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I am the Online Community Manager at PLoS ONE. 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. This is a personal blog and opinions within in no way reflect the policies of PLoS ONE. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com


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September 30, 2008

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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Bloggers at the Zoo - movies #5

Category: Blogging

Another five........

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Inside Duke Medicine

Category: Medicine

If you came to either the first or the second Science Blogging Conference (or both) you may remember that, among other goodies in your swag bag, you also got a copy or two of Inside Duke Medicine, the employee publication...

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Bats eat birds - join the discussion

Category: Animal Behavior

As the month of September is coming to a close, and the topic of the month in PLoS ONE is bats, we decided to end the focus with a Journal Club. Starting today, and lasting a week, there will be...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 2 are up on Monash medical student...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

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Bloggers at the Zoo - movies #4

Category: Blogging

Another five clips:...

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Nature Network bloggers at ScienceOnline'09

Category: SO'09

Nature Network will be much better represented this year than last year, I am happy to report. This early in the game, we already have four registrants, coming from four different countries and making our meeting very international! Anna...

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

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

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September 29, 2008

New and Exciting in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine

Category: Science News

Under the fold:...

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Bloggers at the Zoo - movies #3

Category: Blogging

Here are another five clips (out of a total of 47) from the Millionth Comment party at the NC Zoo:...

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The advantages of thin layer chromatography in Middle Ages

Category: Fun

Viral video marketing of science instruments seems to be flurishing: Monty Python and the Holy Instrument:...

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The hook-up culture

Category: Society

Amanda is in the middle of reading Michael Kimmel's Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men and has posted the first, preliminary review, with some very interesting explorations by the commenters as well (I guess the MRAs did not...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

The Accretionary Wedge #13: Geology in Space - is up on goodSchist Encephalon #55 is up on Neuroscientifically Challenged Berry Go Round #9 is up on Gravity's Rainbow Friday Ark #210 is up on Modulator Carnival of the Green #147...

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Aerosteon riocoloradensis - the new dinosaur with hollow bones

Category: Paleontology

I always get excited when Paul Sereno publishes a paper in PLoS ONE and today is one such day - his third paper in this journal within a span of less than a year (the first was the paper with...

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'Normal' body temperature? Not really.

Category: Rhythmic Human

Once a year, I go back to my alma mater and do a guest lecture about biological clocks in an Anatomy & Physiology class. Knowing how many pre-meds are among the 200 students in the room, I try to start...

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SciBlings at ScienceOnline'09

Category: SO'09

You may remember how last two years I introduced all registrants for the blogging conferences, 2-3 people per day. I decided this year to do it less often, but to introduce more people in each post. Let me start...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

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Bloggers at the Zoo - movies #2

Category: Blogging

Another 5 (out of 47) short clips from the Millionth Party at the NC Zoo:...

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion. - Thomas Jefferson...

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September 28, 2008

Bloggers at the Zoo - movies #1

Category: Blogging

When we met at the Zoo we took 47 short movie clips. Here are the first five and I will post the rest over the next few days:...

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Five stages of a blogger's life

Category: Humor

From here. Which stage are you in?...

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Open Laboratory 2008 - submissions so far

Category: OpenLab08

We are busy preparing for The Open Laboratory 2008. The submissions have been trickling in all year, and a little bit more frequently recently, but it is time now to dig through your Archives for your best posts since December...

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up....

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September 27, 2008

New and Exciting in PLoS this week

Category: Science News

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

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Juno and Biscuit playing

Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Q: why does my daughter gets inspired to shoot movies exactly on those days when the house is a total mess?...

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Shimmering Bees

Category: Animal Behavior

The PLoS ONE paper about the way shimmering wave behavior in honeybees repels hornets, as discussed by high-school students here, has an aaccompanying video of the behavior on YouTube:...

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Today in Greensboro, NC

Category: North Carolina

I should have gone. Greensboro is barely an hour from here. If I did, I would have heard this:...

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Hadron Collider - how does it work?

Category: Science Education

Watch this informative video (sorry, could not find a way to embed it here). Oh, should have known it existed also on YouTube (thanks Greg):...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Earth's Magnetic Field Reversals Illuminated By Lava Flows Study: Earth's north magnetic pole is shifting and weakening. Ancient lava flows are guiding a better understanding of what generates and controls the Earth's magnetic field - and what may drive it...

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.In times when the passions are beginning to take charge of the conduct of human affairs, one should pay less attention to what...

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September 26, 2008

A fable about the Frog and the Salamander

Category: Animal Behavior

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Where to watch the debate tonight

Category: Technology

C-Span's Debate Hub is better than twitter, or so they say. I'll watch it on TV at a neighbor's house, then come back and see what the folks on FriendFeed and around the blogs say as well....

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Do we need a bloggers ethics panel?

Category: Media

Remember this? Well, apparently that blog post (not mine, but the source) raised quite a lot of hackles, so much that the PBS Obmudsman had to step in and try to explain: But, I have serious problems with the episode...

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'If Blogging Had No Ethics, Blogging Would Have Failed'

Category: Blogging

Jay Rosen. Makes you think. Watch the video here (no idea why there is no embed code#$%%^&*) and read the accompanying blog post here. The number one reason why journalists should blog is that it tutors you in how the...

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The funny graph of the day

Category: Humor

From here:...

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100!

Category: SO'09

This morning, the 100th person registered for ScienceOnline'09. That is about half the capacity of Sigma Xi. We got there fast! Don't waver and wait too long - this may fill up sooner than expected!...

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Bat and moth

Category: Animal Behavior

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Bankers sometimes look on politicians as people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel. - John Quinton...

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September 25, 2008

Somebody had to do this....

Category: Humor

It was inevitable - took just a few hours (you need to listen, not just watch):...

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Oooops! McCain lost the most rabid voters.

Category: Humor

Rabies themselves! We are a proud group of rabies. We are not a rabid group. And we rarely engage in rabid rabble rousing. As a commonly misunderstood virus which supports the Barack Obama candidacy, we've formed an alliance of rabies...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Bats Pick Up Rustling Sounds Against Highway Background Noise: When bats go hunting by listening for faint rustling sounds made by their quarry on a quiet night they don't have any problems. But what happens when a bat goes foraging...

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Sarah Silverman rocks (NSWF)

Category: Fun

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo....

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Oooops!

Category: Fun

The cover graphics designer at Nature is not going to sleep very well tonight (and will, in the future, always open up the mag to see both the front and back covers at the same time), after making this gaffe:...

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ScienceOnline'09 - The Program

Category: SO'09

With almost a hundred people already signed up for ScienceOnline'09, we are busily working on the Program. But we do not want to force a program on you - we want you to help design the program that you...

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The Divine Right of Capital

Category: Politics

At the time of complicated economic and financial news, I am reminded that the economic system and the financial system are quite separate in this country. The proposed bailout of the financial system only tangentially affects the economy - banks...

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Congratulations

Category: Balkans

To Irena Ilic (see here) for winning the Junior Division of the Show Jumping Balkans Championship a couple of weeks ago in Istanbul....

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Zerhouni to step down

Category: Academia

As you may have already heard, Alias Zerhouni will step down from his position of the NIH director in October, not waiting for the inauguration of a new Administration. He has been a strong and effective proponent of Open Access...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Skeptic's Circle #96 is up on Endcycle Also, it's time for you to write and submit posts (or submit other people's posts that you have noticed recently) for The Giant's Shoulders (October 15th on Second Order Approximation) and Praxis (on...

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How Should We Call Them?

Category: Politics

A follow-up on last night's repost (originally from April 06, 2005)......

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw...

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Oh! He is one of those students?!

Category: Humor

The The funniest response to today's McCain gambit...

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Lawrence Lessig compares Sarah Palin to every vice president in U.S. history

Category: Politics

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September 24, 2008

'Advancing Science Through Conversations' article - summary of the blogospheric responses

Category: Blogging

The PLoS Biology article about science blogs and their (potential) relationship to the academic institutions has, as expected, received quite a lot of coverage in the blogosphere. Nick collects the responses and responds to the responses - join in the...

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New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 6 new articles in PLoS ONE today - and one of them has nothing to do with biology or medicine (ONE is meant to be for all areas of science, after all). As always, you should rate the...

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Debate! Open Access for the Public

Category: Open Science

Go to Mimi's place and state your position: For a long time, if you wanted to read up on science news or get background information for research, you had to hope that the media got it right, have a subscription...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Formula Discovered For Longer Plant Life: Molecular biologists from Tuebingen, Germany, have discovered how the growth of leaves and the aging process of plants are coordinated. Human Or Animal Faces Associated With At Least 90 Percent Of Cars By One-third...

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Letterman tonight

Category: Fun

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Regressives

Category: Politics

An oldie (March 28, 2005) but goodie, bound to stir up the comment section.............

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Four Stone Hearth #50 is up on Yann Klimentidis' Weblog Carnival of Feminists #65 is up on Green Gabbro Grand Rounds 5.1 - 5th Year Anniversary Edition - are up on Revolution Health 74th Edition of Carnival of the Liberals...

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ConvergeSouth program change

Category: Technology

Since BlogHer cancelled several parts of their Fall Tour, including the one in Greensboro, this does not mean that you go home on Friday night after ConvergeSouth as there WILL be a Saturday program, says Sue....

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Science beyond individual understanding?

Category: Open Science

Michael Nielsen wrote another long thought-provoking essay (for his book, I guess): ............Two clarifications are in order. First, when I say that these are examples of scientific facts beyond individual understanding, I'm not saying a single person can't understand the...

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Creating an Open Forum to Advance Global Health and Social Justice

Category: Open Science

At Harvard, a week ago: Recap: Wednesday's Health and Human Rights Discussion Yesterday afternoon at the Loeb Theater, Harvard hosted a forum celebrating the tenth edition of their journal Health and Human Rights. This edition is the journal's first to...

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North Carolina?

Category: Politics

Last week, Charlotte NC got to see Joe Biden, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama on three separate occasions. The TV (so they tell me) is full of campaign ads by both Obama and McCain. Now, Obama and Biden are appearing...

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Will this break my blog?

Category: Fun

Here: Apparently not - it won't embed so check it out at the link above......

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ScienceOnline09 - how can you help?

Category: SO'09

As the conference has grown from one to almost three days, and already more then 90 people have registered, we need your help - so offer to volunteer. What can you do? * Spread the word: use online and...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Under the fold.......

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The Perils of Ideological Continua and Coordinate Systems

Category: Politics

This post (from January 14, 2005) is how I see the political/ideological landscape in the USA....

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. - Maya Angelou...

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What 'Bout Them Libertarians?

Category: Politics

This is an old anti-Libertarian screed (from December 2004) that is bound to attract trolls (and traffic).......

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September 23, 2008

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

Category: Science News

There are 9 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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ScienceOnline09 - how do you keep up with us?

Category: SO'09

During the months of preparation, as well as during the event itself, your starting point, for sure, is the ScienceOnline'09 wiki - you can always check the "Recent Changes" button, or watch as the Blog and Media Coverage page...

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Congratulations to danah boyd!

Category: Technology

danah boyd was hired by Microsoft, where she will have freedom to continue her research on online social networks at Microsoft Research New England in Boston. Congrats, danah!...

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Today is OneWebDay

Category: Technology

OneWebDay is.... ....an Earth Day for the internet. The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a...

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Femiphobia and Race

Category: Ideology

This provocative stream-of-consciousness post was first posted on April 17, 2005....

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. - Rene Descartes...

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September 22, 2008

Two old posts about Hillary Clinton

Category: Politics

I wrote this on January 28, 2006. Was I wrong then? Is that wrong now? Have things changed in the meantime? Lefty Blogosphere and the Love/Hate of Hillary...

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New and Exciting in PLoS today

Category: Science News

So, let's see what's new in PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology and PLoS ONE today. First, my SciBlings Shelley, Nick and Tara just published a PLoS Biology article about science blogs: Advancing Science through Conversations: Bridging the Gap between Blogs and...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Under the fold.......

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Blogrolling - Letter F

Category: Housekeeping

Continuing with asking for your help in fixing my Blogroll: Every couple of days or so, I will post here a list of blogs that start with a particular letter, and you add in the comments if you know of...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Carnival of Space #71 is up on dot astronomy Carnival of the Green # 146 is up on The Green Guy...

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ScienceOnline'09 - be a sponsor

Category: SO'09

Are you or your company/organization in a position to sponsor the conference? It is organized and run by volunteers, registration is free, but putting this together still takes some money and effort. For this, we rely on our sponsors...

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Open Laboratory 2008 - submissions so far

Category: OpenLab08

The Open Laboratory 2008 is in the works. The submissions have been trickling in all year, but it is time now to dig through your Archives for your best posts since December 20th 2007 and submit them. Submit one, or...

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I Want Bigger Government!

Category: Politics

An oldie but goodie for the connoisseurs of my long political rants (May 11, 2005):...

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Remember how long thou hast been putting off these things, and how often thou hast received an opportunity from the gods, and yet dost not use it. Thou must now at last perceive of what universe thou art a part,...

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September 21, 2008

BlogOpen-South East, regional friendly and professional meeting of bloggers

Category: Blogging

Danica announced: The third BlogOpen: meeting of all the participants in blogosphere (from authors, readers, IT workers to mainstream media) will happen on October 4-5 in in Bor, Brestovacka banja, Serbia. Main goals of this public meeting are: 1. Discussion...

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Help Biology teachers use blogs in the classroom

Category: Science Education

Miss Hoffman is using her blog for the second year in a row - she would like to see some guest-posts. Miss Baker can use some of your help: I would be excited to see scientists contribute to student-run science...

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Two Americas: Past, Present and Future

Category: Politics

This post from November 26, 2004 was my fourth (out of five), and longest, analysis of the 2004 election. With Balkans and Creationism sprinkled in. How did it stand the test of time over the past 3.5 years?...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Under the fold.......

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Dr. Mom, a book review in The Scientist

Category: Academia

A new book explores the challenges of balancing motherhood and a career in science: Editor Emily Monosson has collected the voices and personal stories of 34 mother-scientists working in various fields. In eloquent and often witty essays, these women...

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Amy Harmon answers reader questions

Category: Science Reporting

Amy Harmon, a national correspondent covering the impact of science and technology on American life, answered questions from readers Sept. 15-19.: Talk to the Newsroom: Amy Harmon: Ms. Harmon, who won a Pulitzer Prize this year for her series, "The...

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Science, Art, Education, Communication

Category: Science Education

The September 2007 issue of JCOM - Journal of Science Communication - (issue 3, volume 7) is online.: Next issue will be online on the 18th December 2008. There are several articles in this issue that I find interesting and...

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A non-biological biological clock

Category: Time

A clock is supposed to tell time. Furthermore, it is supposed to do it accurately and precisely. These days, it is not too difficult to build a mechanical, quartz, digital or atomic clock that is marvelously accurate and precise. But...

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ScienceOnline'09 - Wow! Again.

Category: SO'09

Just six days after we opened registration for ScienceOnline'09 there are already 52 registrants! And some more people are blogging about it: 49 percent: Random Biochemicalsoul: Science Blogging Conference in Research Triangle Park, NC! Catalogue of Organisms: Open Lab 2008...

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Pictures from the Zoo, part IV

Category: Fun

Under the fold.......

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Pictures from the Zoo, part III

Category: Fun

Under the fold.......

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Pictures from the Zoo, part II

Category: Fun

Under the fold.......

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Pictures from the Zoo, part I

Category: Blogging

Under the fold.......

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to...

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Bloggers at the Zoo!

Category: Blogging

The North Carolina scienceblogging contingent celebrated the millionth comment at the NC Zoo in Asheboro yesterday. We met at 1pm and were first greeted by the Executive Director of the NC Zoological Society, Russ Williams, who also runs a...

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September 20, 2008

Books: "The Good Father: On Men, Masculinity, and Life in the Family" by Mark O'Connel

Category: Politics

It is great when you write a blog post about somebody, then that somebody shows up in the comments and clarifies his position thus starting an interesting conversation (both in the comments and via e-mail), then you realize that his book-signing tour is bringing that somebody to your town, so you go there and meet that somebody in person and have a great conversation, which inspires you to write yet another blog post - the one under the fold....

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld...

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September 19, 2008

Stephanie Coontz On Marriage

Category: Ideology

You probably know that I am quite interested in the history, current state, evolution and future of the institution of marriage, mainly because it is an important indicator of societal attitudes towards sex and towards gender-relations, which is the...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Political Views Affect Firms' Corporate Social Responsibility, Study Finds: A new study in The Financial Review establishes a relationship between political beliefs of corporate stakeholders and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of their firms. Companies with a high CSR rating...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

Corpus callosum: 1st edition of open science round-up is up on I was lost but now I live here Change of Shift Vol. 3 No. 6 is up on crzegrl, flight nurse Friday Ark #209 is up on Modulator...

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ACTION: let's kill this anti-OA bill before it's even born!

Category: Open Science

You probably remember the wonderful new NIH law that passed last year: On Dec 26th, 2007, President Bush signed the Bill that requires all NIH-funded research to be made available to the public. The bill mandates all NIH-funded research to...

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Books: "The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity" by Stephen J. Ducat

Category: Ideology

This is not a real review - I never got to writing it - but it is about a book I mention quite often in my blog posts and think is one of the most insightful about the conservative mindset....

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living; and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

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September 18, 2008

Last chance to party!

Category: Blogging

The North Carolina part of the Millionth Comment party is this Saturday at the Zoo! If you intend to come, please sign up here so we can have a head-count and provide you with free zoo tickets, then show up...

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More on the Creationist school board in Brunswick Co, NC

Category: Creationism

The story about Creationist school board in Brunswick Co, NC is now getting some legs: Brunswick school board to consider creationism teaching: The board allowed Fanti to speak longer than he was allowed, and at the end of his speech...

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Bats in the attic at dusk

Category: Animal Behavior

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Take a Child Outside Week

Category: Science Education

From today's Carrboro Citizen: Next week, Sep 24-30, is "Take a Child Outside Week," and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has planned some specific activities to promote awareness (www.naturalsciences.org). A visit to the Museum of Natural Sciences in...

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Nurturant is not Coddly!

Category: Ideology

I wrote this on September 21, 2004, as a reaction to the misunderstanding of Lakoff's term "Nurturant Parent". Slightly edited (eliminated bad links and such)....

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I get silly e-mails

Category: Pseudoscience

Hmmm, they did not actually see the blog - if they did they would notice it has been abandoned more than two years ago and that the top post says, in large bold letters: "This Blogs Is Dead!". And they...

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Programming note

Category: Housekeeping

I tend not to delete comments (except for obvious spam) or ban commenters. If you post more than one link, I will rescue your comment out of the Junk Folder once I discover it there, no matter how much I...

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Obama Campaign Reveals Science Advisors

Category: Politics

So says WIRED: Barack Obama has established a small but well-regarded inner circle of science advisors that includes a vocal critic of creationism, a Nobel laureate who has championed open-access research, and another laureate who used his prize money...

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The Science Creative Quarterly contest

Category: Blogging

Write a cool, fun, funny scienc-ey post and send it to SCQ and you can get a kids science book: The SCQ is pleased to announce that the winner of the last book was Alex Roger's "Astro I Reference Notes."...

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Science Blogging, etc.

Category: Blogging

A nice article in The Economist today, about science blogging, Science 2.0 and publishing: User-generated science: By itself this is unlikely to bring an overhaul of scientific publishing. Dr Bly points to a paradox: the internet was created for and...

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New and Exciting in PLoS this week

Category: Science News

Now that PLoS ONE is publishing daily (OK, not really, only on work-days, i.e., 5 times a week), I have been pointing to my picks every day. Let's look at what has been published there last night and tonight...

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Today's carnivals

Category: Carnivals

I and the Bird #84 is up on Audubon Birdscapes...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

It's All In The Hips: Early Whales Used Well Developed Back Legs For Swimming, Fossils Show: The crashing of the enormous fluked tail on the surface of the ocean is a "calling card" of modern whales. Living whales have no...

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Nationalism is not Patriotism

Category: Ideology

Here's another topic seen through the Lakoffian looking glass (July 23, 2005):...

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good it is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who...

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September 17, 2008

Spaceship toilet - how does it work?

Category: Fun

What Happens When You Go Number 2 in Space?: [Hat-tip]...

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Nationalism and Patriotism

Category: Politics

A repost from July 6, 2006:...

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And yet another political roundup...

Category: Politics

Under the fold:...

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ScienceOnline'09 - Wow!

Category: SO'09

Just two days after we opened registration for ScienceOnline'09 there are already 32 registrants! And some people are blogging about it: A Blog Around The Clock: Get your calendars... A Blog Around The Clock: Will there be a Third Science...

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I am Coturnix and I approve this message

Category: Fun

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Ouz Nouz! Fear at Cape Fear!

Category: Creationism

Not in my back yard! It appears that some people are, erm, a little behind the times down in Brunswick County. That dog will not hunt, though, as it has no legal legs to run on, as PZ explains -...

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Praxis #2

Category: Carnivals

After a brisk evacuation from Texas ahead of Hurricane Ike, Rock Doctor came back and posted the second edition of Praxis, the blog carnival about the world of science and the people living in it....

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

Fastest Flights In Nature: High-speed Spore Discharge Mechanisms Among Fungi: Microscopic coprophilous or dung-loving fungi help make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of feces produced by herbivores. But the fungi have a problem: survival depends upon...

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Nature Blogging

Category: Blogging

There is a nice article about science/nature blogging in Canberra Times. Several bloggers are mentioned, including Grrrl, Greg and Henry. There is the perpetual mix-up