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Category: Carnivals
The 108th edition of The Carnival of Education is up on Dr. Homeslice Carnival of Homeschooling #60 is up on Homeschool Hacks...
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February 28, 2007
Category: Carnivals
The 108th edition of The Carnival of Education is up on Dr. Homeslice Carnival of Homeschooling #60 is up on Homeschool Hacks...
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Category: Mis-clock-ceptions
This is a story about two mindsets - one scientific, one not - both concerned with the same idea but doing something very different with it. Interestingly, both arrived in my e-mail inbox on the same day, but this post...
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Category: Fun
A few are under the fold, but many more can be found here....
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Category: Science News
Researchers Discover Key To Body's Ability To Detect Subtle Temperature Changes: Scientists have long known the molecular mechanisms behind most of the body's sensing capabilities. Vision, for example, is made possible in part by rhodopsin, a pigment molecule that is...
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Category: Carnivals
The 33rd edition of Carnival of the Liberals is up on Blue Gal's blog....
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Category: Clock Quotes
Be regular and orderly in your daily affairs that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert...
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Category: Carnivals
Bad History Carnival is back after a winter break! The 13th edition is up on Old is the New New blog....
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February 27, 2007
Category: Housekeeping
...will return to blogging once I get out of bed.......
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February 26, 2007
Category: Carnivals
Encephalon no. 17 (Pirate-style) is up on Pure Pedantry. The ninth edition of the Radiology Grand Rounds is up at Cochinblogs...
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Category: Science News
Why Even Close Associates Sometimes Have Trouble Communicating: Particularly among close associates, sharing even a little new information can slow down communication. Some of people's biggest problems with communication come in sharing new information with people they know well, newly...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it. - Erich Fromm...
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Category: Carnivals
Pediatric Grand Rounds (1:23) are up on Allergy And Asthma Source...
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February 25, 2007
Category: Carnivals
The Tar Heel Tavern #105 is up on Science And Politics....
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Category: Clock Quotes
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you: You do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...
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February 24, 2007
Category: Science News
Wow! It seems that all the exciting sience news today are coming from my school: Researchers Find Genes Involved In Nicotine Resistance In Fruit Flies: North Carolina State University researchers have gleaned insight into the genes involved in resistance to...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. - Albert Camus...
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February 23, 2007
Category: Politics
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack To Drop 2008 Bid: Democrat Tom Vilsack is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, a senior campaign official told The Associated Press on Friday. Vilsack left office in January...
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Category: Carnivals
The 105th edition of The Tar Heel Tavern will be on my old digs, Science And Politics, with no particular theme or topic. Just send your week's best by Saturday night to: Coturnix AT gmail DOT com...
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Category: Carnivals
A very creative Carnival of Mathematics #2 is up on Good Math, Bad Math...
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Category: Media
Evolution works according to a very small set of simple rules. If a) there is variation in a trait in a population and b) that variation is heritable and c) one variant is better adapted to the current local environment,...
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Category: Science News
Do You Hear What I See? Research Finds Visually Stimulated Activity In Brain's Hearing Processing Centers: New research pinpoints specific areas in sound processing centers in the brains of macaque monkeys that shows enhanced activity when the animals watch a...
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Category: Clock Quotes
People find life entirely too time-consuming. Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"...
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February 22, 2007
Category: Housekeeping
The Blogging Curmudgeon Scooter's Blog Eye On Science Spewing Truth in the face of Lies Interrogating Nature My Spleen and Welcome to It Say it Better Sequitur...
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Category: Books
OK, it is a premise of a new SF novel. The book description does not look too promising, though I guess I should read it for professional reasons (I put it on my amazon wish-list for now): Last call from...
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Category: Academia
Trying to push an anti-free-speech bill in Arizona: The Arizona bill, if enacted, could take self-censorship in schools to a new level. "This is yet another bill that is seeking to restrict the free exchange of ideas on campus, and,...
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Category: Housekeeping
There are now 59 blogs on Seed Scienceblogs network - that is a lot of stuff to read! You may choose to start your day on the Last 24 Hours aggregator (that's what I do), or you may subscribe to...
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Category: Carnivals
Change of Shift, Vol. 1, No. 18 is up on Protect the Airway...
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Category: Carnivals
I and the bird #43: IATB at the Movies! Up on Earth, Wind & Water...
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Category: Blogging
Go say Hello to Rob Knop of Galactic Interactions...
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Category: Science News
Boosting Brain Power -- With Chocolate: Eating chocolate could help to sharpen up the mind and give a short-term boost to cognitive skills, a University of Nottingham expert has found. A study led by Professor Ian Macdonald found that consumption...
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Category: Clock Quotes
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. Scottish Proverb...
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February 21, 2007
Category: Blogging
I'm back and ready to go to bed. After a couple of days of being sick as a dog (hence hit-and-run blogging) I managed to get myself up for tonight's event which was great fun, but now I am drained,...
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Category: Politics
...Amanda Marcotte still supports John Edwards. Puts to lie the media framing of "bloggers vs. Edwards". It was all along "bloggers AND Edwards AND many more ordinary people vs. the Establishment (of both parties) AND the Right Wing smear machine....
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Category: Science News
Professor identifies mystery creature: The odd-looking animal spotted in several Piedmont counties last year evidently was a hairless gray fox. That's the conclusion of Jaap Hillenius. He examined the carcass of a similar animal that had been hit by a...
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Category: Personal
An olde but fun (February 16, 2006):...
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Category: Politics
OK, they call it a 'forum' on economic issues only. In Nevada today at noon (local time - 2pm Eastern), streaming here (It will also be on C-SPAN live). Obama is the only announced contender who will be missing. Not...
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Category: Blogging
Are you coming to the Triangle Bloggers Happy Hour tonight? Sponsored by DukeEngage. There will be free food, free drinks and free wifi, courtesy of Duke University....
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Category: Carnivals
The 107th Carnival of Education is up on History Is Elementary. Carnival of Homeschooling #60: Presidential Trivia, now up on Homeschool Hacks....
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Category: Science News
New Research Finds People And Pigeons See Eye To Eye: Pigeons and humans use similar visual cues to identify objects, a finding that could have promising implications in the development of novel technologies, according to new research conducted by a...
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Category: Clock Quotes
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. - Thomas Carlyle...
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February 20, 2007
Category: Balkans
Back in May 21, 2006, Montenegro seceded from Serbia. Here is what I wrote:...
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Category: Balkans
They are the last ones who should be playing with this fire: Croatia probes Hitler likeness, jokes on sugar packets: Small packets of sugar bearing the likeness of Adolf Hitler and carrying Holocaust jokes have been found in some cafes...
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Category: Books
You know that I think that Wimp Factor is one of the most important yet least appreciated books about ideology and politics in recent years. So, I was really glad to see an excellent review of it by Amanda: Regardless...
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Category: Creationism
Archy gives a detailed explanation of the way Creationists explain away all the problems of the Noah's Ark story....
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Category: Animal Behavior
Animal Migration: New Technologies, Global Warming Add Impetus To Research: The February 2007 issue of BioScience, the monthly journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), includes a special section on animal migration that features six articles exploring...
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Category: Science News
Storing Digital Data In Living Organisms: DNA, perhaps the oldest data storage medium, could become the newest as scientists report progress toward using DNA to store text, images, music and other digital data inside the genomes of living organisms. In...
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Category: Carnivals
Grand Rounds, vol. 3 no. 22, is now up on Pure Pedantry. Carnival of the Green #65 is up on Jen's Green Journal Brain Fitness Blog Carnival #2 is up on Sharp Brains. Ron has issued a call for submissions...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Killing time is the chief end of our society. - Ugo Betti...
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February 19, 2007
Category: Fun
More badges have been added. Number #48 has written ME all over: Before coming to the States and getting into grad school in Zoology, I was in vet school and I spent endless hours with my arm up to the...
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Category: Ideology
It is all about sex, the repressed variety....
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Category: Blogging
Happy First to Northstate Science! Go say Hello....
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Category: Science Practice
But, apparently, that is the least of the problems of this study of sexuality in West European menopausal women. BTW, a "visual analogue scale" looks like this: You jot a mark where you feel is the best spot that reflects...
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Category: Birds
This was a meme I posted back on my birthday last year (May 11, 2006) - it's a shame not to move it to the new archives here.......
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Category: Books
One of the perks of being a scienceblogger is a steady stream of offers of preview copies of books, as well as willingness of publishers to send one if asked. I have a huge stack of them - some read,...
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Category: Science News
Light-sensitive Protein Found In Many Marine Bacteria: New light has been shed on proteorhodopsin, the light-sensitive protein found in many marine bacteria. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California...
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Category: Clock Quotes
At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be. - Vinny Nayak...
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February 18, 2007
Category: Science News
Robotic Cameras Join Search For 'Holy Grail Of Bird-watching': In the bayous of eastern Arkansas, amidst ancient trees both living and dead that provide nourishment to creatures of the swamp, hangs a high-tech sentinel patiently waiting to capture video...
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Category: Pseudoscience
Geocentrism: the True Believers...
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Category: Science News
I'm sure PZ is inundated with e-mails from readers asking for a real evo-devo explanation, but in the meantime read the news report and see the picture:...
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Category: Carnivals
Carnival Of The Godless #60 is up on Unsrewing the Inscrutable...
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Category: Carnivals
The 104th edition of The Tar Heel Tavern is up on Freelance Writing for Nonprofits. The theme is 'paying tribute'. Next week, the carnival will be on my old digs, Science And Politics, with no particular theme or topic....
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Category: Blogging
Ed Cone has a new op-ed up: The way we politick now: Use new media to influence old media, for example, and read the Web to find out what people are talking about outside the campaign bubble. Understand that the...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. - Francis Bacon...
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February 17, 2007
Category: History of Science
While Aaron Lerner was not a chronobiologist, his discovery of the hormone melatonin in 1958 was one of the key milestones in the biological rhythm research (just see how much I mention it around here) and the chronobiological community will...
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Category: Carnivals
Kivi is hosting The Tar Heel Tavern tomorrow, so send your entries ASAP: I am also hosting The Tarheel Tavern this weekend, the premiere carnival of North Carolina bloggers. My theme is "Paying Tribute." Since we are close to President's...
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