Apparently the Periodic Table of Rockin’ has been around since 1987, which must be before some of you were born. How come I’ve never seen it before? Be sure to click round and read the comments on each one. Number (it goes up to) 11, for example, is Iron Maiden: My friend, if you claim…
It has not escaped our attention, here at F1000 Towers, that we’re approaching the tenth anniversary of the first ever F1000 evaluation.
Last Wednesday I found myself at the Prince Charles Theatre, Leicester Square, for the premiere of rapper Baba Brinkman’s new project, the teaching version of The Rap Guide to Evolution. I had been looking forward to this, having come across Brinkman at a rather dodgy bar in North London last year.
Are you a geek? Are you chic? Can you rock with the best of them? Check it out now… in its fourth year, the Geek Pop festival is an annual virtual event showcasing artists inspired by science. A vigorous hybrid of geek-leaning musicians and bona fide scientists moonlighting as musicians play online–and you can listen…
I’m going to do something a little more serious for this week’s Culture Friday. There’s been a bit of discussion recently about the stigma associated with mental illness. Which is crazy, when you think about it; being mentally sick shouldn’t be make any more difference to those around you than if you’d broken a leg,…
As promised, a fishy Valentine’s greeting from Ray Troll: Listen through for some serious biology about these lovely little suckers, “the cutest fish in the entire sea.” (Download Lumpsuckers of Love mp3.) Down below the deep blue sea There’s a spiny lumpsucker for you and me Looking in your big green eyes I love the…
It’s Valentine’s Day on Monday, and Darwin’s Birthday on Saturday. What better way to celebrate these two events than a sandwich of art and music? Ray Troll is an artist and musician in Alaska. He’s kindly provided this artwork in celebration of the great man:
You might remember I wrote about Nando Boero, who named a jellyfish after Frank Zappa. Turns out that there’s a freshwater fish named after Led Zeppelin, Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini.
Where should we concentrate conservation efforts? Back in January, Kevin Gaston at the University of Sheffield argued in Science that conservation efforts should be directed towards common species as well as the ‘obvious’, rare and ‘threatened’ ones1. The argument is beguilingly simple. In the absence of a detailed understanding of what each species does in…
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