June 25, 2007
I got this comic strip from Chris, through the Facebook, of course:
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June 25, 2007
The second blogswarm will be held July 1-4th.
June 25, 2007
Bees Seem To Benefit From Having Favorite Colors:
A bee's favourite colour can help it to find more food from the flowers in their environment, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London. Dr Nigel Raine and Professor Lars Chittka from Queen Mary's School of Biological and…
June 24, 2007
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
June 24, 2007
Online and Offline. Obligatory Readings of the Day.
June 24, 2007
I've been a little behind (as in 'few weeks') in adding the blogs I tagged in my Blogrolling for Today posts into the actual Blogroll but I caught up with that a few minutes ago. That Blogroll is a Monster! But, check it out anyway - at least check if your blog is there and if the link is correct…
June 24, 2007
The new edition of What's up postdoc? is up on Being a Scientist and a Woman
Carnival of the Godless #69 is up on The Uncredible Hallq.
June 24, 2007
Professor Steve Steve, Wesley Elsberry, Tara Smith and Jason Rosenhouse [edit: Part 3 is now available] went to that funny new "museum" in Kentucky and report about it so you don't ever have to go yourself!
June 24, 2007
By Kidoakland: Abel Guillen: the Rise of the Millennials:
In my recent and direct experience, millennials are engaged, groundedly idealistic and willing to make careers that will change their nation and world over the long haul. I see this every day. Even among the youngest of this consort, the…
June 24, 2007
Individual Differences In Sleep Structure Are Biologically Determined:
Sleeping pattern variability has long been attributed to differences in several non-biological factors. Now a study from the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University Spokane, Wash., has shown that…
June 23, 2007
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
- Lord Chesterfield
June 23, 2007
So, Anton Zuiker and I went yesterday to the Talking To The Public panel discussion at Duke, organized by Sigma Xi, The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy.
There is nothing yet on their websites about it (the 20th century school…
June 22, 2007
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
- John Rogers
June 22, 2007
Remember when we discussed the mammal vs. bird survival at Chernobyl the other day? Well, I learned today that someone is about to go and study the humans there as well. I am not exactly sure what kind of reserch it will be, but it will have something to do with the mutations in genomes of the…
June 22, 2007
I am looking in the closet to see if I can find my tie, because I am going to this in an hour - a very bloggable event:
A Lunch and Panel Discussion
TALKING TO THE PUBLIC: How Can Media Coverage of Science Be Improved?
Friday, June 22, 12-1:30 p.m. at Duke University, Bryan Research
Building, Rm…
June 22, 2007
Prey Not Hard-wired To Fear Predators:
Are Asian elk hard-wired to fear the Siberian tigers who stalk them" When wolves disappear from the forest, are moose still afraid of them? No, according to a study by Wildlife Conservation Society scientist Dr. Joel Berger, who says that several large prey…
June 21, 2007
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
June 21, 2007
I dropped by Anton's blog as I tend to do every day and saw something that caught my eye in his side-bar SugarCubes - an amazing story about William Kamkwamba, a 19 year old boy in Malawi who had to quit school because his family did not have money. So, he started teaching himself from books. And…
June 21, 2007
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
* sex (18x)
* death (13x)
* suicide (6x)
* hell (3x)
* dangerous (2x)
* penis (1x)
Thanks, Jennifer
June 21, 2007
World Wide Webbers
VWXYNot?
Darwin's Army
Relatively Science
Let's Talk Sleep
Sparrowblog
Limbic Nutrition
June 21, 2007
First, a video of Jonathan Haidt - Morality: 2012 (Hat-tip to Kevin):
The social and cultural psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Henry Finder about the five foundations of morality, and why liberals often fail to get their message across. From "2012: Stories from the Near Future," the 2007 New…
June 21, 2007
Thanks to Jeff over on Shakesville (or should it be IN Shakesville?):
Election Central reports that Drudge (who the hell and why still reads that sleazeball of all people!?) tried to slander Edwards by insinuating that his daughter Emma-Claire supports Hillary:
Her comment came in response to a…
June 21, 2007
Carnival of Space #8 is up on Universe Today.
June 21, 2007
Why Female Deer Like A Stag To Be A Big Noise In The Forest:
Impressive antlers may be the most eye-catching attribute of the male red deer, but it's the quality of a stag's mating call that attracts the female of the species, a new study from the University of Sussex has discovered.
Surprising…
June 20, 2007
I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick' ... A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber
June 20, 2007
I got tagged by Steve Poceta -(if you are more interested in sleep disorders than circadian clocks in funny animals, his blog is more interesting to you than mine) to participate in the Eight Random Facts Meme. Here are the rules:
1. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
2.…
June 20, 2007
Skeptic's Circle #63 (the Solstice Edition) is up on Relatively Science
June 20, 2007
You may be aware of the ongoing discussion about the tense relationship between scientists and science journalists. Here is the quick rundown of posts so far:
Question for the academic types--interview requests
The Mad Biologist and Science Journalists
Science Journalists are NOT the Problem
Just…
June 20, 2007
A gazzillion new papers got published on PLoS-ONE today. Some of the titles that caught my attention and I intend to read tonight are:
The Role of the Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta in Regulating Sleep Patterns in Rats
Climate and Dispersal: Black-Winged Stilts Disperse Further in Dry Springs
The…
June 20, 2007
Circumcision is always one of the topics with the most spirited discussions on science blogs. Here, a brand new paper on PLoS-ONE will likely stir up the conversation yet again (hopefully on the annotations and discussions attached to the paper itself, so please go there if you have questions/…
