May 2, 2007
This was released to public today:
Conceived by Mathematica creator and scientist Stephen Wolfram as a way to bring computational exploration to the widest possible audience, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science…
May 2, 2007
Change of Shift: Vol. 1, Number 23 is up on Emergiblog.
May 2, 2007
I and the Bird # 48 is up on Greg Laden's blog.
May 2, 2007
As the 2007 Science Blogging Conference was such a great success, we are already in full swing in organizing the 2008 conference and hoping to make it even bigger and better than the first one.
Our beta-version wiki is up - check out the homepage and the first, rough outlines of the program (feel…
May 2, 2007
Survivor Testimonies Engage Students in Holocaust History:
Through a program funded by the Claims Conference, a group of 8th graders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who had never before learned of the Holocaust found themselves deeply affected by these first-person narratives during a month-long…
May 2, 2007
Corals -- More Complex Than You?:
The humble coral may possess as many genes - and possibly even more - than humans do. And remarkably, although it is very distant from humans in evolutionary terms, it has many of the immune system genes that protect people against disease. In fact, it is possible…
May 2, 2007
Eye On DNA
Democrats Now
PSoTD
Bakachanaileen's journal
Paleo-Future
Smooth Pebbles
Minor Revisions
May 2, 2007
Scientiae Carnival: 5th Edition is up on Clarity.
Festival of the Trees #11: Trees in the Concrete is up on Flatbush Gardener
Bio::BLogs #10 is up on Nodalpoint
The 117th Carnival of Education: The Carnival of One Liners is up on Dr. Homeslice
Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 32 are up on Shrink Rap.…
May 1, 2007
You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
- Robert De Niro
May 1, 2007
How does one fisk a medical quackery when there is no attempt whatsoever to explain what it is all about - not even a string of New-Age mumbo-jumbo, nonsensical, vaguely English-sounding words. All it says is: Buy The Book. Yeah, right...
Related: Circadian Quackery
May 1, 2007
Combat Clintonism! and Mysteries.
Bookmark that blog! (hat-tip)
May 1, 2007
Press-release just in - Deep Sleep: Researchers Discovery How To Simulate Slow Wave Activity:
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During slow wave activity, which occupies about 80 percent of sleeping hours, waves of electrical activity wash across the brain, roughly once a second, 1,000 times a night. In…
May 1, 2007
One chronobiological pioneer is leaving and another one is coming in. Gene Block is going to UCLA and Joe Takahashi is leaving Northwestern (What are Fred Turek and others going to do there without him? What happens to the Howard Hughes institute?) and coming in to head the new Center for…
May 1, 2007
Famous Galapagos Tortoise, Lonesome George, May Not Be Alone:
"Lonesome George," a giant Galapagos tortoise and conservation icon long thought to be the sole survivor of his species, may not be alone for much longer, according to a multinational team of researchers headed by investigators at Yale…
May 1, 2007
Jake, Chad, Rob, Janet, Chad again and Chad again. have already written everything important about today's Buzz topic - the undergraduate research. What I will do is add a few examples and you draw conclusions why this worked (or not) for each one of them.
A Self-Starter
Kevin Messenger loved…
May 1, 2007
...because weird sex does not only happen on Fridays....
Remember this? Many have asked themselves (I did) where does it go, i.e., what kind of female genital tract can accomodate such a large penis. But one person actually did not stop at wondering but set out to find out. You can find out who…
May 1, 2007
Out in the real world, especially in the Red States and the Bible Belt, atheists tend to go on with their lives without actively tooting their horns every day everywhere. But online, the Internets are teeming with atheists suggesting that there may be more of us in the general population than what…
May 1, 2007
A guy 'jebo jeza', ahem, literally fucked a hedgehog in Serbia and ended up in the ER. Do kids there these days don't even know their slang? 'Jebo jeza' means something along the lines of 'being in big trouble' or 'having everything go wrong for you'. This guy accomplished that for himself, I…
May 1, 2007
In a large proportion of the surface of our planet, people are not supposed to go to work today. Not here, though. Eh, the good old days back home when my parents would go off for a ten-day vacation on May Day and leave my brother and me to rule the house and host parties...
April 30, 2007
I am teaching tonight (and preparing for the lecture today) so there will be very light blogging today, naked or not (tune in tomorrow).
I am also struggling with writing the cover letter for PLoS. I have never written (or even read) a cover letter before so I asked some friends for samples of…
April 30, 2007
Go say Hello to Mark and Chris Hoofnagle at Denialism blog.
April 29, 2007
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
- Marcel Proust
April 29, 2007
Carnival of the Godless #65 is up on Light Remembered.
April 29, 2007
The word 'circadian' has a certain mystique about it for people not in the know, thus it is not surprising that there are several bands around with that word incorporate in their names. I know I blogged about it before but I am too lazy right now to search my archives for it. Anyway, here is the…
April 29, 2007
Are you going to blog dressed or in the nude?
April 29, 2007
Wing Morphing Of The Swift Could Inspire New Aircraft Designs:
A swift adapts the shape of its wings to the immediate task at hand: folding them back to chase insects, or stretching them out to sleep in flight. Ten Dutch and Swedish scientists, based in Wageningen, Groningen, Delft, Leiden, and…
April 28, 2007
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
April 28, 2007
Life of a Labrat
Open and Shut?
Open...
Open Access News
Recurring Decimals.....
T. taxus
Under the Dome
Journalology
April 28, 2007
Just came back from the first Durham blogging teach-in of the year. Pam, Brian and Anton were there and we introduced some new interesting people to the wonderful world of blogging (and they started their own new wordpress blogs).
If you are in the Triangle NC area, we are doing the same thing next…
April 27, 2007
Last week's Casual Friday study on Cognitive Daily tried to look at the way various curse words are used and perceived by their blog readers.
Today, the results are in and, though not surprising, they are quite interesting. The sample is probably skewed towards well-educated folks interested in…
