April 11, 2008
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News from the world of deep-sea whale-falls, polychaete worms and Antarctica
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April 11, 2008
More Wednesday morning sight-seeing in London, a swan in St.James park and a dramatic rescue!
April 11, 2008
Massive Study Of Madagascar Wildlife Leads To New Conservation Roadmap:
An international team of researchers has developed a remarkable new roadmap for finding and protecting the best remaining holdouts for thousands of rare species that live only in Madagascar, considered one of the most…
April 11, 2008
There are 39 new articles in PLoS ONE this week - here are my picks and you go and look around for more:
The Cayman Crab Fly Revisited -- Phylogeny and Biology of Drosophila endobranchia:
The majority of all known drosophilid flies feed on microbes. The wide spread of microorganisms consequently…
April 11, 2008
Carnival of the Blue #11 is up on Zooillogix
Four Stone Hearth, Vol. 38 is up on A Very Remote Period Indeed
The 84th Meeting of the Skeptic's Circle is up on Archaeoporn
The 57th Carnival of the Feminists is up on Pandemian
Grand Rounds - Vol. 4, No. 29 - now up on Dr.Wes
The 166th Carnival of…
April 10, 2008
When I arrived in London early in the morning on Wednesday, Mo picked me up at Heathrow and we went to his place where I met his lovely wife and beautiful children, then did a little site-seeing close to their home, with Professor Steve Steve, of course - pictures under the fold...
April 10, 2008
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
April 10, 2008
Kendall Morgan is the new Communications Director for the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. We first met at the second Science Blogging Conference back in January, but, being neighbors, hope to continue communication and collaboration in the future.
Welcome to A Blog Around The…
April 10, 2008
From the Harvard Division of Sleep Medicine:
To honor the distinguished career of Professor Richard Kronauer, we will again award the Richard E Kronauer Prize for Excellence in Biomathematical Modeling. This is presented to a graduate student or post-doctoral fellow who has made significant…
April 10, 2008
Tomorrow at noon, tune into NPR's Science Friday, as you do every week anyway, I know, and you do not need to be told by me, but this time, make sure you hear Harold Varmus being interviewed about the implementation of the new NIH law and the editorial he wrote in PLoS Biology.
If I remember…
April 10, 2008
Just arrived at the Cambridge office of PLoS. Internet works fine so, after catching up with some work first, I will try to post yesterday's pictures later today. I also have another interview to post.
April 10, 2008
This post, originally published on January 16, 2005, was modified from one of my written prelims questions from early 2000.
EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY OF BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS
"Circadian clocks allow organisms to predict, instead of merely react to, cyclic (predictable) changes in the environment". A…
April 9, 2008
What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
- Vicomte de Valmont
April 9, 2008
A May 9, 2007 post, wondering to telecommute or not.
I will be offline for a couple of days so I will not be able to post at my usual frantic pace. Instead, I decided to write something that will take you a couple of days to read through: a very long, meandering post, full of personal anecdotes.…
April 9, 2008
This is the third in the series of posts designed to provide the basics of the field of Chronobiology. This post is interesting due to its analysis of history and sociology of the discipline, as well as a look at the changing nature of science. You can check out the rest of Clock Tutorials here…
April 9, 2008
Thanks to Anton for a pleasant drive to the airport last night. Had a great flight on a B 777 and arrived in London on time. Mo picked me up at Heathrow and we went walking around town, taking lots of picture that I'll post later (my own laptop cannot currently get on the internet here and now, so…
April 8, 2008
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the…
April 8, 2008
A post from December 5, 2007:
Communication
Communication of any kind, including communication of empirical information about the world (which includes scientific information), is constrained by three factors: technology, social factors, and, as a special case of social factors - official…
April 8, 2008
As many of you may be aware, yesterday was the first day of the implementation of the new NIH law which requires all articles describing research funded by NIH to be deposited into PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. Folks at SPARC have put together a list of resources one can consult…
April 8, 2008
This is the second in the series of posts designed to provide the basics of the field of Chronobiology. See the first part: ClockTutorial #1 - What Is Chronobiology and check out the rest of them here - they will all, over time, get moved to this blog.
Here is a brief overview of the concepts and…
April 7, 2008
If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
- Woody Allen
April 7, 2008
Bee and Michael and Chad and Eva and Timo and Cameron will be there. And so will I. And many other interesting people. Where? At the Science in the 21st Century conference at the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Ontario) on Sep. 8th-12th 2008. And it will be fun. This is the blurb of the meeting…
April 7, 2008
The Science Communication Consortium presents:
Science and Congress: The Role of Think Tanks and Congressional Science Committees
Thursday, April 24, 2008
7:00-8:30pm
CUNY - 365 Fifth Avenue, NY NY (directions below)
Recent years have seen a rise in prominence of legislative issues that control how…
April 7, 2008
ConvergeSouth 2008 is ready to roll:
The Web site is online and registration is open: http://2008.convergesouth.com/
We're calling for presentations - see the schedule and apply to present.
There's a brand-new Video Walking Tour on Thursday, October 16, with Robert Scoble and Tom Lassiter leading…
April 7, 2008
Latest from Project Exploration
Project Exploration has just released Discover Your Summer 2008, a summer science resource guide. The guide includes more than 160 programs for middle and high school students throughout the Midwest, along with tips on how to apply for programs successfully. Thanks…
April 7, 2008
Bioethics Grows Up:
When I taught my first course in bioethics to first-year students at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in the spring semester of 1981, bioethics was still in its formative years. There were scant few textbooks around and even fewer anthologies, and I could…
April 7, 2008
Bats Play A Major Role In Plant Protection:
If you get a chance to sip some shade-grown Mexican organic coffee, please pause a moment to thank the bats that helped make it possible. At Mexican organic coffee plantations, where pesticides are banned, bats and birds work night and day to control…
April 7, 2008
The Boneyard XIII is up on Greg Laden's blog
International Carnival of Pozitivities 2.10 is up on Mshairi
Carnival of the Green # 122 is up on Agroblogger
April 7, 2008
This post is perhaps not my best post, but is, by far, my most popular ever. Sick and tired of politics after the 2004 election I decided to start a science-only blog - Circadiana. After a couple of days of fiddling with the templae, on January 8, 2005, I posted the very first post, this one, at…
April 7, 2008
This is the first in a series of posts from Circadiana designed as ClockTutorials, covering the basics of the field of Chronobiology. It was first written on January 12, 2005:
There are traditionally three approaches to research and teaching of physiology: biochemical, energetic, and homeostatic…
