I am the Online Community Manager at PLoS-ONE (Public Library of Science). My job is to try to motivate you to comment on the papers there. My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
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December 31, 2006
Category: Personal
Happy New Year to all my readers!!! I wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2007, a paper published, a grant funded, a tenure achieved, and all other goals reached. Some blog stats: 1721 posts 2919 comments 218,365 visits...
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Category: Carnivals
The Tar Heel Tavern - New Year's Eve 2006 Edition - is up on ...Slowly She Turned....
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Category: Carnivals
Radiology Grand Rounds VII are up on Filmjacket...
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Category: Science News
To Elude Bats, A Moth Keeps Its Hearing In Tune: Current understanding of the co-evolution of bats and moths has been thrown into question following new research reported in the journal Current Biology. Dr James Windmill from the University of...
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Category: Blogging
Robin Mackar is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times...
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Category: Politics
...I attended the Edwards rally in Chapel Hill, NC, together with some 5000 other people. My musings can be found here and here....
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Category: Carnivals
Circus of the Spineless #16 is up on The force that through......
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December 30, 2006
Category: Animal Behavior
Why burn or recycle when zoo animals love them - some eat them, some play with them, but they are certainly not wasted. Hat-tip: Russlings...
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Category: Science News
Sex Ends As Seasons Shift And Kisspeptin Levels Plummet: A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at Berkeley scientists in...
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Category: Blogging
Stephanie Holmgren is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )...
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December 29, 2006
Category: Politics
John Edwards Identifies Global Warming as a Priority in His Presidential Campaign: John Edwards has clearly made global warming a prominent part of his campaign at least at this early stage and has met one of the criteria (#2) that...
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Saddam Hussein executed Where is Osama?...
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Category: Blogging
Martin Rundkvist is a very smart guy. By renaming his blog from Salto Sobrius to Aardvarchaeology, he has displaced my blog from the vaunted #1 spot on the alphabetical list of SB blogs on the front page! Go say Hello...
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Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
I've been lazy over the holidays with my blogging, so I'll defer, once again, to Physics Of Sex blog: Part 2 of Pumped Up and Ready for Love: Sex and Fluid Physics And once the flow gets going, you may...
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Category: Science News
Zoo trumpets birth of rare African okapi : The Brookfield Zoo announced this week the birth of a baby okapi - an endangered African animal that looks as if it were put together by committee. With a dark brown body...
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Category: Politics
Which one are you? (December 25, 2005)...
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Category: Science News
How Zebra Finches Learn Songs: Cellular Killer Also Important To Memory: A protein known primarily for its role in killing cells also plays a part in memory formation, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report. Their work...
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Category: Blogging
Becky Oskin is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Death's brother, Sleep. Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid...
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Category: Politics
If you read the papers or watched TV today, you may have gotten the impression that Edwards announced his run this morning around 9am in front of TV cameras. Wrong! The MSM folks think they still matter and are blind...
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December 28, 2006
Category: Blogging
Go say Hello to Developing Intelligence!...
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Category: Politics
On DKos...
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Category: Carnivals
That title was the only way I could think of to connect nurses and birds.... I and the Bird #39 - A Visit from Sandy Claws - is up on Natural Visions. Change of Shift: Vol 1, No 14 is...
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Category: Basic Biology
Here is the next installment of my lecture notes for teh adult education speed-class in biology. As always, I ask for corrections and suggestions for improvement (May 20, 2006):...
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Category: Science News
Africa's Least-known Carnivore In Tanzania: Mongoose Is One More Rare Find: The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced that a camera-trap study in the mountains of Southern Tanzania has now recorded Africa's least-known and probably rarest carnivore: Jackson's...
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Category: Blogging
Marissa Mills is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. Baltasar Gracian...
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December 27, 2006
Category: Politics
Edwards has unleashed his campaign website, where you can find all the info, join the discussion on the blog and see a preview of what he'll say tomorrow in NOLA on this video (and no, I am not paid by...
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Category: Politics
John Edwards is announcing his presidential candidacy tomorrow in New Orleans, followed by a tour of town-hall meetings in Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina and North Carolina. I'll be at the last one and may have some pictures etc....
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Category: Carnivals
99th Carnival of Education is up on Right on the Left Coast The 52nd Carnival of Homeschooling: A Year and a Day - is up on What Did You Do in School Today?...
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Category: Science News
Perhaps. But we do other stuff just like chicken (December 09, 2004):...
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Category: Science News
Singing For Survival: Gibbons Scare Off Predators With 'Song': It is well known that animals use song as a way of attracting mates, but researchers have found that gibbons have developed an unusual way of scaring off predators --...
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Category: Blogging
Fiona Morgan of Independent Weekly is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially common knowledge. - W. Willard Wirtz,...
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December 26, 2006
Category: Blogging
What is the oldest science blog? Not medicine, not technology/gizmos/gadgets, not conservation, not nature writing, not atheism - a real science blog?...
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Category: Housekeeping
You can get to it from the sidebar or from the cute little grey button right under the banner......
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Category: Housekeeping
Bio Crash USS-R-US Rotten bananas Duckfeet MVResearch 3gggggggggi3 Bioephemera Via Negativa Perceiving Wholes Wii the Media Forth Go Storyblogging Rockstars' Ramblings Butterflies and Wheels Joel's humanistic blog Unit Structures...
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Category: Carnivals
Grand Rounds goes back home to Blogborygmi for the 3.14 Best of Year edition, with some interesting history (and statistics) of the carnival. This is a real treat with entries being not best of the week, but best of the...
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Category: Blogging
Here is the background information and here is the growing list of nominations. I am still looking for a poem, a post about women and/or minorities in science, something from chemistry, geology and/or ecology (not environment/conservation), and a post about...
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Category: Blogging
This is so old (January 02, 2005) yet quite prescient......
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Category: Science News
Cyberspace May Overcome Ethical Constraints In Experiments: Psychological experiments that stopped 40 years ago because of ethical concerns could instead be conducted in cyberspace in the future. By repeating the Stanley Milgram's classic experiment from the 1960s on obedience to...
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Category: Blogging
Patty and her mother Kim Gainer are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost...
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December 25, 2006
Category: Blogging
Now that the 2006 Weblog Awards are over (and congratulations to all of my favourites for wins or good showing), we are all warmed up and ready for the Real Deal - the Koufaxes! First, and most importantly, go over...
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Category: Blogging
Terry Smith is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day. - Sharon Gold...
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December 24, 2006
Category: Carnivals
Carnival of the Godless -- Xmas Eve Edition - is up on God is for Suckers!...
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Category: Religion
A cool animation: "How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods...
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Category: Blogging
Nicholas J. Meacham is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock; My thoughts are minutes. - William Shakespeare, Richard II...
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Category: Carnivals
Tar Heel Tavern #96 is up on Billy the Blogging Poet's blog....
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Category: Humor
Hear it for yourself!...
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December 23, 2006
Category: Evolution
The Icons of Evolution finally tested! Who won? Lamarck or Darwin? Under the fold:...
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Category: Blogging
Lilyn Hester is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. - Peter De Vries...
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December 22, 2006
Category: Blogging
You may have seen (or even bought and read) those annual collections of science-related articles that were published in print press over a course of a year, e.g., The Best American Science Writing 2006 or The Best American Science and...
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Category: Creationism
This is the way Discovery Insitute intelligently designed the year. This is the way 2006 actually evolved...
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Category: Carnivals
Carnival of Bad History #12 is up on Axis of Evel Knievel Carnivalesque #22 - the Early Modern edition - is up on Scribblingwoman....
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Category: Blogging
Mr. Shakes had a traffic accident. Help the Shakes manor with a little donation on their PayPal button. Also, Wampum folks need money for the generator in order to run the Koufaxes. Choose between PayPal button and Amazon.com button. While...
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Category: Personal
Below the fold are the pictures of me, Prof. Steve Steve and Rev.Big Dumb Chimp taken immediately after the Ken Miller talk in Raleigh. If we look a little drunk or high, it is because we were just subjected to...
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Category: Creationism
So, why do Creationists and other quacks try so hard to sound all 'scienc-y'?
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Category: Blogging
Donna Sawyer is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference...
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Category: Clock Quotes
There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time. - Coco Chanel, 1883 - 1971...
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December 21, 2006
Category: Blogging
Here is one person's view. I agree on being careful about revealing personal stuff (especially about other people), but I found that I get lots of comments on those rare occasions when I post a picture of a cat, so...
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