February 29, 2008
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
- Emile Auguste Chartier
February 29, 2008
The World We Don't Live In
Michael Nielsen
A & A's Excellent Adventure
Ecosystems and Poverty
Rat in the Lab
The Biology Refugia
Fresh Brainz
February 29, 2008
Two of the papers published today in PLoS Genetics (now on the TOPAZ platform) got my attention:
Redundant Function of REV-ERBα and β and Non-Essential Role for Bmal1 Cycling in Transcriptional Regulation of Intracellular Circadian Rhythms:
Circadian clocks in plants, fungi, insects, and mammals…
February 29, 2008
See the moment when the lion recognizes the guys who raised him as a cub:
Hat-tip: Melissa
February 29, 2008
Just try this link: http://scienceborg.com
February 29, 2008
See all the clips here.
February 29, 2008
Though, at some times and places in history, February 24th was considered to be the Leap Day. For the more science-oriented folks, Phil Plait explains why we have leap days.
February 29, 2008
Watch to the end to see how just huge this thing is!
From Frischer Wind, via Page 3.14
February 29, 2008
Book excerpt in today's Wall Street Journal: Chapter 6: Wired:
It is likely that insomnia will increase with the expansion of the 24-hour economy into more and more lives, and more of each life, because wakefulness and the wired world go together. The more interconnected we are, the more we…
February 28, 2008
Here we see how potent has been the effect of the introduction of a single tree, nothing whatever else having been done, with the exception that the land had been enclosed so that cattle could not enter. But how important an enclosure is, I plainly saw in Farnham, in Surrey. Here there are…
February 28, 2008
150 years ago Alfred Russel Wallace sent a letter to Charles Darwin, describing natural selection.
55 years ago, Watson and Crick announced the structure of DNA.
February 28, 2008
First, the interviews will continue....when I get some answers from one of the six people I sent questions to.... I will also be sending questionnaires to more people soon.
Second, there are some responses now to the 1-2-3, the Goosed/Book meme. First, Chad Orzel provides several interesting…
February 28, 2008
This Is Your Brain On Jazz: Researchers Use MRI To Study Spontaneity, Creativity:
A pair of Johns Hopkins and government scientists have discovered that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression…
February 28, 2008
The 30th edition of Circus of the Spineless is up on A DC Birding Blog
Berry Go Round #2 is up on Further thoughts
Skeptics' Circle #81 is up on Conspiracy Factory
February 27, 2008
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles R. Darwin
Support The Beagle Project
Read the Beagle Project Blog
Buy the Beagle Project swag
Prepare ahead for the Darwin Bicentennial
Read Darwin for yourself.
February 27, 2008
SECular Thoughts
Free Range Academy
Nimravid's Weblog
Thesis - with Children
Frontal Blogotomy
February 27, 2008
A blog is software.
Importantly: a blog is free software.
Everyone can use it in any way they want. If there are 100 million blogs out there, there are 100 million blogging styles and 100 million ideas what blogging "is". And anyone who dares tell others how to do it incurs the wrath of the other…
February 27, 2008
Carnival of Education #160 is up on the Sam Jackson College Experience
Carnival of the Liberals #59 is up on The Largest Minority
February 27, 2008
Check all the video clips here.
February 27, 2008
Bats Use Magnetic Substance As Internal Compass To Help Them Navigate:
They may not be on most people's list of most attractive species, but bats definitely have animal magnetism. Researchers from the Universities of Leeds and Princeton have discovered that bats use a magnetic substance in their…
February 27, 2008
Karl Bates is the Manager of Research Communications at Duke University where he is involved in a number of very cool new online projects. He is also a "repeat offender" - his experience at the first Science Blogging Conference did not stop him from attending the second one last month.
Welcome to A…
February 27, 2008
As John quips, who is crazy to try to blog around a clock like Coturnix? Not me, for sure. But Arunn is, at least for one day! In the past 24 hours Arunn has posted 15 (fifteen!) posts on his blog. I hope this did not disrupt his marital harmony too much!
OK, so here are the fifteen posts - go…
February 27, 2008
It was a heroic (and sometimes nerve-wrecking) couple of months for the IT/Web team at PLoS, but the fruits of their labor will shortly be visible to all. PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics and PLoS Pathogens will soon migrate onto the TOPAZ platform. You are familiar with TOPAZ already as…
February 26, 2008
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
- Charles R. Darwin
Support The Beagle Project
Read the Beagle Project Blog
Buy the Beagle Project swag
Prepare ahead for the Darwin Bicentennial
Read Darwin for yourself.
February 26, 2008
Check all the video clips here.
February 26, 2008
Excitement on science blogs! Karen James of the Beagle Project Blog has just today published a paper in PLoS ONE:
Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) for Pan-Genomic Evolutionary Studies of Non-Model Organisms:
Background
High-throughput tools for pan-genomic study, especially the DNA microarray…
February 26, 2008
There are 48 new articles published this week in PLoS ONE. It's hard to choose just a couple to highlight, so look around for what interests you (avian flu, the Plague?). How about these titles that piqued my interest:
Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz…
February 26, 2008
There are three interesting, thought-provoking articles on Open Education today:
The Digital Commons - Left Unregulated, Are We Destined for Tragedy?
An Interview with Ahrash Bissell of the Creative Commons
The Open Digital Commons - A Truly Endless Array of Success Stories
Worth your time and…
February 26, 2008
Journal of Visualized Experiments signed a deal with Wiley-Blackwell to provide videos for Current Protocols:
Wiley-Blackwell and JoVE Unveil Groundbreaking Online Video Publications
Online methods videos go mainstream
Visual journal partners with Wiley
Related...
February 26, 2008
Grand Rounds 4.22: The Future of Medicine - are up on ScienceRoll.
The 113th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on The Daily Planet
