June 12, 2007
Scott Gant is on NPR's Diane Rehm show right now, valiantly defending bloggers from grouchy journalists. They will have a podcast up later.
June 12, 2007
Sleep Deprivation Affects Airport Baggage Screeners' Ability To Detect Rare Targets:
A lack of sleep may affect the performance of airport employees, which can, in turn, compromise the safety of airline passengers. Sleep deprivation can impair the ability of airport baggage screeners to visually…
June 11, 2007
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it s time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
- Garrison Keillor
June 11, 2007
Skeptical Alchemist has the whole story.
Sign the petition to prevent the drilling.
June 11, 2007
Interprete
Biological Ramblings
A Passion For Nature
Life in the Bristolwood
Dragonfly Eye
Mary's View
The Winding Path
June 11, 2007
Darwin did not just sail on the Beagle and then settle down in his armchair and think for the rest of his life. He performed an amazing number of very creative experiments. Afarensis has been writing about them for a while now and I hope you are following his series every week.
June 11, 2007
Physiology: Coordinated Response
Blogging resumes later tonight....
June 11, 2007
Ancient DNA Traces Woolly Mammoth's Disappearance:
Some ancient-DNA evidence has offered new clues to a very cold case: the disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age giants, according to a recent article. DNA lifted from the bones, teeth, and tusks of the…
June 10, 2007
I work until beer o'clock.
- Stephen King
June 10, 2007
The best coverage of the paper so far:
Neurophilosophy
Pharyngula
Lab Notes
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
June 10, 2007
I don't have to remind you every day, but behind the scenes, we are busily working on the organization of the 2nd Science Blogging Conference. The organizing committee is meeting on Thursday and I'll report on any news and updates then. The new wiki is almost all set up (and it will be updated…
June 10, 2007
I love Iron Chef (on those rare occasions when I watch it, but I did more in the past), so I am excited about this spin-off - the Iron Science Teacher:
Parodying the syndicated, tongue-in-cheek, cult Japanese TV program, Iron Chef, the Exploratorium's Iron Science Teacher competition showcases…
June 10, 2007
All you need to know about Philosophy of Science (but were too afraid to ask) you can read in John Wilkins' triptych:
Philosophy is to science, as ornithologists are to birds: 1. Introduction
Philosophy is to science, as ornithologists are to birds: 2. Two topics of philosophy of science
Philosophy…
June 10, 2007
The article is here in the NYT Magazine (apparently free access to all!), but before you read it (and you SHOULD read it), read the analysis by DHinMI on Next Hurray, which points out the binary thinking, ignorance of US history, and the underlying Compulsive Centrist Disorder of Matt Bai, so…
June 9, 2007
When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
- Alan Alexander Milne
June 9, 2007
Research Remix
Academicsecret
Psychology and Crime News
Deep Grace of Theory
Hope for Pandora
Letters from a broad...
Pondering Pikaia
Sleep Expert
Average Professor
June 9, 2007
...miss the new edition of the Carnival of the Godless, up on Action Skeptics. But, since it is up early anyway, you can still have time to watch Belmont Stakes first.
June 9, 2007
OK, it's been about 20 years since I was last in vet school and I have fogotten most of the stuff I learned there. But I remember a few things.
I clearly remember the Pathology class (and especially the lab!) and the Five Signs (or stages) of Death: pallor mortis (paleness), algor mortis (…
June 9, 2007
Origins Of Nervous System Found In Genes Of Sea Sponge:
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered significant clues to the evolutionary origins of the nervous system by studying the genome of a sea sponge, a member of a group considered to be among the most ancient…
June 8, 2007
Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend.
- Ebenezer Elliott
June 8, 2007
On this day a year ago, A Blog Around The Clock was born. Twenty-something other bloggers moved to the Scienceblogs.com empire on that same day. My old blogs are still up there, gathering cyberdust, slowly losing Google traffic and rankings, because all of the action is right here. During this…
June 8, 2007
So, it appears that Koufax Awards will happen. These are the most celebrated blog awards of them all (unless you are a wingnut). I am not exactly sure when all the lists of nominations will be finalized (or if any additions will be allowed at this date - these are 2006 awards, after all) and when…
June 8, 2007
Why didn't I hear about this before? Why is it not in the media? On blogs?
Lindsay reports on the new book "Steeplejacking" that documents how the Religious Right, hand-in-hand with the hawkish conservative Democrats, systematically, over the past couple of decades, performed hostile take-overs…
June 8, 2007
Ruchira Paul alerted me to this article about a scientific fight between Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University (who I never heard of) who alleges that the evacuation of humans from the area allowed animals to come in and multiply with no apparent bad consequences from radiation, and Timothy…
June 8, 2007
Radiology Grand Rounds XI are up on Sumer's Radiology Site
June 8, 2007
I often blog about malaria because it is a fascinating disease which has to be studied in a highly integrative manner, is a great teaching topic and I could tie it in with my own field.
If you share my fascination, than your Obligatory Reading Of The Day is this post by Bug Girl (via) about the…
June 8, 2007
On some Fridays, I write about strange reproductive strategies and mating habits of various organisms, sometimes in excrutiating detail, though I have not done it very regularly lately (see the Friday Weird Sex Blogging archives).
But some people just collect them all in one place, in one post…
June 7, 2007
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
- Miguel de Cervantes
June 7, 2007
So, it is fitting that Carnival of the Blue kicks off today. The first edition (already huge!) is up on Blogfish. Lots of great posts!
June 7, 2007
A paper in press in Current Biology (press release here) looks at mitochondrial DNA of mammoths and advances a primarily environmental cause for the mammoth extinction. Razib explains why such a black-and-white dichotomy is unhealthy.
Looking at a different hypothesis, also environmental, for the…
