July 29, 2008
There are 62 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:
Diurnal and Circadian Rhythms in the Tomato…
July 29, 2008
Grand Rounds Vol 4. No. 45 are up on Edwin Leap
The 135th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Consent Of The Governed
July 29, 2008
Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon:
Penn State researchers have used computed tomography (CT) technology to virtually glue newly-discovered skull fragments of a rare extinct lemur back into its partial skull, which was discovered over a century ago. Alan Walker, Evan Pugh…
July 29, 2008
The Genomic Standards Consortium
Mad Scientist, Jr.
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess....
3D Science News
Ceptional
Dr. Derya Unutmaz
July 29, 2008
We knew the web was big...
The Blogosphere Needs to Mature - But How?
Tracking Facebook's 2008 International Growth By Country
The Web's Dirty Little Secret
The Future of the Desktop
July 29, 2008
Progressive Blogosphere 2.0 - Why Social Justice Matters - Preview of Coming Attractions
Whither Progressive Blogosphere 2.0?
Becoming blog ecologists: PB2.0, consilience, and the Third Culture
July 29, 2008
The Flaws and Strengths of Citizen Journalism (video):
Citizen journalism is always a topic that sparks discussion and Interest, at least amongst the New Media set.
July 29, 2008
There was a glowing review of Andrew Keen's book in 'Vreme' (Serbian equivalent of TIME magazine) a couple of weeks ago and a friend of mine asked me if it was worth translating into Serbian language. I told him it was the worst book on the topic ever and sent him this link to explore (links…
July 29, 2008
Kevin Zelnio published an article in Seed Magazine, which was placed online yesterday - On the allure of the ocean's novelty:
That is what the deep sea is like. Almost every collection brings up something that I have never seen; that few, if any, have ever found. It is an immense task, in an…
July 29, 2008
Yes, Eric Roston will be a guest on Colbert Report tonight at 11:30pm Eastern.
July 29, 2008
Science Communicators of North Carolina:
Saturday, August 16
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Engineers Day at the Museum of Life + Science
Join Triangle area exhibitors including Duke University and IBM for hands-on demonstrations and activities that are fun and educational for people of all ages.
Museum of Life…
July 28, 2008
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw
July 28, 2008
Mike made me do it:
My Liberal Identity:
You are a Reality-Based Intellectualist, also known as the liberal elite. You are a proud member of what's known as the reality-based community, where science, reason, and non-Jesus-based thought reign supreme.
Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.…
July 28, 2008
For August, the theme is Natural and Synthetic Vision: Neuronal Mechanisms for Vision, Network Properties and Modeling, and Visual Psychophysics and Perception.
July 28, 2008
What's new in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine this week? Among else:
Oscillating Per-Cision:
The field of behavioral genetics began nearly four decades ago, when Seymour Benzer's laboratory set out to identify circadian rhythm mutants in Drosophila melanogaster. The first of these was called period…
July 28, 2008
Birdsong Not Just For The Birds: Bio-acoustic Method Also Hears Nature's Cry For Help:
Switch on the mike, start the recording, the stage is set for the local fauna!
Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change:
A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine…
July 28, 2008
...to the SciBling Meetup? Professsor Steve Steve, Darwin, neither or both?
July 28, 2008
Food-shaped USB flash drives. Pizza for me.... [Via]
Under The Effluence. Human sewage used for cereals?!
Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction. Any other suggestions?
Another surgical liveblogging experience: Which Is the Safe Side?
July 28, 2008
From Alex (the whole post worth reading).
July 28, 2008
Carnival of the Green #138 is up on Allie's Green Answers
Carnival of the Elitist Bastards #3 is up on Pharyngula
Gene Genie #34 is up on ScienceRoll
Berry Go Round #7 is up here on A Blog Around The Clock
July 28, 2008
Martin saw this comment of mine and sprung into action: Name the new 'Carnival of Scientific Life'!
The two big questions are what to call it, and how often to host it, so I'd like your input in the comments below please. I'll be making the final decision on August 1st.
What would be a good name…
July 28, 2008
The Health Blogosphere: What It Means for Policy Debates and Journalism:
The Kaiser Family Foundation is sponsoring a discussion about the growing influence of blogs on health news and policy debates. Only in the past few years has the blogosphere become mainstream. In the health policy arena, we…
July 28, 2008
All this attention on Juno! Millie is depressed:
Biscuit is outraged:
July 28, 2008
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D:
July 28, 2008
Like we did the last two years, SciBlings will have a month-long fundraising drive for educational projects via DonorsChoose. More info soon.
For now, check out Janet's first teaser for some info.
Also checkk out the DonorsChoose blog for their information.
For the locals - there is an exciting NC…
July 28, 2008
Lee Siegel was on NPR's On The Media the other day, defending his sockpuppetry and painting all bloggers as unwashed hordes of fascists. Boo hoo.
I listened to the podcast and it was too short to be of much substance. The interviewer has no idea how big of an offense sockpuppetry is, and Siegel…
July 28, 2008
Citation Statistics (pdf):
This is a report about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research. The idea that research assessment must be done using "simple and objective" methods is increasingly prevalent today. The "simple and objective" methods are broadly…
July 28, 2008
What Alex and commenters say....
July 28, 2008
Science Communicators of North Carolina:
Thursday, August 7
7 p.m.
The Beautiful Mind: Making Memories
Dr. Kelly Giovanello of the UNC-CH Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Lab. Part of the Morehead Planetarium Current Science Forum.
250 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, (919) 962-1236
July 28, 2008
Due to popular demand:
