August 12, 2008
Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time.
- Henry Ross Perot
August 12, 2008
Right Whale Bay of Fundy Blog
Things Younger Than John McCain
Essays by Danielle Fong
Existence is Wonderful
August 12, 2008
Again, in a dark room, my camera used long exposures and thus many pictures are fuzzy. But you can see that we had lots and lots of readers come to see us, together with the NYC Skeptics:
August 12, 2008
There are 57 new articles in PLoS ONE 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 - you go and look for your own favourites:
How Do Humans Control Physiological Strain during…
August 12, 2008
Survival Of The Fittest: Even Cancer Cells Follow The Laws Of Evolution:
Scientists from The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton and the University of California discovered that the underlying process in tumor formation is the same as for life itself--evolution. After analyzing a half…
August 12, 2008
The Boneyard #22 is up on Laelaps
The Hourglass #2 is up on Ouroboros
The 30th edition of Medicine 2.0 carnival is up on SharpBrains
Grand Rounds, Vol 4, # 47 are up on Medical Humanities Blog
The 137th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Sprittibee
And don't forget to submit your entries for the…
August 12, 2008
More pictures:
August 12, 2008
The new blog carnival, covering the way science is changing (or not changing enough) in the 21st century - Praxis, is about to start. The call for submissions is now open - send them to me at Coturnix AT gmail dot com by August 14th at midnight Eastern so I can post the carnival on the 15th in the…
August 12, 2008
Some more pictures for you:
August 12, 2008
A few more pictures. The room was dark so my camera used long exposure times, so some of the pics are fuzzy, but hey, I am an amateur:
August 11, 2008
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
August 11, 2008
For those of you who have enjoyed Kevin's herpetology dispatches from China two years ago, you may want to go over to the FieldHerpForum.com and read his reports from this year's trip.
August 11, 2008
Well, only his beard:
August 11, 2008
Elephant Memories May Hold Key To Survival:
A recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) suggests that old female elephants--and perhaps their memories of distant, life-sustaining sources of food and water--may be the key to survival during the…
August 11, 2008
After four days - last three of which I had no internet access - and after11 hours of travel door-to-door (or 8 hours from entering an airport and exiting another airport), I am home. Exhausted.
As I knew that several other Sciblings had to deal with the chaos of NYC air-travel this weekend. We…
August 10, 2008
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new ... program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
- Art Buchwald
August 10, 2008
To protect the anonymous, nobody in the pictures is named, tagged or linked in any way. So, you don't know who is a blogger, who is Seed staffer, who is a reader, except for the few obviously well knows faces:
August 10, 2008
To protect the anonymous, nobody in the pictures is named, tagged or linked in any way. So, you don't know who is a blogger, who is Seed staffer, who is a reader, except for the few obviously well knows faces:
August 9, 2008
You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100.
- Woody Allen
August 9, 2008
We barely made it to our 6am flight (so we did not get stranded like Sheril), so Mrs.Coturnix an I got to NYC about 7-ish and spend the entire day walking down the Lower East side of Manhattan, from the U.N. to Battery Park, and then took a cab back to the hotel (the last picture) where we started…
August 9, 2008
Aggregator of RSS Feeds about disability and special needs issues, another one made by Vedran. As always, you can contact him with suggestions for more feeds to add.
August 8, 2008
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
- Earl Warren
August 8, 2008
I and the Bird #81 is up on the Marvelous in Nature
Friday Ark #203 is up on Modulator
Linnaeus' Legacy #10 is up on The DC Birding Blog
Four Stone Hearth #45 is up on remote central and Four Stone Hearth #46 is up on Testimony of the spade.
Don't forget to submit your entries to Praxis, Giants'…
August 8, 2008
Continuing with asking for your help in fixing my Blogroll:
Every couple of days or so, I will post here a list of blogs that start with a particular letter, and you add in the comments if you know of something that is missing from that list.
See so far:
Numbers and Symbols
A
B
Today brought to you…
August 8, 2008
Aggregator of news about infectious diseases, another one made by Vedran. As always, you can contact him with suggestions for more feeds to add.
August 7, 2008
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
- Earl Nightingale
August 7, 2008
...but if you do, I hope it was enjoyable! And edifying, of course. Kind of science that is amenable to experimentation at home.
August 7, 2008
.....the best they can do? Will that work in 2008?
August 7, 2008
I will have to turn in early as tomorrow morning Mrs.Coturnix and I are getting up at the crack of dawn and traveling to NYC to meet the SciBlings (and readers).
I did not have enough time to schedule long posts for the next four days, apart from the ubiquitous ClockQuotes, and I doubt I will have…
August 7, 2008
On Tuesday night, when I posted my personal picks from this week's crop of articles published in PLoS ONE, I omitted (due to a technical glitch on the site), to point out that a blog-friend of mine John Logsdon published his first PLoS ONE paper on that day:
It's a updated and detailed report on…
