July 21, 2008
Serbia captures fugitive Karadzic:
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men, has been arrested in Serbia after more than a decade.
He has been brought before Belgrade's war crimes court, in accordance with a law on cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, the…
July 20, 2008
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
July 20, 2008
Titles of blog posts have to be short, but I could expand it to something like this:
"Depending on the medium and the context, many scientists can be and often are excellent communicators"
That is what I understood to be the main take-home message of "Sizzle". If you check out all the other blog…
July 20, 2008
Just like they did it last year, Howard Hughes program at Duke is hosting student blogs in their summer program. Check out what the students are writing on their blogs, starting at homepages of the undergraduate students and high school students and going through the blogrolls on the right-hand…
July 20, 2008
The latest edition of Medicine 2.0 Carnival is up on ScienceRoll
Carnival of the Godless #96 is up on Sean the Blogonaut
Friday Ark #200 is up on Modulator
Next Berry Go Round will be hosted by me here, so send me your entries by July 27th.
July 19, 2008
A week is a long time in politics.
- Harold Wilson
July 19, 2008
From the The Beagle Project Blog:
July 19, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, Vedran Vucic gave a talk about Open Access at the law school at the Belgrade University. For those of you who can read Serbian, here is the newspaper report. Glad to see PLoS mentioned...
July 19, 2008
Palaeoentomology & Insect Evolution
More Grumbine Science
Buttered Waffles
The Evolving Mind
Moose Droppings
On The Media--Cavewoman Style
July 19, 2008
Robert Grumbine has a series of posts with thoughts about climate change and what a non-expert can do to get properly informed:
Climate is a messy business:
Climate certainly is a messy business. One of the things that makes it interesting to those of us who work on it is precisely that. Wherever…
July 19, 2008
Bjoern Brembs:
Today's system of scientific journals started as a way to effectively use a scarce resource, printed paper. Soon thereafter, the publishers realized there were big bucks to be made and increased the number of journals to today's approx. 24,000. Today, there is no technical reason any…
July 19, 2008
Distribution Of Creatures Great And Small Can Be Predicted Mathematically:
In studying how animals change size as they evolve, biologists have unearthed several interesting patterns. For instance, most species are small, but the largest members of a taxonomic group -- such as the great white shark…
July 19, 2008
Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship by James A. Evans, ironically behind the paywall, has got a lot of people scratching their heads - it sounds so counter-intuitive, as well as opposite from other pieces of similar research.
There is a good discussion on…
July 19, 2008
Periodic Table of Videos on YouTube:
This channel has a video about each element on the periodic table.
With help from some clever chemists, I've done all 118, but I'm not stopping here.
Now I'm updating and improving all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments.
Please…
July 19, 2008
Everyone is posting these movies and e-mailing me the URL - so here it is (is there a way to enbed these?) for your enjoyment (btw, geeky me, Doogie Howser, M.D. was my favourite show when I was a kid)
July 19, 2008
Carl Zimmer: How Your Brain Can Control Time:
For 40 years, psychologists thought that humans and animals kept time with a biological version of a stopwatch. Somewhere in the brain, a regular series of pulses was being generated. When the brain needed to time some event, a gate opened and the…
July 19, 2008
Silly, but funny to see how people react when treated to a dose of their own medicine:
"Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were…
July 18, 2008
More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
July 18, 2008
The conference website is up. Check out the program, attendees, etc.
July 18, 2008
Tuesday July 22
6:30-8:30 p.m.
After a thousand years, it's still a great technology! Follow the story from papyrus to nano-fibrils with Med Byrd, of the Department of Wood and Paper Science in the NCSU College of Natural Resources. Q&A after his talk. Tir Na Nog 218 South Blount Street,…
July 18, 2008
JenDodd
It's Alive!!
David Hone's Archosaur Musings
Visualizing Evolution
Ruminations of An Aspiring Ecologist
BPR3 (new address)
July 18, 2008
Scientific Collectivism 1: (Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved Dissent):
I want to bring up a discussion about what I perceive is a dangerous trend in neuroscience (this may be applicable to other areas of science as well), and that is what I will term "scientific collectivism." I am going to…
July 18, 2008
Policy for Open Science - reflections on the workshop:
One thing that was very clear to me was that the attendees of the meeting were largely disconnected from the more technical community that reads this and related blogs. We need to get the communication flowing in both directions - there are…
July 18, 2008
Just an hour or so ago I was in the car, listening to This American Life on NPR, when this story (Act Three) came up on the air:
Bob Berenz had a good job as an electrician. But he wanted to do something bigger. He came up with an idea for an invention. But as he studied physics texts to see if his…
July 18, 2008
Pathologists Believe They Have Pinpointed Achilles Heel Of HIV:
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armor of the virus that continues to kill millions.
Farming At Young Age May Lead…
July 18, 2008
Here is a good example. Step-by-step.
July 17, 2008
Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.
- Dave Barry
July 17, 2008
I am currently reading - and enjoying very much - The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat by Eric Roston.
He was recently interviewed for DC Examiner and they ran a picture of him wearing a familiar t-shirt ;-)
Recently, Eric was quoted in TIME and…
July 17, 2008
Why are so many scientists reluctant to make full use of Web 2.0 applications, social networking sites, blogs, wikis, and commenting capabilities on some online journals?
Michael Nielsen wrote a very thoughtful essay exploring this question which I hope you read carefully and post comments.
Michael…
July 17, 2008
I've said it before and I said it again, and I heard other people say it repeatedly (e.g., Anton): blog is software.
It's up to every individual (or group, or organization, or company, or political entity) to put it to creative use.
Blog is not content. Content is what someone puts on a blog.…
