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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

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Satellite tracking turtles reveals migration secrets

Category: Animal Behavior

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New and Exciting in PLoS this week

Category: Science News

So, let's see what's new in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases this week. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers....

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Web 2.0, Science 2.0, OA, etc.

Category: Blogging

There is a new study out there - Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial - that some people liked, but Peter Suber and Stephan Harnad describe why the study is flawed (read Harnad's entire post for...

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Do you understand the mortgage crisis?

Category: Society

Apparently, even journalists reporting on it learned the details (and how to properly frame it) from this episode of This American Life. Worth listening to (or reading the transcript)....

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Re-framing 'Save The Planet'?

Category: Environment

Interesting idea: "Save It" Global Warming message by 10 yr old from 1skycampaign on Vimeo. [Via - read the post as well]...

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Just because they lie....

Category: Politics

...does not mean we should. Actually, as their lying is supposed to be their downfall, we need to make extra care not to provide any contra-examples that they can use against us in order to immunize themselves from the charge....

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Fainting Goats

Category: Neuroscience

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Meet The Parents SciBlings

Category: Blogging

Do you want to spend two hours chatting with Grrrl, Janet, Professor Steve Steve (or two or three of them), me and many more SciBlings and readers? If yes, this is where you should go: We'll be meeting at 2:00...

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Funny science comics

Category: Fun

At Stripped Science. Here is one (I guess this is within the Fair Use principle, you'll have to click on the link and go there to see the other strips):...

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Juno and Millie

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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What is missing here?

Category: Blogging

On this list (which is now full and closed)? Well, my name. Darn!...

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Good science on the blogs these days!

Category: Animal Behavior

Broca's Area, 1865: This doesn't sound too out there to us now, but at the time it caused a lot of controversy. The problems wasn't the localization to the inferior frontal lobe, it was Broca's claim that it was the...

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The importance of free speech

Category: Balkans

Excellent article by Jasmina Tesanovic about the final gasps of the Serbian Radicals (the right-wing nationalists and war-mongers) : A couple of days ago, journalists from various press groups were beaten up by Radical goons; at that point the new...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

The 92nd Skeptics' Circle is up on The Lay Scientist...

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Open Access, but not really

Category: Open Science

Sometimes people ask me what do I have against Green OA (repositories) as opposed to Gold OA (journals) and I have a couple of stock answers to that, usually including a caveat that I do not really have anything against...

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Crayfish, warming up for a fight!

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Do you remember this study (also see it here, here, here) we did a few years ago? Well, I just got my hands on some pictures from the time we did it - just individual animals, not pairs as they...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. - Francis Bacon...

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Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level

Category: Basic Biology

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Searching For Shut Eye: Possible 'Sleep Gene' Identified: While scientists and physicians know what happens if you don't get six to eight hours of shut-eye a night, investigators have long been puzzled about what controls the actual need for sleep....

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The Web: how we use it

Category: Open Science

Best time to appreciate Open Access? When you're really sick and want to learn more about what you have.: * Complete OA still a long way off. One thing I re-learned during this was that it is incredibly frustrating to...

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Juno (10weeks old)

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Sorry, can't help it:...

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Is our children learning?

Category: Education

The NYTimes (also International Herald Tribune which I mentioned before) piece on book-reading, the Web and literacy of the new generation, has provoked quite a lot of interesting responses: SciCurious: But this change in internet language has happened very quickly,...

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Biscuit

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Today:...

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Yugoslav boxing legend

Category: Balkans

Mate Parlov died yesterday. A boxer, a gentleman, and a poet....

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Millie

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

This picture was taken four years ago:...

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PZ is all over the place today!

Category: Blogging

PZ just had a book review published in Nature: Science and evolution have an advocate in Kenneth Miller, one of North America's eminent knights-errant, a scientist who is active in defending evolutionary theory in the conflict between evolution and creationism....

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Eric Roston on Colbert Report

Category: Books

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Bush or Batman?

Category: Humor

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

The 46th edition of the Fourth Stone Hearth is up on Testimony of the spade The 182nd edition of The Carnival Of Education is up on The Chancellor's New Clothes Carnival of Mathematics #37 is up on Logic Nest Carnival...

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Science Cafe: Monster Storms - Hurricanes in North Carolina

Category: Earth

Science Communicators of North Carolina: Tuesday, August 19 6:30-8:30 p.m. Science Cafe: Monster Storms - Hurricanes in North Carolina Dr. Ryan Boyles, State Climatologist and Director of the State Climate Office at NC State University with Dr. Anantha Aiyyer, an...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

We usually see only the things we are looking for - so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not. - Eric Hoffer...

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New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 62 new articles in PLoS ONE this week. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Here are my own picks for the week - you...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Grand Rounds Vol 4. No. 45 are up on Edwin Leap The 135th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Consent Of The Governed...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon: Penn State researchers have used computed tomography (CT) technology to virtually glue newly-discovered skull fragments of a rare extinct lemur back into its partial skull, which was discovered over a...

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The Web's navel-gazing

Category: Blogging

We knew the web was big... The Blogosphere Needs to Mature - But How? Tracking Facebook's 2008 International Growth By Country The Web's Dirty Little Secret The Future of the Desktop...

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Obligatory Readings of the Day: Ecology of Progressive Blogosphere

Category: Blogging

Progressive Blogosphere 2.0 - Why Social Justice Matters - Preview of Coming Attractions Whither Progressive Blogosphere 2.0? Becoming blog ecologists: PB2.0, consilience, and the Third Culture...

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Citizen Journalism

Category: Media

The Flaws and Strengths of Citizen Journalism (video): Citizen journalism is always a topic that sparks discussion and Interest, at least amongst the New Media set....

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Which New Media vs. Old Media book is the best evah?

Category: Media

There was a glowing review of Andrew Keen's book in 'Vreme' (Serbian equivalent of TIME magazine) a couple of weeks ago and a friend of mine asked me if it was worth translating into Serbian language. I told him it...

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Kevin Zelnio in Seed

Category: Science Education

Kevin Zelnio published an article in Seed Magazine, which was placed online yesterday - On the allure of the ocean's novelty: That is what the deep sea is like. Almost every collection brings up something that I have never seen;...

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Colbert Report enters the Carbon Age

Category: Books

Yes, Eric Roston will be a guest on Colbert Report tonight at 11:30pm Eastern....

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Engineers Day at the Museum of Life + Science

Category: Science Education

Science Communicators of North Carolina: Saturday, August 16 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Engineers Day at the Museum of Life + Science Join Triangle area exhibitors including Duke University and IBM for hands-on demonstrations and activities that are fun and...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - George Bernard Shaw...

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What kind of liberal?

Category: Fun

Mike made me do it: My Liberal Identity:You are a Reality-Based Intellectualist, also known as the liberal elite. You are a proud member of what's known as the reality-based community, where science, reason, and non-Jesus-based thought reign supreme.Take the quiz...

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PLoS ONE theme of the month

Category: PLoS

For August, the theme is Natural and Synthetic Vision: Neuronal Mechanisms for Vision, Network Properties and Modeling, and Visual Psychophysics and Perception....

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New and Exciting in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine

Category: Science News

Clocks, migrations, minds, seminal fluid, and AIDS.

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Birdsong Not Just For The Birds: Bio-acoustic Method Also Hears Nature's Cry For Help: Switch on the mike, start the recording, the stage is set for the local fauna! Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change: A global change...

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Who should I bring with me....

Category: Blogging

...to the SciBling Meetup? Professsor Steve Steve, Darwin, neither or both?...

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Fun stuff on the Web....

Category: Fun

Food-shaped USB flash drives. Pizza for me.... [Via] Under The Effluence. Human sewage used for cereals?! Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction. Any other suggestions? Another surgical liveblogging experience: Which Is the Safe Side?...

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Governmental Corporate Media

Category: Politics

From Alex (the whole post worth reading)....

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Carnival of the Green #138 is up on Allie's Green Answers Carnival of the Elitist Bastards #3 is up on Pharyngula Gene Genie #34 is up on ScienceRoll Berry Go Round #7 is up here on A Blog Around The...

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Carnival of Science/Academia/Publishing?

Category: Carnivals

Martin saw this comment of mine and sprung into action: Name the new 'Carnival of Scientific Life'! The two big questions are what to call it, and how often to host it, so I'd like your input in the comments...

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MedBlogging under scrutiny

Category: Blogging

The Health Blogosphere: What It Means for Policy Debates and Journalism: The Kaiser Family Foundation is sponsoring a discussion about the growing influence of blogs on health news and policy debates. Only in the past few years has the blogosphere...

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It's just not fair!

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

All this attention on Juno! Millie is depressed: Biscuit is outraged:...

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The movie with the longest title ever

Category: Humor

Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking...

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DonorsChoose

Category: Education

Like we did the last two years, SciBlings will have a month-long fundraising drive for educational projects via DonorsChoose. More info soon. For now, check out Janet's first teaser for some info. Also checkk out the DonorsChoose blog for their...

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Lee Siegel - who let him into a media room again?

Category: Media

Lee Siegel was on NPR's On The Media the other day, defending his sockpuppetry and painting all bloggers as unwashed hordes of fascists. Boo hoo. I listened to the podcast and it was too short to be of much substance....

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Today in OA

Category: Open Science

Citation Statistics (pdf): This is a report about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research. The idea that research assessment must be done using "simple and objective" methods is increasingly prevalent today. The...

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Big Biology

Category: Science Practice

What Alex and commenters say.......

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The Beautiful Mind: Making Memories

Category: Science Education

Science Communicators of North Carolina: Thursday, August 7 7 p.m. The Beautiful Mind: Making Memories Dr. Kelly Giovanello of the UNC-CH Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Lab. Part of the Morehead Planetarium Current Science Forum. 250 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill,...

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Juno

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Due to popular demand:...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is the triumph of hope over experience. - Marina Schinz...

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Berry Go Round #7

Category: Plants

Welcome to the seventh edition of Berry Go Round, the carnival about all things botanical. The previous edition was last month at Seeds Aside and the 8th issue will be at the end of August on Not Exactly Rocket Science....

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Daddy blogging....

Category: Personal

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Web-literacy - essential for 21st century?

Category: Blogging

Literacy debate: Online, r u really reading?: As teenagers' scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading -- diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying...

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G Protein Receptor

Category: Basic Biology

(Via, on FriendFeed)...

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Old vs. New Media Redux

Category: Media

Scoble: The blog editing system in action (also check out the discussion on FriendFeed): Journalists who fight this system (and readers who don't check out the comments) are missing the point. This is a participatory media, not a one-way one,...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Diversity In Primary Schools Promotes Harmony, Study Finds: For the first time, children as young as 5 have been shown to understand issues regarding integration and separation. The research confirms that the ethnic composition of primary schools has a direct...

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