November 17, 2008
Growing up, we (meaning: kids growing up in Yugoslavia) all learned about the strangest animal of our country - the cave-dwelling White Olm Proteus anguinus, that we called Man-fish (Covecja ribica).
But what do I know? Darren Naish knows much more about it - and after reading his post (an updated…
November 17, 2008
Female Embryonic Sexual Development Driven By Universal Factor:
A gene essential to the growth and development of most organ systems in the body also is vital to female - but not male - embryonic sexual development, scientists report this month.
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In the early days of research…
November 17, 2008
The geriatric leaders of the government of Italy are making fools of themselves by trying to regulate bloggers, i.e., get them to register with the government, pay taxes, be liable for what they write, etc.:
The law's impact would turn all bloggers in Italy into potential outlaws. This could be…
November 16, 2008
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic, that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, 'Here…
November 16, 2008
Oekologie #19, after several months of a break in this carnival, is up on The Infinite Sphere
November 16, 2008
There is quite a lot of chatter around the intertubes about changes in the communication environment that happened between the last and this election and how those changes may be affecting the way the new White House communicates to people as well as how the new White House will receive…
November 16, 2008
Praxis #4 is up on The Lay Scientist. Enjoy!
November 16, 2008
More movies here
November 15, 2008
Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated - or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be…
November 15, 2008
The meme started here, so if you decide to do it yourself, please post a link to that as well (so your post can be tracked).
A number of people have already posted their responses - some quite thought-provoking - so take your time to read them and reflect. Then write your own.
See responses by:…
November 15, 2008
Dinosaur Whodunit: Solving A 77-million-year-old Mystery:
It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river beach. Water levels rise, and the mother is faced with a dilemma: Stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to the flood and…
November 15, 2008
The Giant's Shoulders #5 - The Magic (Blog) Circle! - is now up on PodBlack Cat blog! Enjoy the best recent blogging on the History of Science.
November 14, 2008
If I get my facts wrong, let me know. If you don't like my tone, tough. At this bus stop in the blogosphere, I'm Queen Cunt of Fuck Mountain, and I'm mean for a reason. Once we get our country back on the right track, there will be plenty of time for nursery rhymes.
Melissa McEwan, March 31, 2005
November 14, 2008
There are 11 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
November 14, 2008
There are two large and influential annual blogosphere surveys - one done by Technorati, and the other one by Blogads.
Henry Copeland has just started the (fourth?) annual Blogads survey. More people respond and more diverse the responders, more representative and trustworthy their data will be.…
November 14, 2008
The two cool carnivals are supposed to get published tomorrow, so hurry up and send your entries today. ASAP.
Praxis will be hosted by The Lay Scientist.
The Giant's Shoulders will alight on PodBlack Cat.
November 14, 2008
Peggy and Stephanie are asking for your input on shaping their ScienceOnline09 session on Science Fiction on Science Blogs.
Go and help them out - just answer a few questions in the comments sections of their blogs.
November 14, 2008
We are in the final strecth! The submissions have been trickling in all year, and a little bit more frequently recently, and many more over the past couple of weeks, so, if you have not done it yet, it is high time now to dig through your Archives for your best posts since December 20th 2007 and…
November 14, 2008
That is, for Brian Switek, scienceblogger extraordinaire? If not, do it now. Takes just a second.
November 14, 2008
Go here (requires a 5-second process of signing up for FriendFeed, a move you will not regret, if you want to comment instead of just reading) and participate in liveblogging as the Beagle Project crew visits the opening of the Darwin exhibition.
November 14, 2008
Watching Television, Channeling Unhappiness?:
Are happy or unhappy people more attracted to television? This question is addressed by a new 30-year analysis1 of US national data of nearly 30,000 adults by John Robinson and Steven Martin from the University of Maryland in the US. Examining the…
November 14, 2008
Change of Shift: Volume 3, Number 10 is up on crzegrl, flight nurse
Friday Ark #217 is up on Modulator
November 13, 2008
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
- Milton Friedman
November 13, 2008
There is a nice article in this month's National Geographic about Light Pollution. Unlike most popular articles on the topic which focus on the visibility of stars - an aesthetic problem - this article focuses on the effect of continuous light on animals and humans:
We've lit up the night as if it…
November 13, 2008
So, let's see what's new in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens, and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases this week. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on…
November 13, 2008
There are 10 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
November 13, 2008
An e-mail from the Orange County (NC) Democratic Party:
The exciting and historic 2008 election stirred our souls and mobilized millions, but how did it happen? And what does it mean for electoral politics going forward? Bring your questions and your friends to a public forum presented by the…
November 13, 2008
Will Richardson is noticing an addiction to paper and he looks at himself:
Now I don't know that I've ever thought of no paper as exciting, necessarily, but I continue to find myself more and more eschewing paper of just about any kind in my life. My newspaper/magazine intake is down to nearly zero…
November 13, 2008
Here are a few examples. One will feed you greasy bacon every morning. The other will donate to the GOP. Others will force you to perform either menial or mental tasks. I prefer a more gradual approach - a system that gradually increases the illumination in the room, the volume of sound (some…
November 13, 2008
RSS Feed aggregators as sources of information and knowledge in medical sciences (in Serbian - PDF) is an excellent article by Vedran Vucic geared towards medical professionals in Serbia. He will talk about this at the Belgrade's Medical School this Saturday as a part of a symposium on electronic…
