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My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com

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January 31, 2008
Category: Academia
Aetosaurs. No, I have not heard of them until now. But that does not matter - the big story about them today is the possibility - not 100% demonstrated yet, to be fair - that some unethical things surround their...
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Category: Genetics
Someone did it. Get a prize if you correctly identify which one is intelligently designed. In both cases, the designer was an intelligent.....human. Of course. No media reports yet of bioengineering labs run by chimps, dogs, elephants or dolphins....
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Posted by Coturnix at 2:31 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: SBC'08 Interviews
Deepak Singh blogs on business|bytes|genes|molecules and, as the cartoon below testifies, has built for himself quite a reputation as an authority on the questions of Open Access and the future of science communication on the Web. We first met at...
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Posted by Coturnix at 11:57 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mom
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted by Coturnix at 10:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Clock Quotes
One world at a time. - Henry David Thoreau...
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January 30, 2008
Category: Science News
The Eyes Have It: Researchers Can Now Determine When A Human Was Born By Looking Into The Eyes Of The Dead: Using the radiocarbon dating method and special proteins in the lens of the eye, researchers at the University of...
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Category: Medicine
From Russ Williams, director of the N.C. Zoo Society....
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Category: Politics
Good first responses on blogs: Jonathan Cohn Christy Hardin Smith Pam Spaulding Melissa McEwan David Sirota Chris Bowers...
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Category: SBC'08 Interviews
Talking Science is a new non-profit that's dedicated to bringing the latest discoveries, innovations, controversies and cures out of the lab and to the public. It was founded by Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Science Friday. As a part of...
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Category: Mom
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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