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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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December 31, 2007
Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
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Category: Blogging
Food: Where's the schmaltz? Look no further... How religious curbs lead to great food (take with a grain of salt....and pepper and garlic). My mother's sarma recipe will come shortly... Drink: Ask the expert on vodka: Just Like Water, But...
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Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 21 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200....
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Category: Balkans
Idoli, the best of the Yugoslav 1980s New Wave....
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Category: Clock Quotes
Time - our youth - it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds. - Helen Hoover Santmyer...
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Category: Science News
Adult Male Chimpanzees Don't Stray Far From The Home: When it comes to choosing a place to live, male chimpanzees in the wild don't stray far from home, according to a new report. The researchers found that adult male chimps...
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December 30, 2007
Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 22 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200....
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Category: Balkans
Zdravko Čolić was hugely popular in the late 1970s and 1980s. I was a kid when he filled the Red Star Stadium (which normally seats 90,000 people for the soccer games, when the field itself is not full of people)....
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Category: Clock Quotes
The ability to concentrate and use time well is everything. - Lido Anthony Iacocca...
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Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
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December 29, 2007
Category: Blogging
They come and go. The good blogs. Kate has decided to stop posting (but not delete) her magnificient Anterior Commissure. Perhaps it's because the topic is of interest to me: hormones and behavior, or because the topic is of universal...
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Category: Evolution
Two grape genomes were published this year, one in Nature, the other in PLoS ONE. Larry Moran explains the methodologies and results of both and discusses the trustworthiness of each. The Nature paper is explained in The Grapevine Genome, and...
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Category: Carnivals
Carnival Of The Godless (Late) Christmas Edition is up on Unscrewing the Inscrutable Friday Ark #171 is up on Modulator...
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Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 22 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200....
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Category: Balkans
Plavi orkestar (Blue Orchestra) is one of the most popular bands from the territory of former Yugoslavia. Founded in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hezegovina in 1983. Plavi Orkestar / Blue Orchestra is described by music encyclopedias as one of the...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. - Brendan Francis...
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December 28, 2007
Category: Personal
Yup, I had sarma for dinner tonight. It's been a while since the last time I had some, but Mrs.Coturnix fixed it today, inventing her own recipe along the way. It was delicious!...
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Category: Science News
On Fridays, I take a look at what's new in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Pathogens, Computational Biology and Genetics. Here are some of my picks for this week: Neglected Diseases and Poverty in "The Other America": The Greatest Health Disparity...
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Category: Open Science
In the wake of the signed omnibus bill that funds NIH and ensures open deposition of NIH-funded research, here are some thoughtful questions: Why the NIH bill does not require copyright violation: The great advantage of the requirement to deposit...
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Category: Mom
Here is the fifth and final installment of my Mother's travelogue. Feel free to ask questions. I will try to copy and post her published chapter from the book "We Survived" in about a month from now. Family Tuesday, November...
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Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 23 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200....
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Category: Balkans
Galija was a popular band from Southern Serbia....
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Category: Clock Quotes
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright...
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December 27, 2007
Category: Carnivals
Circus of the Spineless #28 is up on Catalogue of Organisms I and The Bird #65 is up on WildBird on the Fly The holiday edition of Change of Shift is up on Brain Scramble...
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Category: Open Science
Yesterday, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) which, among else, mandates the repository of all NIH-funded research into PubMedCentral within at most 12 months after publication. Until now, the placement of NIH-funded research papers into...
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Category: Blogging
...the intertubes: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) When tigers cross the walls Internet trolls really are clueless morons. Krugman: Progressives, To Arms! Forget about Bush--and the middle ground. The 2007 Medical Weblog Awards still taking nominations. First, the neckties, now the sleeves...
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Category: Blogging
But only those bloggers found on the blogroll of John Swift. Which is all the blogger that matter, anyway....
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Category: Science News
Ultrasonic Communication in Rats; An Animal Model of Emotional Blunting in Schizophrenia; The Oral Cavity and Age: A Site of Chronic Inflammation?
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Category: Science News
Songbirds Offer Clues To Highly Practiced Motor Skills In Humans: The melodious sound of a songbird may appear effortless, but his elocutions are actually the result of rigorous training undergone in youth and maintained throughout adulthood. His tune has virtually...
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Category: Science News
Lots of good stuff in PLoS Biology this week: Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry: Many palatable animals, for example hoverflies, deter predators by mimicking well-defended insects such as wasps. However, for human observers, these flies often seem...
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Category: Mom
Here is the fourth installment in the series - the fifth is coming tomorrow. Please comment and my Mom will respond. Fulfilled lives of Dina and Jovan Rajs Sunday, November 11th The Hotel Dining room could accomodate all 800 participants....
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Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 24 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for...
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Category: Clock Quotes
You are ... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. - Dag Hammarskjold, 1905 - 1961...
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December 26, 2007
Category: Carnivals
Grand Rounds Vol. 4, No. 14 are up on MedGadget The 151st Carnival of Education is up on History is Elementary The 104th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Po Moyemu--In My Opinion And, the Linnaeus' Legacy is looking for...
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Category: Mom
This is the third post in the series. I mentioned before that my Mom taped her story for the Shoah project. You can access the tapes through the RENCI site. Also, regulars here know that my Mom reads this blog...
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Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 25 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200....
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Category: Balkans
For old Yugo-nostalgics:...
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Category: Clock Quotes
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland...
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December 25, 2007
Category: Blogging
The year in review meme is too random to really capture the highlights of a year on a blog. So, here is a collection of links that I think mark the most important moments of this blog in the last...
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Category: Mom
This is the second part of my Mom's travelogue from Israel last month: Trauma of baptized Jews Friday, November 9th The Conference continues to work in groups. The topics are interesting but I had to choose one for the morning...
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Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 25 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200....
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Category: Balkans
For the origin, see the comment thread on this post:...
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Category: Clock Quotes
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, regarding Eleanor Roosevelt...
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Category: Science News
Study Of Bear Hair Will Reveal Genetic Diversity Of Yellowstone's Grizzlies: Locks of hair from more than 400 grizzly bears are stored at Montana State University, waiting to tell the tale of genetic diversity in the Yellowstone Ecosystem. My...
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December 24, 2007
Category: Politics
This is hair-raisingly scary: Iceland complains to US about treatment of tourist in New York: REYKJAVIK, Iceland: Iceland's government has asked the U.S. ambassador to explain the treatment of an Icelandic tourist who says she was held in shackles before...
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Category: Mom
A few weeks ago, my mother took a long trip to Israel to attend a conference of Holocaust Child Survivors. She wrote a diary of her trip and it was, in a slightly edited form (omitting most of the...
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Category: Housekeeping
Brontossauros em meu jardim Podblack Blog Second Sight Practice Space Med i Mentol Nebom hodam, pticu pratim.... My blah, blah, blah.... this and that... anything and everything...
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Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 26 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200....
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Category: Balkans
Bijelo Dugme (White Button) was the most popular rock band in Yugoslav history, and their most popular song (and they had dozens of mega-hits) was this early silly love song:...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Begin today! No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have. - Henry C. Blinn...
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December 23, 2007
Category: Politics
Opposite of what Obama is trying to sell as a recipe, as Paul Rosenberg explains eloquently and logically, with data and graphs....
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Category: Technology
On Friday morning, there was a bang on the door and the UPS guy shoved a little cardboard box into our hands. Yeay! Our first XO laptop arrived. It is my wife's, and she named it Svetlana, after the character...
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Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 27 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200....
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Category: Balkans
Yugoslavs will start crying now:...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. - Karl Kraus, 1874 - 1936...
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Category: Philosophy
First: the difference between theory and practice. Second: the theory. Third: still to come, I hope, a YouTube video of Steinn demonstrating the practice of parallel parking....
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Category: Fun
How to get from a White Rhino to a Chinese water buffalo in just a few easy steps....
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Category: Politics
Then read this and the comment thread below it. That's all you need to know....
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Category: Blogging
If you go to the Scienceblogs.com homepage you will see something like this: Click on it (let your Firefox allow pop-ups on this site) and play. See the timeline of what happened in science and on scienceblogs during 2007. I...
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Category: Science News
On Pilobolous: When I first wrote my post on Pilobolus (here and here) I really wanted to do something extra, which I could not do at the time. If you scroll down that post, you will see I reprinted the...
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December 22, 2007
Category: Blogging
Tim, the Tech guru of Scienceblogs.com, has done something nice for you again, just in time for the holidays. He has made a widget that you can place on your blog, Facebook profile, LiveJournal or wherever you want, that shows...
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Category: Politics
...any more reasons to vote these guys out of office for many years to come? (via)....
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Category: Fun
RPM and John posted this music video with hilarious pseudo-subtitles. I don't know how I missed it before as this is supposed to be one of the most popular clips on YouTube ever, but now this song is firmly embedded...
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