September 11, 2007
Was Ability To Run Early Man's Achilles Heel?:
The earliest humans almost certainly walked upright on two legs but may have struggled to run at even half the speed of modern man, new research suggests.
Tasmanian Tiger No Match For Dingo:
The wily dingo out-competed the much larger marsupial…
September 11, 2007
Learning, Playing, Cooking...
tHE tiDE cHAsER
Pulau Hantu - A celebration of marine life
Manta Blog
Sea Slug Forum
The bird ecology study group (Singapore)
Nature Spies
September 11, 2007
Holy Cow! Every Tuesday night I like to link to 5-6 of the brand new papers on PLoS ONE that I find personally most intriguing. But today, it is so difficult to choose - I want to highlight something like 20 out of today's 39. So, here are a few and you definitely go and see the whole list for…
September 11, 2007
Carnival of the Professoriate #1 and #2 are up on ACRLog.
Grand Rounds are up at The Efficient MD
Carnival of Homeschool #89 is up on Why Homeschool
September 11, 2007
The Triangle blogging season has started, so I hope many of you locals and visitors join us for the first meetup of the year:
The Durham bloggers meetup will be the second Wednesday of each month at 6pm at Tyler's Tap Room in the American Tobacco Warehouse District. First meetup will be Sept.12th.…
September 11, 2007
Device To Predict Proper Light Exposure For Human Health:
Scientists have long known that the human body runs like clockwork, guided by a circadian system that responds to daily patterns of light and darkness. Now a team of researchers is developing a personal device to measure daily light intake…
September 10, 2007
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 10, 2007
In PLoS Biology:
High-Resolution Genome-Wide Dissection of the Two Rules of Speciation in Drosophila:
The evolution of reproductive isolation is a fundamental step in the origin of species. One kind of reproductive isolation, the sterility and inviability of species hybrids, is characterized by two…
September 10, 2007
Encephalon #31 is up on Dr.Deb's blog.
The 15th Edition of The International Carnival Of Pozitivities is up on Living Mindfully with HIV/AIDS.
The carnival of the Green #94 is up on Camphor's.
September 9, 2007
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
- Marcus Aurelius
September 9, 2007
Randy Olson's movie had a very short and limited release. Reed rallied the troops so NCSU library got a copy and there was a public viewing that I could not attend.
But now, everyone can watch it, as Jennifer reports. It is available, for instance, on amazon.com. I'll put it on my wishlist for…
September 9, 2007
Primates Expect Others To Act Rationally:
When trying to understand someone's intentions, non-human primates expect others to act rationally by performing the most appropriate action allowed by the environment, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard University. The work was led by…
September 9, 2007
First edition of the Cancer Research Blog Carnival is up on BayBlab.
Gene-Genie #15 is up on Cancer Genetics.
Mendel's Garden #18 is up on Balancing Life.
Carnival of Mathematics XVI is up on Learning Computation
September 9, 2007
Sniffing the beaker
Bonobo Handshake
All of My Faults Are Stress Related
Inorganics
Ripples in Sand
Brilliant Mediocrity
Apparent Dip
Becky's Guide To Blogging
September 9, 2007
Today on Quotes of the Day:
Harland David Sanders was born at Henryville, Indiana on this day in 1890. His father's death six years later led to Harland doing all the cooking for the family. He left school early and led a varied career including street-car conductor, a soldier in China at sixteen,…
September 8, 2007
In former times it took dozens of clerks, secretaries, and administrators to create a bureaucratic milieu capable of diffusing responsibility for misinformation and disservices. Today thanks to desk-top information processors, small firms and agencies down to the neighborhood hardware store are…
September 8, 2007
Force For Democracy -- Or Information Chaos? Expert Forum Spotlights Blogging:
Controversial Internet entrepreneur turned cultural critic Andrew Keen, who says the revolution of interactivity and user-generated content on the internet is leading to 'less culture, less reliable news and a chaos of…
September 8, 2007
This story is making the e-mail rounds and I cannot resist posting it here. I started rolling on the floor laughing about a quarter into the story. See how far you can go and still keep a straight face (under the fold)....
If you have raised kids (or been one), and gone through the pet syndrome,…
September 8, 2007
Copyfraud
September 8, 2007
Two recent examples of successful and aggressive defense against carnivores - the first one was everywhere, but I watched it first on Stranger Fruit (African buffaloes chasing away the lions - with a crocodile playing a supporting role) and the second one just got posted on Anterior Commissure (…
September 8, 2007
If you were here last June, you'll remember the scienceblogs.com-wide action to fund science and math teaching projects in underfunded schools through DonorsChoose.
This year, we'll do it again. There is twice as much of us, and we will also challenge bloggers outside of scienceblogs.com to join…
September 8, 2007
At the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CO), they filmed the birth:
September 8, 2007
The first blogger meetup of the season will be this Wednesday, September 12th, at 6pm at Tyler's Tap Room in the American Tobacco Warehouse District. Come in large numbers, bring your friends!
To stay informed about this and other local bloggy events, sign up for the BlogTogether mailing list.
September 8, 2007
It is not unusal to write an obituary when a great scientist passes away. It is much more unusual to do so when a lab animal does so. But when that animal is not just an experimental subject, but also a friend, colleague, teacher and collaborator, than the species boundaries lose importance. And…
September 8, 2007
I rarely wish to be 14 again, but I certainly did when I read this news today, that N.C. Zoo and the Asheboro City Schools have just started something called AHS Zoo School. As Russ Williams explains:
"Students have unprecedented access to a 1500-acre, world-class facility ideal for environmental…
September 8, 2007
Back in January, there were rumors around town about Google opening an office in Chapel Hill. Then, a couple of days ago, I went up to the John Edwards HQ to pick up some bumper stickers for my new car and I noticed there was construction in the offices next door. The sign on the door sported the…
September 7, 2007
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
- Garrison Keillor
September 7, 2007
A Balanced Memory Network:
A critical component of cognition is memory--the ability to store information, and to readily retrieve it on cue. Existing models postulate that recalled items are represented by self-sustained activity; that is, they are represented by activity that can exist in the…
September 7, 2007
Carnival of Space #19 is up on Universe Today
The 44th Carnival of Feminists is up on Reproductive Rights Blog
Friday Ark #155 is up on The Modulator
September 7, 2007
'Alien' Jaws Help Moray Eels Feed:
Moray eels have a unique way of feeding reminiscent of a science fiction thriller, researchers at UC Davis have discovered. After seizing prey in its jaws, a second set of jaws located in the moray's throat reaches forward into the mouth, grabs the food and…
