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Just replace '9/11' with 'POW'...

Category: Politics

...or 'B.Hussein Osama is a Muslim', or 'Alaska is closest to Russia':...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Encephalon #53 is up on Ionian Enchantment Berry Go Round #8 is up on Not Exactly Rocket Science...

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Just as I posted this clip about the way kids use blogs and social networks, David Warlick posted this intriguing analysis of the way kids use online technologies. Dave posted an interesting graph that shows that kids assess that they...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

More Genes Are Controlled By Biological Clocks Than Previously Thought: The tick-tock of your biological clock may have just gotten a little louder. Researchers at the University of Georgia report that the number of genes under control of the...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:57 AM • 0 Comments •

Using Social Networking to Prepare for Hurricane Gustav

Category: Blogging

Connie Bensen has assembled all the relevant links and tags so you can follow Gustav and, if you are in the area, organize the response....

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Posted by Coturnix at 8:07 PM • 2 Comments •

How kids use social networks

Category: Blogging

Wayne interviewed three local kids about the way they use social networks and blogs: School has just started and we had a chance to sit down with three bright kids, Toby, Dominique, and Samantha to talk about how they use...

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People and other animals

Category: Kevin in China

In China, as seen though Kevin's lens. Related....

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? Wilt thou never enjoy an affectionate and contented disposition? Wilt thou never be full and without a want...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:58 AM • 0 Comments •

Comments competition

Category: Housekeeping

Less than 100 comments to go. The lucky 10,000th commenter gets a prize - a choice from the Clock Store or perhaps one of the anthologies.......

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Posted by Coturnix at 12:38 AM • 11 Comments •

Atemporal and ahistorical Google Maps?

Category: Technology

Online maps 'wiping out history': Internet mapping is wiping the rich geography and history of Britain off the map, the president of the British Cartographic Society has said. Mary Spence said internet maps such as Google and Multimap were...

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Posted by Coturnix at 12:00 AM • 9 Comments •

On NPR's Science Friday today

Category: Framing Science

There was a fantastic example of an anti-vaccination caller on this show earlier today - Parents Protest Increase In Required Vaccinations. Please listen to the podcast, especially to the last caller. Prodded over and over again, she displayed more and...

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Posted by Coturnix at 11:52 PM • 4 Comments •

ResearchBlogging.org, v.2.0

Category: Blogging

The cat is out of the bag! The version2.0 of ResearchBlogging.org is ready to go and you can test it out: After a week of late nights and hard coding, our development team has released the beta version of the...

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Posted by Coturnix at 11:29 PM • 0 Comments •

Science Blogging - London 2008

Category: Blogging

The London Science Blogging Conference is about to begin. Check out the Conference Programme the who's who list of attendees and the discussion in the Science Blogging 2008: London NN forums, a FriendFeed room and a Facebook page. We will...

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A week of totally cool science blogging

Category: Science Reporting

While everyone else has been focused on politics this week, several science bloggers posted some amazing posts about, gasp, science! Check these out - amazing weekend reading (and potential anthology entries!): Neurophilosophy: Wilder Penfield, Neural Cartographer: The patient lies on...

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Posted by Coturnix at 7:51 PM • 3 Comments •

Palin?

Category: Politics

Palin is the one I was afraid of. Not much to say. I have collected some good links here - check them out. McCain needed to appease the unhappy base. And he needed to make inroads into the Zero-information "independents"....

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Posted by Coturnix at 7:38 PM • 14 Comments •

My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Unexpected Large Monkey Population Discovered In Cambodia: Tens Of Thousands Of Threatened Primates: A Wildlife Conservation Society report reveals surprisingly large populations of two globally threatened primates in a protected area in Cambodia. 'Pristine' Amazonian Region Hosted Large, Urban Civilization:...

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Posted by Coturnix at 7:21 PM • 0 Comments •

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 12 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 go...

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Posted by Coturnix at 7:16 PM • 0 Comments •

BigThink/DonorsChoose Campaign

Category: Science Education

I have blogged about this a couple of weeks ago (and a couple of weeks before that) and you can see the ads all over scienceblogs.com about it, but let me ask you for one final push on this as...

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Posted by Coturnix at 6:57 PM • 0 Comments •

Just testing my FriendFeed widget....

Category: Technology

Let's see if this works, and if it is too wide for the sidebar:...

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Posted by Coturnix at 4:11 PM • 4 Comments •

Science in the Triangle

Category: Science Reporting

Science in the Triangle is a community service provided by the Museum of Life + Science, in partnership with Blue Pane Studio. There, in one place, you can find news and information about science events and research in the...

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Posted by Coturnix at 11:41 AM • 0 Comments •

Duke Bloggerhood

Category: Blogging

A nice article about Durham bloggers today (it will be on paper later, online for now). Bloggers featured or linked include, among others, my friends Anton Zuiker, Pam Spaulding, Sheril Kirshenbaum and Lenore Ramm....

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Posted by Coturnix at 11:06 AM • 1 Comments •

My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Eyes Evolved For 'X-Ray Vision': Forward-facing Eyes Allow Animals To 'See Through' Clutter In The World: The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D....

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Posted by Coturnix at 10:06 AM • 0 Comments •

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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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Friday Ark #206 is up on Modulator Carnival of Evolution #1 is up on apparently its own site....

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. - Charles Buxton...

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Used postdocs

Category: Academia

There is a new letter to Nature - Postdoc glut means academic pathway needs an overhaul - which I cannot read as I have no access, but others are discussing it on FriendFeed and there have been recent posts on...

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Posted by Coturnix at 12:23 AM • 1 Comments •

Scienceblogs Millionth Comment parties!

Category: Blogging

Yes, you have heard right. There will be parties around the world, wherever SciBlings are, celebrating the one millionth comment on scienceblogs.com, expected to happen some time mid-September. You can meet Sciblings and fellow-readers at parties in Michigan, Oklahoma, Iowa,...

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Posted by Coturnix at 11:44 PM • 4 Comments •

Open Access Day!

Category: Open Science

SPARC, Students for FreeCulture and PLoS are organizing the first ever Open Access Day on October 14, 2008. This is also the 5th birthday of PLoS Biology, the oldest of seven PLoS journals. For this occasion, the organizers have put...

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Posted by Coturnix at 10:12 PM • 1 Comments •

Bored Juno

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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Posted by Coturnix at 9:58 PM • 5 Comments •

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 11 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 go...

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Not shabby at all

Category: Housekeeping

A few minutes ago - 3 million pageviews!...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Unusual Ultrasonic Vocalization Patterns In Mice May Be Useful For Modeling Autism: Scientists have found novel patterns of ultrasonic vocalizations in a genetic mouse model of autism, adding a unique element to the available mouse behaviors that capture components of...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Tangled Bank #112 is up on Science Notes The latest round of the Skeptic's Circle is up on Reduce to Common Sense The 186th edition of the Carnival of Education is up on Sharp Brains Carnival of the Liberals #72...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult. - Elwyn Brooks White...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:58 AM • 0 Comments •

How to Read a Blog post (and books and stuff....)

Category: Books

Interesting post (based on one of my favourite books which may warrant a re-reading after many years - Adler's "How to Read a Book" but adapted to online reading) How to Read by Brian Clark: We know that people don't...

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Posted by Coturnix at 1:00 AM • 4 Comments •

Watch this. Now.

Category: Personal

If the movie does not work for you, watch it here....

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Post-publication Peer-review in PLoS-ONE, pars premiere

Category: PLoS

Why is the letter P the most useful for alliterative titles? But back to the substance. One thing that bugged me for a long time is that I often see on blogs or hear in person a sentiment that "there...

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Posted by Coturnix at 10:30 PM • 5 Comments •

Organizing a conference

Category: Academia

Why don't *You* organize a conference? A scientist should behave as a good citizen in the scientific community. You cannot expect that other colleagues perform all the unpleasant jobs and that you can spent all your time on science. I...

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Posted by Coturnix at 9:56 PM • 2 Comments •

Believe it or not....

Category: Politics

...but I have not seen even one minute of the DNC convention this year. I cannot escape some commentary on blogs and FriendFeed, though, and feel I have enough information. Btw, I may be on TV tonight. News at 11...

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Posted by Coturnix at 9:39 PM • 1 Comments •

Biscuit

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 13 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 go...

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Posted by Coturnix at 6:43 PM • 1 Comments •

My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Carnivals

Bone Parts Don't Add Up To Conclusion Of Hobbit-like Palauan Dwarfs: Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist's undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Four Stone Hearth #48 is up on Tangled Up In Blue Guy Gene Genie #34 is up on MicrobiologyBytes...

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I am assuming this is remnants of Hurricane Faye

Category: North Carolina

We are under tornado watch all day. Barely got the kids to school in the heavy rain this morning. Parts of Chapel Hill flooded, I hear. Not here as Southern Village is on a hill....

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Posted by Coturnix at 9:38 AM • 1 Comments •

Welcome the new SciBling!

Category: Blogging

I knew this for quite a long time and it was hard to keep my lips sealed about this as the news were so exciting. But today, it's official. So, go say Hello to Blake Stacey at Science After Sunclipse,...

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Deep Sea News on Discovery

Category: Blogging

In about a week, Deep Sea News will move to Discoverry blogs: Congratulations to Craig, Peter and Kevin! We'll miss you here, but we will still read you at your new digs....

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. - Rabbinic Saying...

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iNaturalist rocks!

Category: Ecology

Thanks Bill for drawing my attention to iNaturalist which has the makings of an awesome site! What is it? It is essentially a Google Map where people can add pins every time they see an interesting critter: a plant,...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Exploring The Function Of Sleep: Is sleep essential? Ask that question to a sleep-deprived new parent or a student who has just pulled an "all-nighter," and the answer will be a grouchy, "Of course!" But to a sleep scientist, the...

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Posted by Coturnix at 10:46 PM • 1 Comments •

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

Small Scattered Fragments Do Not a Dwarf Make: Biological and Archaeological Data Indicate that Prehistoric Inhabitants of Palau Were Normal Sized: Current archaeological evidence from Palau in western Micronesia indicates that the archipelago was settled around 3000-3300 BP by normal...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Grand Rounds, Volume 4, #49 are up on Rural Doctoring Carnival of the Green #142 is up on Life Goggles The 139th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Life Nurturing Education...

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Victoria Stodden: Open Source Science-Open Research License

Category: Open Science

From SciFoo 08: Victoria Stodden discusses her efforts to create a new license for scientific research which covers both publication and data. She discusses the motivations behind the new license and the issues brought up by releasing scientific research and...

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How do you know in advance what you will discover so you can say so in your grant proposal?

Category: Open Science

Jean-Claude Bradley reviews Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs by Morton A. Meyers. Morton says: An applicant for a research grant is expected to have a clearly defined program for a period of three to five years. Implicit is...

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Court win for Fair Use

Category: Open Science

Judge Rules That Content Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns: A judge's ruling today is a major victory for free speech and fair use on the Internet, and will help protect everyone who creates content for the Web....

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Some interesting data about Impact Factors

Category: Open Science

For those of you interested in the science publishing business, there is an interesting paper out about Impact Factors, where they do the math to try to explain why the IFs are apparentluy always rising from year to year, and...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Cells In Eye Could Help Control Sleep: A set of nerve cells in the eye control our levels of sleepiness according to the brightness of our surroundings, Oxford University researchers have discovered. The cells directly regulate the activity of sleep...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde...

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Obligatory Readings of the Day: Science Outreach and Online Behavior

Category: Science Education

Science promotion is not science outreach, damn it!: We've all encountered this: the science communication department at a large university is usually devoted to marketing the research of that particular university. The so-called "outreach" products of such departments - the...

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Posted by Coturnix at 10:23 PM • 1 Comments •

New and Exciting in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine

Category: Science News

Monday night - time to check out the new articles in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine: Is Sleep Essential?: Everybody knows that sleep is important, yet the function of sleep seems like the mythological phoenix: "Che vi sia ciascun lo...

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Assassin Bugs and Bats

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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Posted by Coturnix at 8:10 PM • 4 Comments •

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 12 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 go...

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Posted by Coturnix at 6:51 PM • 0 Comments •

My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

How 'Secondary' Sex Characters Can Drive The Origin Of Species: The ostentatious, sometimes bizarre qualities that improve a creature's chances of finding a mate may also drive the reproductive separation of populations and the evolution of new species, say...

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Posted by Coturnix at 5:12 PM • 0 Comments •

To those who do not like the democratization of knowledge

Category: Technology

[Comic strip taken from Unshelved] The anti-technology curmudgeons are back. Not just worrying about technology in classrooms (for which Dave has a great response), but culture in general. Nice to see a couple of good responses to the doom-and-gloom...

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Why teaching evolution is dangerous

Category: Ideology

It is so nice teaching biology to adults when there are no (obvious) Creationists in the classroom. It does not always happen that way - I have had a couple of cases in the past - but this time it...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Tiny Cellular Antennae Trigger Neural Stem Cells: Yale University scientists today reported evidence suggesting that the tiny cilia found on brain cells of mammals, thought to be vestiges of a primeval past, actually play a critical role in relaying molecular...

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Posted by Coturnix at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments •

ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

The way you explore complex ecosystems is you try lots of things and you hope that everybody who fails, fails informatively. - Clay Shirky...

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Carrboro Creative Coworking - the pricing list released

Category: North Carolina

You know I am excited about Carrboro Creative Coworking. Looking at the pricing list which was released today, I think there will be a place for me there I can afford.......

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Posted by Coturnix at 9:09 PM • 0 Comments •

Multiple dimensions!

Category: Fun

Totally awesome: Dimensions: Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed! Hat-tip: quixote...

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Posted by Coturnix at 4:36 PM • 3 Comments •

My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Foul Owls Use Feces To Show They Are In Fine Feather: Some years ago, within the Department of Conservation Biology of the Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Seville, Spain), a recently established group (colloquially named...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:51 PM • 0 Comments •

There is no need for a 'Creepy Treehouse' in using the Web in the classroom

Category: Education

I love the way Web works! So, I was on FriendFeed earlier today and I saw through this link there that Paul Jones posted a note on Pownce (on which I am registered but never check) about this article in...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:08 PM • 7 Comments •

Pet food with a high Impact Factor

Category: Fun

But, how many fonts are out there anyway? Or perhaps Nature is secretly diversifying its operations ;-) But what would be the formula for calculating Impact Factor of pet food? d = maximal distance of projectile vomiting t = time...

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Posted by Coturnix at 1:35 PM • 5 Comments •

Blogospheric responses to the Biden pick

Category: Politics

A wide range of opinions: Melissa McEwan: Biden and Shocker: Women Less Enthusiastic Than Men About Biden Melissa McEwan: Obama's small change Jesse Taylor: Obama/Biden Ezra Klein: Winning the argument Joe Trippi: Stay Loose Joe, Stay Loose See the comment...

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Posted by Coturnix at 12:48 PM • 0 Comments •

10 Alternative Ways To Follow Democratic Convention News

Category: Media

Links by Myrna the Minx, something for you to bookmark and use. I'll probably use FriendFeed and visit some of my favourite blogs (including Pam and the Blenders who will be there - see the NYTimes article about the bloggers...

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Posted by Coturnix at 12:07 PM • 2 Comments •

ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:55 AM • 0 Comments •

CollectiveX

Category: Technology

I have no competing interests, nobody is paying me to say nice things, but I have helped set up a CollectiveX group site and it was easy and I like its functionality a lot:...

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Posted by Coturnix at 9:19 PM • 2 Comments •

BlogTogether 2008 Backyard Barbecue

Category: Blogging

Update: Register, login and edit the wiki if you intend to show up tonight. ----------------------- Anton just sent a message to the Triangle blogging community: The annual BlogTogether Backyard Barbecue is this Saturday, August 23 from 5pm on, at my...

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Posted by Coturnix at 8:17 AM • 0 Comments •

My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

With Skate Eyes, Scientists Peer Into Human Disease: Paradoxically, the photoreceptor cells in our retinas release more of their neurotransmitter, glutamate, in the dark, when there is nothing to see, than they do in the light. This is doubly surprising...

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Posted by Coturnix at 7:56 AM • 0 Comments •

ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Egotism, n. Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. - Ambrose Bierce...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:50 AM • 1 Comments •

Veep? WTF?!

Category: Politics

They (meaning: CNN) say it's Biden. Yuck! The old-school hawk whose only 'supposed strength' is foreign policy which he proceeded to show he is ignorant of every night on TV during the 1990s spouting nonsense about the Balkans....

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Posted by Coturnix at 2:12 AM • 9 Comments •

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 7 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 go...

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Posted by Coturnix at 6:52 PM • 0 Comments •

Looking for the mouse...

Category: Technology

Watch what Clay Shirky said at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 (transcript here): The quote that everyone likes, for a good reason, is the following: I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one...

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Posted by Coturnix at 6:13 PM • 3 Comments •

Aggregator of RSS feeds about Gynecology

Category: Medicine

Vedran keeps cranking these at an incredible rate (the first numbers indicate these aggregators are quite comprehensive and the feedback is that they are useful) - here is the latest one: Aggregator of RSS feeds about Gynecology...

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Posted by Coturnix at 5:38 PM • 0 Comments •

Open Source Science - Science and Sharing

Category: Open Science

Michael Nielsen's talk at SciFoo'08:...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:05 PM • 0 Comments •

Comments

Category: Blogging

This blog is slowly approaching a nice round number - 10,000 comments. I know this is not Pharyngula where this would take an hour or two to fill, but still, we can get the remaining 200+ comments in over the...

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Posted by Coturnix at 2:59 PM • 7 Comments •

My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Face Recognition: Nurture Not Nature: Researchers have discovered that our society can influence the way we recognise other people's faces. Because face recognition is effortlessly achieved by people from all different cultures it was considered to be a basic mechanism...

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Posted by Coturnix at 1:48 PM • 1 Comments •

The 21st Century Workplace is wherever you and your laptop happen to be

Category: Society

12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today. As you know, point #4 is one of my pet peeves: 4. People don't have to be in an office. This is the one I wish most businesses would get, right...

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Posted by Coturnix at 1:30 PM • 3 Comments •

Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Edition #82 of I and the Bird is up on Sycamore Canyon Friday Ark #205 is up on Modulator...

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Posted by Coturnix at 1:05 PM • 0 Comments •

Science Olympics!

Category: Fun

My favourite discipline is citation gymnastics! What is yours? Can you invent a new sport?...

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Posted by Coturnix at 12:59 PM • 2 Comments •

Boston Globe on Open Science

Category: Open Science

Boston Globe has an interesting article about Open Science, citing the routine list of worries that usually get associated with this idea, e.g., : But in the world of science - where promotions, tenure, and fortune rest on publishing papers...

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Posted by Coturnix at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments •

Light-Responsive genes in rice

Category: Science News

Friendly blogger Pamela Roland, the author of Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food which I am reading right now (and which was recently reviewed in PLoS Biology), has just had a paper published in PLoS Genetics:...

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Posted by Coturnix at 11:41 AM • 0 Comments •

ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. - Richard Feynman...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:58 AM • 0 Comments •

Tribute to Marbles and OJ

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

by Coturnietta......

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Posted by Coturnix at 11:40 PM • 0 Comments •

Another Kevin's photo-essay from China

Category: Kevin in China

Kevin has just posted another photo-rich report from his herpetology survey in China. Lots of pictures of Chinese landscape, Chinese people, Chinese food, and yes - cool Chinese animals....

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Posted by Coturnix at 9:39 PM • 0 Comments •

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 10 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 go...

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Posted by Coturnix at 4:49 PM • 3 Comments •

Young Scientist Challenge finalists announced

Category: Science Education

Working to empower students nationwide to experiment with science and technology, Discovery Education and 3M are hosting the 10th annual Young Scientist Challenge (YSC). Moving closer to recognizing "America's Top Young Scientist of the Year" and "America's Top Science Teacher...

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Posted by Coturnix at 4:33 PM • 1 Comments •

Science Idol Cartoon Contest Winner

Category: Science Education

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) announced the winner of its 2008 "Science Idol: Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest," which draws attention to the growing problem of political interference in federal government science. Justin Bilicki, of Brooklyn, New York has...

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Posted by Coturnix at 4:31 PM • 2 Comments •

'The Scientist' is Magazine of the Year

Category: Science Reporting

The Scientist just won the Azbee Award for Magazine of the Year, awarded by American Society of Business Publications Editors. Congratulations!...

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Posted by Coturnix at 4:26 PM • 0 Comments •

I'll be there in about an hour - will you?

Category: Science Reporting

Sure, we've done the high-brow lectures and geek-out tours, but what really gets the old SCONC juices flowing is mingling, meeting new faces and trading some business cards. Please join us to hob-nob (and maybe find a job) with science...

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Posted by Coturnix at 4:17 PM • 1 Comments •

Squishables

Category: Fun

Remember when I wrote about Squishables? They have arrived! Left to right: puppy, panda, penguin and hedgehog (guess what is whose):...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:15 PM • 2 Comments •

Max Planck Society to support publication charges for PLoS journals.

Category: PLoS

This is big! A new agreement was signed between Max Planck Society and Public Library of Science in which the MPS will pay publication fees for its researchers. Mark Patterson explains: The MPS is one of the world's leading research...

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Posted by Coturnix at 3:02 PM • 3 Comments •

Carrboro Creative Coworking is a Go!

Category: North Carolina

Carrboro Creative Coworking, a brilliant local project spearheaded by Brian Russell, is now a reality. The lease has been signed! Carrboro Creative Coworking now has a lease for office space at 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101 in downtown Carrboro! It's...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Tailor-made Functional Garments For Olympic Horses: When the horses and competitors go through their paces at the Summer Olympics in Hong Kong in 2008, it will be very hot and very humid - just as it is every summer there....

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Change of Shift Vol 3, Number Four is up on Emergiblog The 138th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Janice Campbell's blog There is a new carnival of African skeptics - Carnival of the Africans. Check it out....

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - H. Jackson Brown...

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Eat this!

Category: Fun

There is this food meme going around everywhere, so I checked out what Chad, Archy, Mark CC and Rev. BigDumbChimp picked. I have to admit I had to use Google for a lot of these, often realizing that I have,...

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New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 12 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 go...

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To Equine Things There is a Season (guest post by Barn Owl)

Category: Clock Zoo

As I announced this morning, there will be several guest posts here over the next several weeks. The first one, by Barn Owl of the lovely Guadalupe Storm-Petrel blog, is likely to appeal to a lot of my readers as...

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How to get scientists to adopt web 2.0 technologies - Obligatory Reading of the Day

Category: Open Science

Eva Amsen: How to get scientists to adopt web 2.0 technologies: Many, if not most, scientists are not in the habit of putting things online. The ones that are might be tempted by the concept of sharing the papers they...

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How to moderate a conference panel

Category: Academia

Jeremiah Owyang: How to Successfully Moderate a Conference Panel, A Comprehensive Guide Not all of it is applicable to an unconference like ScienceOnline'09, but lots of nuggets of wisdom in there....

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Geeks for Government!

Category: Politics

Jessica reminds us that several scientists and geeks (i.e., Web designers and programmers) are running for various political offices this year. Some of them even got together on an ActBlue Geek Page. Of them all, I particularly like the savvy...

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Science/Nature things to do with the kids in the Triangle, NC

Category: Science Education

I meant to write a detailed post about places to go and things to do with a focus on science/nature at the beginning of summer but never made it. But I am glad that Tracy did it for me. In...

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Guest Posts on A Blog Around The Clock

Category: Blogging

You all loved it when my Mom wrote two 5-part series of guest-posts. You remember the exciting reports from herpetology survey by Kevin when he was in China. My friend Heinrich wrote two guest-posts about sleep. And most recently Anne-Marie...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book. - Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Grand Rounds 4.48. are up on Six Until Me Carnival of the Godless #98 is up on Letters from a broad......

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New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 45 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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Drinking Age?

Category: Society

Yup, I've been hearing about this Amethyst Initiative about lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 and wondered if I should blog about it from my perspective. Then I saw that Jake wrote a good post about it (and...

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Animal Behavior

Category: Fun

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NC Gubernatorial Debate Tonight

Category: North Carolina

Support Beverly Purdue: Bev and Pat McCrory will face each other tonight in the second televised debate of the general election. The debate will be broadcast live at 8pm on WTVD in the Triangle area and streamed live on ABC11.com....

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Sweets Make Young Horses Harder To Train, Study Finds: Young horses may be easier to train if they temporarily lay off the sweets, says a Montana State University study where two-year-olds wore pedometers, wrist watches and Ace bandages. A commercial...

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PLoS ONE on FriendFeed

Category: PLoS

Last night I made another room in FriendFeed - PLoS ONE in the Media/Blogs. I made it primarily for my own use, linking to the media and blog coverage of PLoS ONE papers so I can have everything in one...

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ClockQuotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. - Gustave Flaubert...

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When AP makes a funny typo.

Category: Humor

Try this search but click on "Sorted by date with duplicates included": (Click here to see enlarged) Hat-tip to Anonymoses (also see Kevin Z)...

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NPR interview with Nancy Olson

Category: Books

I was just on my way to Raleigh this morning, among other errands also heading to Quail Ridge Books to pick up a book there, when I heard Nancy Olson's interview on NPR's The State Of Things. Very nice interview...

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BIO101 again

Category: Science Education

When I got a job a year ago, I decided not to quit teaching, but just to "ease up" a little bit. So, I taught the lab (BIO102) my regular 4-5 times per year on Saturday mornings, but took a...

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