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Change of Shift - Volume One, Edition Twelve - is now up on Fat Doctor....
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November 30, 2006
From One Cell To Two: Cell Division and DNA Replication
Category: Basic Biology
Conitnuing with the Thursday BIO101 lecture notes, here is the fifth part. As always, I ask you to correct my errors and make suggestions to make the lecture better. Keep in mind that this is a VERY basic speed-course and...
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Video Science
Category: Science Reporting
You may remember when I mentioned the announcement of the new open-source online journal JoVE, a peer-reviewed journal of scientific methods in which submissions are provided in video form. Pimm, Eva, Jonah and Nick have also commented on it and...
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Blogging Professor!
Category: Blogging
Is this the first such thing? A faculty position at UNC school of journalism. From the job ad: This person should be highly skilled in writing and editing online news, in blogging and in developing news content for the web....
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BirdBlogging of the week
Category: Birds
I and the Bird #37 is up on Five Wells....
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SBC - NC'07
Category: Blogging
Rosalind Reid of the American Scientist magazine is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Rosalind will lead a break-out session on scientific illustration and is inviting participation in the planning of the session on...
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Happy birthday, Jonathan Swift
Category: History
From today's Quotes Of The Day: Jonathan Swift was born at Dublin, Ireland on this day in 1667, seven months after his father's death, and was raised primarily by an uncle. He received his B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin but...
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Sasquatch!
Category: Pseudoscience
For real?...
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Future of Science
Category: Science Practice
Open Access Open Science (posts by Bill Hooker)...
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Three Simple Rules for Blogfights
Category: Blogging
How to fight with other bloggers (via) I tend to avoid getting in fights with individuals. I'd rather insult millions all at once. (Let's see if this shows up as Quote on the scienceblogs.com front page tomorrow....)...
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November 29, 2006
You gotta be nuts to vote for Bush!
Category: Ideology
You know that Bush-apologists say crazy things. They get cited, chastized and mocked for it every day on the liberal blogs, after all. You may have also wandered, by mistake, onto comment threads on Little Green Foodballs, or The Corner,...
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Update on M&Ms
Category: Creationism
While all this was going on I was wondering where Jason Rosenhouse would stand on all of this. He is back from a break and has two posts on the issue here and here. Update: Chris Rowan wrote an intriguing...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Supply and Demand - negative ecological effects
Category: Environment
A paper just got published in PLoS - Biology - "A Human Taste for Rarity Spells Disaster for Endangered Species" - describes how high monetary value of rare species leads to a vicious spiral in which each capture reduces the...
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Now, those are some molecules I can relate to!
Category: Fun
Made With Molecules online store is expanding its offerings. Sure serotonin earrings are cool, but nothing beats the familiar and soothing effects of theobromine and caffeine. Check them out! (Hat-tip: Vaughan...
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The Sense of Scale
Category: Science Education
Josh Wilson finds a new (to me, at least) metaphor that puts the geological time in perspective, and Carel discovers some cool models that place the astronomical size and space in perspective. Humbling and edifying. Good ideas for science teachers....
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Circadian Rhythm of Alcohol Tolerance
Category: Rhythmic Human
The original title of this post - "Diurnal rhythm of alcohol metabolism" - was more correct, but less catchy (from February 21, 2006)....
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Blogrolling: K
Category: Blogging
It appears that the letter K is a niche that still has ample remaining space for new enterprenurial souls......
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SBC - NC'07
Category: Blogging
Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams blog, and the book of the same name, is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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EduBlogging of the week
Category: Carnivals
The Carnival of Education: Week 95 is up on A History Teacher. Carnival of Homeschooling #48 is up on The Common Room....
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November 28, 2006
Blogrolling: J
Category: Housekeeping
Here's another letter for you:...
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The Truth is, as usual, a little bit more complicated
Category: Science Education
The story about National Science Teachers of America refusing the "Inconvenient Truth" DVDs is not as black & white as previously reported. Sandra Porter has a good run-down....
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MedBlogging of the Week
Category: Carnivals
Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 10, now up on Notes from Dr. RW...
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Bugs and Trees
Category: Carnivals
Send your submissions for the Festival of the Trees by tomorrow. Also, send your submissions for the Circus of the Spineless by December 4th....
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Books: "On Becoming a Biologist" by John Janovy
Category: Books
I wish that, many many years ago when I was becoming a biologist, that I could have read this wonderful little book - On Becoming a Biologist by John Janovy! What a little gem! On the surface, or by looking...
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Blog Experiment
Category: Blogging
In the similar vein to this morning's post (and the neccessary link within it) on the speed of meme-spreading, I tried to do this little experiment about a year ago (October 12, 2005) with no success - perhaps because I...
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NewsTrust
Category: Media
NewsTrust is a news portal that rates the stories by the quality of the journalism, as assessed by readers. Readers are asked to rate stories based on how fair, balanced, accurate, and important the stories are, along with other criteria....
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Blog memes
Category: Blogging
Some things spread like wildfire across the blogs. But, can an artificial meme, designed specifically to measure the speed of its spreading, spread as fast? If we know its speed, can we know its position at the same time, and...
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My picks from ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Aching Back? Sitting Up Straight Could Be The Culprit: Researchers are using a new form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to show that sitting in an upright position places unnecessary strain on your back, leading to potentially chronic pain problems...
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SBC - NC'07
Category: Blogging
David Kirk is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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November 27, 2006
Blogrolling: I
Category: Housekeeping
Is this useful to you? It is useful to me, for sure, as my blogroll is in a bad need of updating. By doing this, I get to clean-up my Bloglines, update the feeds on blogs that have moved, delete...
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Why do Elephants Have Large Ears?
Category: Physiology
It's been almost three months since Arunn, in the comments to this post, promised to write a post about the thermoregulatory function of big, flappy elephant ears. Finally, he's gotten to it, and now you can go and read his...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Medical Imaging of the Week
Category: Carnivals
Radiology Grand Rounds - VI - now up on Spot Diagnosis...
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Circadian Rhythms in Human Mating
Category: Rhythmic Human
A short-but-sweet study (March 18, 2006):...
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My picks from ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Opposites Do Not Attract, Parrot Study Finds: A study conducted at the University of California, Irvine, found that a female budgerigar prefers to mate with a male that sounds like her. Dragonfly's Metabolic Disease Provides Clues About Human Obesity: Parasite-infected...
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SBC - NC'07
Category: Blogging
Danita Russell of Random Ramblings is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Blogrolling: H
Category: Housekeeping
As always, check the list and see if anything is wrong or missing:...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:12 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2006
NeuroBlogging of the week
Category: Carnivals
The Synapse #12 is up on Dr. Deborah Serani's blog...
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A vicious cycle of alcohol and insomnia
Category: Sleep
Recovering alcoholics with poor sleep perceptions will likely relapse: "The usual perception of alcohol's effects on sleep in nonalcoholics is that it helps sleep," explained Deirdre A. Conroy, the corresponding author who conducted the research while a postdoctoral fellow at...
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Pam's House Blend has moved!
Category: Blogging
Pam has moved from here to here. You have to register to comment, but the process is easy. The new site is built on Soapblox and looks gorgeous. Oh, and you'll be able to post your own diaries in the...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
National Science Teachers of America Exxon
Category: Science Education
Laurie David, one of the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, wrote a piece for today's Washington Post describing her efforts to make 50,000 DVD copies of that movie available to America's science teachers through NSTA. They said no. And, more...
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Where do people find information about evolution?
Category: Blogging
I am sure glad that others have started parsing the numbers of the new report on 'The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science'. Duane Smith takes a close look at a couple of tables in...
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Godlessness of the week
Category: Carnivals
Carnival of the Godless 54: Christmas Shopping Time! is now up on Hellbound Alleee...
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NC blogging of the week
Category: Carnivals
Tar Heel Tavern #92 - Thanksgiving Edition - is up on Slowly She Turned...
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SBC - NC'07
Category: Blogging
Robert Reddick is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Blogrolling: G
Category: Housekeeping
Let's keep moving down the alphabet. Let me know what is missing from this list......
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November 25, 2006
Creatures of Accident
Category: Books
You know that I think that Wallace Arthur is one of the sharpest writers on evolution today and that his Biased Embryos and Evolution is one of the best books I've read recently on the topic. I just saw that...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:03 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Friday Weird Sex Blogging
Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
As seen on Facebook (I could not find the originals anywhere online - if you do, please let me know so I can attribute it correctly):...
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World Science
Category: Science News
Pot may be good and bad, researchers propose: The truth about marijuana might be more complex than either its opponents or its champions suggest, some scientists argue. We're more genetically diverse than thought: Research has found that at least...
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Biophilia? Not what E.O.Wilson had in mind!
Category: Sex
Love for animals, even the dead ones, can sometimes go too far, dontcha think?...
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The Intellectual Offspring of Milankovic is doing quite well, thank you
Category: Balkans
Srbija najbolja na Astronomskoj olimpijadi (my translation): Serbia, whose most modern telescope was built at the beginning of the 20th century and was brought to Belgrade as part of WWI war reparations, won two gold and two bronze medals at...
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SBC - NC'07
Category: Blogging
Rob Gluck of Ivory-bills Live is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Blogrolling: F
Category: Blogging
As always, let me know in the comments if I missed a good blog......
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Second Coming?
Category: Religion
I admire actors who completely immerse themselves in the characters they play. But nobody has reached the hights of dedication as much as Keisha Castle-Hughes, a 16-year old actress playing Virgin Mary in an upcoming movie - she is pregnant!...
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November 24, 2006
Edublog Awards 2006
Category: Education
The third international Edublog Awards are now open for nominations....
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Internet as a source of scientific information
Category: Science Reporting
Pew Internet and American Life Project just issued a new report: The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science (pdf). It states that: Fully 87% of online users have at one time used the internet to carry...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:53 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Being Poor All The Way To The Bank
Category: Society
On poverty, personal, national and global, and why it makes sense not to have a bank account when you are poor (October 04, 2005). Espcially in light of recent news about the way big banks rip off people by depositing...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:58 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
SBC - NC'07
Category: Blogging
Ed Cone is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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I Like M&Ms
Category: Creationism
I am still sleepy from all that tryptophan in turkey meat and the Evolution wine, so I don't think I have the energy to write a big post now - I'll leave much of my thoughts on the matter for...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:26 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 23, 2006
Thanksgivings prayer
Category: Atheism
In the past we had to make sure to remember to tell the kids not to make fun of their cousins (and adults) for saying a prayer before the Thanksgivings dinner. We tried to give a personal example by holding...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cell-Cell Interactions
Category: Basic Biology
Continuing with my BIO101 lecture notes (May 08, 2006). As always, please correct my errors and make suggestions in the comments....
Posted by Coturnix at 10:55 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
SBC - NC'07
Category: Blogging
David Bradley of Sciencebase is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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It's all connected, if you are smart enough to see it
Category: Politics
Al Gore's big issue is the environment. He says he is not running for President. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. But no matter what happens, it is obvious that the environment is Gore's passion and that he will spend...
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HomeBlogging
Category: Blogging
At the Blogger MeetUp the other night, among many other topics we covered, someone (I think it was Anton) asked if we ever blogged about our homes, houses, childhood memories of home... Now that John Edwards is travelling around the...
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Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Category: Blogging
My son wants Wii for Hannukkah and he will get it. According to Jonah, it's good for you in more ways than just training in spatial orientation. You get a physical workout and you get drawn deeper into the game...
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The Dirty Thirty Meme
Category: Fun
Who is going to blog serious stuff over the holidays? It's time to eat and drink and be merry. So, a silly meme is in order. Seen on Cyberspace Rendezvous (and a couple of other science blogs) (under the fold):...
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