May 17, 2007
The Fly Spontaneous Behavior paper is generating quite a lot of buzz.
Bjorn has collected some of the best blogospheric responses, including these from Mark Chu-Carroll, Mark Hoofnagle and Kate.
He also got Slashdotted - of course, whoever posted that on Slashdot failed to a) link to the paper, b…
May 17, 2007
Business customers and children can be tough to manage online, but can you imagine managing scientists! They are already hard enough to satisfy in their native environment offline (e.g., to look beyond the usual metrics when awarding tenure). I know, I am making links in this post so cryptic, you'…
May 17, 2007
Sure, she did not post about it, but a little bird told me that today is Jennifer Ouellette's birthday so go and say Hello and Happy Birthday to everyone's favourite physics writer/blogger!
May 17, 2007
Scientiae #6 is up on On Being a Scientist and a Woman.
May 17, 2007
Carnival of Space #3 is up on Universe Today
May 17, 2007
Change of Shift: Volume 1, Number 24 is up on Nurse Ratched's Place
I and the Bird #49: the Wordchaser, is up on Via Negativa. In two weeks, the 50th edition will be hosted here by me, so start sending your entries to: Coturnix AT gmail DOT com.
May 17, 2007
Reproductive Speed Protects Large Animals From Being Hunted To Extinction:
The slower their reproductive cycle, the higher the risk of extinction for large grazing animals such as deer and antelope that are hunted by humans.
Bites From Mosquitoes Not Infected With Malaria May Protect Against Future…
May 16, 2007
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
- Shelby Foote
May 16, 2007
The 39th edition of the Carnival of the Liberals (the peer-reviewed one) will be hosted by me here next Wednesday. Please send your entries by using the blogcarnival.com automated form. The deadline is Monday at 11:59pm EDT.
May 16, 2007
This and this arrived in the mail today. A birthday present from one of my readers! Thank you!
May 16, 2007
OptimalScholarship
The Fact Box
iSpiders
Depth-First
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Brain
Like a lake
May 16, 2007
When I teach BIO101 I usually give at least one assignment that entails finding a biology-related article, writing a short summary of it and explaining the gist of it to the rest of the class. We did that this Monday and the students picked, as usual, some interesting topics (including some that…
May 16, 2007
The Carnival Of Education: Week 119 is up on The Education Wonks.
Carnival of the Infosciences #71 is up on Confessions of a Science Librarian.
The 72nd Carnival of Homeschooling: In My Backyard is up on PalmTree Pundit.
May 16, 2007
Maxine Clark, Attila Csordas, Deepak Singh, PZ Myers, Pedro Beltrao, Jean-Claude Bradley, Pierre Lindenbaum, Peter MR, Andrew Walkingshaw, Anna Kushnir, Timo Hannay, Richard Akerman and yours truly are some of the 200 people invited by Google, Nature and Tim O'Reilly to participate in this summer's…
May 16, 2007
Light Pulses Can Adjust The Brain's Clock For A Longer Day, Sufficient For Adaptation To The 24.65 Hour Day Found On Mars:
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital's (BWH) Division of Sleep Medicine and colleagues, have found that by giving individuals two 45 minute exposures to bright light…
May 15, 2007
Life offers two great gifts - time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.
- Richard I. Winword
May 15, 2007
Just announced!
May 15, 2007
The lion triplets now have names.
May 15, 2007
Google was really no help in finding the exact quote, but everyone in the animal behavior field has heard some version of the Harvard Rule of Animal Behaviour:
"You can have the most beautifully designed experiment with the most carefully controlled variables, and the animal will do what it damn…
May 15, 2007
If you watch Tony Wright on his webcam every single millisecond of his experiment, you will likely have some interesting experiences yourself, apart from seeing how sleep deprivation messes with his mind. And his health.
May 15, 2007
Seed Magazine sent two intrepid reporters to Albuquerque to cover this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (you may remember those under the old name of "Westinghouse"). They are busy filing their reports and you can find them all on the special scienceblogs Intel ISEF blog.
We…
May 15, 2007
The latest edition of Oekologie is a real feast - a chockfull of great posts wrapped around the snippets of ancient and medieaval Arabic science for the history buffs, courtesy of Jeremy Bruno. Enjoy!
May 15, 2007
Grand Rounds (Vol 3, No. 34) are up on Medical Humanities Blog
Carnival of the Green #77 is up on Natural Collection
May 15, 2007
Sleepless For Science: Flies Show Link Between Sleep And Immune System:
Go a few nights without enough sleep and you're more likely to get sick, but scientists have no real explanation for how sleep is related to the immune system. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine are…
May 15, 2007
Everybody is talking about Encyclopedia of Life these days. It is alll still very Beta - we'll wait and see how it turns out in the end. Many are enthusiastic, some are skeptical. But, what happened to the Tree of Life? Remember it from 1995 and after? I found it useful during the last decade…
May 14, 2007
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.
- Plutarch
May 14, 2007
Panta Rei #5 - Chemical Sciences - is up on Nonoscience. Next edition is a Life Sciences special, planned for May 28, 2007 also at Nonoscience.
Carnival of the Godless #66 is up on The Atheist Experience.
Oekologie #5 - last call for submissions for tomorrow's edition on The Voltage Gate.
The next…
May 14, 2007
The other day I was chatting with my brother (the smarter brother of Sherlock Holmes) on the phone, and he said something that may have some truth to it - I was predisposed, from early childhood, to understand and like the Web and the blogs. How? By reading and re-reading a million times the…
May 14, 2007
From Paul I learned about the DRIADE Workshop on Digital data preservation, sharing, and discovery: Challenges for Small Science Communities in the Digital Era, organized by NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) and the UNC Metadata Research Center. I am not sure if the participation is…
May 14, 2007
Rare Sighting Of Threatened Bottlenose Dolphins In English Channel:
On a crossing of the English Channel aboard the P&O Cruise Ferry, the Pride of Bilbao on the 5th of May, a large group of approximately 30 Bottlenose Dolphin was sighted by Clive Martin, Director for the wildlife charity…
