December 28, 2007
Here is the fifth and final installment of my Mother's travelogue. Feel free to ask questions. I will try to copy and post her published chapter from the book "We Survived" in about a month from now.
Family
Tuesday, November 13th
A beautiful, sunny day. I am trying to make myself look nice…
December 28, 2007
There are 23 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of…
December 27, 2007
Galija was a popular band from Southern Serbia.
Da li si spavala
Da li si sanjala
Kako se ruši Avala?
Da li te nervira
Kad ti iz svemira
Pošaljem leptira?
Da li si sanjala
Kako je nestala
Voda iz plavog Dunava?
Da li si patila
Kada si shvatila
Da si me izgubila?
NaÄi ÄeÅ¡ cvet Å¡to po meni miriÅ…
December 27, 2007
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright
December 27, 2007
Circus of the Spineless #28 is up on Catalogue of Organisms
I and The Bird #65 is up on WildBird on the Fly
The holiday edition of Change of Shift is up on Brain Scramble
December 27, 2007
Yesterday, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) which, among else, mandates the repository of all NIH-funded research into PubMedCentral within at most 12 months after publication.
Until now, the placement of NIH-funded research papers into publicly…
December 27, 2007
...the intertubes:
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007)
When tigers cross the walls
Internet trolls really are clueless morons.
Krugman: Progressives, To Arms! Forget about Bush--and the middle ground.
The 2007 Medical Weblog Awards still taking nominations.
First, the neckties, now the sleeves (with no…
December 27, 2007
But only those bloggers found on the blogroll of John Swift. Which is all the blogger that matter, anyway.
December 27, 2007
There are 30 new articles in PLoS ONE this week. Here are my picks:
Ultrasonic Communication in Rats: Can Playback of 50-kHz Calls Induce Approach Behavior?:
Rats emit distinct types of ultrasonic vocalizations, which differ depending on age, the subject's current state and environmental factors.…
December 27, 2007
Songbirds Offer Clues To Highly Practiced Motor Skills In Humans:
The melodious sound of a songbird may appear effortless, but his elocutions are actually the result of rigorous training undergone in youth and maintained throughout adulthood. His tune has virtually "crystallized" by maturity. The…
December 27, 2007
Lots of good stuff in PLoS Biology this week:
Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry:
Many palatable animals, for example hoverflies, deter predators by mimicking well-defended insects such as wasps. However, for human observers, these flies often seem to be little better…
December 27, 2007
Here is the fourth installment in the series - the fifth is coming tomorrow. Please comment and my Mom will respond.
Fulfilled lives of Dina and Jovan Rajs
Sunday, November 11th
The Hotel Dining room could accomodate all 800 participants. Members of the Conference Committee used the…
December 27, 2007
There are 24 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of…
December 26, 2007
Kada gledam tvoje lice
Uvijek osjetim vedrinu
Koju nosi ljetna noÄ
Dodirnem li tvoje ruke
Uvijek osjetim toplinu
Koju mi je dala moÄ
Kad nas napuste voljena
Sve radosti iz mladosti
Äak i kada bude teÅ¡ko
Sve do kraja svog života
Od tebe neÄu poÄ
I kad doÄe dan, naÅ¡ zadnji dan
Kad proÄe san, nas…
December 26, 2007
You are ... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
- Dag Hammarskjold, 1905 - 1961
December 26, 2007
Grand Rounds Vol. 4, No. 14 are up on MedGadget
The 151st Carnival of Education is up on History is Elementary
The 104th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Po Moyemu--In My Opinion
And, the Linnaeus' Legacy is looking for entries for the third edition.
December 26, 2007
This is the third post in the series. I mentioned before that my Mom taped her story for the Shoah project. You can access the tapes through the RENCI site.
Also, regulars here know that my Mom reads this blog and sometimes comments. I assume that she would not object to answering a couple of…
December 26, 2007
There are 25 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of…
December 25, 2007
For old Yugo-nostalgics:
Tili ste drugog od prvog trena
Cestitog momka iz najboje kuce
Niste joj dali da postane žena
Niste joj dali da je srce vuce.
Tili ste drugog, to ste joj rekli
I to da Å¡oldi ne rastu na grani
Nego nek cuva sve ca ste stekli
I ca ste za nju cuvali na strani.
Jubi sam, jubi…
December 25, 2007
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland
December 25, 2007
The year in review meme is too random to really capture the highlights of a year on a blog. So, here is a collection of links that I think mark the most important moments of this blog in the last year:
January (297 posts) was dominated by the science blogging anthology and the science blogging…
December 25, 2007
This is the second part of my Mom's travelogue from Israel last month:
Trauma of baptized Jews
Friday, November 9th
The Conference continues to work in groups. The topics are interesting but I had to choose one for the morning and one for the afternoon. The first group summoned together the…
December 25, 2007
There are 25 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of…
December 24, 2007
For the origin, see the comment thread on this post:
December 24, 2007
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson, regarding Eleanor Roosevelt
December 24, 2007
Study Of Bear Hair Will Reveal Genetic Diversity Of Yellowstone's Grizzlies:
Locks of hair from more than 400 grizzly bears are stored at Montana State University, waiting to tell the tale of genetic diversity in the Yellowstone Ecosystem.
My friend Tim Langer has done a very similar study here in…
December 24, 2007
This is hair-raisingly scary:
Iceland complains to US about treatment of tourist in New York:
REYKJAVIK, Iceland: Iceland's government has asked the U.S. ambassador to explain the treatment of an Icelandic tourist who says she was held in shackles before being deported from the United States.
The…
December 24, 2007
A few weeks ago, my mother took a long trip to Israel to attend a conference of Holocaust Child Survivors. She wrote a diary of her trip and it was, in a slightly edited form (omitting most of the recounts of family gatherings), published in the Serbian newspaper Danas (Today) in its popular…
December 24, 2007
Brontossauros em meu jardim
Podblack Blog
Second Sight
Practice Space
Med i Mentol
Nebom hodam, pticu pratim....
My blah, blah, blah.... this and that... anything and everything
December 24, 2007
There are 26 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of…
