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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. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
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Category: Books
If you picked up The Poisoner's Handbook (amazon.com) looking for a fool-proof recipe, I hope you have read the book through and realized at the end that such a thing does not exist: you'll get busted. If they could figure...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:19 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Earth
You may have heard some hypotheses. But you may be wrong. Go here to read the most current explanation....
Posted by Coturnix at 5:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
To get disclaimers out of the way, first, Vanessa Woods (on Twitter) is a friend. I first met her online, reading her blog Bonobo Handshake where she documented her day-to-day life and work with bonobos in the Congo. We met...
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Category: Society
The other night I went to the opening night of RENT at Duke, the latest production of the Hoof 'n' Horn ensemble, the 'South's oldest student-run musical theater organization' (find them on Facebook and Twitter). Here's the promo video,...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:44 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Explained here. Critiques in the comments are (mostly) valid, but for a first effort at using this kind of visualization technique, I'd say it's pretty impressive....
Posted by Coturnix at 4:31 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Anne Frank: the only existing film images (0:09-0:14): July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:06 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History
You may have heard about a recent Wikipedia hoax: A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world. The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who...
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Category: Fun
Thanks to Google, we know that today is the birthday of the first Twitterer:...
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Category: Science Education
Thanks to reader Paul for this tip - what an amazing piece of history: an instructional movie from the Sputnik Era, explaining why one should study science. Many of the arguments have not changed since then, though the details of...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:43 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Books
1985 talk by Terry Pratchett: ....One may look in vain for similar widespread evidence of wizards. In addition to the double handful of doubtful practitioners mentioned above, half of whom are more readily identifiable as alchemists or windbags, all I...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:09 PM • 2 Comments •
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