Fire
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Whitebark pines
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Hawking responds!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Who the hell does Stephen Hawking think he is anyway?
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Fat and greed
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, June 5th, 2006
Another front in the feds’ war on science
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Matters of weight
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Drivers
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Hmmm.
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 1st, 2006
Home
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, April 14th, 2006
Wrong answers in Genesis
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Grace Under Fire
Posted by: Kat on Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Horizons
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
Island biogeography
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Chollas
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 10th, 2006
Happy Birthday, Dr. Myers!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 9th, 2006
Needless to say, it didn’t work and everyone died.
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
I love this planet: chapter 826
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
The range and distribution of western arid-land trees
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 6th, 2006
Emergent properties
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Look for even more amusing equivocation from the denialist right
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Unbelievably wrong natural history observation of the week
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
In the Joshua tree forest
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 30th, 2006
Ivanpah
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, January 27th, 2006
Dark
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Scientific studies suggest I’m gorgeous
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
27 new species in California
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Pharyngulee Pharyngula Pharyngulee PharyngulAAAAA!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Potholes
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Going to extremes
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
Extra!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, January 7th, 2006
Crown clade of Creation
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
Islands as gene banks
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, December 17th, 2005
Quake!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, December 16th, 2005
Too Much Information update
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, December 9th, 2005
It’s also World AIDS Day
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Fire weather
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
In other comics-related news
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Pyrite
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 13th, 2005
Save The Tree Octopus!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, November 4th, 2005
The existence of electrons…
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
National Parks Traveler
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, October 28th, 2005
Is it just me?
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, October 6th, 2005
The Natural History of Western Trees
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
Tangled Bank 38
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
...
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 29th, 2005
The Democratic Party must be destroyed
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, September 24th, 2005
The year we lost the deserts
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Acts of Gawd
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 23rd, 2005
This is not the exciting sloth-related news of which I spoke
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
What’s owed to those who have gone before
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, September 18th, 2005
Down, girls
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, September 17th, 2005
Someone else’s writing
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 15th, 2005
Speaking of FEMA and quakes
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, September 10th, 2005
God, if he exists, is a fucking prick
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 9th, 2005
A little preview
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
A note for my Bay Area readers
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
Give to the fucking Red Cross anyway, damnit.
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 2nd, 2005
While we wait for news…
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 29th, 2005
To my Gulf Coast readers, lurkers and friends
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 28th, 2005
The Lancet versus homeopathy
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 26th, 2005
Burning Man again
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 26th, 2005
Look for more stories like this to come
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Durio zibethinus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Well, Matthew…
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 22nd, 2005
Burning man
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 22nd, 2005
Luna llena
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 21st, 2005
Fog
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
A public service announcement
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 14th, 2005
When I find myself in times of trouble, Stephen Jay Gould comes to me
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 12th, 2005
Tangled Bank #34
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
Data are where you find them
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 8th, 2005
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 5th, 2005
Bush simultaneously espouses, disproves “Intelligent Design”
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
The burn
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
117
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Herbs and insults
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 28th, 2005
Best blog post of the day
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
So help me
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Perversity? Displacement? Enlightenment? Wanderlust?
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 22nd, 2005
What the kids are getting from me this Xmas
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Burn
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 7th, 2005
Coolest thing ever
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, June 26th, 2005
Letting things go
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, June 26th, 2005
Echinacea
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
Advanced wildlife photography
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, June 12th, 2005
Chrysopylae
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
new blog alert
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
Summing vectors
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 30th, 2005
Tikaboo Valley
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 21st, 2005
Gaaaaahhhh.
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
Some of my neighbors at work
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 2nd, 2005
Nuke Gaia!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, April 29th, 2005
Tangled Bank 25
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
On invasions and exotics and natives
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 4th, 2005
I get letters, #3
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 27th, 2005
Friday branching glass sponge blogging!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 25th, 2005
Tangled Bank 24
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
Well, this is weird.
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
At this point, I’m just grateful we weren’t talking about lutefisk
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 19th, 2005
We yield to none in our struggle to compromise!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
Aneides lugubris
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 12th, 2005
How did we ever survive before the Internets?
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 10th, 2005
Tangled Bank
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
thylacines
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
Writing on a wide variety of topics
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
Coprinus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Quote of the day
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, February 14th, 2005
Long overdue
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 10th, 2005
Critical thinking
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
A lot of galls
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 21st, 2004
Who’ll inherit the earth again?
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 7th, 2004
Bush policy explained
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, November 5th, 2004
Chicken Point
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, October 22nd, 2004
Attack of the zygotes
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, September 20th, 2004
Dynamic balance
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
Profit and loss
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, September 11th, 2004
Family
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 2nd, 2004
Homeopathic mass suicide
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 21st, 2004
Battling my prejudices
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 15th, 2004
Reason and art
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004
Am I missing something?
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 29th, 2004
Stars
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, November 22nd, 2003
Despair
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, November 17th, 2003
Mantis religiosa
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 20th, 2003
Artemisia tridentata
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, October 16th, 2003
Pelecanus occidentalis
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, October 14th, 2003
