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September 30, 2008
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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Category: Blogging
Another five........
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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...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:07 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:30 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Carnivals
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 2 are up on Monash medical student...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:12 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Blogging
Another five clips:...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:59 AM • 0 Comments •
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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Category: Clock Quotes
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. - Gustave Flaubert...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:56 AM • 1 Comments •
September 29, 2008
Category: Science News
Under the fold:...
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Category: Blogging
Here are another five clips (out of a total of 47) from the Millionth Comment party at the NC Zoo:...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:22 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Fun
Viral video marketing of science instruments seems to be flurishing: Monty Python and the Holy Instrument:...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:07 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:11 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:43 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:12 PM • 7 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:16 PM • 4 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:44 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Blogging
Another 5 (out of 47) short clips from the Millionth Party at the NC Zoo:...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:07 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:52 AM • 2 Comments •
September 28, 2008
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:...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:26 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Humor
From here. Which stage are you in?...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:16 PM • 10 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:24 PM • 0 Comments •
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....
Posted by Coturnix at 3:55 AM • 1 Comments •
September 27, 2008
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:48 PM • 0 Comments •
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?...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:59 PM • 0 Comments •
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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Category: North Carolina
I should have gone. Greensboro is barely an hour from here. If I did, I would have heard this:...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:17 PM • 7 Comments •
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):...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:42 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:37 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:53 AM • 0 Comments •
September 26, 2008
Category: Animal Behavior
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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....
Posted by Coturnix at 8:21 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:53 PM • 4 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:25 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Humor
From here:...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:53 AM • 2 Comments •
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!...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:33 AM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:57 AM • 1 Comments •
September 25, 2008
Category: Humor
It was inevitable - took just a few hours (you need to listen, not just watch):...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:10 PM • 9 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:49 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:27 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Fun
The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo....
Posted by Coturnix at 4:57 PM • 0 Comments •
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:...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:33 PM • 22 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:03 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:03 AM • 2 Comments •
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....
Posted by Coturnix at 10:25 AM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:08 AM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:45 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Politics
A follow-up on last night's repost (originally from April 06, 2005)......
Posted by Coturnix at 6:10 AM • 4 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:52 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Humor
The The funniest response to today's McCain gambit...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:58 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Politics
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September 24, 2008
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:49 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:47 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:35 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:24 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Politics
An oldie (March 28, 2005) but goodie, bound to stir up the comment section.............
Posted by Coturnix at 10:08 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:58 PM • 0 Comments •
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....
Posted by Coturnix at 6:39 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:35 PM • 5 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:14 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:54 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Fun
Here: Apparently not - it won't embed so check it out at the link above......
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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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:12 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science News
Under the fold.......
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Category: Politics
This post (from January 14, 2005) is how I see the political/ideological landscape in the USA....
Posted by Coturnix at 5:51 AM • 5 Comments •
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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Category: Politics
This is an old anti-Libertarian screed (from December 2004) that is bound to attract trolls (and traffic).......
Posted by Coturnix at 12:40 AM • 2 Comments •
September 23, 2008
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:09 PM • 3 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:40 AM • 0 Comments •
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!...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:03 AM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:59 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Ideology
This provocative stream-of-consciousness post was first posted on April 17, 2005....
Posted by Coturnix at 5:57 AM • 2 Comments •
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
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:48 PM • 5 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:28 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science News
Under the fold.......
Posted by Coturnix at 6:38 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:34 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Carnivals
Carnival of Space #71 is up on dot astronomy Carnival of the Green # 146 is up on The Green Guy...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:29 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:07 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:56 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Politics
An oldie but goodie for the connoisseurs of my long political rants (May 11, 2005):...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:10 AM • 0 Comments •
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,...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:56 AM • 0 Comments •
September 21, 2008
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:34 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:55 PM • 5 Comments •
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?...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:06 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Science News
Under the fold.......
Posted by Coturnix at 9:36 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:31 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:53 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:41 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:15 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:23 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Fun
Under the fold.......
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Category: Fun
Under the fold.......
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Category: Fun
Under the fold.......
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Category: Blogging
Under the fold.......
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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...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:54 AM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:05 AM • 2 Comments •
September 20, 2008
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....
Posted by Coturnix at 5:53 AM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:55 AM • 0 Comments •
September 19, 2008
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:58 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:43 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:41 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:20 PM • 5 Comments •
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....
Posted by Coturnix at 5:51 AM • 5 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:54 AM • 0 Comments •
September 18, 2008
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:01 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:52 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:53 PM • 1 Comments •
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)....
Posted by Coturnix at 9:34 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:19 PM • 4 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:05 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:52 PM • 2 Comments •
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."...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:47 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:20 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:55 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Carnivals
I and the Bird #84 is up on Audubon Birdscapes...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:54 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:45 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Ideology
Here's another topic seen through the Lakoffian looking glass (July 23, 2005):...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:57 AM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:00 AM • 0 Comments •
September 17, 2008
Category: Fun
What Happens When You Go Number 2 in Space?: [Hat-tip]...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:39 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Politics
A repost from July 6, 2006:...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:53 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Politics
Under the fold:...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:48 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:57 PM • 4 Comments •
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 -...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:04 PM • 1 Comments •
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....
Posted by Coturnix at 5:09 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:14 PM • 0 Comments •
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