February 14, 2008
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 14, 2008
Sex in Space
Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita
Ship-2-Shore Education
The Oyster's Garter
Deus Ex Malcontent
The Beauty Brains
Science Fair
Talk Like A Physicist
February 14, 2008
The elephants in the room: How the GOP lost its way by Hal Crowther
Kafkaesque Bureaucracies Impede Import of Scientific Goods in Brazil by Mauro Rebelo
Open Science and the developing world: Good intentions, bad implementation? by Cameron Neylon
Alternative Agriculture in Cuba (pdf) by Sara…
February 14, 2008
I found two articles interesting to me in today's issue of PLoS Computational Biology - the first one about becoming a good scientist, the other on circadian rhythms:
On the Process of Becoming a Great Scientist:
In the vein of promoting further debate and discussion, I provide here a different and…
February 14, 2008
Via Ed Cone (also see SteveK and McDawg) I see that CNN did Teh Stupid - they
fired their producer Chez Sapienza. Why? Because he is blogging! On his own blog as well as on HuffPo. He writes about the industry as a whole and writes well, though nothing specifically about CNN or his job there,…
February 14, 2008
Yes, I know, Scienceblogs.com is The Borg. But we like our little sister, the Nature Network and they have made some impressive strides over their first year in existence:
Nature Network turns 1 today: progress report
Happy 1st Birthday!
Happy Birthday Nature Network
February 14, 2008
We have already covered, in quite some detail the problems of passing gas in space. Not so much a problem inside a spaceship, but potentially a problem on a space walk, especially if the said activity, if particularly powerful, produces a rip in the scafander. The air leaves and it's all over for…
February 14, 2008
Skeptics' Circle #80 - Valentine edition - is up on Bug Girl's Blog
Carnival of Education #158 is up on Instructify
February 14, 2008
Bill Hooker blogs on Open Reading Frame, is a vocal proponent of Open Access publishing, has attended both Science Blogging Conferences to date, and I am happy to call him a friend.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are…
February 14, 2008
...and block off two days: from mid-day Friday, January 16th through mid-day Sunday January 18th, 2009.
You will be too busy to do anything else because you will be in North Carolina, at Sigma Xi, attending the Third Conference....
February 13, 2008
I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 13, 2008
Mythbusting Canadian Healthcare, Part II: Debunking the Free Marketeers by Sara Robinson
Scientific Careerism 101: Yes, grad students and postdocs it IS your fault by DrugMonkey
The project of being a grown-up scientist (part 2) by Janet D. Stemwedel
The Well Dressed Professor... by Thomas Levenson…
February 13, 2008
Thousands Of Humans Inhabited New World's Doorstep For 20,000 Years:
The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000 -year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait. Furthermore, the New World was…
February 13, 2008
The 34th edition of Four Stone Hearth is up on Our Cultural World
The 58th Carnival of the Liberals is up on Liberal England
The 111th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on The Voice of Experience
February 13, 2008
Jennifer Jacquet is the Blog-mistress of Shifting Baselines, where you will get disemvowelled if you eat Chilean Sea Bass in the comments. Especially if you smack your lips while eating. At the Science Blogging Conference three weeks ago, Jennifer spoke on the panel on Changing Minds through…
February 13, 2008
Yes, that time has come....Going it alone in 2006 was far too much work for one person. Reed Cartwright was the first guest editor in 2007 and this was a perfect solution. So, going on into the new year and new victories, it is now time to announce the Editor of the Open Laboratory 2008.…
February 13, 2008
After a brief winter break, the lovely neuroscience carnival Encephalon is back under the new management. Submit your posts and volunteer to host. I just hosted one recently and am too busy right now, but if you can, contact Alvaro and sign up for hosting.
February 13, 2008
Our Seed Overlords need to know more about our readers. Please do a quick survey and put your name in the hat to win an iPod.
February 13, 2008
Karl Mogel interviews Neil Shubin. Paleontology makes testable predictions, with cool results.
February 12, 2008
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these…
February 12, 2008
There are 43 new articles in PLoS ONE this week, and these I find most interesting at first glance - you look around, comment, rate, annotate, send tracbacks....
A Three-Stage Colonization Model for the Peopling of the Americas:
We evaluate the process by which the Americas were originally…
February 12, 2008
Burgermares and Coffeebots
Sigma Xi Water blog
Sigma Xi's Science Blog
Talking pictures
Stephen Bodio's Querencia
Vocino.com
February 12, 2008
As a part of the Darwin Day celebration the North Carolina Botanical Garden has organized a series of events for today, culminating in the lecture "Darwin the Botanist" by Dr.William Kimler, a Darwinian scholar and the professor of History (of Science) at NCSU:
Most people do not think of Charles…
February 12, 2008
Laelaps was a dog in Greek mythology that always caught its prey and was turned into stone (by Zeus himself!) while hunting the Teumessian fox that could never be caught. Lealaps is also a defunct name for a carnivorous dinosaur. Laelaps is also a mite that parasitizes rats. And Laelaps is the…
February 12, 2008
In today's NYTimes: At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web:
Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high…
February 12, 2008
Sheril and Chris have announced that the invitations to the remaining Presidential candidates for the Science Debate 2008 have been sent. The date is April 18th, 2008, just 4 days before the Pennsylvania primary (the last big primary that may decide the nominees unless something really weird…
February 11, 2008
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into…
February 11, 2008
The Evolution of Norovirus, the 'Gastric Flu' and Mechanisms of GII.4 Norovirus Persistence in Human Populations:
Noroviruses are the leading cause of viral acute gastroenteritis in humans, noted for causing epidemic outbreaks in communities, the military, cruise ships, hospitals, and assisted…
February 11, 2008
Fast Learning Bumblebees Reap Greater Nectar Rewards:
The speed with which bees learn affects their ability to collect food from flowers, according to a new study from Queen Mary, University of London. As nectar levels in flowers change from minute-to-minute, faster learning bees are more likely to…
February 11, 2008
When you hear SciBlings mention "our Seed Overlords", they are talking about Ginny, our new Commander-in-Chief and Royal Cat-herder. At the Science Blogging Conference three weeks ago, she herded (almost) 20 of us in Real Life to take the famous group photo.
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