October 29, 2007
Big Fossil 'Raptor' Tracks Show Group Behavior:
Everyone knows that "raptor" dinosaurs walked with their deadly sickle-shaped foot claws held off the ground and that they moved in packs ... right? After all, it was in "Jurassic Park." But until now, there was no direct evidence of either of these…
October 29, 2007
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may have seen this, this and this, i.e., an effort to design an icon that a blogger can place on the top of a post that discusses peer-reviewed research. The icon makes such posts stand out, i.e., the readers will know it is not a discussion of a press…
October 29, 2007
There are 82 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 109 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do…
October 28, 2007
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
- Charles de Gaulle
October 28, 2007
World's Hottest Chile Pepper Discovered:
Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world's hottest chile pepper. Bhut Jolokia, a variety of chile pepper originating in Assam, India, has earned Guiness World Records' recognition as the world's hottest chile pepper by…
October 28, 2007
Back at ConvergeSouth, Leonard Witt did several short video interviews with cool participants.
Among others, you should definitely see brief interviews with Anton Zuiker, Kirk Ross and Ruby Sinreich.
October 28, 2007
Local elections are next week.
This is my official endorsement for Sally Greene for Chapel Hill Town Council.
And not just because she is a blogger.
Or because she was endorsed by The Independent.
But because of what Brian said.
October 28, 2007
No Girrafes On Unicycles Beyond This Point
October 28, 2007
The Triangle Malaria Symposium will be on Thursday, November 15, 2007, at 1-7 pm at the Duke University Searle Center. At first I thought it was this week, but now I see it is the week after, so perhaps I can make it to it. Even if I don't, Anton is going for sure and intends to liveblog it. So…
October 28, 2007
Not that it's a good thing....
October 28, 2007
There are 83 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 109 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do…
October 27, 2007
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- Benjamin Disraeli
October 27, 2007
Paul announced it and I will try my best to be there on Tuesday:
Who: Bob Young, founder of Lulu.com, Lulu.tv and Red Hat
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location: Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Room 103
October 27, 2007
Mark Patterson writes in Bringing Peer Review Out of the Shadows:
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Hauser and Fehr propose a system for holding late reviewers to account by penalizing them when it's their turn to be an author. A slow reviewer's paper would be "held in editorial limbo" for a length of time…
October 27, 2007
As usual, some get it, some don't:
Facebook-ing Philanthropy:
Social networks like Facebook that closely resemble users' off-line social life could shake up philanthropy. Even if large organizations don't immediately launch a cause on their own, any Facebook member can start one on its behalf.…
October 27, 2007
Sceadugenga
Common Sense
Photo of Nature by Kopernik
Star Stryder
Jayne's Breast Cancer Blog
Quackometer
Daisy's Dead Air
Mary Evelyn
Mestarr
Mechanically Separated Meat
TechRivet
The Indigestible
Jasiri
October 27, 2007
Liz Allen posted this on the Wall of the PLoS Facebook group yesterday:
Here's a fun Friday activity for all of you who like to track the stats of the inevitable rise and world domination of OA!
Heather from SPARC turned me onto this. it's almost as much fun as watching the number of members to…
October 27, 2007
You have seen the button for the Beagle Project on my sidebar - it will stay there forever! But now, I see, they have opened a CafePress store where you can get yourself t-shirts, coffee-mugs and buttons and the proceeds go towards the rebuilding of the ship and its science/education maiden voyage…
October 27, 2007
Since I was gone to two meetings and nobody else can walk the dog as regularly as I can, the dog spent the week at Grandma's in Raleigh. Today I went to pick her up (the dog, that is) which placed me in the car at precisely the time of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday (OK, I intentionally…
October 27, 2007
There are 84 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 108 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do…
October 27, 2007
Same-sex Attraction Is Genetically Wired In Nematode's Brain:
University of Utah biologists genetically manipulated nematode worms so the animals were attracted to worms of the same sex -- part of a study that shows sexual orientation is wired in the creatures' brains.
Secrets Behind Butterfly Wing…
October 26, 2007
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock;
My thoughts are minutes.
- William Shakespeare
October 26, 2007
Oh-oh! I got tagged by another meme - the Happy HalloMeme! - by Rick. The idea is to highlight a scary marine or SF film!
I was very young, probably around 7 or 8, when TV Belgrade decided to air a weekly series of old Jack Arnold movies, including It Came from Outer Space, Tarantula, and The…
October 26, 2007
As always on Fridays, there are new papers published in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS Computational Biology. A few picks - but you go and check them all out:
Surveillance of Arthropod Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Review:
Kalluri et al. review the…
October 26, 2007
The latest edition of the Space Carnival is up on Star Stryder
Friday Ark #162 is up on The Modulator
October 26, 2007
On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted to pass the FY2008 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Bill (S.1710), including a provision that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen its Public Access Policy by requiring rather than requesting participation by researchers.
The vote…
October 26, 2007
There are 85 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 106 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do…
October 25, 2007
If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head.
- Hakim Jami (1414-92)
October 25, 2007
Skeptics' Circle #72 is up on The Quackometer and is very funny!
October 25, 2007
Jim Buie asks:
I received a query from CBS News technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg about "the older generation" on Facebook. Do you have a story to share about your experiences on Facebook, particularly in relation to teens, many of whom call us over-40s "the creepies"? Or do you know teens or…
