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Bora Zivkovic

My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com

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March 4, 2007
In most cases below comment threads are more interesting than the posts, but let's see when Anne Coulter will show up on TV or at a conservatives' meeting next time, so we can ask "Why?" John Edwards Elizabeth Edwards Glenn Greenwald David Neiwert Mick Arran John McKay John Lynch Neil the Ethical…
March 3, 2007
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and the rain with verbs, and for worms to pass through question marks, and the stars to shine down on budding nouns, and the dew to form on paragraphs. - Richard Brautigan
March 3, 2007
This news just came in: Charles F- Ehret died of natural causes on February 24th at his home in Grayslake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His Wikipedia entry is quote short: Charles Frederick Ehret is a WWII veteran (Battle of the Bulge/Ardennes along the Siegfried Line) as well as a world renowned…
March 3, 2007
The second edition of the Postdoc Carnival is up on Post doc ergo propter doc
March 2, 2007
Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment. - Margaret B. Johnstone
March 2, 2007
Tangled Bank #74 is up on Neurotopia
March 2, 2007
John Dupuis, the Confessing Science Librarian, wrote a review of three science-writing anthologies, including the Open Laboratory 2006, which ended up in the highly respectable second place, nested between two professional collections. The beauty of online on-demand publishing is that one can…
March 2, 2007
Philosophia Naturalis #7 - Tabloid Headline Edition - is up on Geek Counterpoint [fixed link]
March 2, 2007
ConvergeSouth website and blog went live today. You bet I'll be going - this is a Not-To-Miss annual event in Greensboro. Just check the program!
March 2, 2007
20 New Species Of Sharks, Rays, Discovered In Indonesia: The five-year survey of catches at local fish markets provided the first detailed description of Indonesia's shark and ray fauna - information which is critical to their management in Indonesia and Australia. Regenerative Medicine Advance:…
March 1, 2007
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore
March 1, 2007
More than 15%, I hope,....if you can:
March 1, 2007
Being sick and all, I completely missed a great new science carnival - Scientiae - a blog carnival about the broad topic of "women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics." The first edition just went up on Rants of a feminist engineer and it is chockful of good stuff (not to mention…
March 1, 2007
A tribute...
March 1, 2007
Go say Hi to Chris Rowan of Highly Allochthonous
March 1, 2007
The latest edition of The Four Stone Hearth is up on Hot Cup Of Joe - it's all about Letters. The 55th Skeptics' Circle is up on The Second Sight - it's all about Numbers.
March 1, 2007
2008 Science Blogging Conference Not to be bragging, but the '07 Science Blogging Conference was a great success, and most attendees voiced their approval of Chapel Hill as a permanent venue for the event, so Anton and I are starting early in planning for the next one. There are rumors of a mid-…
March 1, 2007
City Ants Take The Heat: While Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, has generated greater awareness of global warming, most people remain unaware of the more rapid warming that has occurred within major cities. In fact, large cities can be more than 10 degrees hotter than their surroundings.…
February 28, 2007
Time is the image of eternity. - Laertius Diogenes
February 28, 2007
The 108th edition of The Carnival of Education is up on Dr. Homeslice Carnival of Homeschooling #60 is up on Homeschool Hacks
February 28, 2007
This is a story about two mindsets - one scientific, one not - both concerned with the same idea but doing something very different with it. Interestingly, both arrived in my e-mail inbox on the same day, but this post had to wait until I got out of bed and started feeling a little bit better.…
February 28, 2007
A few are under the fold, but many more can be found here. This one is older, back when Chris Mooney was in Raleigh for a book reading: Prof.Steve Steve with Larry Moran at the Friday dinner just before the Science Blogging Conference: Larry and Jane Moran: Prof. Steve Steve watching Janet…
February 28, 2007
Researchers Discover Key To Body's Ability To Detect Subtle Temperature Changes: Scientists have long known the molecular mechanisms behind most of the body's sensing capabilities. Vision, for example, is made possible in part by rhodopsin, a pigment molecule that is extremely sensitive to light.…
February 28, 2007
The 33rd edition of Carnival of the Liberals is up on Blue Gal's blog.
February 27, 2007
Be regular and orderly in your daily affairs that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert
February 27, 2007
Bad History Carnival is back after a winter break! The 13th edition is up on Old is the New New blog.
February 27, 2007
...will return to blogging once I get out of bed....
February 26, 2007
Encephalon no. 17 (Pirate-style) is up on Pure Pedantry. The ninth edition of the Radiology Grand Rounds is up at Cochinblogs
February 26, 2007
Why Even Close Associates Sometimes Have Trouble Communicating: Particularly among close associates, sharing even a little new information can slow down communication. Some of people's biggest problems with communication come in sharing new information with people they know well, newly published…
February 25, 2007
Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it. - Erich Fromm