May 22, 2007
Suicyte Notes
The Stone of Tear
Snarkmarket
Egghead (Research at UC-Davis)
Biology-Blog
The Meming of Life
Omniscopic: A rich worldview
May 22, 2007
You may have heard that Ken Ham is opening his freak show circus Museum of Creation "Science" in Cincinnati on May 28th. There will be protesters picketing. Hopefully there will also be people who will come in and laugh out loud at each exhibited piece. I also hope that the media coverage will be…
May 22, 2007
Sleep Apnea Patients Have Greatly Increased Risk Of Severe Car Crashes:
People with obstructive sleep apnea have a markedly increased risk of severe motor vehicle crashes involving personal injury, according to a new study. The study of 800 people with sleep apnea and 800 without the nighttime…
May 21, 2007
I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
- Marilyn Monroe
May 21, 2007
No more blogging until late tonight or tomorrow morning as it is a Monday and on Monday evenings I teach. Today's topic is Biological Diversity, from its origins through its evolution to its current state. Fun!
May 21, 2007
Fused Nasal Bones Helped Tyrannosaurids Dismember Prey:
New evidence may help explain the brute strength of the tyrannosaurid, says a University of Alberta researcher whose finding demonstrates how a fused nasal bone helped turn the animal into a "zoological superweapon."
Jet Lag, Circadian Clocks…
May 21, 2007
First, I tentatively reserved a spot for myself for the Science Foo Camp on August 3-5, 2008 in Mountain View, CA.
Then, there is nothing for a long time, then three conferences I want to go to, and for all three I have some degree of negotiations about presenting about Open Science or science…
May 21, 2007
Far too gene-centered for my taste, but an excellent chronobiology primer (pdf) nonetheless.
May 21, 2007
Carnival of the Green # 78 is up on Everydaytrash
Pediatric Grand Rounds 2.3 are up on Ami Chopine
May 20, 2007
Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
- Motto of the Baltimore Grotto
May 20, 2007
Via Snarkmarket, I found this (probably incomplete) Wikipedia list of the oldest companies in the world that are still operating today under the same name. The oldest one, a construction company in Japan called KongÅ Gumi, just went belly-up after serving their customers since the year 578AD.
And…
May 20, 2007
This brief story on NPR today reminded me of some books I read as a child (in Serbo-Croatian translation) - though I have to admit that my brother loved them even more - in which the main character is Arsene Lupen, the art connoisseur and gentleman burglar. Listen to the NPR podcast and get the…
May 20, 2007
Gene Genie #7 is up on Gene Sherpas.
May 20, 2007
Sometimes what happens after is much more interesting than what happens during conferences:
If one more person had said that the internets were "revolutionary" and "transformative" I would have required medication.
It felt like watching TV, with smart people telling me things I already knew.
Full…
May 19, 2007
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
- Leo Kennedy
May 19, 2007
When Archy writes about mammoths that is automatically the Obligatory Reading of the Day - an amazing post!
May 19, 2007
The horses will be entering the starting stalls for this year's Preakness. Will Street Sense do it again? His Derby win was so impressive it seems impossible he can be beat, but this time the distance is different, the field is much smaller and everyone will be looking out for him. And he is…
May 19, 2007
Amanda Marcotte, that is. And there are two way to look at her from the 'other side' or 'not-as-well-known-side' or 'what-really-happened-side': the first is BlogPac Hero: The Amanda Marcotte Story You Haven't Heard by John Javna and the second is Brimstone and cat spit by Amanda Marcotte.
May 19, 2007
Web Worker Daily
Zooillogix - Don't Stick Your Fingers in the Cage...
The Futile Cycle
Reed's Ruminations
The Accidental Scientist
Small Things Considered
Auntie Em's house of cookies
Letters from Le Vrai
Scientifically Open Source
May 19, 2007
Things are moving fast with us regarding the organization of the second Science Blogging Conference. We received a very generous grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund which will allow us to get even more ambitious with our planning than we originally thought we could. Is your organization going to…
May 19, 2007
Chapel Hill is really becoming a big center for bringing together scientists (of which there are so many in the area) and techonology innovators (of which there are also many in the area). Not just the Science Blogging Conference, either!
Renaissance Computing Institute and Microsoft are…
May 19, 2007
Clock Gene Plays Role In Weight Gain, Study Finds:
Scientists at the University of Virginia and the Medical College of Wisconsin have discovered that a gene that participates in the regulation of the body's biological rhythms may also be a major control in regulating metabolism. Their finding shows…
May 18, 2007
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
May 18, 2007
As we mentioned just the other day, studying animal behavior is tough as "animals do whatever they darned please". Thus, making sure that everything is controlled for in an experimental setup is of paramount importance. Furthermore, for the studies to be replicable in other labs, it is always a…
May 18, 2007
I am working on a post covering three (excellent) recent Drosophila clock-genetics papers and I am trying not to mention a single gene in it - just the historical, methodological, behavioral and ecological context of the results. It will appear later today/tonight. We'll see how it turns out.
I…
May 18, 2007
Scientists Discover New Life In Antarctic Deep Sea:
Scientists have found hundreds of new marine creatures in the vast, dark deep-sea surrounding Antarctica. Carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living in the Weddell Sea provide new insights into the evolution of…
May 17, 2007
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
- Leo Buscaglia
May 17, 2007
I recently mentioned a study reporting circadian oscillations of bacterial clock-proteins KaiA, KaiB and KaiC in a dish with no transcription and translation whatsoever - the oscillations being due entirely to polymerization of proteins. Now, a mathematical model of this system has also been…
May 17, 2007
Remember last summer when some guy named Paul Manger wrote a paper asserting how dolphins and other Cetaceans are really quite dumb? There was quite an interesting discussion about it on blogs back then, e.g., here, here, here and here.
Now, a formal rebuttal got published in PLoS-Biology:…
May 17, 2007
A must-read by Sara Robinson. You can use it to understand the persistence of Creationism. Or the lack of Internal Locus of Moral Authority in people belonging to Moral Majority.
