February 22, 2008
I was lucky to be in the car at the right time this morning to catch a story about Mastodons in Manhattan: A Botanical Puzzle, i.e., why honey locust trees in NYCity have long thorns - an interesting story (click on the link and click on "Listen Now") which, among others, features our blog-friend…
February 21, 2008
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 21, 2008
Lawrence Lessig is running for Congress and blogging about it. It would be sooooo nice to have him elected. Join the Facebook group and donate.
February 21, 2008
Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards
March 27-28, 2008
Chapel Hill, NC
Discovering scholarly information and data is essential for research and use of the content that the information community is producing and making available. The development of knowledge bases, web systems,…
February 21, 2008
Wow! Al Upton teaches kids aged 8 and 9 and he is teaching them how to run their own blogs. Each young blogger also gets an adult mentor and you can sign up to be a mentor if you want. Sue Waters, who provides some good tips on classroom blogging, provides more detail about Upton's work and…
February 21, 2008
Wow! Al Upton teaches kids aged 8 and 9 and he is teaching them how to run their own blogs. Each young blogger also gets an adult mentor and you can sign up to be a mentor if you want. Sue Waters, who provides some good tips on classroom blogging, provides more detail about Upton's work and…
February 21, 2008
Seminar on Secular Parenting Coming to Raleigh, March 15
Presented by Dale McGowan
Editor/co-author, Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
* How does moral development really work?
* My mother-in-law wants our kids baptized. How can I respond without…
February 21, 2008
Internets are interesting places. One finds all sorts of strange things people post on there. But I hope that Abel's vasectomy liveblogging will make many more men realize that the operation is quick, easy and painless. Perhaps more guys will elect to do it due to reading this post.
February 21, 2008
Saving The Rainforest With ... Toys?:
Villagers in tiny communities including Guayabo, Sawacito and Mahor, in the rainforest of northeastern Honduras, used to take part in the rampant illegal trade in mahogany, but recently they have formed a cooperative and learned to harvest the prized wood in…
February 21, 2008
Greensboro is the only North Carolina town on the 'Popular Science' list of the America's 50 Greenest Cities. We still have a lot of work ahead of us until we catch up with the West Coast.
(Hat-tip)
February 21, 2008
Women's Bioethics Blog
InnoBlogger
Bench Marks
Synthesis
Urban Science Adventures!
Diary of a phd student
February 21, 2008
I discovered Pondering Pikaia less than a year ago and it has immediately become one of my favourite daily reads. Thus, I was very happy that Anne-Marie Hodge could come to the Science Blogging Conference last month so she could meet with all the other science bloggers in person.
Welcome to A Blog…
February 21, 2008
World Health Organization announced a $350 million initiative as a five-year plan to control seven major tropical diseases in Africa:
Statement by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan
I warmly welcome the initiative, announced today by United States President George W. Bush, to vastly increase…
February 21, 2008
Are you confused with the new NIH Policy and unsure as to what you need to do? If so, Association of Research Libraries has assembled a very useful website that explains the process step by step. But the easiest thing to do is to publish with a journal that does the depositing for you free of…
February 20, 2008
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 20, 2008
Tangled Bank #99 is up on Greg Laden's blog
Cabinet of Curiosities #4, The Choose Your Own Adventure Edition, is up on Archaeoporn.
February 20, 2008
Do Animals Think Like Autistic Savants?:
When Temple Grandin argued that animals and autistic savants share cognitive similarities in her best-selling book Animals in Translation (2005), the idea gained steam outside the community of cognitive neuroscientists. Grandin, a professor of animal science…
February 20, 2008
Kevin Zelnio celebrates invertebrates on his blog The Other 95% and, at the second Science Blogging Conference four weeks ago, it was announced that he has joined the Deep Sea News blog and thus officially became a SciBling (with all the associated hazing rituals involving beer).
Welcome to A Blog…
February 20, 2008
The word 'ONE' in PLoS ONE indicates that the journal publishes articles in all areas of science. This is not as easy as it sounds, of course. The majority of papers published so far have some kind of biomedical connection to them, which is not a surprise as the biomedical community was the first…
February 20, 2008
Brendan Bohannan, Richard W. Castenholz, Jessica Green and their students and postdcos at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Oregon are currently doing a Journal Club on the PLoS ONE article The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Metagenomic Characterization…
February 19, 2008
Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 19, 2008
There are 50 new articles in PLoS ONE this week - here are some of my picks for you to check out (and post comments, ratings, etc.):
Clocking the Lyme Spirochete:
In order to clear the body of infecting spirochetes, phagocytic cells must be able to get hold of them. In real-time phase-contrast…
February 19, 2008
There is a lot of stuff one hears about food, sustainability, environment, etc., and it is sometimes hard to figure out what is true and what is not, what is based on science and what is emotion-based mythology.
For instance, some things I have heard over the years and have no means to evaluate if…
February 19, 2008
...from different points of view:
Anne-Marie: Culinary revelation
Mark Powell: Saving the ocean with guilt or desire? and Does the sustainable seafood movement rely on guilt? (blogfish poll)
Miriam Goldstein: Guilty as charged
Amanda Marcotte: Save your soul with recycling
February 19, 2008
Identical Twins Not As Identical As Believed:
Contrary to our previous beliefs, identical twins are not genetically identical. This surprising finding may be of great significance for research on hereditary diseases and for the development of new diagnostic methods. How can it be that one identical…
February 19, 2008
Sue and Ed are starting to plan the fourth ConvergeSouth and are asking the community to help with the planning.
February 19, 2008
Are Animals Autistic Savants:
Do animals have privileged access to lower level sensory information before it is packaged into concepts, as Temple Grandin has argued for autistic savants? Giorgio Vallortigara and colleagues critique this perspective, and Grandin responds.
see also.
Maternal Death,…
February 19, 2008
SES: Science, Education & Society
The Natural Patriot
Patently silly
Evolved and Rational
A Fat Question
Stuff White People Like
Running the Numbers
February 19, 2008
Congratulations to Josh Marshall for winning the George Polk Award!
(Hat-tip)
February 19, 2008
In my daily interviews I always ask: what new blogs did you discover at the Conference? If anyone asked me that question - and you know it's hard to surprise me! - one I'd pick would be the INFO Project blog run by Rose Reis, now my daily read.
Now, Anna (where did she get the idea, I wonder?)…
