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I am the Online Community Manager at PLoS-ONE (Public Library of Science). My job is to try to motivate you to comment on the papers there. My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com

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LOL PLoS

First LOL PLoS images are now on Flickr and Facebook. If you use the correct tag in Flickr, yours will be added to the set. Please link to the original paper when you do this....

Colleges should not discriminate against Martians and Tralfamadorians

Our governor agrees. At least in the print version of this article which has a somehwat different title: "Easley supports college for aliens". I wonder why they changed it for the Web version - is the editorial position that having...

The Deep History of the Microsoft Help-Desk

Welcome the newest SciBling!

Go say Hello to Bill Demsbki (yes, affirmative action, I know....)...

NIH getting serious about brain doping

There have recently been several articles in the media about brain enhancers, so-called Nootropics, or "smart drugs". They have been abused by college students for many years now, but they are now seeping into other places where long periods of...

PZ in Chapel Hill

Well, well, well, I went to my office this morning and, just as I got my coffee, opened up the laptop and logged in, who walks in? PZ Myers! What a surprise. So, we chatted some. He thought that PLoS...

The age of the machine

Via...

When things go downhill....

Stolen from here:...

Brainial Stimulation!

From this......

The power of humor

There are other versions of this on YouTube as well...some funnier than others.......

May you be Onion in interesting times....

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early...

This is So.Not.True!

(from here; hat-tip) Or perhaps Gabe has been right all along and I am not really a science blogger.......

An Onion? Not a cancer?

Yes and No. But the article is not from the 'Onion', it's from the Hot Medical News. It's about an onion, in a strange place.......

I get mail, too

Bloggers often highlight e-mail they get. I also get a bunch of loony stuff (and if it is not loony I try to respond, unless it is a medical question which I cannot ethically answer as I am not an...

The Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters...

Theory and Practice

First: the difference between theory and practice. Second: the theory. Third: still to come, I hope, a YouTube video of Steinn demonstrating the practice of parallel parking....

OK, I like bacon, but...

...this much? This is the source of the very funny bacon flowchart, discovered by Dr.Bacon....

Security! The issue Republicans run on (or should they?)

LOLDinosaur!

From here about this....

Importance of a short catchy name for a drug that cures every ailment known to man

[hat-tip: Graham Steel]...

This is me...hahahaha!

Hahaha - all your comments will be DELETED! Hahahahahaha!...

Nothing beats the Hands-On experience!

Just watching someone give a talk is often not enough to remember it later. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. And certainly, seeing is believing. But, this presentation is impossible to forget, even if one would...

LOLTesla

From here (hat-tip)....

Pay attention in biology class if you want to avoid embarassment when you get older

This story is making the e-mail rounds and I cannot resist posting it here. I started rolling on the floor laughing about a quarter into the story. See how far you can go and still keep a straight face (under...

The funniest "Rove resigns" post

That must be this one: Rove quitting to spend more time with his iPhone: Rove is considered one of the nation's foremost experts on e-mail deletion, although he - like the rest of us -- is relatively new to making...

Things one learns at PLoS....

Tim Sullivan demonstrates the proper gear for blogging against Creationism - a banana and a helmet:...

Blogging About Bush

Everyone always blogs about Bush... After all, Bush is such an easy target - there is not a day that he or some of his buddies do not do something outrageously bad. And with the Media covering it as if...

Notworking...

I got this comic strip from Chris, through the Facebook, of course: Related...

An Intelligent Storkist Designs a Straw Man

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Proper behavior in a coffee-shop

Before I start telecommuting, I need to learn some basic rules of behavior......

Bill Clinton meets an untimely end after a week on the run

Fortunately, Janet Reno is still OK. The police brought Bill Clinton to the Orange County Animal Shelter, where he later died. With perfect quote-mining, I made you look, didn't I?...

41

Two years ago today, I posted this. One year ago today, I only linked to it, though I should have reposted it instead to start a tradition. Well, I'll fix that this year on this day - under the fold:...

I can feel it in my bones....

Sperm Cells Created From Human Bone Marrow: Human bone marrow has been used to create early-stage sperm cells for the first time, a scientific step forward that will help researchers understand more about how sperm cells are created. Gives a...

Suckered?

OK, admit, how many of you really got suckered? (in reference to yesterday) Quite a lesson in credulity and perception for many...(yup, I was in on the joke from the very beginning/planning/execution stages)...

Suckered

Suckered Suckered! Suckered?...

BREAKING: G.W.Bush apologizes for everything, quits his job and the Republican Party and sends in a donation to MoveOn.org

.......

Save the Mountain Walrus

First, there was a Tree Octopus, but now, there is an even more endangered animal - the Mountain Walrus: Having just eaten a substantial meal, this herd will not have to hunt again for many days. For now, these mustangs...

Intelligent Timekeepingism

This is, after all, A Blog Around The Clock, so, I guess I should be a strong and vocal proponent of the Clock Theory aka Specified clockplexity. After all, nobody's ever seen a clock move! So, I should start fighting...

The Iraq War is four years old...

...yet even at the start of it, back in March 2003, The Onion understood the dynamics of war and the psychology of defenders of war better than almost half of Americans and all of GOP today. [Hat-tip, commenter Lindsey]...

In Memoriam, Cava 1920-2007

Osvaldo_Cavandoli aka Cava, the author of the amazing and hillarious cartoon La Linea, one of my childhood favourites, has died about two weeks ago. Here is the very first episode: There are several more available on YouTube (I just watched...

Do we really...

...want Alberto Gonzales to resign?...

The Twelve Commandments of Flaming

Heh. How true. (Via)...

Oh, how thoughtful of the Intelligent Designer!

A-ha! Finally! Now I understand the connection between Creationism and the overall anti-sex sentiment of the Fundamentalists! New reseaarch shows that E.coli swim upstream due to the Design of their flagellum! And where do they swim from and swim to?...

A subversive backwards message in Jingle Bells?

Hear it for yourself!...

Grading Exams

I did not have time to go through all the posts on all of today's carnivals, but Larry Moran discovered a real gem on today's Carnival of Education. Check the comments as well. Then come up with your own system....

Great Country Song Lyrics - Weekend Edition

Drop Kick My Big Balls While She's Gettin' Nailed mixed by Jeff Hebert of A Nerd's Country Journal....

Friday Weird Sex Blogging

As seen on Facebook (I could not find the originals anywhere online - if you do, please let me know so I can attribute it correctly):...

The Onion is the best, as always

Politicians Sweep Midterm Elections Rumsfeld: 'My Half-Assed Job Here Is Done' Republicans Blame Election Losses On Democrats Write-In Candidate Thought He Had Enough Friends To Win Voter Turnout Reaches All-Time Low Of 17...

A Woman's Place Is In The House!

(Title shamelessly stolen from Kristine because it is priceless)...

Chuck Norris Creationist

Hmmm, didn't it occur to him for a moment that "survival of the fittest" may be true back when Bruce Lee beat him up?...

Funny telemarketer call

This is hillarious (Via). I wish I was as creative. I just make the telemarketers pronounce my full name correctly. Just calling me "Sir" does not cut it as I was never knighted by the Queen of England....

THE AMBIEN COOKBOOK

This is hillarious. I need to try the cake one. Via Mind Hacks...

How to win an argument when you're wrong.

More on blogospheric rhetoric, via Newsvine....

I thought it was going to be a horse, but I was wrong!

Now we know that Bush is correct when he says that everything he says comes directly from God. The source of Bushisms is Jesus himself! (Hat-tip: Carel, the artist who made my banner)...

Hey, at least it is not Intelligent Design!

But this Science Fair project comes really close... (Hat-tip: Pratie Place)...

Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!

Chris Clarke explains Berube's new book (yup, I am hoping to buy it one day) for the masses. I am assuming that Chris spent quite a lot of time and effort into making this from scratch. I could have saved...

"Boy, this is going to be hard..."

...and it will stay hard for another 4 hours. [That is Friday Weird Sex Blogging for this week....]...

The Future of Airline Security

Fly Paris Hilton Airlines: Thank you all for being here. With the fifth anniversary of 9/11 upon us, the Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to project developments in air safety over the next five years. We thought this could...

Did Bush 'Fake It' in Iraq?

As in 'fake an orgasm'? A perfect metaphor....

Ladybugs in un-lady-like places

How to collect and catalogue them....

A Fundie Dog

This guy has some deep unresolved issues wiht sexuality. Overheated or overexcited? The link may or may not be Not Safe For Work, but it is most definitely Not Safe With Breakfast. Don't complain I didn't warn you!...

The Essence

"Once you have the testes, you really don't need the rest of the male... I feel really bad about that... it's been my protocol to euthanize the males and take their testes." ...spoken by Jenna's Dev-Bio prof....

Aliens Found in Roswell!

Found on eBay!

Well, I am not an engineer...

...so I'd have my priorities straight. But checking my Sitemeter referrers list would come in at #2, LOL....

Do silent ones count?

Yup, in our household the new meaning of 'Bushism' has already been adopted. Even kids are using it in the new Dictionary sense. Now I gotta go as I am feeling a tad little bit presidential....

Get Alan Sokal on the M*th**f**king Plane!

After reading this, I really want to see 'Snakes On the Plane' as I now feel like I have a chance of comprehending its depth and subtlety....

Oy vey, I am still laughing!

A very modern version of Dick and Jane...

Science Is Dead

Code-word? Jon(anathan) Swift....

This is probably an ancient joke, but it is new to me...

A kangaroo bounds round the Australian outback. Every now and then she stops and a little penguin climbs out of the kangaroo's pouch. It looks awfully sick and promptly vomits. Thousands of miles away in Antarctica, a little kangaroo sits...

Spreading the Internet lore

Did you know the origin of the phrase "Every time you masturbate (or do whataver in the context), God kills a kitten"? I just found out that Wikipedia has a full illustrated history - which is hillarious....

Viagra - The Future, part 2

From L.A.Times (you'll have to click - I am purposefully citing out of context for humorous purposes): Military researchers are considering a study to see whether Viagra could help soldiers function better at high altitudes. High altitudes? How high? Who/what...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging

There is a tradition in the blogosphere of posting something light on Fridays. Some people do the Friday Random Ten, but I do not have an iPod, and keep my computer on Mute, so I do not listen to music...

The Birth of a Were-Thylacine

You will just have to click here to see the pictures......

Dr.Fun has retired

He'll be missed...

Viagra - The Future

Shamelessly stolen from Cyberspace Rendezvous: In pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also...

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