February 6, 2008
Vanessa Woods is a researcher with the Hominoid Psychology Research Group which recently moved to Duke University - just in time for her to be able to attend the Science Blogging Conference two weeks ago. Vanessa is the author of four books (three of those are for kids, the latest one, It's every…
February 6, 2008
Can you help identify this fossil? The experts are baffled.
February 6, 2008
Carnival of the Blue #9: Make 2008 a Blue Year! is up on The Other 95%.
Tangled Bank #98 is up on Quintessence of Dust
Carnival of Education -- Valentine's Edition -- is up on The Colossus of Rhodey
The 110th Carnival of Homeschooling - Acrostic Edition - is up on About:Homeschooling
February 5, 2008
Here, poor Forbes made a continent to N. America & another (or the same) to the Gulf of
weed. - Hooker makes one from New Zealand to S. America & round the world to
Kerguelen Land. Here is Wollaston speaking of Madeira & P. Santo "as the sure &
certain witnesses" of a former…
February 5, 2008
Tons of new stuff in PLoS ONE this week. Some titles that caught my eye:
Comparative Bacterial Proteomics: Analysis of the Core Genome Concept:
While comparative bacterial genomic studies commonly predict a set of genes indicative of common ancestry, experimental validation of the existence of…
February 5, 2008
There were already two Science Foo Camps (in summers of 2006 and 2007) and two Science Blogging Conferences (in winters of 2007 and 2008).
But the hunger for such meetings is far from satiated. So, if you have time and money and can travel, you can choose to attend the SciBarCamp on March 15-16,…
February 5, 2008
Two books - Facebook: The Missing Manual and Wikipedia: The Missing Manual arrived in my mailbox today. How did I get them? By being on Facebook, getting a message from the O'Reilly Facebook group and being one of the first 20 to respond. The first glance at the books and the tables of contents…
February 5, 2008
Dave Munger is part of the numerous North Carolinian contingent here at Scienceblogs.com. He writes the Cognitive Daily blog and runs the ResearchBlogging.org blog aggregator. At the Science Blogging Conference two weeks ago, Dave led a session on Building interactivity into your blog.
Welcome to…
February 5, 2008
Grand Rounds, Vol. 4, No. 20: The Health 2.0 Explosion - are up on Diabetes Mine
February 5, 2008
Open Students is a new blog for students about open access to research. It is run by Gavin Baker (who also recently joined Peter Suber at Open Access News - Congratulations!) and sponsored by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, as part of its student outreach…
February 4, 2008
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles R. Darwin,
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February 4, 2008
There's some cool new stuff in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine this week. Here are my picks and you look around and see what you are interested in....
The Evolutionary and Developmental Foundations of Mathematics:
Understanding the evolutionary precursors of human mathematical ability is a highly…
February 4, 2008
Chris and Sheril report that the 600lb gorilla is in the room - the Science Debate 2008 just signed on probably its most powerful sponsor to date: The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, making the possibility of the debate happening even more…
February 4, 2008
Anna's Hummingbird Chirps With Its Tail During Display Dives:
The beeps, chirps and whistles made by some hummingbirds and thought to be vocal are actually created by the birds' tail feathers, according to a study by two students at the University of California, Berkeley.
Why Don't Chimpanzees Like…
February 4, 2008
The Daily Mammal
ShopTalk
Open Students
ScienceCrossroads
The Tao of Change
Pyrenaemata
February 4, 2008
Talia is wondering what would happen to an astronaut who goes outside the spaceship in a spacesuit and lets one rip?!
Any physicists out there who can give her more information beyond the farting-is-funny cartoons?
And as far as Talia goes, as she will stay inside the ship, all she risks is…
February 4, 2008
February's Scientiae Carnival is up on Fairer Science
Carnival of the Green #113 is up on Tao of Change, a blog run by a neighbor here in Carrboro, NC.
Festival of the Trees #20 is up on Ginkgo Dreams
Carnival of the Godless #84: The Word of 'Pod - is up on Mind on Fire
February 4, 2008
Shirley of One Big Lab blog is trying to submit a proposal for an Open Science session to be held at the next Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Although the meeting is a whole year away, the deadline for proposals is only 4 days away. You can read the rules for proposals here and see what…
February 4, 2008
Anna Kushnir was one of the first bloggers on the Nature Blog Network, she writes a personal food blog and recently started running the JoVE blog. We first met at the Science Foo Camp last August, then at the Foodblogging event in Durham, then at the Millenium conference at Harvard, then at the…
February 4, 2008
Over the weekend (a civilized day of the week to hold elections - Saturday) Boris Tadic won (actually retained) the Presidency of Serbia. Sure, there were some better candidates, but this is a much better outcome than what could have happened - the various local versions of Huckabee and Paul,…
February 4, 2008
You probably know that John Wilkins has been collecting a list of science blog posts under the heading of Basic Concepts in Science - where various science bloggers (and not only Seed sciencebloggers) took some time to explain some very basic terms, concepts and ideas in various scientific…
February 4, 2008
Yesterday, a bunch of us (e.g., Paul, Brian, Ruby, Wayne, Jackson, Mark and me) got together for tea at Anton's house, analyzed the past year of bloggy activity and plotted to take over the world next year: meetups (a.k.a. beer-blogs-bowling events), science blogging conference, faithblogging,…
February 3, 2008
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the…
February 3, 2008
How do you like the daily interviews?
I thought that would be great PR for the Conference - both with the interviewees saying nice things about it, and just showcasing what a nice bunch of people showed up this time around. Perhaps this will make more people think seriously about coming next year…
February 3, 2008
Kevin Kelly wrote an excellent and thought-provoking post: Better Than Free - if I find some time I will write more about it later. But for now - it is The Obligatory Reading of the Day and I welcome your reactions.
(Hat-tip: Bill)
February 3, 2008
You Are What You Eat: Some Differences Between Humans And Chimpanzees Traced To Diet:
Using mice as models, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology traced some of the differences between humans and chimpanzees to differences in our diet.
Migrating Birds Detect Latitude…
February 3, 2008
Daytime Nap Can Benefit A Person's Memory Performance:
A brief bout of non-REM sleep (45 minutes) obtained during a daytime nap clearly benefits a person's declarative memory performance, according to a new study.
People Had More Intense Dreams After Sept. 11, 2001, Sleep Research Shows:
The…
February 3, 2008
The Digital Cuttlefish
The Technium
Space Exploration and Us!
Sweet Jesus I Hate Chris Matthews
ThePoliticalCat
Moue Magazine
Cafe Philos: an internet cafe
Riverside Rambles
February 3, 2008
Oh, how I wish eSkeletons website existed back at the time I was teaching anatomy! Very, very cool! You can focus on human bones only, look at movement, insertions and origins, etc. Or you can make comparison between bones of several primates. Thanks Anne-Marie.
February 3, 2008
Jennifer Ouelette runs the delightful blog Cocktail Party Physics . She has published two popular science books: The Physics of the Buffyverse and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats and was the Very Special Blogging Star Speaker at the Science Blogging Conference two weeks ago.
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