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EduBlogging of the Week

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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Lesson of the Day: Circadian Clocks are HARD to shift!

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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Professor Steve Steve - new pictures

Category: Fun

A few are under the fold, but many more can be found here....

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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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Liberal Limericks

Category: Carnivals

The 33rd edition of Carnival of the Liberals is up on Blue Gal's blog....

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ClockQuotes

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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Bad History Carnival

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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Still sick....

Category: Housekeeping

...will return to blogging once I get out of bed.......

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Brains and Imaging

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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ClockQuotes

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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Pediatric Blogging of the Month

Category: Carnivals

Pediatric Grand Rounds (1:23) are up on Allergy And Asthma Source...

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NC Blogging of the week

Category: Carnivals

The Tar Heel Tavern #105 is up on Science And Politics....

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ClockQuotes

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. - Albert Camus...

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Vilsack out of the race

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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The Tar Heel Tavern - last call for submissions

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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MathBlogging of the Fortnight

Category: Carnivals

A very creative Carnival of Mathematics #2 is up on Good Math, Bad Math...

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The Reducible Complexity of John McCain

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

People find life entirely too time-consuming. Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"...

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Blogrolling

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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Circadian Rhythm Degeneration Syndrome?

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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Horowitz still at it....

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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Special Scienceblogs Feed

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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Nursing Blogging of the week

Category: Carnivals

Change of Shift, Vol. 1, No. 18 is up on Protect the Airway...

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BirdBlogging of the week

Category: Carnivals

I and the bird #43: IATB at the Movies! Up on Earth, Wind & Water...

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Welcome the newest SciBling

Category: Blogging

Go say Hello to Rob Knop of Galactic Interactions...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. Scottish Proverb...

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Triangle Bloggers Happy Hour

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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Yes, ...

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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Hairless Grey Foxes in North Carolina

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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The Best Sneetches on the Beaches

Category: Personal

An olde but fun (February 16, 2006):...

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The first Democratic Presidential "Debate"

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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Bloggers Tonight

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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EduBlogging of the Week

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. - Thomas Carlyle...

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How many ex-Yugoslavias?

Category: Balkans

Back in May 21, 2006, Montenegro seceded from Serbia. Here is what I wrote:...

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History Lessons Forgotten

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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Wimp Factor

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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Obligatory Reading of the Day: Ken Ham's version of Evolution

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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Animal Migration

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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Today's carnivals

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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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Killing time is the chief end of our society. - Ugo Betti...

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Science Scouts Badges

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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Yup...

Category: Ideology

It is all about sex, the repressed variety....

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Happy Blogiversary

Category: Blogging

Happy First to Northstate Science! Go say Hello....

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Wow! How does one use 'visual analogue scale' over the phone?

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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Beauty: Not Just Feather-Deep

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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Thank you!

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be. - Vinny Nayak...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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Yes, they really think that the whole world revolves around them

Category: Pseudoscience

Geocentrism: the True Believers...

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Four-legged Duck

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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The Godless Blogging of the Fortnight

Category: Carnivals

Carnival Of The Godless #60 is up on Unsrewing the Inscrutable...

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NC Blogging of the Week

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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The Old vs. New in campaign-management

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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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. - Francis Bacon...

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Aaron Bunsen Lerner, 1920-2007

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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The Tar Heel Tavern - last call

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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