May 6, 2007
Thought Capital
Neurozone
The Situationist
Library of Congress Blog
Madam Fathom
The Dispersal Of Darwin
Plant Physiological Ecology
On The Brain
Cat Cubed
May 6, 2007
Three out of ten Republican presidential candidates raised hands in the recent debate indicating they do not believe in evolution. Jason has an excellent round-up of responses (Arianna Huffington rocks!) with some good comments by readers as well. How can you help combat scientific ignorance? If…
May 6, 2007
Gene Genie, the carnival of human genetics, now has a homepage and the Sixth issue is now up on ScienceRoll
May 6, 2007
Tatjana Jovanovic is a fellow escapee from Serbia and a fellow biologist. She got her MS in Biology at the University of Belgrade and has collected enough data before emigrating to be able to immediately get a PhD if someone would sponsor her here. She is currently in Arizona, but she is moving…
May 6, 2007
Panta Rei is back with a new concept. Send your entries and apply to host.
May 5, 2007
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax -
Of cabbages - and kings -
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings."
- Lewis Carroll
May 5, 2007
I know it's almost halfway between the first and second Science Blogging Conference, but reviews of the first one are still coming out. Check out the latest one, written by Eva Amsen and published by 'Hypothesis' yesterday.
May 5, 2007
Street Sense won the Derby in style. He hung back in 19th place (out of 20 horses) for most of the race. About 3/4 miles before the end, jockey Borel switched to a new gear and stepped on the gas. He passed all but the last two horses by riding on the rail - all the other horses (and it was…
May 5, 2007
Writing actual science posts takes a lot of time, research, thinking and energy. I assembled a large pile of papers I want to comment on and I actually started writing posts about a couple of them already, but Real Life interferes...and it is so much easier and quicker to post a short opinion-post…
May 4, 2007
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
- Stephen King
May 4, 2007
..and not just debates and C-span in an election year. I am unlikely to miss the three legs of the Triple Crown in any given year. Tomorrow at 6pm ET is the Kentucky Derby and I'll be watching!
May 4, 2007
Which of these new terms you particularly like or dislike? Do the Lulu.com survey:
"BLOG", "BLOOK", "BLEADER" AND "BLAUTHOR"
- WHICH IS THE UGLIEST, OR COOLEST, BLOGGING TERM OF THEM ALL?
WIN A FREE ISBN OR PRIZE-WINNING BOOK BY TELLING US WHAT YOU THINK!
This year marks the tenth…
May 4, 2007
BloggingPoet.com
Field Notes from an Evolutionary Psychologist
Writing the Biological
Petrona
Blogfish
Elm Rock City
Culture Dish
In-Mind
Nanopolitan
May 4, 2007
Weekend is coming so you'll have some time (at least at night) which can be spent in much less useful activities than reading these three articles:
12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know
A Blogger's Disclaimer
The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs
May 4, 2007
Yes, the Scienceblogs.com is invading the Facebook! You are free to join the ScienceBlogs Fan Club, the Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique and /or The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. See ya there.... Next step: MySpace!
May 4, 2007
Making the second Science Blogging Conference even bigger and better, we are happy to announce that the January 19th, 2008 meeting will be hosted by Sigma Xi (publishers of American Scientist) in their gorgeous new building in the Research Triangle Park. Their conference facilities can house more…
May 4, 2007
Arunn and Selva are wondering why more Indian scientists don't write blogs, while Danica wonders the same about Serbian scientists. I guess every nation will have its own idiosyncratic ways of getting there, but it is also important to note that in the USA where most of the popular science blogs…
May 4, 2007
Sleep Deprivation Can Threaten Competent Decision-making:
Gambling is a risky activity that can potentially result in the loss of a significant amount of money. A study published in the journal SLEEP finds that sleep deprivation can adversely affect a person's decision-making at a gambling table by…
May 3, 2007
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess
May 3, 2007
I don't watch TV almost at all, but I turned it on for a minute earlier today. I thought it was some kind of monthypythonesque satire, or perhaps that the 'American Funniest Videos' has really reached the bottom of the barrel since I last saw it several years ago...but then I noticed the title of…
May 3, 2007
There is a new (nice and long) article by Laura Bonetta about science blogging in today's issue of the journal Cell.
Bloggers on A Blog Around The Clock, Pharyngula, Aetiology, Framing Science, The Daily Transcript, Sandwalk, In the Pipeline, Nobel Intent, Useful Chemistry, De Rerum Natura and…
May 3, 2007
Next Carnival of the Liberals will not be held here as previously announced. I will host on the 23rd of May instead. Next week the carnival will be hosted by That Is So Queer... instead.
May 3, 2007
International Carnival of Pozitivities #11 is up on Living In The Bonus Round
May 3, 2007
NPR has started a year-long series on climate called Climate Connections. The other day, they broadcast the first in a series of their educational segments, starting at the very beginning: the carbon atom. You can read the intro here and watch the video here but just listening to the audio in the…
May 3, 2007
I know, I know, many people are still skeptical, but opening one's lab notebooks is a part and parcel of the new world of Open Science. There is an opinion piece about it in Nature (also available on Nature's Nautilus blog). Attila Csordas added some very important points today, reminding…
May 2, 2007
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
May 2, 2007
Spiked and Pfizer are asking:
'What's the Greatest Innovation?' is a survey of key thinkers in science, technology and medicine, conducted by spiked in collaboration with the research-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Contributors were asked to identify what they see as the greatest innovation…
May 2, 2007
Rob identifies some old pernicious frames, makes suggestions how to counter them and offers more modern ways to frame the question of copyright in this three-part post:
Empty Rhetoric: 'Intellectual Property Is Property!'
Copyright and scientific papers
Copyright is Censorship
May 2, 2007
Of course, I was not the only one commenting on the recent duck phallus paper. You should check out the other blogospheric responses, e.g., by Carl, PZ, RPM, Grrrl, Laelaps, Neil, Belle, Zuzu, Guru and many others.
Unfortunately, most people link only to each other, or to the press release, or to…
