February 26, 2008
Religion Colors Americans' Views Of Nanotechnology:
Is nanotechnology morally acceptable? For a significant percentage of Americans, the answer is no, according to a recent survey of Americans' attitudes about the science of the very small.
Male Fertility May Be Harmed By Mix Of Endocrine…
February 26, 2008
Dr.Tara C. Smith is one of the original Gang Of Four(teen) here at Scienceblogs.com. She blogs on her Aetiology as well as contributes to Panda's Thumb and Correlations group blogs. At the 2nd Science Blogging Conference last month Tara moderated the session on Blogging public health and medicine…
February 25, 2008
Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 25, 2008
Oh-oh, it seems it's a meme season again! I'll dutifully do them, one at a time. Today - the good old 123 book meme, which memeticized over time into being called "Goosed meme". I was tagged by Lance Mannion who was hoping that the book closest to me is the OpenLab07. Sorry. It's not. It was…
February 25, 2008
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
February 25, 2008
Snakes Locate Prey Through Vibration Waves:
It is often believed that snakes cannot hear. This presumption is fed by the fact that snakes lack an outer ear and that scientific evidence of snakes responding to sound is scarce. Snakes do, however, possess an inner ear with a functional cochlea.…
February 25, 2008
Psique
Guadalupe Storm-Petrel
Ectoplasmosis
Gallicissa
Sorting Out Science
February 25, 2008
This is an exciting day at PLoS and, after having to keep my mouth shut for a couple of months about it, I am really happy to be free to announce to the world that my friend and excellent science blogger Jonathan Eisen is now officially the Academic Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Biology.
The editors…
February 25, 2008
There are a bunch of new papers in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine and, somewhat out of usual schedule, in PLoS ONE. So, check out these and then look around for more:
Does Mutation Rate Depend on Itself:
Many a research paper, textbook chapter, and grant proposal has begun with the phrase "…
February 25, 2008
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February 25, 2008
Go say Hello to Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science
February 25, 2008
Shelley Batts and I are of the same "generation", meaning that we became SciBlings on the same day. You need to hurry up and check out her blog Retrospectacle before she moves to a new blog in a few days. At the Science Blogging Conference last month Shelley moderated the Student blogging panel--…
February 25, 2008
'Fiona' Gene Controls Flower's Physiologic Clock:
Scientists have found a new gene that regulates the daily and yearly physiological cycles of flowering and seeding.
POSTECH researchers, led by Nam Hong-gil and Kim Jeong-sik, said that they named the gene FIONA1 after the heroine in the popular…
February 25, 2008
If you attended the Science Blogging Conference or read what people blogged about it, or said about it in subsequent interviews, you know how much fun it is to meet your favourite bloggers in real life. You gain a new perspective, you read them more diligently, you understand them better, and you…
February 25, 2008
Boneyard XIV is up on Self-designed Student
Accretionary Wedge #6 is up on the Lounge of the Lab Lemming
Carnival of the Green #116 is up on The EcoLibertarian
February 24, 2008
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 24, 2008
Early Experience Affects Where Birds Breed For Life: What Happens If Habitat Changes?:
How young migratory birds choose the nesting location of their first breeding season has been something of a mystery in the bird world. But a new University of Maryland/National Zoo study of the American redstart…
February 24, 2008
You may remember a few days ago I posted a link to the list of Obsolete skills (the links were to this post, this wiki and this wiki). The growing list is certainly fun to read and check off your own skills against it. Archy adds some more.
But, what I really liked, especially since this is a…
February 24, 2008
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February 24, 2008
Janet Stemwedel a.k.a. Dr.Free-Ride is the blogmistress of Adventures in Ethics and Science and the Science Blogging Conference last month was her second appearance here - last year she was the Keynote Blogger-Speaker and this year she led a session on Science Blogging Ethics.
Welcome to A Blog…
February 23, 2008
...doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
- Charles R. Darwin
Support The Beagle Project
Read the Beagle Project Blog
Buy the Beagle Project swag
Prepare ahead for the Darwin Bicentennial
Read…
February 23, 2008
Reed and I met this morning and shipped off the authors' copies of the OpenLab 2007 to the international addresses, then packaged and addressed the US ones which I will send out on Monday.
We already got our first submission for the Open Laboratory 2008. You can get started, too - the submission…
February 23, 2008
Mico Tatalovic of Blue Sci, the Cambridge's popular science magazine, interviewed me back in April 2007 and wrote an article on science blogging based on that interview. It came out in the Issue #9 as a PDF in October, and is finally found online on Blue Sci.
February 23, 2008
Last night we went to Raleigh Memorial Auditorium and saw the opening ("student") night of "Annie Get Your Gun", starring Larry Gatlin, who is apparently some big name in country music, and Raleigh-born Lauren Kennedy who we last saw as Lady Of The Lake in Spamalot when we went to NYC two years ago…
February 23, 2008
Ryan Somma is a software developer from coastal North Carolina who blogs on Ideonexus. It's all a blur now, but I think the Science Blogging Conference last month was his second.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you…
February 22, 2008
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 22, 2008
Chez describes how and why CNN fired him for blogging and then piles on!
Spread the word. The old media needs to learn to respect the people formerly known as audience.
February 22, 2008
This blog has just been notified that a bank in Sierra Leone has...nope, no millions of dollars in spam-money. Something much better - Maryannaville gave us the Excellent Blogger Award! Thank you!
Recepients of this award can proudly place this image on their side-bars:
And now, I need to pick…
February 22, 2008
John Dupuis has been writing Confessions of a Science Librarian since the time blogging software was really physically soft, being made of clay and shaped like a tablet. We finally got to meet face-to-face at the Science Blogging Conference last month - a meeting long overdue until then.
Welcome…
February 22, 2008
I and the Bird #69 is up on Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Change of Shift Volume Two, Number Seventeen, Murphy's Law is up on Crzegrl.net
Friday Ark #179 is up on Modulator
