May 28, 2008
I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.
- Oscar Wilde
May 28, 2008
Or 3.5 Albatross wingspans, or 8.1 Alaskan moose antler spans, or 7.6 standard railway gauges, or 5.5 Kobe Bryants, or 2.5 London buses stacked one on top of another. That is how this site converts 12 yards. Try your own measures....
May 28, 2008
Mind Over Matter: Monkey Feeds Itself Using Its Brain:
A monkey has successfully fed itself with fluid, well-controlled movements of a human-like robotic arm by using only signals from its brain, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report in the journal Nature. This…
May 28, 2008
106th Tangled Bank is up on Nobel Intent
173rd edition of the Carnival of Education is up on Bluebird's Classroom
May 28, 2008
The Pterosaur paper is really hitting the media and blogs today. Of course, it is kind of a blogospheric "baby". One of the authors is my SciBling Darren Naish, the other author is Mark Witton, and even the Academic Editor who handled the manuscript is a scienceblogger.
Darren first broached the…
May 27, 2008
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize…
May 27, 2008
Registration now open for the first National Conference on Science and Technology in Out of School Time - Chicago, September 17-19, 2008:
Join us at the first National Conference on Science in Out of School Time, September 17-19, 2008.
Registration is now open at www.scienceafterschoolconference.…
May 27, 2008
The deadline for the Classic Papers Chellenge is looming - the end of May. Submit it to Skulls in the Stars and have it collected here. As I mentioned before, I'd like to see this turn into a monthly blog carnival. It would have some kind of criteria developed, but perhaps those should be…
May 27, 2008
It seems everyone is talking about social networking sites these days. There are interesting thoughts on Richard Grant's and David Crotty's blogs (read the comment threads as well). Many of those sites will die, others will adapt, but most, I think, will play a supporting role in a whole network…
May 27, 2008
Encephalon - 46th Edition - is up on Neurocritic
Grand Rounds, 4.36, are up on PARALLEL UNIVERSES
Gene Genie #32 is up on Real Woman Magazine Helper
Carnival of the Green #129 is up on Little Green Secrets
The 92nd Carnival of the Godless is up on Jyunri Kankei
Carnival Of Homeschooling #126 is up…
May 27, 2008
First Female DNA Sequenced:
Geneticists of Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) are the first to determine the DNA sequence of a woman. She is also the first European whose DNA sequence has been determined. Following in-depth analysis, the sequence will be made public, except incidental privacy…
May 27, 2008
There are 48 articles published this week in PLoS ONE, something for everyone. Read, note, comment, blog about and send trackbacks... Here are some of the titles I found cool:
Evidence of Authentic DNA from Danish Viking Age Skeletons Untouched by Humans for 1,000 Years:
Given the relative…
May 27, 2008
How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products, and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories:
* The daily delivery of news stories about new treatments, tests, products, and procedures may have a profound--and perhaps harmful--impact on health care consumers.
* A US Web site…
May 26, 2008
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
- John Milton
May 26, 2008
Climate Change Does Double-whammy To Animals In Seasonal Environments:
Plant-eating animals in highly seasonal environments, such as the Arctic, are struggling to locate nutritious food as a result of climate change, according to research that will be published in the 21 May 2008 online edition of…
May 25, 2008
No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.
- Dylan Thomas
May 25, 2008
A couple of days have passed and I had a lot of work-related stuff to catch up with, but I thought I better write a recap now while the iron is still hot and I remember it all. Here we go....
Surprise #1 Last time I went to a SRBR meeting (or for that matter any scientific meeting) was in 2002. I…
May 25, 2008
While I was gone for 6 days in Florida, my mailbox got choked with books. Some came from publishers, others from friends who hit my amazon.com wish list. Disregard the last ClockQuotes just below - I am excited about these books and intend to read them.
First, and most exciting is Microcosm: E.…
May 24, 2008
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
- Moses Hadas
May 24, 2008
...in Trieste. Hi to everyone there!
May 24, 2008
....Russia, for the first time in history!
May 24, 2008
Before I went back to Belgrade, I did not know if there was a website with information about the racing and equestrian activities there. There used to be one some years ago, but it has not been updated in a very long time. So, I was happy when, while there, I was given URLs of the Belgrade…
May 24, 2008
...so other smart people are developing new kinds of maps - follow the links within to explore.
May 24, 2008
Nature Blog Network has two hubs - the Boston one and the London one. They are planning on adding a third one soon but the question is where? So, they will see where the most people are. There are currently only two people signed up as living in the Triangle, but this can change. If you are…
May 23, 2008
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
- M. Scott Peck
May 23, 2008
Gene Mutations In Mice Mimic Human-like Sleep Disorder:
Mutations in two genes that control electrical excitability in a portion of the brain involved in sleep create a human-like insomnia disorder in mice, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found. The findings may help scientists…
May 23, 2008
Jean-Claude Bradley and I first met at the First Science Blogging Conference where he led a session on Open Science. We then met at SciFoo and later joined forces on a panel at the ASIS&T meeting and finally met again at the second Science Blogging Conference back in January where Jean-Claude…
May 23, 2008
There is Nature Network, there is Jeff's Bench, there is Facebook Scibook, Knowble.com is dead, and people are still building new social networking sites aimed at scientists. There is now SciLink (thanks Alex) and now also ResearchGATE (thanks Bertalan). I am joining everything and watching....…
May 23, 2008
You have only a week left to submit your entries for the Blog about a classic science paper challenge. The links to early bird posts are already being collected and I hope there will be more soon. If you intend to write about a paper in the field of psychology, SciCurious discovered an awesome…
May 23, 2008
Accretionary Wedge #9 is up on Harmonic Tremors
Friday Ark #192 is up on Modulator
