August 7, 2008
The London Science Blogging Conference now has a Facebook page for discussions. Perhaps they will also have a FriendFeed room, like the BioBarCamp folks did - it was fascinating following the meeting from afar there these two days.
In the meantime, we had a secret meeting about, well, providing…
August 7, 2008
It's not just McCain who does not understand the Internet, it's his operatives as well:
Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web -- and you could win valuable prizes!
That, in essence, is the McCain campaign's pitch to supporters to join its new online effort, one that combines…
August 7, 2008
Jeff Jarvis - The myth of the creative class:
Internet curmudgeons argue that Google et al are bringing society to ruin precisely because they rob the creative class of its financial support and exclusivity: its pedestal. But internet triumphalists, like me, argue that the internet opens up…
August 7, 2008
You can see it better, as well as add more hits (wiki-style) here. And internet memes are questionnaires that people tag each other to do. These are fads or hits, not memes.
August 7, 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
Today brought to you…
August 7, 2008
Olympic Games: Researchers Explore What Makes Better Athletes, The Physiology Of Performance, And More:
The world-record pace for the marathon continues to improve for both men and women. For men, the record pace for the marathon is now about as fast as the record pace for the 10,000-meter run just…
August 7, 2008
Vedran is on the roll! Here is the aggregator for medical education blogs.
August 7, 2008
Change of Shift: Volume 3, Number 3 is up on Emergiblog
August 6, 2008
The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.
- Earle Hitchner
August 6, 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.
Today brought to you by letter A. This is what is on…
August 6, 2008
Duck-billed Dinosaurs Outgrew Predators To Survive:
With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least one advantage: It grew to adulthood much…
August 6, 2008
McCain campaign complained that media is not covering him before they complained that media is covering him. Another example of a debate between John McCain and John McCain? Well, when you have a bad product, it is best not to have it reviewed. There is a reason why crappy movies are not shown to…
August 6, 2008
Not on US television (Channel 4 in the UK only):
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
[Via]
August 6, 2008
You can follow BioBarCamp virtually on FriendFeed and livecast!
August 6, 2008
Since this article came out in The American Scientist (the only pop-sci magazine that IMHO has not gone downhill in quality over the past decade) in early 1999 (you can read the entire thing here (pdf)) I have read it many times, I used it in teaching, I discussed it in Journal Clubs, and it is a…
August 6, 2008
See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com
Of course, by the time off-shore drilling could produce anything (in about 10 years if we start drilling today), there will be no need for it if we have already moved a huge amount of our energy consumption to non-oil…
August 6, 2008
Vedran has done it again:
Pediatrics Feed Aggregator
August 6, 2008
Tangled Bank #111 is up on Denialism blog
Linnaeus' Legacy #10 is up on A DC Birding blog
The 62nd Carnival of Feminists is up on Rage Against the Man-chine
The 183nd edition of The Carnival Of Education is up on Pass The Torch
The 136th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on The Homeschool Cafe
August 5, 2008
True genius is being able to find that which has been there all the time.
- Gabrelas
August 5, 2008
There are 69 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:
Comparison of Pattern Detection Methods in Microarray…
August 5, 2008
Novel Kind Of Learning Gene Discovered:
Scientists at the Freie Universität Berlin have come one step closer to unraveling the molecular basis of learning. A team led by neurobiologist Björn Brembs has discovered the first gene for operant conditioning in the fruit fly Drosophila.
Family Type Has…
August 5, 2008
Last week, most of the attention of the media, Old and New, revolved around the question if it is McCain supporters or Obama supporters who are more likely to think that Britney Spears is teh hawt (dunno what the answer is, but I recall seeing some statistics about the overwhelming lead by the Red…
August 5, 2008
Today, I have everything I need on my computer, and so do most working scientists as well. Papers can be found online because journals are online (and more and more are Open Access). Protocols are online. Books are online. Writing and collaboration tools are online. Communication tools are…
August 5, 2008
Mild Opinons
Gunther Eysenbach's random research rants
It's Lovely! I'll Take It!
Margaret McCartney
August 5, 2008
The website is up, read the rules carefully, check out the categories, think deeply, collect all the needed URLs and start nominating. But first, why don't you drop those URLs in the comments here as well, so we can all discover bloggers we may not know about as well?
For the LGBT category, there…
August 5, 2008
Encephalon #51 is up on The Mouse Trap
Grand Rounds Vol. 4 #46 are up on Pure Pedantry
August 5, 2008
I heard that this is how it happened: when I went to Belgrade and talked about OA at the med school at University of Belgrade, I mentioned that Vedran is the local Web guru for them if they need anything. Someone from the Oncology hospital was there and later she contacted Vedran and asked him to…
