tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.comments2023-11-08T23:34:10.520-05:00Carnival of EvolutionBjørn Østmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-12562110657005876032015-08-11T16:00:02.057-04:002015-08-11T16:00:02.057-04:00Hope you intend to keep this site going, not a lot...Hope you intend to keep this site going, not a lot happening on it since Jan. But a lot happening in the world of evolution! I'm not switched onto Facebook and I tried your "submission form" but the link seems broken so here it is.<br /><br /><br /> The likelihood is that proteins evolved on terrestrial Earth and not in the oceans as accepted by most. See Science Daily “Finding the origins of life in a drying puddle” July 20, 2015 is:(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150720094522.htm ). Researchers (ref below) have produced polypeptides in wetting and drying conditions, confirming to me the importance of the role evaporation in life’s evolution<br /><br />This also creates a dilemma though because if the researchers are correct and more complex proteins may have evolved this way, how did they get into the ocean, without being in a coastal "puddle" or an evaporating coastal pond for example. From fossils it seems that life began in the ocean, but perhaps not?<br />Forsythe, Jay G. et al. (2015): “Ester-Mediated Amide Bond Formation Driven by Wet-Dry Cycles: A Possible Path to Polypeptides on the Prebiotic Earth”; Angewandte Chemie International Edition (early version online: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201503792/abstract) .<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-29662544488425240552015-03-29T18:09:01.909-04:002015-03-29T18:09:01.909-04:00If things get going again, I don't really blog...If things get going again, I don't really blog anymore but I still have a blog site that I don't post to, it could serve as a host for any editions that haven't got a host. No promises on quality, but in such a circumstance you can get in touch at:<br /><br />ollyoxenfree1997 AT yahoo DOT com William Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02025125686289799066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-20295999319652802152015-01-09T17:16:18.322-05:002015-01-09T17:16:18.322-05:00Yes, I agree. Can you guess who it is?Yes, I agree. Can you guess who it is?Bjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-53977822009514236412015-01-09T08:07:04.461-05:002015-01-09T08:07:04.461-05:00I just want to say that "David Hume"'...I just want to say that "David Hume"'s writing style is wonderfully fun to read. Looks like I have another blog to start following. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07124029444793408811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-48869591822592611952014-08-10T10:02:58.266-04:002014-08-10T10:02:58.266-04:00That's not bad idea. Are you volnuteering for ...That's not bad idea. Are you volnuteering for that?Bjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-16767846621401547382014-08-10T00:45:24.839-04:002014-08-10T00:45:24.839-04:00Perhaps you should establish some sort of "Em...Perhaps you should establish some sort of "Emergency Carnival Hosts" list that you can turn to if it looks like something like this is going to happen?William Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02025125686289799066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-51987268184289748532014-05-12T21:14:14.111-04:002014-05-12T21:14:14.111-04:00Got it.Got it.Bjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-71171353613065017372014-05-12T10:46:41.772-04:002014-05-12T10:46:41.772-04:00I'm not on Facebook, so here's a post for ...I'm not on Facebook, so here's a post for the next Carnival:<br /><br />http://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/fishers-geometrical-model-vs-beer/Dr. Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02948439373673427525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-40963818346332899202014-04-15T17:43:35.724-04:002014-04-15T17:43:35.724-04:00Hi all, just wanted to add that you're welcome...Hi all, just wanted to add that you're welcome to send the links to the posts via email: eegiorgi (at) gmail.com<br /><br />Thanks, looking forward to reading them!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09922888671399516573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-47668218609882817002013-08-26T03:04:15.679-04:002013-08-26T03:04:15.679-04:00Great!Great!Rafaelahttp://bestrowingmachinereviews.us/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-8787878049593511672013-08-11T17:45:56.629-04:002013-08-11T17:45:56.629-04:00Noted.Noted.Bjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-71443525798655785962013-08-11T09:57:16.190-04:002013-08-11T09:57:16.190-04:00I just discovered I have made a mistake, and I'...I just discovered I have made a mistake, and I'm terribly sorry. Please disregard my previous comment that somehow confused Aeon with another new magazine, Nautilus. <br /><br />(As I remember it I sat at a slow connection and foolishly didn't make time to check. And indeed I had decided I won't read Aeon because there are Templeton Fellows writing there. But that has nothing to do with Aeon as a magazine.)<br /><br />I am sure Aeon is a magazine that does not attempt to do what I accused it of.Torbjörn Larssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13304729731231255545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-85485027613488748852013-08-08T08:21:12.945-04:002013-08-08T08:21:12.945-04:00Why don't you post that as a comment to CoE#62...Why don't you post that as a comment to CoE#62 (maybe with a link to an informative website concerning this issue). <br /><br />I wasn't aware of the Templeton connection. Anne Buchanan has written warmly about this new blog at The Mermaid's Tale (<a href="http://ecodevoevo.blogspot.de/2013/07/aeon-essay.html" rel="nofollow">see here, she even has an essay on Aeon herself</a>). As The Mermaid's Tale is a longterm contributor to CoE, I took Aeon as acceptable. Joachim Dagghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00985198925581721229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-27865520668784905512013-08-08T05:55:03.840-04:002013-08-08T05:55:03.840-04:00 Speaking purely as a layman reader here, and also... Speaking purely as a layman reader here, and also not trying to criticize the selection as much as wanting to add to the debate of the current ground rules or lack thereof:<br /><br />On filtering non-science and even worse, anti-science, the latest CoE contains an Aeon link. If you check, Aeon is Templeton Foundation supported and amply touted as such on the TF site in a rather blatant attempt to insert creationism at large as scientifically reasonable. <br /><br />If there is a discussion among contributors of what CoE should be, I hope such attempts at stealing science prestige would be among the items discussed.Torbjörn Larssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13304729731231255545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-62618171862476069542013-08-07T11:42:35.018-04:002013-08-07T11:42:35.018-04:00I dare say that I did filter non-science and nonse...I dare say that I did filter non-science and nonsense out. There was one clearly creationist submission, one esoteric one and one that was simply wild speculation using the term evolution with no specific meaning (do we evolve to dream of electric sheep or such). The Pterosaur Heresies posts were all last minute submissions that seemed to have been submitted in response to Björn's alarm call concerning the lack of sumbissions. I did not have the time or expertise to check for their content. But agree with Ben Haller that scientific means testable not correct. If all that turns out to be incorrect at some point would be called unscientific, everything would be unscientific.<br /><br />Apart from that, I took the chore of hosting a CoE with hardly andy input from the rest of the world as a task to make it both interesting (varied in content) and entertaining (including some funny posts). I also tried to include blogs that do not belong to the usual CoE suspects (but did not purposely exclude the usual suspects either), in order to freshen it up. I hope my tongue in cheek has not been lost on many readers, when stumbling over posts like "The Arshole Gene," "The Bigfoot DNA" or the picture provided by Bug Girl. <br /><br />Finally, I did put the whole CoE 62 online early by three days in oder to allow critics to come forth, correct my bias, or whatever. That seems to have been lost on almost everybody, for I revceived no feedback whatsoever on the early online version.Joachim Dagghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00985198925581721229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-56058575300815653712013-08-06T15:34:02.186-04:002013-08-06T15:34:02.186-04:00CoE should be what the contributors want it to be,...CoE should be what the contributors want it to be, I think. In other words, a place where sound evolutionary biology is exhibited. How's that?Bjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-71593534447283308942013-08-06T10:34:01.464-04:002013-08-06T10:34:01.464-04:00I do think that posts that are anti-scientific oug...I do think that posts that are anti-scientific ought to be filtered; the Carnival is our megaphone, and we are under no obligation to let cranks like UD use it. I would be very disappointed to see a UD post included in the Carnival. But, not having encountered Pterosaur Heresies before, it is not immediately obvious to me that it is anti-scientific in the way that UD is. It looks like it's written by someone with a rather unconventional and controversial hypothesis, but that alone does not suffice to make something "junk science". Am I missing something? Was that "junk science" accusation substantiated with anything that boils down to more than "I strongly disagree with the author's hypothesis"? It's good to keep in mind how many other things that are now widely accepted started out as ridiculed, fringe perspectives.Ben Hallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17875404974157070805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-63743152374389133472013-06-04T10:35:37.335-04:002013-06-04T10:35:37.335-04:00New logo? Like this?New logo? Like <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GdX6j1ya49M/Ua368ZD3U3I/AAAAAAAAKEc/atgLvHW7AIQ/s1600/Carnival_of_Evolution_sixtieth_C.png" rel="nofollow">this</a>?Zen Faulkeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811309183398223358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-43317701176041938212013-05-14T23:16:38.470-04:002013-05-14T23:16:38.470-04:00There will be a lot of people interested in this i...There will be a lot of people interested in this if you would allow me to share it and spread the word.<br />Ed of <a href="http://www.itwthermalfilms.com/" rel="nofollow">ITWThermalFilms.com</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16979303839265689964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-18979339391073352722012-09-27T15:28:43.197-04:002012-09-27T15:28:43.197-04:00Hello Bjorn, we at BlogCarnival.com have tried to ...Hello Bjorn, we at BlogCarnival.com have tried to make it easier to find and submit to high quality carnivals like this one. Hopefully, you will have better luck going forward. We are also very curious as to why people wouldn't want to quickly login to avoid having to deal with any and all CAPTCHAS.BlogCarnival.comhttp://www.blogcarnival.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-34287653997596068622012-09-15T15:05:00.571-04:002012-09-15T15:05:00.571-04:00I do have a new post that I would like to have sub...I do have a new post that I would like to have submitted to the next COE, Bjorn. I would also like to host a future Carnival at Tangled Up in Blue Guy.<br /><br /><a href="http://tuibguy.com/?p=6818" rel="nofollow">Darwinism is a Broad Brush Term.</a><br /><br />Also, I understand the need to protect from SPAM but the folks at Capcha are real bastards.Tangled Up in Blue Guyhttp://tuibguy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-40121288626409642732012-07-09T05:33:01.730-04:002012-07-09T05:33:01.730-04:00It's too late for this occasion (sorry) but th...It's too late for this occasion (sorry) but they are called QR codes and can be generated at misc. websites like: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/Troy Britainhttp://pigeonchess.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-9926691431866166252012-07-02T05:17:10.706-04:002012-07-02T05:17:10.706-04:00You are right, my interest in the history of ecolo...You are right, my interest in the history of ecology and evolution received an additional topic (the history of mouse traps), when I read Behe's claim that functioning precursors with one part less are impossible by virtue of their irreducible complexity. <br /><br />Ironically, the patent on which all current flat snap traps are based (Hooker 1894) had one part less, because the patenter chose to form spring and striker out of one wire, whereas in current flat snap traps, these are made of two partseparate wires. Details at my blog in the link list.<br /><br />The above picture is converted to grayscale and mirrored. The original is in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts and the link to a high resolution online image is: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/90068246?rpp=20&pg=1&ft=mousetrap&pos=1<br /><br />The trap in this piece of art is of course a cage trap. (I wonder why the angel in the top right corner is carrying away a baby?)Joachim Dagghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00985198925581721229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-13973255561343471562012-06-28T16:12:13.853-04:002012-06-28T16:12:13.853-04:00How do I do that?How do I do that?Bjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706811940355978140.post-67586903474045594242012-06-26T20:34:43.411-04:002012-06-26T20:34:43.411-04:00A suggestion: maybe add one of those square "...A suggestion: maybe add one of those square "bar code" things so that people can capture the web address and/or your e-mail with their smart phones.<br /><br />Good luck at the conference.Troy Britainhttp://pigeonchess.com/noreply@blogger.com