March 4, 2008
Jane is the cool new tool that everyone is talking about - see the commentary on The Tree of Life, on Nature Network and on Of Two Minds.
In short, the Journal/Author Name Estimator is a website where you can type in some text and see which scientific Journal has the content closest to the text you…
March 4, 2008
Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old:
When most of us think of Ancient Egypt, visions of pyramids and mummies fill our imaginations. For a team of paleontologists interested in fossil mammals, the Fayum district of Egypt summons an even older and equally impressive history that…
March 4, 2008
Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 24 are up on ChronicBabe
Mendel's Garden #24 is up on Bayblab
March 4, 2008
That is what Anne-Marie asked after a week with seven mid-term exams. In a few weeks, she'll have another bunch of exams all at the same time. And then a finals week in May.
This is, obviously, not the most efficient system. So, have you, as a student or a teacher, encountered a better system?
March 4, 2008
News from SCONC:
Linda Buck is the Nobel-Prize winner that may live farthest from NC (but still in the U.S.). She will give a seminar Monday, March 10 at 4 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Talley Center at NCSU. Buck won the Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for the discovery of olfactory…
March 3, 2008
You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles. I am NOT an old lady, just a little girl with wrinkles.
- Edythe E. Bregnard
March 3, 2008
Go here, draw a line, let it spin and click to fill it up:
March 3, 2008
Go say Hello to Josh Donlan, the new co-blogger on Shifting Baselines who will add a terrestrial component to the marine stuff already there. Josh's arrival is also bound to provoke some interesting blogging around the scienceblogs.com, as his ideas of 'rewilding' the American West are greeted…
March 3, 2008
Last week's crop of PLoS ONE articles enjoyed quite a nice buzz in the media and on the blogs. But today is a new week, and we start, as always with new articles in PLoS Medicine and PLoS Biology - here are some of the article that caught my attention:
Could an Open-Source Clinical Trial Data-…
March 3, 2008
Ah, the quirky world of science! Archy gives us a tour of history of how various objects in the Solar System got named, and the intrigue and politics around it.
March 3, 2008
Retrospectacle and Omni Brain, as of now, have officially fused into the new, double-headed scibling - Of Two Minds. Go say Hello!
March 3, 2008
Encephalon #40 is up on Mind Hacks
Carnival of the Green #117 is up on Confessions of a Closet Environmentalist
March 3, 2008
Get yourself free PDFs of old biology/taxonomy books and papers courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library:
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and…
March 3, 2008
News from SCONC:
Oliver Smithies is the Nobel-Prize winner next door. A professor at UNC for almost 20 years, Smithies got the nod from Stockholm last fall. He will give a seminar at the Friday Center on Thursday March 6 at 6:30 p.m. in a lecture hosted by the Carolinas Chapter of the American…
March 2, 2008
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
- Eliezer Wiesel
March 2, 2008
Go here, click to change color, press Space to erase and start anew:
March 2, 2008
Under the fold, as the movie appears to slow down loading of my front page:
(Hat-tip)
Related: Wiki for beginners
March 2, 2008
Wow! This is nuts! And this is nuts in a different way! Fortunately, Scott McLemee, Chad Orzel, Josh Rosenau and Brian Switek bring in some reality to the topic: what goes on the living-room bookshelf? Commenters chime in. Good stuff. Read it.
So, what are "rules" in the Coturnix house?
First…
March 2, 2008
Perusing Science
Perusing Aardvarks
Adaptive Complexity
Exsisto Sane
Chimpanzees are not Monkeys
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
PTET
Exploring Our Matrix
March 2, 2008
The 11th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms will be held in Sandestin, FL on May 17th-21st, 2008. And I'll be there. This meeting occurs every two years (on even-numbered years, the International Congress and the Gordon Conference are in odd-numbered years). I…
March 2, 2008
The proposal for link journalism is not a new concept, though the phrase is good. This is something that bloggers have been doing for years and have been imploring the corporate media to adopt for years. On paper, you can provide references in the footnotes or endnotes, or you can mention "unnamed…
March 2, 2008
I just noticed recently, when looking up a paper in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, that SAGE publishing group is starting to offer the Open Access option to the authors in some of its Journals:
Independent scholarly publisher, SAGE Publications, is now offering authors of papers published on…
March 2, 2008
Sue announces that the website will be up in two weeks, and the blog is already up and running. You can help with organization. In any case, mark you calendars:
ConvergeSouth 2008 will be held on October 16-17, 2008 in Greensboro, North Carolina. BlogHer will be held on October 18.
March 2, 2008
The March SCONC meeting will be Wednesday, March 5, at 6 p.m. at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in RTP. The evening will include presentations on how NIEHS research impacts public health, the new NIEHS Web site and highlights of a few of the Institute's important…
March 2, 2008
Anne-Marie reviews two books that appear to be useful in thinking about one's career in science: The Beginner's Guide to Winning a Nobel Prize, by Peter Doherty, and The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology, by Chandler, Wolfe, and Promislow. Read the review and, if you think this is…
March 2, 2008
The latest Festival of the Trees is up on Orchards Forever.
The 26th edition of Gene Genie is up on ScienceBase
March 1, 2008
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
March 1, 2008
Fighting Australian Crayfish Do Not Forget The Face Of Foes:
The fighting Australian yabby, a type of crayfish, smaller than a lobster but similar in appearance, does not forget the face of its foes says new research from University of Melbourne zoologists. The two year study involving over 100…
March 1, 2008
You probably heard that representatives of two presidential campaigns showed up at the AAAS meeting last month in Boston and partipated in a panel, which may lead to the ScienceDebate08 becoming reality. Now, The New Scientist provides the video of this event with some commentary:
See all the…
March 1, 2008
The First Anniversary edition of Scientiae is up on Rants of a feminist engineer
Four Stone Hearth #35 is up on Archaeoporn
History Carnival #62 is up on Spinning Clio : Where History and Politics Meet
Friday Ark #180 is up on Modulator
