June 15, 2007
Oekologie # 6 is up on Greg Laden's blog. So, is blogging journalism?
June 15, 2007
You may have noticed a site called "New York Articles" (http://nyarticles.com/) which "aggregates" content from a bunch of different blogs, including this one as well as a number of other scienceblogs.com blogs. It copies and pastes everything that is in the RSS feed, i.e., everything that is…
June 15, 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…
June 15, 2007
Here is the ranking of Top 100 (actually top 176) blogs that cover medicine, nursing and healthcare. Check it out.
June 14, 2007
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over…
June 14, 2007
Deception Blog
Furious Seasons
Cumbrian Sky
JeffsBench - Curtis's blog
Marios' Entangled Bank
A Knowble Blog
June 14, 2007
Change of Shift: Volume 1, Number 26 is up on Nurse Ratched's Place.
Carnival of Space #7 is up on Star Stryder.
June 14, 2007
This article, of course, got my attention:
Clocking In And Out Of Gene Expression
Using steroid receptor coactivator-3 (SRC-3), they demonstrated that activation requires addition of a phosphate molecule to the protein at one spot and addition of an ubiquitin molecule at another point. Each time…
June 14, 2007
I wonder if this new study was designed better than this one:
In a detailed study that served to investigate the actual nature and content of sexual dreams across a large sample of dream reports from men and women, approximately eight percent of everyday dream reports from both genders contain some…
June 14, 2007
An interesting paper came out last week in PLoS-Biology: Projected Impacts of Climate and Land-Use Change on the Global Diversity of Birds by Walter Jetz, David S. Wilcove and Andrew P. Dobson. You can view some bloggers' responses on The DC Birding Blog, Field Of View and Living the Scientific…
June 14, 2007
I and the Bird #51 is up on Birdchaser. If you answer 20 questions correctly, you may win a nice prize!
June 14, 2007
Why Was The Racehorse Eclipse So Good?:
Scientists from the Royal Veterinary College and the University of Cambridge are researching what made the undefeated 18th Century horse, Eclipse, such a great champion. The genetics research is giving insights into the origins of the world's thoroughbred…
June 13, 2007
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
- Elwyn Brooks White
June 13, 2007
More stuff from SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies:
Sleep Deprivation Affects Eye-steering Coordination When Driving:
Driving a vehicle requires coordination of horizontal eye movements and steering. Recent research finds that even a single night of…
June 13, 2007
The 123rd edition of The Carnival of Education is up on The Education Wonks.
The latest Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Kris' Eclectic Homeschool.
June 13, 2007
Matt at Berkeley has just moved his Behavioral Biology Blog from the old URL to a new URL. Please change your bookmarks, blogrolls and feeds accordingly.
June 13, 2007
Attila (read the entire transcript of our chat) alerted me to a new book review of 'The Open Science 2006' science blogging anthology.
MC and Reed have already blogged about the review.
Let me know what you think. And keep the submissions for the 2007 edition flowing in.
June 13, 2007
Probably not. You are not one of Pavlov's dogs, after all. Or a Pavlov's cat for that matter. Or a Pavlov's sea slug. But, see what's your salivary response to reading a brand new paper on Pavlov's cockroaches and report your findings in the comments.
June 13, 2007
"Fine in practice, but how does it work in theory?"
This headline (in a French paper, of course), prompted Sally Green to pen a fine, fine post - an Obligatory Reading of the Day - about class, education, the psychology of class, the difference between academia and the real world, the difference…
June 13, 2007
China finds new species of big, bird-like dinosaur:
Eight meters (26 ft) long and standing at twice the height of a man at the shoulder, the fossil of the feathered but flightless Gigantoraptor erlianensis was found in the Erlian basin in Inner Mongolia, researchers wrote in the latest issue of…
June 13, 2007
Children With Sleep Disorder Symptoms Are More Likely To Have Trouble Academically:
Students with symptoms of sleep disorders are more likely to receive bad grades in classes such as math, reading and writing than peers without symptoms of sleep disorders, according to recent research.
Slow Wave…
June 13, 2007
There are a lot of people blogging about their kids. But when Kate writes about parenting issues, it is pure science. After attending a meeting on parental behavior, she's been churning out post after post on this fascinating topic:
Cheetah Infidelity and the Bruce Effect
Bird brains and sex…
June 12, 2007
The other day, Anton Zuiker and I met at Weaver Street Market in Southern Village to do some planning for the Science Blogging Conference and Anton took this picture of me holding the brand new promotional postcards (want one? e-mail me) that he has designed and printed:
June 12, 2007
Literally. If you want to know how to figure out what your slug has eaten today, just ask Aydin.
June 12, 2007
No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.
- Dylan Thomas
June 12, 2007
The history of trepanation. An utterly amazing post!
And, Bioephemera posted an appropriate illustration to go with it....
June 12, 2007
Sheril Kirshenbaum has officially joined Chris Mooney on "The Intersection" (the first science blog I have ever seen in my life, almost three years ago). Hey, one more North Carolina SciBling can't hurt!
Inkycircus has moved: The Brit ScienceBlogging Trio Fantasticus has moved from here to here.…
June 12, 2007
About a month ago, Ruby Sinreich quit her job and posted about looking for a new one. And today, she reveals that she landed a perfect job, telecommuting from Carrboro, working for the Fellowship of Reconciliation. They were smart to hire her!
June 12, 2007
Lizard Moms Dress Their Children For Success:
Mothers know best when it comes to dressing their children, at least among side-blotched lizards, a common species in the western United States. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have found that female side-blotched lizards are…
June 12, 2007
An e-mail from Ron Hudson just popped up in my mailbox:
Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP):
The 13th consecutive and first edition of Year Two of the ICP will be hosted at ScribeSpirit eZine. We, myself and the hosts Jody and Jolen, are now seeking submissions for…
