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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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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,...
Posted on January 12, 2008 7:29 PM • 0 Comments •
From here (hat-tip)....
Posted on September 29, 2007 10:30 PM • 0 Comments •
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.......
Posted on July 10, 2007 12:55 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
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Posted on January 10, 2007 10:09 AM • 4 Comments •
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....
Posted on December 13, 2006 3:36 PM • 2 Comments •
It's 45 minutes long, but it is worth your time: (Via)...
Posted on November 6, 2006 12:32 AM • 0 Comments •
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!...
Posted on October 22, 2006 10:13 PM • 2 Comments •
Everything you ever wanted to know about Tesla, you can find here - an amazing collection of links....
Posted on September 26, 2006 8:07 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted on July 10, 2006 9:10 AM • 15 Comments •
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...
Posted on July 10, 2006 7:29 AM • 1 Comments •
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....
Posted on July 9, 2006 9:43 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted on July 7, 2006 8:59 AM • 0 Comments •
"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,...
Posted on July 6, 2006 8:59 AM • 0 Comments •
"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...
Posted on July 5, 2006 8:59 AM • 0 Comments •
"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,...
Posted on July 4, 2006 8:59 AM • 2 Comments •
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...
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Posted on July 3, 2006 8:59 AM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on June 29, 2006 9:59 AM • 1 Comments •
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....
Posted on June 27, 2006 8:48 PM • 3 Comments •
The big day - 150th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla - is approaching fast - July 10th.
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Posted on June 22, 2006 9:59 AM • 5 Comments •
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...
Posted on June 15, 2006 4:29 PM • 4 Comments •
