October 13, 2007
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
October 13, 2007
I started teaching my BIO101 Lab this morning again. But this was the first: two of the students said: "Hey Mr.Z, we looked around the Web and learned a lot about you - A Blog Around The Clock, The Magic School Bus and now we have all the dirt on you!"
It was bound to happen - and it was fun,…
October 13, 2007
I got tagged with this cool meme, demonstrating evolution in cyberspace:
There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, "The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is...". Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two…
October 13, 2007
There are 98 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 85 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do…
October 12, 2007
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
- Henri Bergson
October 12, 2007
No comment:
Thanks, Rick, for this enlightening piece....
October 12, 2007
As always on Fridays, there are new articles published in PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics and PLoS Pathogens. Look around to see what's new. My pick for this week:
Inconsistencies in Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences:
One of the enduring questions in human evolution is the relationship…
October 12, 2007
New Hearing Mechanism Discovered:
MIT researchers have discovered a hearing mechanism that fundamentally changes the current understanding of inner ear function. This new mechanism could help explain the ear's remarkable ability to sense and discriminate sounds. Its discovery could eventually lead…
October 12, 2007
Jonathan Eisen, Rosie Redfield and Douglas Theobald destroy the especially egregious example of bad media reporting on the "function of appendix" paper.
Kate does not dance around the issue when discussing a study on the relationship between lapdancers' earnings and where they are in their monthly…
October 12, 2007
Smithies is not the only winner of this year's Nobel Prize with a local connection.
The Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded this morning and one of the recepients is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The chair of IPCC is Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, a triple alumnus and former…
October 12, 2007
Alma Swan and Lawrence Lessig remind us that Creative Commons is celebrating its 5th birthday this December.
Alma writes:
Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating its 5th birthday. Lawrence Lessig has written to all supporters describing its 'dramatic' growth during the last quinquennium and yet…
October 12, 2007
The DonorsChoose fundraiser is in full swing here on Scienceblogs.com. As always, Janet's blog is the Information Center for the drive, and you can also check Dave's graphs as well.
As you know, Seed Media Group is matching $15,000 of your donations. The Scienceblogs.com Overlords have also…
October 12, 2007
A few days ago, I told you about this year's $10,000 scholarship for student bloggers. A few days later, the voting has been vigorous (and the competition somewhat heated!), and Shelley is currently in second place. You can help her get to the top by voting for her if you have not done so already…
October 12, 2007
The new edition of the Carnival of Space is up on Space For Commerce, by Brian Dunbar
Friday Ark #160 is up on Modulator
October 12, 2007
There are 98 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 85 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do…
October 11, 2007
Love can sometimes be like magic. But magic can sometimes ... just be an illusion.
- Javan
October 11, 2007
Herding Aphids: How 'Farmer' Ants Keep Control Of Their Food:
Chemicals on ants' feet tranquilise and subdue colonies of aphids, keeping them close-by as a ready source of food, says new research. The study throws new light on the complex relationship between ants and the colonies of aphids whose…
October 11, 2007
What is this? A Tevye day on science blogs? Attila mentions him. Jason mentions him. I guess, I've been remiss for a while and should do something about it now.
Well, I just discovered that big chunks of the movie can be found on YouTube, but the greatest clip is this one, "Tradition" in…
October 11, 2007
Ghosts, drugs, and blogs:
By its hidden nature, it is obviously a challenge to determine the exact prevalence of "ghost management," defined by Sismondo as the phenomenon in which "pharmaceutical companies and their agents control or shape multiple steps in the research, analysis, writing, and…
October 11, 2007
The Oyster's Garter
SLA's Biomedical and Life Sciences Division blog
Interactive Publishing
New@Norris Library
T. rex eats fish...
October 11, 2007
There are 99 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 85 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do…
October 11, 2007
The other day, Kate organized a talk by Sheila Jasanoff about science communication and subsequently summarized the talk on her blog. You need to read the whole thing, but the main point is that there is a difference between a one-to-many communication of usual science communication (the 'public…
October 10, 2007
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 10, 2007
Tiny Crow Camera Spies On Clever Birds:
A new technique developed by Oxford University zoologists enables researchers to 'hitch a ride' with wild birds and witness their natural and undisturbed behaviour. The scientists developed miniaturised video cameras with integrated radio-tags that can be…
October 10, 2007
Tangled Bank #90 is up on The Other 95%
International Carnival of Pozitivities #16 is up on Ogre's Politics and Views
The 140th Carnival of Education is up on The Tempered Radical
Carnival of The Liberals #49 is up on Tangled Up in Blue Guy
Carnival of Homeschooling #93 is up on Apollos Academy
October 10, 2007
There are 100 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 83 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do…
October 9, 2007
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
- Mark Twain
October 9, 2007
Melting Sea Ice Forcing Walruses Ashore:
Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice.
Alaska's walrus, especially breeding females, in summer and fall are usually found on the…
October 9, 2007
As usual on Tuesday nights, lots of cool stuff got published on PLoS ONE today. Here are some of my picks, but you should check all 30 of them (so, this week I am correct - there are now 1000+ articles on PLoS ONE):
Large-Scale Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of the Domestic Goat Reveals Six…
October 9, 2007
A newspaper should hire me to be that guy whose only job is to write titles and headlines. I can make them as misleading and sensationalist as the best of 'em!
But really, this year's Nobel Prize for Physics is going to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg for the invention of Giant Magnetoresistance.…
