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Happy New Year!

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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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (NBC)

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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Idoli - Maljciki

Category: Balkans

Idoli, the best of the Yugoslav 1980s New Wave....

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ClockQuotes

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Freelance journalists/bloggers)

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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You are in my blood - Zdravko Colic

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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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

The ability to concentrate and use time well is everything. - Lido Anthony Iacocca...

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Marbles in the sink

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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Like Ships in the Night

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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Grapevine Genomes

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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Today's carnivals

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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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Duke medical communications)

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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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Suada - Blue Orchestra

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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ClockQuotes

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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Sarma

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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New and Exciting in PLoS Community Journals

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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New on.....Publishing

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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Holocaust Children, part V (guest post by Mom)

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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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (NPR Science Friday)

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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Were you sleeping? - Galija

Category: Balkans

Galija was a popular band from Southern Serbia....

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright...

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Today's carnivals

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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Victory for Open Access!

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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New on....

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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Best Blog Posts of 2007 (Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves)

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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New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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New and Exciting in PLoS Biology

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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Holocaust Children, part IV (guest post by Mom)

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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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Education)

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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Danny - COD

Category: Balkans

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ClockQuotes

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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Today's carnivals

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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Holocaust Children, part III (guest post by Mom)

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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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Publishing)

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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I loved your daughter - Ibrica Jusic

Category: Balkans

For old Yugo-nostalgics:...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland...

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A Blog Around The Clock: Year In Review

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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Holocaust Children, part II (guest post by Mom)

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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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Healthcare)

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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Vranjanka

Category: Balkans

For the origin, see the comment thread on this post:...

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ClockQuotes

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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Icelandic woman mistreated at JFK, shackled and deported

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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Holocaust Children, part I (guest post by Mom)

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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Blogrolling for Today

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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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Computing and Technology)

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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Selma - White Button

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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ClockQuotes

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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Political Polarization in the US and how to diffuse it

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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XOXO

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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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (NC Sea Grant)

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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Winter is coming - Sunflower

Category: Balkans

Yugoslavs will start crying now:...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. - Karl Kraus, 1874 - 1936...

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Theory and Practice

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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Origami evolution

Category: Fun

How to get from a White Rhino to a Chinese water buffalo in just a few easy steps....

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Confused by the mortgage/housing boom and bust?

Category: Politics

Then read this and the comment thread below it. That's all you need to know....

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2007 Scienceblogs year in review

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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Pilobolus, Antlion and the Vertebrate Eyes

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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Keep up with us!

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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Do you need....

Category: Politics

...any more reasons to vote these guys out of office for many years to come? (via)....

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You need a bun to bite, Benny Lava!

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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