January 28, 2007
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
January 28, 2007
Yes, I know, I've been guilty on occasion of this nasty navel-gazing practice myself, but I was never this funny or this funny. Links discovered by Bitch PhD who also indulges herself in some meta-blogging about 18th century blogging. So, this post is meta-meta-meta-blogging itself, isn't it?
January 28, 2007
In the series of "Basic Concept And Terms" (yup, I know, John is well known for misspelling people's last names, including mine), several people have already chimed in with their own definitions of the "gene", demonstrating how unclear this concept is and how much disagreement there is among the…
January 28, 2007
...by Matt. No celebrity is very much look-alike with me (and I included only male faces to eliminate Lindsay Lohan's childhood picture):
http://www.myheritage.com
January 28, 2007
Since I think that Fiddler on the Roof is the best musical ever, of course I totally loved this:
(Found here by Joolya)
I blogged somewhere before (I cannot find it now - darned Google and Technorati are imperfect!) that I think that, upon arriving in America, the fourth daughter married a black…
January 28, 2007
Since Katrina...
Women in Science
She's Such A Geek
Street Anatomy
Tangled Up In Blue Guy
Common Ills
Sasa Radojcic
KoBSON
January 28, 2007
...because I was not one of them. But now, thanks to Ed Cone, I know what the State of the Union address was all about.
January 28, 2007
Perhaps it's time for me to get serious about eating doughnuts!
(Hat tip: Greg)
January 28, 2007
What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
Dedicated Reader…
January 28, 2007
Radiology Grand Rounds-VIII are up on Sumer's Radiology Site
January 28, 2007
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
January 27, 2007
Considering I've been writing textbook-like tutorials on chronobiology for quite a while now, trying always to write as simply and clearly as possible, and even wrote a Basic Concepts And Terms post, I am surprised that I never actually defined the term "biological clock" itself before, despite…
January 27, 2007
Nicole Eugene recently defended her Masters Thesis called Potent Sleep: The Cultural Politics of Sleep (PDF) on a topic that I find fascinating:
Why is sleep, a moment that is physiologically full and mentally boundless, thought to be a moment of absence and powerlessness? Where did this devalued…
January 27, 2007
.. when someone rips PETA a new one...
Added later: Jill and Chris have more (and watch all those disccussions in the comment threads on all three posts!).
Added even later: Archy has a great analysis of this.
January 27, 2007
I am:
Robert A. Heinlein
Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.
Which science fiction writer are you?
January 27, 2007
There are also more responses to the U of California lawsuit described by Sara Robinson the other day.
See what Amanda and PZ Myers have to say about it.
Edit: and Mike
January 27, 2007
More and more science bloggers are chiming in on the story about a nasty PR campaign against open-source publishing. See Revere, Alex, Steve, Tim and Corie for a taste and several more are linked from here. Also, read David Biello in Scientific American who wrote an article about it: Open Access…
January 27, 2007
The Merriam-Webster Word of the Day for January 27, 2007 is:
quotidian ⢠\kwoh-TID-ee-un\ ⢠adjective
1 : occurring every day
*2 : belonging to each day : everyday
3 : commonplace, ordinary
Example Sentence:
As an employee, Fiona is gifted at solving the difficult problems that…
January 27, 2007
Fish Can Determine Their Social Rank By Observation Alone, Study Finds:
A male fish can size up potential rivals, and even rank them from strongest to weakest, simply by watching how they perform in territorial fights with other males, according to a new study by Stanford University scientists. The…
January 26, 2007
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
January 26, 2007
After a very pleasant dinner on Saturday where we discovered we agree on pretty much everything (e.g., religion, evolution, etc.), I am pleased that Larry Moran and I also agree on yet another thing.
January 26, 2007
I am not surprised at all.
Read more on Splintered Mind and Cognitive Daily (check the comments on both)
January 26, 2007
I was too busy with the conference so I missed the NPR Morning Edition story on one of my favourite subjects: Adolescent Sleep, which was followed by two more stories on the same subject! I am glad to see this topic becoming this prominent.
Hat-tip: Mind Hacks
January 26, 2007
In this Sunday's NY Times Magazine (not available online yet), Michael Pollan will have the cover story: "The Age of Nutritionism: How Scientists have Ruined the Way We Eat."
Looking forward to reading (and perhaps blogging) it.
Update: You can now read it here.
January 26, 2007
Write about science and get exposure - send your stuff to carnivals.
Calls for submissions have been announced for Tangled Bank, Grand Rounds, Skeptic's Circle, Mendel's Garden, Bio::Blogs, Encephalon, Circus of the Spineless, I And The Bird, Philosophia Naturalis, Change Of Shift, Radiology Grand…
January 26, 2007
This is what I will be doing tomorrow morning again. I have so much fun!
January 26, 2007
SCIndex is a new online project that provides a searchable database of scientific publications in Serbia. Some papers are in Serbian language, others in English (and they all tend to have at least the Abstract in English) and all papers are available as PDFs for free download. KoBSON has more…
January 26, 2007
This is two years old (February 16, 2005) but still as provocative....(also my belated contirbution to the Blog For Choice Day) and I'll repost the second part of it next Friday.
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William Raspberry wrote an editorial in Washington Post last weekend (I…
January 26, 2007
Comparative analysis of sexual dreams of male and female students (PDF)
The subject of research is analysis of connection between sexuality as instinctive function and dreams with sexual content as cognitive function. The sample consisted of 656 students, 245 males and 411 females. Research showed…
January 26, 2007
As always, put the press releases under the dissecting microscopes:
Thinking With The Spinal Cord?:
Two scientists from the University of Copenhagen have demonstrated that the spinal cord use network mechanisms similar to those used in the brain. The discovery is featured in the current issue of…
