September 6, 2007
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
- Huey Long
September 6, 2007
When Klaus-Martin Schulte attacked Naomi Orestes and she responded, there was quite a lot of blosopheric response to it. If you look no further than scienceblogs.com, there were no less than eight direct responses (and some lively comments as well): one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and…
September 6, 2007
Over the past several months, Alvaro of SharpBrains blog interviewed eleven neuroscientists on the topic of the ability to use various techniques to affect the way our brains function - brain training. He has now put together a collection of key quotes from the eleven interviews, each quote…
September 6, 2007
I and the Bird #57 is up on A DC Birding Blog
New edition of Change of Shift is up over at How I Spent My Nursing Education
The Carnival Of Education: Week 135 is up on The Education Wonks
The 93rd Carnival of the Green is up on Organic Authority
Carnival of Homeschooling #88 is up on Consent Of…
September 6, 2007
Bjoern Brembs placed his latest manuscript about the generation effect in fruitflies on Nature Precedings before resubmitting it to PLoS Biology. He is seeking feedback to make the manuscript better. So, if you think you can, go and try to help him out.
September 6, 2007
Danica:
If you receive the invite from friends or anyone to join social networking site Quechup, don't do it! Disregard that Quechup email and don't visit the website. Last night I was caught up by invitation of reputable friend, didn't know for this spam, and this morning I got alert email about…
September 5, 2007
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
September 5, 2007
Before we focus on science, and while the weather is still nice, we (and by "we" I mean "bloggers in the Triangle area of North Carolina") will have some other kind of bloggy fun, the one that involves taste buds!
Yes, join us for a three-day Foodblogging event on September 23-25, 2007, with the…
September 5, 2007
Far too busy today, so just news in brief....
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September 5, 2007
Check out this screenshot of the front page of PLoS ONE:
See the banner on the top right? Looks familiar?
There are several rotating ads, so you may have to click around several papers until you get to see it yourself (and while looking around, of course you are allowed to read papers, rate them…
September 5, 2007
Nicotine In Breast Milk Disrupts Infants' Sleep Patterns:
A study from the Monell Chemical Senses Center reports that nicotine in the breast milk of lactating mothers who smoke cigarettes disrupts their infants' sleep patterns.
River Blindness Parasite Becoming Resistant To Standard Treatment:…
September 4, 2007
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
- Merrick Furst
September 4, 2007
There are 38 new articles on PLoS ONE today. Below are some of my own picks, but you look around, read what you like, rate, comment and annotate:
Studying Seabird Diet through Genetic Analysis of Faeces: A Case Study on Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus):
Determining what seabirds have…
September 4, 2007
Two excellent articles about Open Access and the future of scientific publishing appeared today: The irony of a web without science by James Boyle in Financial Times, and Next-Generation Implications of Open Access by Paul Ginsparg in CTWatch. Obligatory Readings of the Day.
September 4, 2007
...and right on time:
Seen on the sidebar of Making Light (hat-tip)
September 3, 2007
Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.
- Kevin R. Hutson
September 3, 2007
Bonobo Handshake: What Makes Our Chimp-like Cousins So Cooperative?:
What's it like to work with relatives who think sex is like a handshake, who organise orgies with the neighbours, and firmly believe females should be in charge of everything? On September 11, researcher Vanessa Woods will journey…
September 3, 2007
...that is, if you still think that a genome sequence tells all secrets about someone's success in science etc. ;-)
But the new paper actually uses Venter's personal genome to do some nifty stuff, as this is the first time a genome containing the sequences from BOTH sets of chromosomes of a…
September 3, 2007
BPR3: Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting
Environmental Progress and Epiphanies
The Official Sacramento Zoo Blog
Clastic Detritus
Sabine's Garden
A Splash Quite Unnoticed
Issues in Scholarly Communication (Georgia)
Information Research Weblog
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
Gus…
September 3, 2007
Sundar Raman at the Internet radio station KRUU.100.1FM has uploaded a series of interviews (from 3rd October 2006 till 21st August 2007), all on the topic of openness and transparency - from Open Source, through Open Book and Open Access, to Open Society. This series of interviews is entitled '…
September 3, 2007
If I was not already scheduled to appear on a panel in Wisconsin at the same time, I would have loved to go to this:
The fourth Image and Meaning workshop, IM2.4, part of the Envisioning Science Program at Harvard's IIC will be held Oct. 25 and 26, 2007, Thursday and Friday, at the Hilles library…
September 3, 2007
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. And many bloggers' eyes and typing fingers bring a lot of sunlight to whatever anyone is trying hide. This makes bloggers dangerous to many entrenched and powerful interests.
Not that bloggers are Martians, recent arrivals on this planet, to be treated as a '…
September 3, 2007
Drug rep creates stir with details on tricks of his trade
Drug reps are carefully trained to target a physician with tactics suitable to his or her personality, according to a recently published article co-authored by a former Eli Lilly and Co. detailer, Shahram Ahari, MPH. He says detailers come…
September 3, 2007
Telecommuting is a great concept, providing flexibility of work-hours, availability when there is a family crisis, etc. But it is difficult to be self-disciplined at home. So many other things vie for attention, including that most excellent invention of all times - the bed.
That is why I spend…
September 3, 2007
The Accretionary Wedge #1 is up on Clastic Detritus
Carnival of the Blue #4 is up on The Saipan Blog
Festival of Trees #15 is up on Raven's Nest
Carnival of the Godless #74 is up on Atheist FAQ
September 3, 2007
Inside The Brain Of A Crayfish:
Voyage to the bottom of the sea, or simply look along the bottom of a clear stream and you may spy lobsters or crayfish waving their antennae. Look closer, and you will see them feeling around with their legs and flicking their antennules - the small, paired sets of…
September 2, 2007
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- Herbert George Wells
September 2, 2007
After Fran and Floyd, hurricanes that start with F make me quite nervous. And now Felix, in less than a day since it formed, went from Category 2 to Category 3 to Category 4 to Category 5. It is a monster! Honduras is in for a bad thrashing soon!
September 2, 2007
That's me, speeding through SciFoo, challenging Attilla's photography skills.
September 2, 2007
Remember? Today is the Rock Flipping day!
It's so dry and hot here, it is even dry and hot under the rocks in the woods. It took my daughter and me a long time flipping rocks to detect any sign of life and then it would be just a couple of ants quickly scurrying away, too fast to take a picture…
