February 10, 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 10, 2008
As I promised the other day, I went to Carrboro Century Center this afternoon (right after meeting with Anton around the corner) to see the Island Projects designed by the Chapel Hill High School students of Rob Greenberg.
I did not see all of them - they were doing this in "shifts" throughout the…
February 10, 2008
Mythbusting Canadian Health Care -- Part I by Sara Robinson.
Constitutional Originalism, Natural Law, and The Ninth Amendment by PhysioProf.
February 10, 2008
Of course! Anton and I met earlier today and started planning the third Science Blogging Conference. We analyzed the responses we got so far from you, in person, by e-mail, on your blogs, on the interviews and via the feedback form (if you have not done it yet, please give us your feedback here,…
February 10, 2008
Dyre Portents
A natural history of Runswick Bay
Northstate Science
Ancient World Bloggers Group
Blog Interupted...
Biology (Magrin 07)
Extreme Biology
February 10, 2008
Patricia B. Campbell, PhD is a tireless fighter for science education and for gender equality in science. She runs the FairerScience website and the FairerScience blog. At the Science Blogging Conference three weeks ago, Pat was on the panel on Gender and Race in Science: online and offline.…
February 10, 2008
If you read my blog you must be aware how enchanted I am with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Unfortunately, at the last moment something came up, so the delegation of two teachers and six students could not make it to the Conference three weeks ago. I intend to go and visit there some time soon…
February 9, 2008
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 9, 2008
Birds, Bats And Insects Hold Secrets For Aerospace Engineers:
Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency. University of Michigan engineers are studying these animals as a step toward designing flapping-wing planes with wingspans smaller…
February 9, 2008
Obligatory Readings of the Day: Jennifer Ouelette and Chris Clarke explain everything you need to know.
February 9, 2008
Karen is excited this morning, reading the enormous Guardian edition full of good Darwiny goodness, chockful of articles by Dawkins and many others, as well as extracts from Darwin's works.
The only part I find a little too narrow is The best Darwinian sites on the web which mentions only a small…
February 9, 2008
Vedran Vucic (voo-tcheech) is a Linux afficionado in Serbia. He and his organization have gone all around Serbia, wired up the schools, taught the teachers and students how to use Linux, taught the teachers and students how to use various online educational resources ranging from blogs to ATutor,…
February 9, 2008
Washington Post has an article on how to plant your own floral clock, just like the one built by Linnaeus.
February 9, 2008
Go say Hello to Alice Pawley, the new co-blogger on On Being a Scientist and a Woman. Post a comment on her inaugural post.
February 9, 2008
Linnaeus' Legacy #4: Darwin Month Extravaganza! is up on The Other 95%
Friday Ark #177 is up on Modulator
International Carnival of Pozitivities 2.9. is up on NotPerfectAtAll
February 8, 2008
I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 8, 2008
I mentioned before that Carrboro Citizen is my favourite newspaper, the only one I read in hardcopy. Perhaps I like it because it is hyperlocal. Perhaps that is why I have this mindset that those who live in Carrboro already read it and those who don't will have no interest. So, I rarely blog…
February 8, 2008
Many important research findings never make it into the actual practice when it comes to reproductive health services. Rose of The INFO Project Blog has posted an interesting and good survey which needs to be spread around the blogosphere more in order to get a bigger number of responses:
To…
February 8, 2008
Hemai Parthasarathy spent about five years as an editor at Nature before joining PLoS where she was the Managing Editor of PLoS Biology from its very beginning, through about five years of it until just a few months ago. When I got the job with PLoS and spent my first month in San Francisco, Hemai…
February 8, 2008
On top of screencasts, podcasts and PPT files that are already available, you can now also read the full transcript of the session on Public Scientific Data from the Science Blogging Conference. And much more here....
February 7, 2008
The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of mans inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the…
February 7, 2008
Transparent Adult Zebra Fish Will Make Human Biology Even Clearer:
Zebrafish are genetically similar to humans and are good models for human biology and disease. Now, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have created a zebrafish that is transparent throughout its life. The new fish allows…
February 7, 2008
There are some interesting articles published in PLoS Genetics, Computational Biology, Pathogens and Neglected Tropical Diseases and these got my attention at the first glance - you look around for stuff you may be interested in:
Comparing Patterns of Natural Selection across Species Using…
February 7, 2008
Moshe Pritsker and I first met at Scifoo, then shared a panel at the Harvard Millennium Confreence and finally met again at the Science Blogging Conference two weeks ago. Moshe is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visualized Experiments, the innovative online journals that publishes videos…
February 7, 2008
I and the Bird #68 - Winter Doldrum Edition - is up on Biological Ramblings
The new edition of Change of Shift if up at Nursing Voices.
And something a little meta: Re-thinking the Blog Carnival
February 7, 2008
Apophenia, danah boyd's blog, is one of the first blogs I ever discovered back in the depths of Time, certainly the first non-political blog, even before I found any science blogs. We finally got to meet last year at the ASIS&T meeting in Wisconsin. She just published a paper and, in her last…
February 7, 2008
Go say Hi to Jessica Palmer of Bioephemera!
February 6, 2008
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
- Charles R. Darwin
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February 6, 2008
Gene Variants May Help To Distribute The Work Of Evolution Between Men And Women:
Scientists from deCODE genetics have discovered two common, single-letter variants in the sequence of the human genome (SNPs) that regulate one of the principle motors of evolution.
Key 'Impact Hunters' Catalyze…
February 6, 2008
....Scienceblogs.com
Busy today. What are the others writing about?
Abel Pharmboy and DrugMonkey discuss the causes of death of Heath Ledger.
Nature had some articles about ScienceDebate 2008 and got it all wrong. I agree with what John Lynch wrote.
PhysioProf explains the brave new world of NIH…
