January 11, 2008
If you look at the Program page on the wiki for the Science Blogging Conference, you will see, for the Saturday program, there are 12 excellent sessions, a panel and a talk. Each has a discussion page which you should edit to add your own thoughts, ideas and questions.
One of the sessions I expect…
January 10, 2008
Oliver Mandic - Pitaju me
This was years before Boy George. Yes, a patriarchal kind of guy in Belgrade broke his TV screen when he saw this. The older generations could not really stomach the whole transgender experiment, but the youngsters loved Oliver because he was really cutting edge,…
January 10, 2008
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell
January 10, 2008
Ancient Cave Bears Were As Omnivorous As Modern Bears:
Rather than being gentle giants, new research reveals that Pleistocene cave bears ate both plants and animals and competed for food with the other contemporary large carnivores of the time: hyaenas, lions, wolves, and our own human ancestors.…
January 10, 2008
M. Mitchell Waldrop (author of the delightful book Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos) interviewed me and a bunch of others back in August about the changing ways of science communication. I completely forgot about it, but was reminded yesterday when he e-mailed me to…
January 10, 2008
I and the Bird #66 is up on Born Again Bird Watcher
Change of Shift: Vol.2, Number 14 is up on Nursing Jobs.org
Carnival of Space #36 is up on Cat Dynamics
History Carnival #60 is up on The Victorian Peeper
January 10, 2008
"Why isn't there a birth control pill for men?" is the latest "Ask A ScienceBlogger" question. I am sure my SciBlings will rise to the occasion and explain both the biological and social barriers to the development, production and marketing of such a pill. I will be more light hearted, with a…
January 10, 2008
I can't believe that the Conference is only about 10 days away! Almost everything is set and ready to go and we are all very excited.
If you look at the Program page, we have assembled a star-studded group of speakers and moderators who will lead sessions on a number of interesting topics. Of…
January 9, 2008
Another oldie: Magazin - Da Li Znas Da Te Ne Volim
January 9, 2008
Youth is the best time to be rich; and the best time to be poor.
- Euripides
January 9, 2008
Members of the Rodriguez lab and the Otero lab, both of Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante (CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernandez. Spain) have just posted their first Journal Club commentary on the PLoS ONE article High-Pass Filtering of Input Signals by the Ih Current in a Non-Spiking Neuron, the…
January 9, 2008
24 new article got published on PLoS ONE last night. Here are some interesting titles for you to check out (and then look around at others, add comments, annotations and ratings, and blog about them):
Self Assessment in Insects: Honeybee Queens Know Their Own Strength:
Contests mediate access to…
January 9, 2008
So far, Obama has a 1st and a 2nd, Clinton a 1st and a 3rd, and Edwards a 2nd and a 3rd. In terms of delegates they are all three very close (25 Obama, 24 Clinton, 18 Edwards). All the candidates have spent most of their money and their big donors have all maxed out, so they are all strapped for…
January 9, 2008
Size Doesn't Matter To Fighting Fiddler Crabs:
A person's home may be their castle and in the world of the fiddler crabs having the home advantage makes it a near certainty that you'll win a battle against an intruder - regardless of your opponent's size. That's one of the findings of a new study…
January 9, 2008
Carnival of the Blue #8 is up on I'm a chordata, urochordata!
Tangled Bank #96 is up on Aardvarchaeology
Carnival of the Liberals #55 is up on The Greenbelt
The 153rd edition of the Carnival of Education is up on Columbus Education Association
January 8, 2008
Azra was the best and most popular Croatian band ever:
January 8, 2008
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz
January 8, 2008
Following his (excellent) article in Seed on the topic, my SciBling Chris Mooney blogs about the future of the position of the Science Advisor to the President, suggesting some potential names, and Matt Nisbet, RPM, Blake Stacey, Brian Switek, Scott Hatfield, Lila Guterman, Larry Moran, Mike…
January 8, 2008
Gene Genie #23 is up on ScienceRoll.
Grand Rounds - Vol 4., No. 16 are up on Pathtalk
Carnival of the Godless is up on Axis of Jared
Carnival of the Green #109 is up on eBike blog
The Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Red Sea School.
January 8, 2008
Thanks to John Wilkins, I want to point you to an excellent review on the current state of research (both scientific and philosophical) in Animal Cognition.
January 8, 2008
JoVE blog
Science Based Medicine
Talking Science
Errol Morris - Zoom
The Open Source Paleontologist
January 8, 2008
The panel discussion from the 'Waking Up To Sleep' (February 9th and 10th, 2007) conference has been filmed and the video is now online. A very interesting discussion on the evolution and adaptive function of sleep. Watch it here.
More videos of individual talks are here (hat-tip to reader NBM)…
January 8, 2008
Obligatory Reading of the Day, by Glenn Greenwald:
"Do they ever think about anything without reference to some high school cliche?"
January 8, 2008
Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
January 8, 2008
PLoS ONE is the first and (so far) the most successful scientific journal specifically geared to meet the brave new world of the future. After starting it and bringing it up from birth to where it is now one year later, Chris Surridge has decided to move on.
Do you think you have the skill and…
January 8, 2008
There are 13 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 220 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in…
January 7, 2008
Bajaga - Zazmuri
January 7, 2008
These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget. But they have no slow, big ideas.
- Brenda Ueland
January 7, 2008
I had no time to read this in detail and write a really decent overview here, perhaps I will do it later, but for now, here are the links and key excerpts from a pair of exciting new papers in PLoS Biology and PLoS ONE, which describe the patterns of expression of a second type of cryptochrome…
