August 24, 2008
The way you explore complex ecosystems is you try lots of things and you hope that everybody who fails, fails informatively.
- Clay Shirky
August 24, 2008
You know I am excited about Carrboro Creative Coworking. Looking at the pricing list which was released today, I think there will be a place for me there I can afford....
August 24, 2008
Totally awesome: Dimensions:
Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed!
Hat-tip: quixote
August 24, 2008
Foul Owls Use Feces To Show They Are In Fine Feather:
Some years ago, within the Department of Conservation Biology of the Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas; Seville, Spain), a recently established group (colloquially named the Night Ecology Group…
August 24, 2008
I love the way Web works! So, I was on FriendFeed earlier today and I saw through this link there that Paul Jones posted a note on Pownce (on which I am registered but never check) about this article in Raleigh N&O:
An iPod Touch for each student?
A Chapel Hill middle school could become the…
August 24, 2008
But, how many fonts are out there anyway?
Or perhaps Nature is secretly diversifying its operations ;-)
But what would be the formula for calculating Impact Factor of pet food?
d = maximal distance of projectile vomiting
t = time between the onset of feeding and onset of projectile vomiting
m =…
August 24, 2008
A wide range of opinions:
Melissa McEwan: Biden and Shocker: Women Less Enthusiastic Than Men About Biden
Melissa McEwan: Obama's small change
Jesse Taylor: Obama/Biden
Ezra Klein: Winning the argument
Joe Trippi: Stay Loose Joe, Stay Loose
See the comment thread on the Intersection: Obama Picks…
August 24, 2008
Links by Myrna the Minx, something for you to bookmark and use. I'll probably use FriendFeed and visit some of my favourite blogs (including Pam and the Blenders who will be there - see the NYTimes article about the bloggers at the Convention).
August 23, 2008
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen
August 23, 2008
I have no competing interests, nobody is paying me to say nice things, but I have helped set up a CollectiveX group site and it was easy and I like its functionality a lot:
August 23, 2008
Update: Register, login and edit the wiki if you intend to show up tonight.
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Anton just sent a message to the Triangle blogging community:
The annual BlogTogether Backyard Barbecue is this Saturday, August 23 from 5pm on, at my home in Durham. I'll provide a cold keg of…
August 23, 2008
With Skate Eyes, Scientists Peer Into Human Disease:
Paradoxically, the photoreceptor cells in our retinas release more of their neurotransmitter, glutamate, in the dark, when there is nothing to see, than they do in the light. This is doubly surprising since although glutamate is a major signaling…
August 22, 2008
Egotism, n. Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
- Ambrose Bierce
August 22, 2008
They (meaning: CNN) say it's Biden. Yuck! The old-school hawk whose only 'supposed strength' is foreign policy which he proceeded to show he is ignorant of every night on TV during the 1990s spouting nonsense about the Balkans.
August 22, 2008
There are 7 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:
Bioactive Endophytes Warrant Intensified Exploration and…
August 22, 2008
Watch what Clay Shirky said at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 (transcript here):
The quote that everyone likes, for a good reason, is the following:
I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And…
August 22, 2008
Vedran keeps cranking these at an incredible rate (the first numbers indicate these aggregators are quite comprehensive and the feedback is that they are useful) - here is the latest one: Aggregator of RSS feeds about Gynecology
August 22, 2008
Michael Nielsen's talk at SciFoo'08:
August 22, 2008
This blog is slowly approaching a nice round number - 10,000 comments. I know this is not Pharyngula where this would take an hour or two to fill, but still, we can get the remaining 200+ comments in over the next few days, can't we?
The person who posts the 10,000th non-spam comment will get a…
August 22, 2008
Face Recognition: Nurture Not Nature:
Researchers have discovered that our society can influence the way we recognise other people's faces. Because face recognition is effortlessly achieved by people from all different cultures it was considered to be a basic mechanism universal among humans.…
August 22, 2008
12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today. As you know, point #4 is one of my pet peeves:
4. People don't have to be in an office. This is the one I wish most businesses would get, right now, right away. It's so obvious once you get away from the traditional mindset. Traditionally, people…
August 22, 2008
Edition #82 of I and the Bird is up on Sycamore Canyon
Friday Ark #205 is up on Modulator
August 22, 2008
My favourite discipline is citation gymnastics! What is yours? Can you invent a new sport?
August 22, 2008
The Edger
Pondering blather
SynchroniciTwi
Scientist Carrie
Effortless Incitement
August 22, 2008
Boston Globe has an interesting article about Open Science, citing the routine list of worries that usually get associated with this idea, e.g., :
But in the world of science - where promotions, tenure, and fortune rest on publishing papers in prestigious journals, securing competitive grants, and…
August 22, 2008
Friendly blogger Pamela Roland, the author of Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food which I am reading right now (and which was recently reviewed in PLoS Biology), has just had a paper published in PLoS Genetics:
Identification and Functional Analysis of Light-…
August 21, 2008
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
- Richard Feynman
August 21, 2008
by Coturnietta...
August 21, 2008
Kevin has just posted another photo-rich report from his herpetology survey in China. Lots of pictures of Chinese landscape, Chinese people, Chinese food, and yes - cool Chinese animals.
August 21, 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. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
A Dominant X-Linked QTL Regulating Pubertal Timing in…
