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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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January 3, 2007
If you do not know who Roper is, read this, this and this. A total fundie wingnut in charge of a large teaching hospital! Oy vey! I did not know that fact when I originally wrote this post, but this explains it....(From July 15, 2005) ---------------------------------------- Do you know what's…
January 3, 2007
New Species Of Lizard Found In Borneo: Chris Austin, assistant curator of herpetology at LSU's Museum of Natural Science, or LSUMNS, and adjunct professor in biological sciences, recently discovered a new species of lizard while conducting field research in Borneo. Sleep Disturbances, Nightmares…
January 3, 2007
...about the launch of the Edwards campaign can be found and linked on this Diary on DailyKos. Go and Recommend it.
January 3, 2007
Ben Chung is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
January 2, 2007
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
January 2, 2007
100th Edition of the Carnival of Education is up on Teaching in the Twenty-First Century Carnival of Homeschooling - Week 53 - the Anniversary edition - is up on Why Homeschool
January 2, 2007
...right now. The list of all nominations is now up to date. Ten of my friends are already busy reading all the posts, helping me decide which 50 to include. I will make the final decision by the end of the weekend and post it here. All the other finalists will be linked from the book website…
January 2, 2007
First posted on December 15, 2003, then reposted on August 25, 2004, it is interesting how everything changed in two years - I would have never written this if I knew then what I know now and how the whole thing would turn out in Iraq. I was too optimistic. Based on some interviews with Iraqis at…
January 2, 2007
Grand Rounds 3.15 - A Veritable Explosion of Information - now up on Musings of a Distractible Mind
January 2, 2007
Link Between Insomnia And Hypersomnia, Depression In Children: According to a study published in the January 1st issue of the journal SLEEP, sleep-disturbed children are more severely depressed and have more depressive symptoms and comorbid anxiety disorders compared with children without sleep…
January 2, 2007
Alisa White is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
January 1, 2007
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
January 1, 2007
Carnival of Brain Fitness is starting on Friday January 19th.
January 1, 2007
Festival of the Trees #7 is up on The Voltage Gate
January 1, 2007
Food From Cloned Animals Safe? FDA Says Yes, But Asks Suppliers To Hold Off For Now: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued three documents on the safety of animal cloning -- a draft risk assessment; a proposed risk management plan; and a draft guidance for industry. The draft risk…
January 1, 2007
If you are interested in the background and recent history of the research on mammalian SCN in line of Erik Herzog's work I described in VIP synchronizes mammalian circadian pacemaker neurons and A Huge New Circadian Pacemaker Found In The Mammalian Brain, you may want to look at these old…
January 1, 2007
The conference is only 19 [13] days from today! It's getting really exciting! The program is shaping really well: On Thursday (January 18th) we will have a teach-in session. About 20 people have signed up so far (update: 30, thus the session is now full). We'll use Wordpress to help them start…
January 1, 2007
Update: Deadline for submissions is January 2nd at noon EST. Wow! I posted the call for suggestions on Friday night, it is a weekend and a holiday, the traffic is down to a half, yet I got so many suggestions already, both in the comments and via e-mail! I am also very happy to see how many…
January 1, 2007
What Crawls Beneath: Ground Spider Diversity Linked To Healthy Habitats: None of Takesha Henderson's discoveries are named Charlotte, but they are weaving a new chapter in Texas entomology. Her graduate studies at Texas A&M University have led to the discovery of 25 new spiders in Brazos County…
January 1, 2007
Xan Gregg is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 31, 2006
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
December 31, 2006
Happy New Year to all my readers!!! I wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2007, a paper published, a grant funded, a tenure achieved, and all other goals reached. Some blog stats: 1721 posts 2919 comments 218,365 visits 315,161 page views Technorati Rank: 3,847 (which is more than a 200…
December 31, 2006
The Tar Heel Tavern - New Year's Eve 2006 Edition - is up on ...Slowly She Turned.
December 31, 2006
Radiology Grand Rounds VII are up on Filmjacket
December 31, 2006
To Elude Bats, A Moth Keeps Its Hearing In Tune: Current understanding of the co-evolution of bats and moths has been thrown into question following new research reported in the journal Current Biology. Dr James Windmill from the University of Bristol, UK, has shown how the Yellow Underwing moth…
December 31, 2006
Robin Mackar is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 30, 2006
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
December 30, 2006
...I attended the Edwards rally in Chapel Hill, NC, together with some 5000 other people. My musings can be found here and here.
December 30, 2006
Circus of the Spineless #16 is up on The force that through...
December 30, 2006
Why burn or recycle when zoo animals love them - some eat them, some play with them, but they are certainly not wasted. Hat-tip: Russlings