June 28, 2007
A whole bunch of papers got published on PLoS-ONE yesterday. I did not have time to check them out very closely yet, but a few titles immediatelly caught my attention:
High Costs of Female Choice in a Lekking Lizard
by Maren N. Vitousek, Mark A. Mitchell, Anthony J. Woakes, Michael D. Niemack and…
June 28, 2007
Mathematicians Discover A Simple Way To Formulate Complex Scientific Results:
A new analysis of behaviour in a structured population illuminates Darwin's theories of co-operation and competition between kin, and provides an abstract model that could simplify scientists' quest to map behaviour among…
June 27, 2007
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you: You do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
June 27, 2007
I'll be leaving in one week and staying in San Francisco for one month. I'll be busy, to say the least. What should I do with the blog in the meantime? After all, it is the middle of the summer when everyone is travelling or enjoying the great outdoors and the online traffic is pitiful - my…
June 27, 2007
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June 27, 2007
Everyone always blogs about Bush...
After all, Bush is such an easy target - there is not a day that he or some of his buddies do not do something outrageously bad. And with the Media covering it as if it was OK, where else can one voice outrage if not on blogs.
So, it is refreshing to see people…
June 27, 2007
These three links have recently become freely available:
Chris Mooney's interview with Treehugger.
Chris Mooney's article in Harper's Magazine/
And a report from the NYAS meeting.
June 27, 2007
Finally someone is standing up to the lunatics!
First shot was firm but polite.
The second was uncompromising - yes, they really are "crazies" and that is how we should call them. And it is high time someone stood up to them and called them on their calculated craziness and hate-speech.
June 27, 2007
My friend (and the driving force behind all bloggy events in the Triangle area) Anton Zuiker has a new job! And not just any job - but a perfect job:
In August, I will take a new job at Duke University Health System as manager of internal communications. This will be a chance for me to mold a…
June 27, 2007
My friend, neighbor, blogger, frequent commenter on this blog, and fellow Edwards supporter, Robert Peterson just became a father again! Congratulations!
June 27, 2007
I find it very difficult to say something nice, deep, profound or meaningful at the time of sorrow. But I am deeply saddened by the news that Lindsay Beyerstein's father has died. Lindsay is a dear friend, a philosopher and a superb blogger (one of the rare bloggers who really became an online…
June 27, 2007
Nature News just had an article announcing a new social networking site for physicians and biomedical scientists called Prometeo Network. Another one to check out and add to the ever-growing list of such new sites.
June 27, 2007
Here is some chemistry of bisphenol A, but what is really interesting is this article about Fred vom Saal. It is quite revealing about the way industry produces bad science in order to protect its financial interests:
"The moment we published something on bisphenol A, the chemical industry went…
June 27, 2007
Foreign Herbivores May Be Key To Curbing Invasive Weeds:
Joint research with scientists in Argentina, Australia and China could lead to discovery of new biological control agents for several exotic weeds plaguing Florida and other U.S. states. Some of the worst offenders are hydrilla, Brazilian…
June 26, 2007
Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold
June 26, 2007
Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 40 are up on Wandering Visitor
Carnival of the Green # 83 is up on Dianovo.
Carnival of Education, The RoadTrip Edition is up on Education in Texas
Radiology Grand Rounds XIII are up on NeuroRAZiology & co.
Carnival of Homeschooling - Surgery Edition - is up on…
June 26, 2007
It's Time for a Literary Medblogging Project.... :
Literary medblogging projects seem to occur on a semiannual basis: There was the "Dark and Stormy Night" series in December 2005, the "Literary Cheese Wheel" in July 2006, and the "Showcase" in December 2006. (Who would have thought that a website…
June 26, 2007
As more and more people are slowly coming out of the woodwork and revealing they are going to Science Foo Camp, I am getting more and more excited about it! Yes, I have registered and reserved my hotel room already.
Sure, people like Neal Stephenson and Carl Djerassi are going to be there (as well…
June 26, 2007
Yves Roumazeilles
Jacks of Science
Science of the Invisible
I, Platform (by Eric Rice)
CorpBlawg
Notes From Ukraine
Howard Hughes Precollege Program Summer 2007
Student Research at Duke
William Kamkwamba's Malawi Windmill Blog
June 26, 2007
Libraryman just gave a Presentation about it, and Danica likes it. Anyone using it yet?
June 26, 2007
You probably know by now, but you can access for free (at least for a couple of days) a whole slew of articles about evolution on the Science page of New York Times. Most are excellent, as usual (hey, it's not the front page or some lukewarmly-pro-creationist he-said-she-said op-ed they tend to…
June 26, 2007
Apophenia, danah boyd's blog is one of the first blogs I ever read and have been reading more-or-less continuously over the past 3-4 years (since she took a class on framing with George Lakoff and blogged about it).
She is probably the most thoughtful analyst of online behavior. There are…
June 26, 2007
The Union of Concerned Scientists has picked the 12 finalists in their cartoon contest and it is now your turn to vote for the best one.
While I personally prefer the TomTomorrowesque #9, I think that the simpler cartoons, e.g., #2 and #10, may 'frame' the issue the best (i.e., making it simple and…
June 26, 2007
Why Starling Females Cheat:
While women may cheat on men for personal reasons, superb starling females appear to stray from their mates for the sake of their chicks, according to recent research. The study found that superb starling females (Lamprotornis superbus) cheat on their mates for a variety…
June 25, 2007
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
- Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
June 25, 2007
...to Katherine Sharpe, Rob Knop and Rev. BigDumbChimp, science bloggers extra-ordinaire.
June 25, 2007
A few days ago, Nature launched its newest Web 2.0 baby, the Nature Precedings.
It is very interesting to see the initial responses, questions and possible misunderstandings of the new site, so browse through these posts and attached comments by Pedro Beltrao, Timo Hannay, Peter Suber (and again…
June 25, 2007
Karen is looking for a nice new banner for her blog. Biochemistry, science, medicine and journalism are the themes. Go wild with your creativity!
June 25, 2007
Dum Luk's
The Glass is Too Big
Bugs 'n' Gas Gal's Lair
Angry Toxicologist
My Dinner with Andre the Giant
Future Majority
Barbarian Blog
June 25, 2007
For information, check my older posts here and here. The most recent e-mail is copied+pasted under the fold.
Forgive me if you've already received this email. This is a very important moment as our Senators decide whether or not they will stand with the People of Colorado and the U.S. House of…
