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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: Workplace
An awesome experiment in Stockholm, Sweden where students changed stairs in a subway station into a piano: And? More people started using the stairs than the escalator! It's just more fun!...
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Category: Media
I am feeling mean today. So, here is my first mean post of the day. About a week ago I read this delicious post about the business of scientific publishing. It is a good read throughout - the title of...
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Category: Technology
Online Culture IS The CultureView more documents from tim parsons....
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Category: Technology
'How to get strangers to talk to you' instead of 'How to talk to strangers'? I find this blog post and slide-show quite interesting. I see how it may apply to introverts - and I sure am not one of...
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Category: Technology
SciBling Walt Crawford indulges himself in some prognosticating about the (non)demise of various physical means of delivering information: music, films, magazine, newspapers and books. He takes a cautious, conservative tack there, for the most part. I am supposed to be...
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Category: Workplace
As you may have noticed if you saw this or you follow me on Twitter/FriendFeed/Facebook, I spent half of Tuesday and all of Wednesday at the XXVI International Association of Science Parks World Conference on Science & Technology Parks in...
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Category: Politics
About a week ago, Nicholas Kristof wrote an eye-opening op-ed in NYTimes - After Wars, Mass Rapes Persist. In Liberia, and probably in some other places, the end of war does not automatically mean the end of rape: Of course,...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:52 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Society
Radical Transparency removes almost all potentials for conflict. Why? Conflict requires secrecy by some people (bad guys), which is why neither utopian nor anti-utopian novels try to describe such a society in which everything done by everyone - individual, corporation,...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:27 PM • 37 Comments •
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: Animal Rights
The UCLA Pro-Test is tomorrow. If you live there - go. If not, prepare yourself for inevitable discussions - online and offline - by getting informed. And my fellow science bloggers have certainly provided plenty of food for thought on...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:00 PM • 3 Comments •
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