July 15, 2007
Blake Stacey has some casting ideas...
July 15, 2007
A very cool study that I could not help but comment on (January 18, 2006)...
A brand new paper is making a splash in the field these days - so much that you can find the press release in three places: here, here and here, this last one being the coolest as it contains a movie and three podcasts!…
July 14, 2007
Both Eva and Anne-Marie have started a series of posts about the Science of Harry Potter, focusing on the genetics (i.e., patterns of inheritance) of wizardry vs. muggleness. Anne-Marie has already moved on to the second part of her series, on dragons. It will be interesting to watch what these…
July 14, 2007
...in an earthquake zone, is bad policy, I think, but Janet did it nonetheless:
July 14, 2007
...are a great teaching tool for Janet.
July 14, 2007
One can tell a lot about an animal from what comes out the other end...of a giraffe, in this case.
July 14, 2007
That's what philosophers do.
July 14, 2007
Janet, here...
July 14, 2007
...and Janet is good at it:
July 14, 2007
In the biology room...
July 14, 2007
Janet, an adult primate observed in juvenile behavior.
July 14, 2007
After all, it was exhibited at a science museum...
July 14, 2007
Janet, hoping to join the circus (outside of Academia).
July 14, 2007
The evolutionary relationship is apparent.
July 14, 2007
Greeting the visitors.
July 14, 2007
One of my favourite animals, seen here.
July 14, 2007
Yesterday, I met Janet and her charming and brilliant sprogs at the Lawrence Hall of Science, where they have a cool exhibit called CIRCUS! Science Under the Big Top (which reminded me that I wanted to join the circus back when I was 18). One thing I did not know was that to get to the museum from…
July 14, 2007
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had…
July 14, 2007
Yesterday, a few of my friends from PLoS and I went to the Exploratiorium to see the Iron Science Teacher show. Lots of pictures (and a little bit of running commentary) under the fold:
First, the stuff outside:
Then we went inside. The place is huge - I'll have to come again when I have more…
July 14, 2007
Carnival of Space #11 is up on Space For Commerce, by Brian Dunbar.
July 14, 2007
You probably realize by now that my expertise is in clocks and calendars of birds, but blogging audience forces me to occasionally look into human clocks from a medical perspective. Reprinted below the fold are three old Circadiana posts about the connection between circadian clocks and the…
July 14, 2007
No other aspect of behavioral biology is as well understood at the molecular level as the mechanism that generates and sustains circadian rhythms. If you are following science in general, or this blog in particular, you are probably familiar with the names of circadian clock genes like per, tim,…
July 13, 2007
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz
July 13, 2007
Remember the threat of closing the KOBSON blog?
Well, Danica was a brave warrior for Open Science and published an article about this at a much more prominent place: on Global Voices Online.
While this may not be an immediate positive move for Danica's own career, it is a good move towards…
July 13, 2007
Paralepsis
Fresno, Evolving
DSHR's Blog
Open Left
Issues in Scholarly Communication
Tessa's Braces
Professor Olsen @ Large
Occam's Trowel
Enro, scientifique et citoyen
July 13, 2007
If this gets more widely known (and, with this post, I am trying to help it become so), you can just imagine the jokes about the new challenges to the aviation industry and the renewed popularity of the Mile High Club, or the cartoons utilizing the phallic shape of airplanes!
Hamsters on Viagra…
July 13, 2007
Wow - this was (and still is) a very busy week. On most days, I just crashed early, without having the energy to blog very much (at least very much for me).
In the last dispatch, I forgot to mention I met Jimmy Wales who came to visit PLoS and we talked about Wikipedia and building online…
July 13, 2007
This paper (by Heather Piwowar) is not that new, but it is only now starting to get some traction and I'd like to see more people be aware of it:
Background
Sharing research data provides benefit to the general scientific community, but the benefit is less obvious for the investigator who…
