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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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Nikola Tesla:

Tesla - still an inspiration

Guru alerts me to a sweet article about Nikola Tesla and how he is inspiring writers and artists - Tesla Slept Here by Mark Singer in the latest New Yorker : The Tesla saga has provided fodder for an opera,...

LOLTesla

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Happy birthday, Nikola Tesla

This day, Tesla's birthday, is proposed to become the Global Energy Independence Day. Let's make it happen! If you don't know much about Tesla, my last years' post about him may be of some help.......

iPhone, youPhone, he/she/itPhone, wePhone, youPhone, theyPhone...

For a blogger - by definition on the cutting edge of technology - I am quite a Luddite. Perhaps that is too strong a term and I should rather call myself a "patient techno-skeptic". I watch the development of new...

Who? Me jealous? Why?

It came to me so naturally - no big thinking involved, no tweaking the results, this is who I am: Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey....

The missing secrets of Nikola Tesla

It's 45 minutes long, but it is worth your time: (Via)...

Prestige

I've been waiting for this movie to come out since April. Now, it is not playing in the theater up the street. Perhaps I'll have to go elsewhere, driving, finding parking...but see it I will!...

Nikola Tesla

Everything you ever wanted to know about Tesla, you can find here - an amazing collection of links....

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!

Today is the 150th birthday of Nikola Tesla. Here is an attempt to put in one place as much as can be found about the celebrations of his birthday and birth-year, the information about Tesla, the mentions in the...

Quotes Of The Day - Tesla

Today's Quotes of the Day: Nikola Tesla was born at Smiljan in the Lika region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, an area now in Croatia. After studying electrical engineering at the Austrian Polytechnic at Graz, Austria he became the chief electrician...

Tesla birthday tomorrow

Dont' forget to write something about Tesla tomorrow for his 150th birthday. If you do, please send me the URL so I can include it in a kind of a carnival-like linkfest for this occasion....

Violet Fire - the Tesla Opera

As I have noted before, there is an opera about Tesla, called Violet Fire in preperation for the grand opening in the Belgrade's National Theater on July 9th, on the eve of 150th birthday of Nikola Tesla. I have since...

Nikola Tesla Quotes, Vol.3

"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity." "Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future,...

Nikola Tesla Quotes, Vol.2

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and...

Nikola Tesla Quotes, Vol.1

"The last 29 days of the month [are] the hardest." "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." (Modern Mechanics and Inventions,...

Nikola Tesla's Personality

This is a quick, rough translation of an article that ran in a Serbian newspaper a few days ago. It is written by a professor of psychology at the University of Belgrade, Prof.Dr.Zarko Trebjesanin, whose book about psychology of Tesla...

Tesla links of the day

Apparently, there is yet another movie made about Tesla this year. Violet Fire Opera is an opera about Tesla. It will open in National Theater in Belgrade on July 10th. There is some stuff about the history of radio and...

Approaching Tesla's birthday - the buzz in the blogosphere

Check out the Brief Look at the Life of Nikola Tesla on Strange Culture. The Genius Of Persistence What is Tesla Press? If you are in Burlington, VT on July 9th, you can go to the mad Tesla birthday party....

Nikola Tesla - approaching the Big Anniversary

The big day - 150th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla - is approaching fast - July 10th.

Five Fists of Science

Can it get any better than this! The Five Fists of Science, starring Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla in a race to save the world from Thomas Edison and J.P Morgan! I immediatelly pre-ordered the book and can't wait...

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