Behavioral Ecology Blog

Very interesting… I highly suggest thinking about these correlations.. Here is the deal…

Generate a list of popular books at particular universities.

Easy via Amazon/Facebook

For the represented universities, get their average SAT scores for admitted students
Make a graph

See below for a few observations… [SOURCE]

1st- the expected. Most books are not correlated with either high or low [...]

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Roy Caldwell’s Animal Behavior class at UC Berkeley will be podcasted.. You can listen live (M-W-F 10A-11A PST) or after the fact… Click to the podcast icon to subscribe.

Here is the homepage.

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Combed hair and a suit.. WHAT!!!

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So Bora blogged a few days ago about open access science, commenting that th day may come when grant proposals may become available to formal reviewers and other interested parties much like accepted manuscripts are today..
This struck me 1st off as wrong- the ideas in grant proposals translate into $$, and novel ideas are [...]

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So I was working on some sequences the other night using ClustalW, the online resource for editing and aligning sequences, when Patrick, my 10 year old come up and asked me what I was doing. He noticed all the interesting colors (as bases are colored in this program), and picked up on some of [...]

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In recent years, UC Berkeley has seen the light- not the proverbial light of religion, but instead the light that is open access… You can, as of this semester, attend classes remotely, via web or podcast. Aside from it being free, your can listen whenever you want, and do so in whatever attire you choose….
Even [...]

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