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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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Carl Zimmer: How Your Brain Can Control Time: For 40 years, psychologists thought that humans and animals kept time with a biological version of a stopwatch. Somewhere in the brain, a regular series of pulses was being generated. When...
Posted on July 19, 2008 1:06 PM • 0 Comments •
Two of my SciBlings have recently covered papers that my readers should find interesting: Joseph: Bright Light and Melatonin Treatment Improves Dementia: A study published in JAMA indicates that treatment with bright light alone (1,000 lux), or bright light combined...
Posted on June 12, 2008 9:29 PM • 0 Comments •
On this day in 1884 the International Prime Meridian Conference established a system of standard time zones: In 1884 an International Prime Meridian Conference was held in Washington D.C. to standardize time and select the Prime Meridian. The conference selected...
Posted on March 13, 2008 10:27 AM • 0 Comments •
Coming up tonight at midnight, according to the Julian calendar....
Posted on January 13, 2008 1:39 PM • 0 Comments •
Not that it's a good thing.......
Posted on October 28, 2007 12:50 PM • 2 Comments •
Hey, is he intruding on my territory? ;-) An excellent article about many aspects of time, how we perceive it and what it means to us....
Posted on May 25, 2007 10:27 AM • 1 Comments •
A must-read by Sara Robinson. You can use it to understand the persistence of Creationism. Or the lack of Internal Locus of Moral Authority in people belonging to Moral Majority....
Posted on May 17, 2007 9:50 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on March 26, 2007 7:09 PM • 5 Comments •
Apparently, in Denmark, the 'larks' (early-risers) are called 'A-people' while 'owls' (late-risers) are 'B-people'. We all know how important language is for eliciting frames, so it must feel doubly insulting for the Danish night owls. Today, in the age of...
Posted on March 23, 2007 2:21 PM • 4 Comments •
This is the time when everyone is talking about the Daylight Saving Time and I always feel pressure to blog about it from a chronobiological perspective. And I always resist. As I will this year. So, here are a couple...
Posted on March 12, 2007 1:03 PM • 3 Comments •
Considering the name of this blog, you may not be surprised that I am a sucker for clocks and watches. If I had more walls and more money, I'd collect them by dozens (hundreds?). Grow-a-Brain has been collecting links to...
Posted on February 14, 2007 4:12 PM • 0 Comments •
Making Sense of Time, Earthbound and Otherwise...
Posted on January 23, 2007 1:49 AM • 8 Comments •
In my part of the world, and most of the US and Europe as well, there was a general agreement that all clocks would be set an hour off back in April. This may have made sense in a world...
Posted on October 30, 2006 9:07 AM • 6 Comments •
Sometimes a metaphor used in science is useful for research but not so useful when it comes to popular perceptions. And sometimes even scientists come under the spell of the metaphor. One of those unfortunate two-faced metaphors is the metaphor...
Posted on July 19, 2006 11:30 AM • 0 Comments •
Debunking two misuses of the term and concept of "circadian clocks" in medical quack field.
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Posted on July 3, 2006 9:59 AM • 3 Comments •
My post about sleep has been translated by Davide 'Folletto' Casali into Italian, and posted on his blog. You can see the translated post here. If you can read Italian (and even you do not - just for fun, and...
Posted on June 21, 2006 6:19 PM • 1 Comments •
Yes, I know that I am supposed to be the resident expert on all things temporal (check the name of this blog, after all), and I am actually very interested in the topic of subjective perception of time (in humans,...
Posted on June 20, 2006 11:57 AM • 1 Comments •
