Comrade Moore: Barack Obama is the furthest thing from a socialist candidate
Category: Politics
Posted by Coturnix at 10:17 PM • 2 Comments •
Search this blog
Profile
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
Join us at ScienceOnline'09
Buy the 2007 Science Blogging Anthology:
Buy the 2006 Science Blogging Anthology:
Recent Posts
- Five-Fiftysix meme
- Triangle Blogger Meetup
- My picks from ScienceDaily
- Coral disease outbreaks and warming waters
- Clock Quotes
- The Open Laboratory 2008 - all the submissions fit to print
- Today's carnivals
- ScienceOnline'09 on the Radio!
- Plant a Seed in every classroom
- New and Exciting in PLoS this week
Recent Comments
- Dan Howitt on Oooops!
- Coturnix on Today's carnivals
- John Pieret on Today's carnivals
- petey on Doesn't reading about this make you salivate?
- Greg Laden on Five-Fiftysix meme
- Coturnix on Circadian Quackery
- Mara on Circadian Quackery
- Scott Keir on The Open Laboratory 2008 - only half a month remains!
- Karen James on The Open Laboratory 2008 - all the submissions fit to print
- Cormac O' Raifeartaigh on The Open Laboratory 2008 - all the submissions fit to print
Archives
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
Blogroll
Subscribe via Email
Stay abreast of your favorite bloggers' latest and greatest via e-mail, via a daily digest.
My Old Stuff
Make Me Happy
Add Scienceblogs to your Technorati Favorites!
Make Me Solvent
I Support
Bloggie Stuff
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
October 31, 2008
Happy Hallo-Meme
Category: Fun
After making several potential designs in silico, my daughter chose one and we carved it. In order to participate in the Happy Hallo-Meme, we brought out the camera - first picture immediately after, the second once the darkness arrived and...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:41 PM • 0 Comments •
Strikes a chord....
Category: Science News
Mathematician Cracks Mystery Beatles Chord: It's the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison's 12-string Rickenbacker. It evokes a Pavlovian response from music fans as they sing along...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:40 PM • 5 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, PLoS ONE 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...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:26 PM • 0 Comments •
Are you still struggling with EndNote? How quaint....
Category: Open Science
Duncan Hull and colleagues just published an excellent, must-read article - Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web: Many scientists now manage the bulk of their bibliographic information electronically, thereby organizing their publications and citation material...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:12 PM • 4 Comments •
Is Class Warfare Real?
Category: Politics
Apart from the rhetoric, apparently not: The election is right around the corner, and voters around the country have been subjected to politicians, pundits and commercials laden with allegations of class warfare and claims about which candidates cater to...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:44 PM • 1 Comments •
Open Laboratory 2008 - just one month left for your entries!
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 11:22 AM • 0 Comments •
DonorsChoose - the final day!
Category: Education
Today is the last day! I know most of my readers are donating to Obama this year, but still, my challenge is on the very bottom of the Scienceblogs.com list.......
Posted by Coturnix at 9:47 AM • 0 Comments •
Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
Friday Ark #215 - Trick or Treat - is up on Modulator...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:18 AM • 0 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before. - Margaret Mead...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:59 AM • 1 Comments •
October 30, 2008
Atheists - the last U.S. minority that can be openly maligned without consequence
Category: Atheism
I am sure that you have already heard about the despicable TV ad that Elizabeth Dole aired against Kay Hagan. You probably heard about it online, perhaps on Twitter or FriendFeed or blogs. Here's a quick selection: My godless money....
Posted by Coturnix at 8:16 PM • 7 Comments •
Carve your pumpkin...
Category: Fun
....using the Pumpkin Simulator:...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:28 PM • 1 Comments •
Juno is ready for Halloween
Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
She'll be a honeybee:...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:09 PM • 3 Comments •
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Category: Science News
There are 33 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 3:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Some North Carolina politics....
Category: North Carolina
On the Road: Charlotte, North Carolina: An observation we've heard repeated in Obama offices across America, Crandall emphasized how beneficial the contested primary had been for building the foundation for record turnout. "We had real hints of it in the...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:39 PM • 1 Comments •
Kids, share your toys!
Category: Politics
In the end, I could not make it to the Obama rally in Raleigh, but other bloggers did. If I did, I would have been one of the 28000 people to be the first to hear the "peanut butter and...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:51 PM • 2 Comments •
Schneier on Voting Machine Security
Category: Technology
Ed Cone interviews the security guru Bruce Schneier about voting machines: There are a couple of reasons that things like automatic teller machines and gas pumps are more secure. The first one is, there's money involved. If someone hacks an...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:49 PM • 3 Comments •
How Did NC Become an Electoral Battleground?
Category: Politics
This is interesting: But voter behavior is only part of the change drawing political attention to North Carolina. Presidential contenders are increasing their focus here because the state has more clout on the national stage than it did as recently...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:45 PM • 5 Comments •
Reading Recommendation for today
Category: Books
The Great Limbaugh Con by Charles M. Kelly, published in 1994, is even more current and up-to-date than it was then. And it is not really about Limbaugh himself - he serves only as a starting point. There are many...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:55 AM • 0 Comments •
New RNC Ad suggests that only a previous President is qualified and ready to become a new President
Category: Politics
"Would you get on a plane with a pilot who has never flown?" the announcer asks. Yes, if the only other option is the guy who has proven repeatedly that he cannot keep his plane in the air: (cartoon...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:17 AM • 2 Comments •
Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
I and the Bird #87 is up on Ecobirder Tangled Bank #117 is up on Neural Gourmet Gene Genie #39 is up on Genetics & Health The new Carnival of Education is up on Leading From The Heart Change...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:03 AM • 0 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. - Thomas Jefferson...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:51 AM • 0 Comments •
October 29, 2008
Seed endorses Obama
Category: Politics
Barack Obama for President - An endorsement from the editors of Seed: Far more important is this: Science is a way of governing, not just something to be governed. Science offers a methodology and philosophy rooted in evidence, kept in...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:40 PM • 3 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - arts and humanities
Category: SO'09
Let's look at few other sessions on the Program - on topics that are rarely seen at either tech or science meetings: Art and science -- online and offline: This session is moderated by Jessica Palmer and Glendon Mellow:...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:11 AM • 2 Comments •
DonorsChoose....
Category: Education
Just three more days......
Posted by Coturnix at 8:48 AM • 0 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
We have got but one life here. It pays, no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time. - Theodore Roosevelt...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:50 AM • 0 Comments •
October 28, 2008
ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Erica Tsai
Category: SO'09
Here is the fourth interview in the series on Miss Baker's Biology class blog - Samantha's interview with Erica Tsai. Previously in this series: ScienceOnline09 - an interview with...me! ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Eric Roston ScienceOnline09 - an...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:32 PM • 0 Comments •
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Category: Science News
There are 25 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 9:41 PM • 0 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - food, hotel, transportation
Category: SO'09
If you are coming to ScienceOnline09, it's time for you to reserve a hotel room, find a room-mate if you want, and organize your travel - do all of that here. If you'll be in town on Thursday evening,...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:40 AM • 0 Comments •
In today's 'Guardian'
Category: Open Science
Web journals 'narrowing study' by Linda Nordling: Online publishing has sparked an explosion in the number of places where academics can showcase their work. Today, no field of study is too obscure to have its own dedicated title. But have...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:13 AM • 0 Comments •
Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
MetaCarnival #1: a conversation across the blogosphere - now up on SharpBrains Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 6 are now up on Emergiblog...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:47 AM • 0 Comments •
C. elegans embryonic development
Category: Basic Biology
Posted by Coturnix at 8:27 AM • 0 Comments •
My picks from ScienceDaily
Category: Society
'Voter-Verifiable' Voting System Ensures Accuracy And Privacy: Approximately two-thirds of Americans voting in the November Presidential election will cast their votes on paper ballots. How can voters be assured their votes are counted and kept private? Victorian Manchester Home To...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart. - Louise Bogan...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:56 AM • 0 Comments •
New and Exciting in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine
Category: Science News
PLoS Biology at 5: The Future Is Open Access: On the 13th of October in 2003, with the first issue of PLoS Biology, the Public Library of Science realized its transformation from a grassroots organization of scientists to a publisher....
Posted by Coturnix at 12:15 AM • 0 Comments •
October 27, 2008
Obama in Raleigh
Category: North Carolina
Just got this e-mail earlier today: This Wednesday, October 29th, please join Barack Obama in Raleigh, where he will talk about his vision for creating the kind of change we need. Early Vote for Change Rally with Barack Obama Halifax...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:31 PM • 6 Comments •
UnderTheMicroscope
Category: Blogging
ScienceWoman gives us a heads-up on a new and interesting organization - UnderTheMicroscope.com: The Feminist Press with IBM have just launched UnderTheMicroscope.com, a new site to involve young women in science and to encourage them to pursue careers in science,...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:08 PM • 0 Comments •
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Category: Science News
There are 13 new articles published Friday night and 10 new articles tonight 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...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:00 PM • 0 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Clinton Colmenares
Category: SO'09
Here is the third interview in the series on Miss Baker's Biology class blog - William's interview with Clinton Colmenares. Previously in this series: ScienceOnline09 - an interview with...me! ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Eric Roston...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:07 PM • 0 Comments •
Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
Encephalon #57 is up on Mind Hacks Replace Michele Bachmann Blog Carnival #5 is up on Almost Diamonds Carnival of the Green # 151 is up on DESIGN 21...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:57 PM • 1 Comments •
GOODVOTE.ORG - what to do if you are challenged at the polls?
Category: Politics
GOODVOTE.ORG gives advice and collects media coverage of potential voter suppression: GOODVOTE.ORG is a group of volunteers from the technology community and blogosphere who simply want the will of the voters to be reflected in the result of the 2008...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:05 PM • 1 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - workshops
Category: SO'09
Most sessions (see the Program) at ScienceOnline09 are supposed to be highly interactive - in the spirit of an Unconference, based on the idea that: The sum of the expertise of the people in the audience is greater than...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:26 PM • 0 Comments •
AVoteForScience: Kiki Sanford endorses Barack Obama
Category: Politics
Posted by Coturnix at 9:54 AM • 2 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Eric Roston
Category: SO'09
The next in the series of interviews by Miss Baker's high school biology class is the interview by Jordan with Eric Roston. Read the interview here....
Posted by Coturnix at 9:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Survey on science blogging
Category: Blogging
Tamara Fletcher is currently studying science communication at the University of Queensland. As part of her course she is conducting a research project under the supervision of Dr Joan Leach from the School of English, Media Studies and Art History...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:12 AM • 0 Comments •
DonorsChoose - the final stretch!
Category: Education
Just five days left to go in our DonorsChoose drive! We are ending on Friday! And my chellenges are going really slow.... Seed will match some of your donations. Seed Overlords are also pitching in some cool prizes for people...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:56 AM • 0 Comments •
Mouse Embryo Growing (video)
Category: Basic Biology
Mouse Embryo Growing - The funniest videos are a click away...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:26 AM • 1 Comments •
Clock Quotes
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...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:53 AM • 0 Comments •
October 26, 2008
ScienceOnline09 - an interview with...me!
Category: SO'09
One of the education sessions at ScienceOnline09 will be the middle/high school perspective (or: "how the Facebook generation does it"?) session that will be led by Miss Baker and eight of her high-school biology class students. One of these...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:12 PM • 0 Comments •
US attacks ... Syria?
Category: Politics
Obviously a careful anti-insurgent action, not likely an invasion of Syria. People online think of it as a possible October Surprise. But I think that that at this point, no matter what the GOP tries to do will be only...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:54 PM • 15 Comments •
The currently most popular independent political websites
Category: Medicine
The latest press release from ComScore - Huffington Post and Politico Lead Wave of Explosive Growth at Independent Political Blogs and News Sites this Election Season - has all sorts of interesting statistics about relative traffic, etc., of the top...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:09 PM • 1 Comments •
UNC scientists comment in support of fruit fly research for understanding autism
Category: Politics
As a follow-up to the yesterday's press release, Dr. Manzoor Bhat and Joseph Piven, M.D., researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who use the Drosophila model system to study neurexin and its implications in the development...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:35 PM • 0 Comments •
My picks from ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Protein Compass Guides Amoebas Toward Their Prey: Amoebas glide toward their prey with the help of a protein switch that controls a molecular compass, biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered. Their finding, recently detailed in the...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:48 PM • 0 Comments •
Development of a chicken embryo (video)
Category: Basic Biology
Posted by Coturnix at 8:25 AM • 0 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks. - John Barrymore...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:53 AM • 2 Comments •
Information vs. Knowledge vs. Expertise
Category: Society
There is an interesting post (and comment thread) on Kevin Kelly's blog about the exponential growth of available information. It is quite thought-provoking, but there are a couple of issues I have with it. First issue is that Kevin took...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:59 AM • 4 Comments •
October 25, 2008
Small Town Fear Itself - the Zombie Attack!
Category: Politics
Zombies pose no threat at Palin event: ASHEVILLE - Supporters of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will have plenty to see outside the Civic Center if they are unable to get inside for her Sunday appearance. As many as 700...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:53 PM • 8 Comments •
Lawrence Lessig for Copyright Czar!
Category: Politics
Peter Suber, James Love and Glyn Moody have already blogged about this, but we need to make sure this spreads far and wide: The AAP and Copyright Alliance want to prod the next President of the US to tilt the...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:29 PM • 3 Comments •
Palin, autism and fruitflies - it does not add up
Category: Politics
You have probably heard that Governor Palin, in a recent speech contradicted herself within a span of a couple of sentences. So, she said that "Early identification of a cognitive or other disorder, especially autism, can make a life-changing difference.",...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:35 PM • 32 Comments •
Fish Embryonic Development (video)
Category: Basic Biology
Posted by Coturnix at 8:23 AM • 1 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships, and sentiments unsoured by animosities. - Ambrose Bierce...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:52 AM • 1 Comments •
October 24, 2008
Epic FAIL Response Curve (EFRC)
Category: Fun
What is the mathematical description of the treshold point at which any old generic FAIL suddenly becomes Epic FAIL? Is there a similar curve (EWRC) for WIN?...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:01 PM • 4 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, PLoS ONE 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...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:34 PM • 0 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - show-and-tell
Category: SO'09
While most of the sessions at ScienceOnline09 will be highly interactive, we have also planned for a Sunday morning series of demos, or "show-and-tell" sessions. This will be a series of short (12-15 minutes) demos of various websites, blogs,...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:15 AM • 0 Comments •
Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
Fourth Stone Hearth #52 is up on Greg Laden's blog Friday Ark #214 is up on Modulator And announcing MetaCarnival: A Carnival of Blog Carnivals....
Posted by Coturnix at 10:01 AM • 1 Comments •
Double your impact!
Category: Science Education
Less than a week to go in our DonorsChoose drive! Good news from the Seed Overlords: Though we're already well into the campaign, ScienceBlogs has finally gotten a Double Your Impact donation set up with DonorsChoose for the Blogger Challenge;...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:56 AM • 1 Comments •
Amphioxus embryonic development (video)
Category: Basic Biology
Posted by Coturnix at 8:22 AM • 1 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
Family values are a little like family vacations - subject to changeable weather and remembered more fondly with the passage of time. Though it rained all week at the beach, it's often the momentary rainbows that we remember. - Leslie...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:51 AM • 0 Comments •
October 23, 2008
The Science Word (video)
Category: Science News
A couple of minutes of quick science news every week:...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:10 PM • 2 Comments •
Publishing and Communicating Science
Category: Open Science
The W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology at North Carolina State University (which includes students, faculty and staff from Departments of Biology (formerly Zoology, my own Department), Genetics and Entomology) is a group I called home for a large...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:02 PM • 1 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - On Reputation
Category: SO'09
If you check out the Program of the ScienceOnline09 conference, you will notice that there will be three sessions that address, each from a different angle, the question of building and maintaining scientific authority and reputation online: in scientific...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:34 AM • 0 Comments •
Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
The 10th Edition of the Cabinet of Curiosities is up on Destination: Austin Family The 97th Skeptic's Circle is up on The Uncredible Hulk Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 5 are up on Pallimed Carnival of the Green #150 is...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Ships and Spaceships
Category: Science Education
Yes, this has been in the works for a long time, and a few hints have been planted here and there over the past months, but now it is official - NASA and The Beagle Project have signed a...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:04 AM • 0 Comments •
Time Lapse Of The Embryonic Development Of Drosophila Melanogaster (video)
Category: Basic Biology
Time Lapse Of The Embryonic Development Of Drosophila Melanogast - Watch the top videos of the week here...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. - George Orwell...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:50 AM • 0 Comments •
The End Of The World Is Over!
Category: Fun
How many moles of Guacamole did Bishop Ussher consume on this day? How about Samuel S. Snow on the same day some years later? Not that this Epic FAIL is going to deter the True Believers - dealing with them...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:09 AM • 1 Comments •
October 22, 2008
Yet another political roundup
Category: Politics
Under the fold, as it is a LOT of links.......
Posted by Coturnix at 10:57 PM • 0 Comments •
Natalie Portman for Early Vote (video)
Category: Politics
...and Natalie Portman Wants You to Have "The Talk":...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:23 PM • 5 Comments •
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Category: Science News
There are 26 new articles published last night and 12 new articles published today in PLoS ONE. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Here are...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:36 PM • 0 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - very, very international!
Category: SO'09
Hmmm, let's see who is coming from really far away, crossing borders and such..... Richard Grant is coming from Sydney, Australia. Chris Rowan is coming from Johannesburg, South Africa. Paula Signorini is coming from Sao Paulo, Brasil. Carlos Takeshi...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:38 PM • 3 Comments •
Married With Children (video)
Category: Politics
Al Bundy is back! And after figuring out how much he earns selling shoes, and how much tax-break he would get with each candidate, he made a choice:...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:35 AM • 5 Comments •
Xenopus embryo development (video)
Category: Basic Biology
Posted by Coturnix at 8:19 AM • 3 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. - Otto von Bismarck...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:49 AM • 0 Comments •
October 21, 2008
ScienceOnline09 - Alternative Careers
Category: SO'09
If you look at the Program carefully, you will see there are three sessions specifically addressing the question of alternative careers at the ScienceOnline09. Here they are: How to become a (paid) science journalist: advice for bloggers - This...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:01 AM • 0 Comments •
Do you want to win a prize?
Category: Science Education
Only 10 days to go! Seed Overlords are pitching in some cool prizes for people who donate to any of the SciBlings DonorsChoose challenges, including mine. Janet has the goods: First, make a donation (from $5 on up) to any...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Chick embryonic development (video)
Category: Basic Biology
Posted by Coturnix at 8:18 AM • 0 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country. - Eugene McCarthy...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:48 AM • 0 Comments •
Smoke Signals, Blogs, and the Future of Politics
Category: Blogging
Repost - A vision of the role of Internet in the politics of the future.
Posted by Coturnix at 12:55 AM • 2 Comments •
October 20, 2008
McCain supporters defend Islam at rally (video)
Category: Politics
Posted by Coturnix at 11:37 PM • 9 Comments •
If you are relatively new here....
Category: Blogging
...you may not know that you can also find me on: FriendFeed Facebook LinkedIn Dopplr Nature Network Stumbleupon Flickr YouTube...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:11 PM • 2 Comments •
New and Exciting in PLoS this week
Category: Science News
There are new articles in PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE today: Gender Dimorphism in Skeletal Muscle Leptin Receptors, Serum Leptin and Insulin Sensitivity: To determine if there is a gender dimorphism in the expression of leptin receptors (OB-R170,...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:25 PM • 0 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - UNC
Category: SO'09
Among those registered for ScienceOnline09 are also a bunch of people associated with the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill: Paul Jones is a journalism professor and the founder of Ibiblio Patric Lane is the Health and Science...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:48 PM • 0 Comments •
College Blogging Scholarship
Category: Blogging
Remember the College Blogging Scholarship? The one that Shelley almost won two years in a row? Well, it is happening again. The prize is $10,000. The deadline for submission is very tight - October 30th 2008, so you need to...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:40 PM • 2 Comments •
Obligatory Reading of the Day: Crayfish tail-flip response
Category: Neuroscience
You know I have a soft spot for crayfish, so I was excited to read about the new study about their nervous system, nicely explained by Mo: When confronted with threatening stimuli and predators, the crayfish responds with an innate...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:05 PM • 0 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:46 AM • 0 Comments •
October 19, 2008
27 Best Deep-Sea Species
Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
About half have already been posted: #27: Brachiopods #26: Pig Butt Worm #25: Crawling Crinoids #24: Tube Worms #23: Dumbo Octopus #22: Xenophyophores #21: Phronima #20: Swimming Sea Cucumbers #19: Black Devil Anglerfish #18: Venus Fly-trap Anemone #17: Tripod fish,...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:32 PM • 1 Comments •
Clay Shirky: It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
Category: Technology
Posted by Coturnix at 6:27 PM • 11 Comments •
I'm Voting For O'Bama 'Cause He's Irish
Category: Politics
Posted by Coturnix at 6:18 PM • 1 Comments •
Blogrolling - Letter G
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 5:28 PM • 0 Comments •
ScienceOnline09 - interviews with last year's participants
Category: SO'09
Do you want to start getting hyped for the ScienceOnline09? You can start by (re)reading the interviews with some of the last year's participants, many of whom will be coming again this year so you may want to get...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:09 PM • 0 Comments •
Why ninjas kill people?
Category: Fun
Zadi Diaz is the co-creator and host of EPIC FU (which also has its own blog):...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:51 PM • 0 Comments •
Mark Westneat explains why a scientist should support Obama
Category: Politics
Posted by Coturnix at 4:07 PM • 2 Comments •
Participate in an experiment - how do you compare to philosophers on solving moral dilemmas?
Category: Philosophy
Eric Schwitzgebel, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and Fiery Cushman, a psychology post-doc at Harvard, are conducting an online experiment which involves comparing philosophers' and non-philosophers' responses to questions about moral dilemmas....
Posted by Coturnix at 1:29 PM • 0 Comments •
She's all set with her new job
Category: Politics
Once she loses in November (and perhaps gets impeached as the Governor of Alaska), Palin can get a permanent job on Saturday Night Live. She fits there well, is just as good as the rest of the crew, and we...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:43 AM • 5 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:59 AM • 0 Comments •
Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival Edition #33 is up on Ivor Kovic's blog. Carnival of Space #74 is up on Lounge of the Lab Lemming. Friday Ark #213 is up on Modulator...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:15 AM • 0 Comments •
October 18, 2008
Obama-McCain race - a Serbian parallel lesson?
Category: Politics
For some reason, my (rare) posts in which I make direct comparisons between Serbia and the USA (usually about politics) tend to become wildly popular (as in: spreading like wildfire on digg, redditt, stumbleupon, etc.). See, for example: Bush is...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:57 PM • 5 Comments •
Reporter assaulted at a Palin rally
Category: Politics
Joe Killian is a reporter for Greensboro News&Record. Friday, he went to a Sarah Palin rally at Elon University and filed a report from there for his newspaper. But he also got assaulted - the first reporter so far -...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:07 PM • 2 Comments •
Quick ConvergeSouth08 recap
Category: Blogging
I am back from the 4th ConvergeSouth, the do-not-miss Greensboro conference about the Web, blogging, journalism and community (and the model/inspiration for our own science blogging conferences, including the third one) . Big kudos to Sue Polinsky, Ed Cone and...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:09 PM • 3 Comments •
ACORN
Category: Politics
Close Enough To Honest: CNN lies about ACORN 54 times which is certainly better than, say, a billion. Nuts About ACORN: Believing in vote fraud may be dangerous to a democracy's health.: As far as "gotcha" stunts go, the right-wing...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:34 PM • 0 Comments •
'Tire swinging' - the way to look at campaign reporting
Category: Politics
TPM explains the origin of the term, what it evolved to mean, and who in the U.S. punditocracy is on the tire, who is off for good and who's off but yearns to get back on: Meghan McCain: "It was...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:38 PM • 0 Comments •
Precinct Walking with a Congressman
Category: North Carolina
Scoble goes for a walk through Rep.Brad MIller's precinct, canvassing the neighborhood and talking about politics:...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:12 PM • 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, PLoS ONE 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...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:57 PM • 0 Comments •
Clock Quotes
Category: Clock Quotes
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rain