September 2, 2008
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916)
September 2, 2008
There are 12 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. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Low Frequency Groans Indicate Larger and More Dominant…
September 2, 2008
Too Sexy For My Books
The Earthly Paradise
Your Daily Art
The Art History Blog
Lines and colors
Passing Gaz
September 2, 2008
Providing Surgical Services Should Be Global Public Health Priority:
When you think of public health efforts in developing countries, you probably think of childhood vaccinations, programs for clean water, malaria and TB eradication campaigns. Surgery is rarely considered as a tool for improving…
September 2, 2008
Coming from this discussion.
September 2, 2008
Pawel wins the Big Prize!
September 2, 2008
In Business Week:
That is why isolating people in organizational silos is one of the biggest obstacles to innovation. Companies that are serious about innovation do everything possible to break down silos and encourage communication and collaboration across the organization and beyond.
But read the…
September 2, 2008
Go say Hello to Daniel at Genetic Future
September 2, 2008
Festival of the Trees #27 is up on Exploring the World of Trees
Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 50 are up o n A Chronic Dose: A Chronic Illness Blog
September 1, 2008
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
- Helen Merrell Lynd (1896-1982)
September 1, 2008
Towards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers:
Sharing biomedical research and health care data is important but difficult. Recognizing this, many initiatives facilitate, fund, request, or require researchers to share their data [1-5]. These initiatives…
September 1, 2008
I asked if anyone knows any art history blogs? I am aware of many history blogs, and some art blogs, but no art history blogs.
Neil responded with the discovery of this post - why have there been no great art history bloggers?
And then found two: Your Daily Art and The Art History Blog.
Anyone…
September 1, 2008
General election is in two months. Both campaigns are in a frenzy. Media is covering it full speed. Even low-information voters are slowly starting to pay attention. At this point, every word every candidate says is analyzed and over-analyzed and can potentially be disastrous if the opposing…
September 1, 2008
September Scientiae Carnival is up on Lab Cat
Carnival of the Blue #16 is up on The Saipan Blog
Carnival of the Green #143 is up on Savvy Vegetarian
September 1, 2008
Focused--The Sequel:
Another week, another Frank Luntz/AARP focus group of undecided voters--this one in Minneapolis and with some bad news for John McCain: they don't like the choice of Sarah Palin for vice president.
Afterwards Luntz, good Republican that he is, made the case that Palin could win…
September 1, 2008
When Republican delegates check-in to their hotel rooms in St. Paul this week, they will receive a "thank you" message on their televisions. An ad called "Thanks For The Memories," produced by Campaign for America's Future, will broadcast unforgettable moments from the last eight years that…
September 1, 2008
A century ago, yet nothing has changed: William James, March 1903:
..............Human nature is once for all so childish that every reality becomes a sham somewhere, and in the minds of Presidents and Trustees the Ph.D. degree is in point of fact already looked upon as a mere advertising resource…
September 1, 2008
From Politico:
At a press availability in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama said: "Back off these kinds of stories."
"I have said before, and I will repeat again: People's families are off-limits," Obama said. "And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It…
September 1, 2008
'Armored' Fish Study Helps Strengthen Darwin's Natural Selection Theory:
Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped a tiny fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a UBC study published today in Science Express. Measuring three to 10 centimetres…
September 1, 2008
Heart of Darwin:
Even the founding father of evolutionary theory was not born a gloomy old man. I began to wonder if it might be possible to walk Darwin's London and get a sense of him as a young man caught up in the fray. The landmarks of his life turned out to be all around.
September 1, 2008
Well, not really, but someone is running a satirical blog named Welcome To The PalinDrome: Sarah Palin's Blog.
Humor and satire are important part of every campaign. While I may not find conservative humor funny (it is too often mean and targets the weak and defenseless), I understand that…
August 31, 2008
The individual woman is required ... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good…
August 31, 2008
...or 'B.Hussein Osama is a Muslim', or 'Alaska is closest to Russia':
August 31, 2008
Encephalon #53 is up on Ionian Enchantment
Berry Go Round #8 is up on Not Exactly Rocket Science
August 31, 2008
Just as I posted this clip about the way kids use blogs and social networks, David Warlick posted this intriguing analysis of the way kids use online technologies. Dave posted an interesting graph that shows that kids assess that they acquire various skills equally in school and in off-school…
August 31, 2008
More Genes Are Controlled By Biological Clocks Than Previously Thought:
The tick-tock of your biological clock may have just gotten a little louder. Researchers at the University of Georgia report that the number of genes under control of the biological clock in a much-studied model organism is…
August 30, 2008
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
August 30, 2008
Connie Bensen has assembled all the relevant links and tags so you can follow Gustav and, if you are in the area, organize the response.
August 30, 2008
Wayne interviewed three local kids about the way they use social networks and blogs:
School has just started and we had a chance to sit down with three bright kids, Toby, Dominique, and Samantha to talk about how they use social networks such as MySpace and Facebook. But not only social networks…
August 30, 2008
In China, as seen though Kevin's lens.
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