June 12, 2008
An interesting discussion on Slashdot (you may need to log in to see all the comments).
June 12, 2008
GOP-ers really do not understand the Internet, do they?
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June 12, 2008
Check this out on the Science Commons blog:
Science Commons' mission is to speed the translation of basic research to useful discoveries, and we believe that a new approach is necessary to find more cures, faster. Today, we're opening up the Health Commons, a project aimed at bringing the same…
June 12, 2008
Two of my SciBlings have recently covered papers that my readers should find interesting:
Joseph: Bright Light and Melatonin Treatment Improves Dementia:
A study published in JAMA indicates that treatment with bright light alone (1,000 lux), or bright light combined with melatonin, can improve…
June 12, 2008
There is a huge forest fire raging in Eastern North Carolina, unfortunately affecting the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. The smoke has now moved more than 100 miles to the west, which means right here. It's been stinking of smoke all day, getting worse and worse as time went on. And it…
June 12, 2008
I and the Bird #77 is up on Great Auk - or Greatest Auk?
The latest edition of Change of Shift is up on Nurse Ratched's Place
June 12, 2008
Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory:
A large genetic study of the extinct woolly mammoth has revealed that the species was not one large homogenous group, as scientists previously had assumed, and that it did not have much genetic diversity.
Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of…
June 11, 2008
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
- Jane Austen
June 11, 2008
PLEKTIX
R.E.S.E.A.R.C.H.E.R.S.
Skulls in the Stars
Time to Eat the Dogs
Open Access Blog
June 11, 2008
After two years of raising awareness about living with HIV, Ron Hudson has decided to end the International Carnival of Pozitivities. The very last edition is now up on Black Looks.
June 11, 2008
Today, Wednesday, June 11 at 6 to 8 pm, SCONC, the Science Communicators of North Carolina, meets NESCent, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center:
Science communicators are invited to meet some NESCent researchers at the frontiers of evolutionary biology and hear from guest speaker Rob Pennock…
June 11, 2008
Tangled Bank #107 is up on Syaffolee
Molecular and Cell Biology Carnival #3 is up on ScienceRoll
The 175th edition of the Carnival of Education is up on Learn Me Good
June 10, 2008
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June 10, 2008
60 new articles just got published in PLoS ONE a few minutes ago. Here are some of the greatest hits (IMHO):
Enhanced Temporal but Not Attentional Processing in Expert Tennis Players:
In tennis, as in many disciplines of sport, fine spatio-temporal resolution is required to reach optimal…
June 10, 2008
Grand Rounds (4) 38 are up on NHS Blog Doctor
The latest Homeschooling Carnival is up in The Common Room.
June 10, 2008
If you are an astute watcher of the PLoS ONE homepage (or the PLoS Blog, or my blog for that matter), you may have noticed that PLoS ONE now has something like a 'theme of the month', i.e., a single, broad topic that we highlight in several different ways on the homepage, blog, in e-mails, etc. We…
June 10, 2008
Circadian Math: 1 Plus 1 Doesn't Always Equal 2:
Like a wristwatch that needs to be wound daily for accurate time-telling, the human circadian system -- the biological cycles that repeat approximately every 24 hours -- requires daily light exposure to the eye's retina to remain synchronized with…
June 9, 2008
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
- James Rowland Angell
June 9, 2008
Remember Chez Sapienza? The guy who was fired from CNN for having the gall to write a blog?
Well, a lot of people with brains got upset about this. And Simon Owens decided to investigate further, to see what is the general attitude about blogging among the Corporate Media control freaks. So he…
June 9, 2008
For the same reason snakes have no legs. Or perhaps not. It is difficult to find out.
June 9, 2008
Some teens pulled a nasty prank and posted a video of it on YouTube. As a part of their sentence, the judge ordered them to make another video, with the apology and to post that on YouTube. There are several similar prank videos on YouTube so I do not know which one is this one, but the apology…
June 9, 2008
Brian Russell interviewed for Matt Frye's Triangle Stories. Go and listen....
June 9, 2008
Earlier today, here in Raleigh (and yes, he will contest North Carolina, and perhaps all 50 states!) at an "invitation-only" event (so no liveblogging from me, sorry), Obama killed at least three birds with one stone. In one sentence, at the very end, he got himself endeared to the three key…
June 9, 2008
A Roadmap for Migrating Neurons:
Politicians, pundits, and even your best friends occasionally do things that make you wonder how their brains are wired. The next time you have that thought, consider consulting a developmental neuroscientist: they work every day to understand the processes that…
June 9, 2008
Sheep's Sex Determined By Diet Prior To Pregnancy:
Maternal diet influences the chances of having male or female offspring. New research has demonstrated that ewes fed a diet enriched with polyunsaturated fats for one month prior to conception have a significantly higher chance of giving birth to…
June 9, 2008
Gene Genie #33 is up on Neurophilosophy
Encephalon #47 is up on Channel N
Carnival of the green #131 is up on Blogfish
June 8, 2008
The perils of ambulatory reading. If you have never said Excuse me to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.
- Sherri Chasin Calvo
June 8, 2008
After reading this thread I was really nervous about going to see Kung Fu Panda, but my daughter insisted (ever since the first posters and trailers came out months ago), so we went last night. And.....
...the movie is really not what Melissa expected. If anything, it is the opposite - in one…
June 7, 2008
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
- James Earl Carter, Jr
June 7, 2008
June edition of Scientiae is up on Thus Spake Zuska
The 21st edition of The Boneyard is up on The Flying Trilobite
