February 25, 2007
Pediatric Grand Rounds (1:23) are up on Allergy And Asthma Source
February 25, 2007
The Tar Heel Tavern #105 is up on Science And Politics.
February 24, 2007
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you: You do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
February 24, 2007
Wow! It seems that all the exciting sience news today are coming from my school:
Researchers Find Genes Involved In Nicotine Resistance In Fruit Flies:
North Carolina State University researchers have gleaned insight into the genes involved in resistance to nicotine in the lab rat of many gene…
February 23, 2007
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
- Albert Camus
February 23, 2007
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack To Drop 2008 Bid:
Democrat Tom Vilsack is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, a senior campaign official told The Associated Press on Friday.
Vilsack left office in January and traveled through states…
February 23, 2007
The 105th edition of The Tar Heel Tavern will be on my old digs, Science And Politics, with no particular theme or topic. Just send your week's best by Saturday night to: Coturnix AT gmail DOT com
February 23, 2007
A very creative Carnival of Mathematics #2 is up on Good Math, Bad Math
February 23, 2007
Evolution works according to a very small set of simple rules. If a) there is variation in a trait in a population and b) that variation is heritable and c) one variant is better adapted to the current local environment, then d) the best adapted trait will increase in the proportion within the…
February 23, 2007
Do You Hear What I See? Research Finds Visually Stimulated Activity In Brain's Hearing Processing Centers:
New research pinpoints specific areas in sound processing centers in the brains of macaque monkeys that shows enhanced activity when the animals watch a video. This study confirms a number of…
February 22, 2007
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
February 22, 2007
The Blogging Curmudgeon
Scooter's Blog
Eye On Science
Spewing Truth in the face of Lies
Interrogating Nature
My Spleen and Welcome to It
Say it Better
Sequitur
February 22, 2007
OK, it is a premise of a new SF novel. The book description does not look too promising, though I guess I should read it for professional reasons (I put it on my amazon wish-list for now):
Last call from Earth -Stage I, Biological Survival (also available for download on Lulu.com).
This is what…
February 22, 2007
Trying to push an anti-free-speech bill in Arizona:
The Arizona bill, if enacted, could take self-censorship in schools to a new level.
"This is yet another bill that is seeking to restrict the free exchange of ideas on campus, and, frankly, this is probably the most extreme form we've seen yet,"…
February 22, 2007
There are now 59 blogs on Seed Scienceblogs network - that is a lot of stuff to read! You may choose to start your day on the Last 24 Hours aggregator (that's what I do), or you may subscribe to the entire RSS feed for the whole site, or you may have just picked the feeds for a few of the blogs…
February 22, 2007
Change of Shift, Vol. 1, No. 18 is up on Protect the Airway
February 22, 2007
I and the bird #43: IATB at the Movies! Up on Earth, Wind & Water
February 22, 2007
Go say Hello to Rob Knop of Galactic Interactions
February 22, 2007
Boosting Brain Power -- With Chocolate:
Eating chocolate could help to sharpen up the mind and give a short-term boost to cognitive skills, a University of Nottingham expert has found. A study led by Professor Ian Macdonald found that consumption of a cocoa drink rich in flavanols -- a key…
February 21, 2007
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb
February 21, 2007
I'm back and ready to go to bed. After a couple of days of being sick as a dog (hence hit-and-run blogging) I managed to get myself up for tonight's event which was great fun, but now I am drained, so instead of trying to write a long-winded account of the evening myself, I'll ask you to go and…
February 21, 2007
...Amanda Marcotte still supports John Edwards. Puts to lie the media framing of "bloggers vs. Edwards". It was all along "bloggers AND Edwards AND many more ordinary people vs. the Establishment (of both parties) AND the Right Wing smear machine.
February 21, 2007
Professor identifies mystery creature:
The odd-looking animal spotted in several Piedmont counties last year evidently was a hairless gray fox.
That's the conclusion of Jaap Hillenius. He examined the carcass of a similar animal that had been hit by a car in the Charleston, S.C., area.
So it wasn't…
February 21, 2007
An olde but fun (February 16, 2006):
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When I went to pick up Coturnix Junior from school today (he is in 7th grade), we bumped into his English teacher who informed me that he did not turn in his book review. He started coming up with excuses, that he lost…
February 21, 2007
OK, they call it a 'forum' on economic issues only. In Nevada today at noon (local time - 2pm Eastern), streaming here (It will also be on C-SPAN live). Obama is the only announced contender who will be missing.
Not to be confused with the August 2007 debate in Nevada, which, believe it or not,…
February 21, 2007
Are you coming to the Triangle Bloggers Happy Hour tonight? Sponsored by DukeEngage. There will be free food, free drinks and free wifi, courtesy of Duke University.
February 21, 2007
The 107th Carnival of Education is up on History Is Elementary.
Carnival of Homeschooling #60: Presidential Trivia, now up on Homeschool Hacks.
February 21, 2007
New Research Finds People And Pigeons See Eye To Eye:
Pigeons and humans use similar visual cues to identify objects, a finding that could have promising implications in the development of novel technologies, according to new research conducted by a University of New Hampshire professor. Brett…
February 20, 2007
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
- Thomas Carlyle
February 20, 2007
Back in May 21, 2006, Montenegro seceded from Serbia. Here is what I wrote:
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Right now, there are five countries in the place of Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia & Montenegro. Considering…
