February 19, 2008
Earlier today I went to UNC to talk about Science On The Web in Javed Mostafa's graduate course on Enabling Usability of Cyberinfrastructures for Learning, Inquiry, and Discovery. I showed and talked about the following sites:
The rapidly growing List of Open Access journals and how the recent NIH…
February 19, 2008
The Florida Board of Education passed new science standards.
February 19, 2008
While I was busy, I heard Castro resigned, Musharaff's party lost the elections, and Kosovo declared independence. Wake me up when something really important happens, e.g., Bush leaves the White House....
February 19, 2008
Grand Rounds - Vol 4, No. 22 - are up on DailyInterview
The 112th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Homeschool Blog Awards
February 19, 2008
Brian Russell, who is building a coworking space in Carrboro, just alerted me to an excellent new article about this in the San Francisco Chronicle: Shared work spaces a wave of the future. Well worth a read.
February 19, 2008
Today I have to be very, very careful, because Liz Allen is the person who hired me for PLoS and is my immediate supervisor. This means, in PLoS terms, that we work great as a team, talk on the phone a couple of times per week and exchange approximately five gigazillion e-mails every day, enjoying…
February 19, 2008
I tried to understand what DNA barcoding is, as everyone is talking about it. And I tried reading a couple of papers about it - I am a biologist, so I should have understood them, but nope, I was still in the dark.
So, what does one do? Waits for a science blogger to explain it. And so it…
February 18, 2008
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 18, 2008
(from here; hat-tip)
Or perhaps Gabe has been right all along and I am not really a science blogger....
February 18, 2008
Orac: The American Academy of Pediatrics versus antivaccinationist hypocrisy
Drake Bennett: Black man vs. white woman
Sheril R. Kirshenbaum: The Presidential Science Debate That Happened TODAY In Boston! and The Boston Debate
Mike Dunford: The Role of Science in Politics: A Plea for Activism
John S…
February 18, 2008
Encephalon - Briefing the Next US President on 24 Neuroscience and Psychology Issues - is up on SharpBrains
Carnival of the Green # 115 is up on The greener side
February 18, 2008
Cheating Is Easy For The Social Amoeba:
Cheating is easy and seemingly without cost for the social amoeba known as Dictyostelium discoideum, said a team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston who conducted the first genome-scale search for social genes and…
February 18, 2008
Science Cafe on Teenage Brains :
Teenagers sometimes act as though they were from a different planet. On Tuesday February 19, the Museum of Natural Sciences will host a science cafe entitled "Altered States: Inside the Teenage Brain" at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh at 6:30p.m. The session will be led by…
February 18, 2008
What is the difference between Free Access Beer and Open Access Beer?
You go to a bar to get your Free Access Beer. You sit down. You show your ID. The barista gives you a bottle. You don't need to pay anything for it - it's free, after all. You take your own bottle-opener from your pocket and…
February 18, 2008
Tom Levenson is the author of three cool books so far: Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science, Einstein in Berlin and Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth and has recently taken the science blogging world by storm with his new blog, the Inverse Square. We finally got to meet at…
February 17, 2008
On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: "An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'"
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 17, 2008
A guide to hiring women.
Obsolete technical skills (I have them all except #11!)
The social source of religion.
Charles Barkley for President!
February 17, 2008
I've bumped into Christina's blog every now and then before, but only started reading it more regularly when she signed up for the first Science Blogging Conference. We also met at the ASIS&T meeting in Milwaukee, and then again at the second Science Blogging Conference four weeks ago.
Welcome…
February 17, 2008
Medicine 2.0, edition #18 is up on ScienceRoll
Gene Genie #25 is up at The Gene Sherpa
February 17, 2008
Yes and No. But the article is not from the 'Onion', it's from the Hot Medical News. It's about an onion, in a strange place....
February 16, 2008
I am a strong advocate for free thought on all subjects, yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity & theism produce hardly any effect on the public; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which…
February 16, 2008
Dung Happens And Helps Scientists: Scoop On Poop And Climate Change:
When scientists around the world think of dung, they think of Jim Mead. Mead, a researcher at Northern Arizona University, is one of the world's foremost authorities on animal dung, and he's got the poop to prove it.
Neanderthals…
February 16, 2008
Oekologie #14 is up on A DC Birding Blog
The Boneyard #13 is up on Greg Laden's blog
Friday Ark #178 is up on the Modulator
February 16, 2008
Aaron Rowe writes for WIRED Science blog and we have first met at the Science Blogging Conference three weeks ago.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Who are you?
I am an Eagle Scout, doctoral student in biochemistry, colossal foodie, storyteller, and amateur comedian. My recreational tastes are…
February 15, 2008
As for myself I believe that I have acted rightly in steadily following and devoting my life to Science. I feel no remorse from having committed any great sin, but have often and often regretted that I have not done more direct good to my fellow creatures. My sole and poor excuse is much ill-health…
February 15, 2008
Singing In The Rainforest: Public Vs. Private Signaling By A Tropical Rainforest Bird:
According to the Chinese proverb, a bird sings because it has a song, not because it has an answer. A team of French and Brazilian researchers, however, may have the answer as to how the song of Brazilian white-…
February 15, 2008
When Harvard does something, all the others follow. Perhaps this is the tipping point for Open Access as a whole. Peter Suber and Gavin Baker have the best commentary and all the links to other worthy commentary in a series of posts worth studying:
More on the imminent OA mandate at Harvard…
February 15, 2008
Via Peter Suber, there is now something new - PLoL, or, Public Library of Law:
Searching the Web is easy. Why should searching the law be any different? That's why Fastcase has created the Public Library of Law -- to make it easy to find the law online. PLoL is the largest free law library in the…
February 15, 2008
Gabrielle Lyon is the Executive Director and Cofounder of Project Exploration. But the story is much longer. She went to grad school (U. of Chicago) with my brother and he thought that Gabe and I would be interesting to each other due to our shared interest in dinosaurs. So we got in touch and…
February 15, 2008
Jennifer and I are ready - you can start submitting your entries for the Open Laboratory 2008 using this automated form. We'll have buttons/badges ready in a few days as well (or if you are idle, you can make them and help us out: the color for the year is orange-red).
What is eligible? Blog…
