July 21, 2007
Let's start with some Essential Facebook Readings of the day:
The Facebook Juggernaut...bitch!
Where are Facebook's Early Adopters Going?
Hmmm, Facebook: a new kind of press release
All your widgets are belong to Facebook
Why We're Like a Million Monkeys on Treadmills
Facebook: the new data black…
July 21, 2007
Duke University, after years of being behind the curve, is now striving mightily to establish itself as a leader in online science communication. As a recent news article shows, the school is activelly encouraging its students to keep blogs and make podcasts.
I have already mentioned Sarah…
July 21, 2007
Russ reports on a new study of elephant communication via vibrations transmitted through the ground. It was documented before that elephants could detect these. It was also documented that they could send out infrasonic rumbles which travel faster and farther through the ground than through air.…
July 21, 2007
Bjorn is going to the 8th International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN) in Vancouver this week (and I am so jealous, as the 1st Gordon Conference in Neuroethology was one of the most memorable meetings I ever attended and, IMHO, that is the coolest research in all of science). Any other bloggers…
July 21, 2007
J's blog
The Other 95%
The Ethical Paleontologist
Molecular B(io)LOG(y)
Science With Me
Media Realism
Midwest Teen Sex Show (sex education podcasts)
July 21, 2007
The first edition of the brand new paleontology carnival, The Boneyard, is up on Laelaps.
July 21, 2007
A January 20, 2006 post placing a cool physiological/behavioral study into an evolutionary context.
There are two main hypotheses - not mutually exclusive - for the adaptive value of having a circadian clock. One is the Internal Synchronization hypothesis, stating that the circadian clock serves…
July 21, 2007
Ha! Check out this brand-new blog! Ste is going to bookstores, checking out the Science section and moving pseudo-science, anti-science and nonsense books from it to the New Age section. Just a couple of Behe books in the La Jolla Bookstar, but I bet there will be more egregious…
July 21, 2007
A good WaPo article: Pelosi takes heat for OK of farm bill
Ken Cook explains it very clearly: The Pelosi Farm Bill: A Corn Subsidy Windfall
July 21, 2007
Well, it's Thanksgiving tomorrow night so it's time to republish this post from last year, just in time for the ageless debate: does eating turkey meat make you sleepy? Some people say Yes, some people say No, and the debate can escalate into a big fight. The truth is - we do not know.
But for…
July 20, 2007
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
- Henny Youngman
July 20, 2007
Carnival of Space #12: Galactic Extra! is up on Music of the Spheres.
Friday Ark #148 is up on The Modulator.
July 20, 2007
Microarrays have been used in the study of circadian expression of mammalian genes since 2002 and the consensus was built from those studies that approximately 15% of all the genes expressed in a cell are expressed in a circadian manner. I always felt it was more, much more.
I am no molecular…
July 20, 2007
HOUSE BACKS TAXPAYER-FUNDED RESEARCH ACCESS
Final Appropriations Bill Mandates Free Access to NIH Research Findings
Washington, D.C. - July 20, 2007 - In what advocates hailed as a major advance for scientific communication, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved a measure directing…
July 20, 2007
This is the fifth post in a series about mechanism of entrainment. Originally written on April 11, 2005.
If you look at the Phase Response Curve you made you see that, as you follow the curve through the 24-hour cycle, you first encounter a dead zone during the subjective day (VT0 - CT 12) during…
July 19, 2007
The two best physicians of them all - Dr Laughter and Dr Sleep.
- Gregory Dean Jr
July 19, 2007
This is going to be a challenging post to write for several reasons. How do I explain that a paper that does not show too much new stuff is actually a seminal paper? How do I condense a 12-page Cell paper describing a gazillion experiments without spending too much time on details of each…
July 19, 2007
This picture, from this article, must have been taken some time last week, just a couple of days after Jimmy Wales came to talk to us here at PLoS. That is when he placed the PLoS sticker on his laptop:
July 19, 2007
Philosophia Naturalis #12 is up on A geocentric view.
Skeptics Circle #65 is up on NeuroLogica Blog.
July 19, 2007
The fourth post in the series on entrainment, originally written on April 10, 2005, explains the step-by-step method of constructing a PRC.
After months of applying light pulses to your animals you are ready to analyze and plot your data. You will print out the actographs (see how in the post "On…
July 19, 2007
Student Results Show Benefits Of Math And Science Partnerships:
Students' performance on annual math and science assessments improved in almost every age group when their schools were involved in a program that partners K-12 teachers with their colleagues in higher education.
The End Of Barroom…
July 18, 2007
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
- Gordie Howe
July 18, 2007
By The Associated Press
HEMLOCK, Mich. -- A woman who hates spiders is crediting them with helping save her from a house fire. Danielle Vigue, 18, says she awoke early Tuesday to find spiders in her room, and started killing them. When more showed up, she says she went across the hall and got into…
July 18, 2007
Get yourself some Harry Potter recipes so you have something to eat while reading The Book over the weekend.
July 18, 2007
BlogTogether, the central online spot for Triangle (NC) bloggers, just got a new look. More to come....
July 18, 2007
Read the entire comment threads as well:
Why Facebook, why now?
Facebook: $6 Billion? Nah.
Robert Scoble is Media
The 'secret' video lives of Facebookers
Adopting Communication Practice
My Facebook secret is out...
Then sign up and start networking...
July 18, 2007
We101 is a new blog aggregator based on geography - sorry, for US residents only, for now. Find your nearest city and add your blog. Then later, when you travel, use the site to identify local bloggers you may want to meet for a beer.
July 18, 2007
Apparently, Great Britain became an island due to a big flood (not gradual erosion). Don't let the Old Earth Creationists hear about this...
July 18, 2007
Ruchira comments on the article in the Discover Magazine and their choice of seven most magical eureka moments in the history of science.
They are:
* Otto Lowei: discovering the chemical transmission of nerve impulses
* Rene Descartes: developing the Cartesian co-ordinate system of…
July 18, 2007
Synthetic Adhesive Mimics Sticking Powers Of Gecko And Mussel:
Geckos are remarkable in their ability to scurry up vertical surfaces and even move along upside down. Their feet stick but only temporarily, coming off of surfaces again and again like a sticky note. But put those feet underwater, and…
