I and the Bird #68

I and the Bird #68 is up at Biological Ramblings.  I and the Bird is a blog carnival “celebrating the interaction of human and avian”.

Romney drops out

MSNBC is reporting that Mitt Romney has dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nominee.  That pretty much guarantees McCain the nomination, although if Huckabee remains in the race, it’s interesting how much of Romney’s support he may capture.
A few months ago people were talking about a brokered Republican convention.  Now the Republican [...]

Guardian of the grasses

Anoop Sindhu and colleagues report on a gene that may have played a key role in the evolution of grasses. The gene, Hm1, provides resistance against Cochliobolus carbonum race 1 (CCR1), a fungus that is capable of attacking and killing corn at any stage of its development (images of CCR1 infection). While CCR1 [...]

Imagining a term-limited executive President

All this focus on the American presidential elections got me thinking – since 1956 the US has had Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II. And they’re about to have an 11th president in the time that Trinidad and Tobago had Williams (who covered the Eisenhower to Reagan [...]