October 19, 2008
Once she loses in November (and perhaps gets impeached as the Governor of Alaska), Palin can get a permanent job on Saturday Night Live. She fits there well, is just as good as the rest of the crew, and we can continue NOT watching the show, just like we have not for years now:
October 18, 2008
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he…
October 18, 2008
Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival Edition #33 is up on Ivor Kovic's blog.
Carnival of Space #74 is up on Lounge of the Lab Lemming.
Friday Ark #213 is up on Modulator
October 18, 2008
For some reason, my (rare) posts in which I make direct comparisons between Serbia and the USA (usually about politics) tend to become wildly popular (as in: spreading like wildfire on digg, redditt, stumbleupon, etc.). See, for example: Bush is Milosevic, Comparative Wingnuttery, Darwin in Serbia…
October 18, 2008
Joe Killian is a reporter for Greensboro News&Record. Friday, he went to a Sarah Palin rally at Elon University and filed a report from there for his newspaper.
But he also got assaulted - the first reporter so far - and then blogged about the incident.
Pam has more details.
Joe lived through…
October 18, 2008
I am back from the 4th ConvergeSouth, the do-not-miss Greensboro conference about the Web, blogging, journalism and community (and the model/inspiration for our own science blogging conferences, including the third one) . Big kudos to Sue Polinsky, Ed Cone and the cast of thousands for putting…
October 18, 2008
Close Enough To Honest:
CNN lies about ACORN 54 times which is certainly better than, say, a billion.
Nuts About ACORN: Believing in vote fraud may be dangerous to a democracy's health.:
As far as "gotcha" stunts go, the right-wing feeding frenzy over the vile vote-fraud treachery of ACORN has…
October 18, 2008
TPM explains the origin of the term, what it evolved to mean, and who in the U.S. punditocracy is on the tire, who is off for good and who's off but yearns to get back on:
Meghan McCain: "It was a really fun experience.... Everybody really relaxed. It was fun to kind of see big journalistic figures…
October 18, 2008
Scoble goes for a walk through Rep.Brad MIller's precinct, canvassing the neighborhood and talking about politics:
October 18, 2008
Human Brain Still Awake, Even During Deep Sleep:
Sleep in humans is divided in two main phases: non-REM sleep, which occupies most of our early sleep night, and REM sleep, during which our dreams prevail. Non-REM sleep is usually considered as a compensatory 'resting' state for the brain, following…
October 18, 2008
So, let's see what's new in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens, PLoS ONE 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. Here are my own picks for the week -…
October 17, 2008
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
- Henry David Thoreau
October 17, 2008
Back from ConvergeSouth. Energized but exhausted. Time for bed. Forgot I had a camera with me so I only had one picture taken - this one, with Robert Scoble and myself, trying to make the FriendFeed logo with our fingers:
More ConvergeSouth microblogging on FriendFeed can be found here.
October 17, 2008
A Blog Around The Clock: Get your calendars...
A Blog Around The Clock: Will there be a Third Science Blogging Conference?
A Blog Around The Clock: ScienceOnline'09
A Blog Around The Clock: Submit your entries for the third Science Blogging Anthology
A Blog Around The Clock: ScienceOnline'09 -…
October 17, 2008
We are busy preparing for The Open Laboratory 2008. The submissions have been trickling in all year, and a little bit more frequently recently, but it is time now to dig through your Archives for your best posts since December 20th 2007 and submit them. Submit one, or two, or several - no problem…
October 17, 2008
Brain Structure Provides Key To Unraveling Function Of Bizarre Dinosaur Crests:
Paleontologists have long debated the function of the strange, bony crests on the heads of the duck-billed dinosaurs known as lambeosaurs. The structures contain incredibly long, convoluted nasal passages that loop up…
October 16, 2008
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man: yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
-…
October 16, 2008
The Giant's Shoulders #4 is up on Second Order Approximation
October 16, 2008
I am off to ConvergeSouth where there will be a fascinating Program.
Now, my session is entitled "Conquering Fear - Overcoming Social (Networking) Anxiety". If you walked into a session with this title, what would you expect to hear, want to hear, want to say?
October 16, 2008
There were 6 new articles published last night and another 14 new articles published today in PLoS ONE. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites…
October 16, 2008
Andrew Sullivan, who blogs on the vastly popular Daily Dish (one of the few sane conservatives out there and very informative and entertaining to read) just published a long essay in The Atlantic - Why I Blog? Worth your time and effort to read - just a short excerpt:
From the first few days of…
October 16, 2008
I and the Bird #86 is up on The Drinking Bird
October 16, 2008
People With Autism Make More Rational Decisions, Study Shows:
People with autism-related disorders are less likely to make irrational decisions, and are less influenced by gut instincts, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. The study adds to the growing body of research implicating…
October 16, 2008
The first clips in the AVoteForScience YouTube Challenge are being uploaded. Here is my friend and SciBling Jennifer Jacquet:
October 16, 2008
The registration is closed and the Program is pretty much finalized. Here is another session to consider: Hey, You Can't Say That!
This session is moderated by Greg Laden, Rick MacPherson, Karen James, Craig McClain, Mark Powell and PZ Myers:
It's tempting to think that what we contribute in our…
October 15, 2008
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.
- Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1810 - 1891
October 15, 2008
Tangled Bank #116 is up on Pro-science
Carnival of Education! The Debate Edition is up on Eduwonkette
October 15, 2008
Here is the other one of the two winning posts in the Open Access Day blogging competition: My Father the Anthropologist; or, What I Offer Open Access and Why by Dorothea Salo:
In 1980 or thereabouts--I was eight or nine--my father the anthropologist started yet another rant about serials…
October 15, 2008
Here is one of the two winning posts in the Open Access Day blogging competition. A poem by Greg Laden:
A poem for Open Access Day
Open Access Day
They said:
"if you publish
in an open forum
your paper'd be rubbish
and clearly hokum"
"pub's commercial know
how to review with the peerage,
how to…
