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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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March 31, 2007

Bosnian Pyramid Update

Category: Balkans

I really did not have time to follow up on the whole case, but Alun has so check out his latest.... And you can always be up to date by following the postings on the APWR Central blog. I wish...

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Blogrolling for today

Category: Housekeeping

Pursuing praxis Chaos Theory Fish Feet Science After Sunclipse Barbara's Blog (Barbara Ehrenreich) Eleblog Mass Eyes & Ears Uri Kalish - Urikalization Mythusmage Opines...

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Squid Drawing

Category: Fun

Jenna drew a squid. Perhaps if I post it here, PZ will see it and post it as well, and send Jenna a Pharyngulanche of visitors to her blog....

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Evo-Devo: what new animal models should we pick?

Category: Science Practice

A review of evo-devo (Jenner, R.A., Wills, M.A. (2007) The choice of model organisms in evo-devo. Nat Rev Genet. 8:311-314. Epub 2007 Mar 6.) is starting to make rounds on the blogs. I cannot access the paper (I'd like to...

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"Post-human"

Category: Ideology

The best way to make it easy for the low-brow followers to kill the enemy is to dehumanize it. That is what right-wing talking-heads have been doing for a while. Of course, if someone actually gets killed, they did not...

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When Yes means No.

Category: Society

When I ask a guy for something, I may get Yes as an answer half the time and No half the time. Yes mostly means Yes and No means No. If the answer is "Let me think about it", that...

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At an IDC conference - Jason reports

Category: Creationism

Jason drove down to Knoxville and attended an ID-Creationist "conference" and lived to tell about it. And tell he did, in five installments: One Two Three Four Five All the usual suspects were there and all the usual nonsense was...

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Invertebrate Blogging of the Month

Category: Carnivals

Circus of the Spineless #19 is up on Burning Silo...

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Physics Blogging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

Philosophia Naturalis #8 is up on Metadatta....

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Publishing on blogs in social sciences

Category: Academia

Alun Salt will be leading a session about the Peer-to-peer publishing and the creative process, i.e., publishing papers on blogs at the Classical Association conference at Birmingham so he has written a post on things he wants to say there...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. - Noel Coward...

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March 30, 2007

Barbara Ehrenreich endorses John Edwards

Category: Politics

On her blog, of course: For my money, John Edwards is the best candidate out there. Clinton has Iraqi and American blood on her hands; Obama has yet to lay out clear economic alternatives; and, although they might once have...

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Save the Mountain Walrus

Category: Humor

First, there was a Tree Octopus, but now, there is an even more endangered animal - the Mountain Walrus: Having just eaten a substantial meal, this herd will not have to hunt again for many days. For now, these mustangs...

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Sharks down => Rays up => Scallops down

Category: Ecology

In today's issue of Science, there is a study showing that hunting of sharks, by eliminating the main predator of rays, leads to a decline in the ray's - and ours - food: the scallops: A team of Canadian and...

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Science Labs

Category: Science Education

There is a growing, glowing discussion about the usefulness of college science labs that was started with an anti-lab post by Steve Gimbel and responded to, with various degrees of pro-lab sentiment by Janet Stemwedel, Chad, Chad again, Chad yet...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Overfishing Large Sharks Impacts Entire Marine Ecosystem, Shrinks Shellfish Supply: Fewer big sharks in the oceans mean that bay scallops and other shellfish may be harder to find at the market, according to an article in the March 30 issue...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Love is space and time measured by the heart. - Marcel Proust...

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March 29, 2007

Help prevent natural gas drilling in Chaco Canyon

Category: Environment

I guess some people have no sense of aesthetic pleasure, no personal connection to nature, and no ability to think beyond money, money, money. They want to drill in Chaco Canyon, of all places! Apparently, there is more time to...

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The Tar Heel Tavern - call for submissions

Category: Carnivals

The April Fool's Day edition of the Tar Heel Tavern will appear on Sunday, April 1st, on Scrutiny Hooligans, so send your entries by Saturday at midnight to: scrutinyhooligans AT yahoo DOT com...

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Heureka!

Category: Science Reporting

Heureka is an online popular science magazine in Austria which you should check out, especially if you can read German. But some things are in English, including this interview with yours truly... There also blurbs about it (in German) in...

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Skeptical Blogging of the fortnight

Category: Carnivals

Skeptics' Circle #57 (The Zebra Spilled its Plastinia on Bemis!) is up on Aardvarchaeology...

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Stem Cell Experiment in The Scientist

Category: Science Practice

On The Scientist website you can find their new experimental feature - an article with questions to the public that will be used in forming the articles for the print version of the magazine next month. Go see Special Feature:...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Ewwwww! UCLA Anthropologist Studies Evolution's Disgusting Side: Behind every wave of disgust that comes your way may be a biological imperative much greater than the urge to lose your lunch, according to a growing body of research by a UCLA...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. - Wystan Hugh Auden...

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Who gets whose Last Name at the Wedding?

Category: Society

Times are changing and the variety is endless. See what Anton and Erin, The Woomers and Jenny F. Scientist ended up doing and why. Then, read the posts and comment threads by Amanda and on Chaos Theory....

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March 28, 2007

AnthropoBlogging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

The latest edition of The Four Stone Hearth is up on Afarensis...

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Open Science On Marketplace

Category: Science Practice

And in the marketplace. Jean-Claude Bradley was one of the people interviewed for a segment on Open Science on NPR's Marketplace this morning. You can read the transcript and hear the podcast here. Thanks Anton for the heads-up....

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EduBlogging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

Carnival of Homeschooling #65 is dedicated to Charles Darwin and Evolution, up on Alasandra. 112th Carnival of Education is up on Education Wonks....

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Liberal Blogging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

Carnival of the Liberals #35 is up on Framed....

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Migratory Birds: Innocent Scapegoats For The Dispersal Of The H5N1 Virus: A review to be published shortly in the British Ornithologists' Union's journal, Ibis, critically examines the arguments concerning the role of migratory birds in the global dispersal of...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Times change and men deteriorate. - Gesta Romanorum...

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Science Blogging of the Fortnight

Category: Carnivals

Tangled Bank #76 is up on Balancing Life....

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March 27, 2007

MedBlogging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 27 are up on MedViews...

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Belgrade Zoo needs to move!

Category: Balkans

Long time ago, I mentioned here something about the Belgrade Zoo. The power of Google brought a Belgrader, Sonja, to my blog, who alerted me to the dire conditions in which the Zoo is right now and the existence of...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Chimpanzee Facial Expressions Are Helping Researchers Understand Human Communication: Behavioral researchers led by Lisa Parr, PhD, director of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center Cognitive Testing Facility and Chimpanzee Core, have found understanding chimpanzee facial expressions requires more attention to...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

We all find time to do what we really want to do. - William Feather...

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Pediatric Blogging of the Month

Category: Carnivals

Pediatric Grand Rounds: Vol 1 Issue 25 is up on Musings of a Distractible Mind. The theme is Tom and Jerry....

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March 26, 2007

Intelligent Timekeepingism

Category: Creationism

This is, after all, A Blog Around The Clock, so, I guess I should be a strong and vocal proponent of the Clock Theory aka Specified clockplexity. After all, nobody's ever seen a clock move! So, I should start fighting...

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Have you nominated a post for the 2007 Science Blogging Anthology yet?

Category: Books

First three months of the year are almost over and... we have only 14 entries so far for the next Science Blogging Anthology! Everything written and posted since December 20th 2006 is fair game. Have you written something really good...

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Homer Evolving....

Category: Fun

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BrainBlogging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

Encephalon #19 is up on Peripersonal Space...

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Blogrolling

Category: Housekeeping

Medlar Comfits The Anterior Commissure Greta Christina's Blog George Bristow's Secret Freezer Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog GeneticArchaeology The Webby Way...

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Triangle Blogging Teach-ins

Category: Blogging

If you are in the Triangle area on these two dates (Saturday, April 28 from 10am to noon and Saturday, May 5 from 10am to noon) and want to get some help starting your own blog, or at least starting...

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A high-school science blogging contest?

Category: Blogging

Alvaro of Sharp Brains (in a comment here) links to a high-school student's science essay that he posted on his blog and asks: Why couldn't we approach a number of websites where science teachers hang out and propose some kind...

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How Elephants Walk on Hot Coals? By Having Hot Feet

Category: Physiology

Russ noted that someone is using thermography to study thermoregulation in elephants: Wits University has just completed studies on how elephants cope with high African temperatures and how that influences their behaviour. In African savannahs, elephants are exposed to high...

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The First Annual Blogger Bioblitz

Category: Ecology

During the National Wildlife Week (April 21th - 29th), if you can, please participate in the First Annual Blogger Bioblitz: Pick a neat little area that you are relatively familiar with and is small enough that you or the group...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Salamanders Suffer Delayed Effects Of Common Herbicide: Pollution from a common herbicide might be causing die-offs in stream salamanders, according to biologists who say findings from their long-term study raise concerns over the role of atrazine in global amphibian declines....

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The Iraq War is four years old...

Category: Politics

...yet even at the start of it, back in March 2003, The Onion understood the dynamics of war and the psychology of defenders of war better than almost half of Americans and all of GOP today. [Hat-tip, commenter Lindsey]...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for...

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A question regarding dog training

Category: Animal Behavior

We've had a few dogs over the years and housebreaking them was never a big problem. But now we got my mother-in-law's puppy labradoodle - who is a real sweetheart - for a couple of weeks to see if we...

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March 25, 2007

If everything but Britney Spears is boring, why are you here?

Category: Blogging

On the heels of my last week's post, it seems everyone is writing about journalism, blogging, and how to move back from infotainment to actual journalism, as in "information + education" which a populace needs if the democracy is to...

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NC Blogging of the week

Category: Carnivals

Tarheel Tavern # 109 - One Bourbon, One Scotch and many a Blogger! Beautifully edited by the first-time host Olive Ridley Crawl, an excellent local blog which covers many of the same topics that I do as well some others...

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EnviroBlogging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

Carnival of the Green #70 is up on Camden Kiwi...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Studying Snail Slime Substitutes: A team of engineers have set a small robot climbing walls in order to compare how natural and artificial snail slimes work. A snail's slime acts as both a glue and a lubricant, allowing the snail...

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How to use a Squat Toilet

Category: Fun

It's been decades ago, but yes, I have done it myself. Detailed instructions. Do not read around meal-time....

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Medical Imaging of the Fortnight

Category: Carnivals

Radiology Grand Rounds-X (that is tenth edition, not the X-ray edition) are up at MidEssexRay...

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On the shifting public discourse about religion

Category: Religion

Ed Cone's today's column addresses the changes in the way we talk about religion, particularly in the sphere of politics: from James Dobson to Pete Stark, from Mitt Romney to Amanda Marcotte - The last taboos in politics: But there...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep. - Benjamin Rush...

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March 24, 2007

More on Elizabeth Edwards

Category: Politics

On Thursday night, I posted a large linkfest about the press-conference by John and Elizabeth Edwards and the revelation that her cancer has returned. Those were mostly first responses. There have been literally thousands of blog posts written since then,...

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The Tar Heel Tavern - last call for submissions

Category: Carnivals

Next edition of the Tar Heel Tavern will be hosted tomorrow by Bharat of Olive Ridley Crawl, a turtle-friendly blog. Send your entries ASAP to: theoliveridley at gmail dot com...

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Medical Genetics Blogging of the Fortnight

Category: Carnivals

Gene Genie is a new carnival and it is already on its third edition, hosted by Hsien Hsien Lei on Genetics and Health blog....

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Christocentrism

Category: Atheism

When a newspaper publishes a column about religion (in their Religion section) that takes into account only the Christian point of view, someone is bound to object. When the newspaper rectifies the error by publishing an article by an atheist,...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amour...

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Greenbridge Developments

Category: Environment

Treehugger interviews Tim Toben who is building the NC's first LEED Gold Mixed Use Project in Chapel Hill, NC....

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