December 19, 2006
We finally got to the end of the alphabet. Now I'll try to put everything together and provide a link to a complete blogroll. But you can keep telling me what good blogs are missing...
Zapato Productions
ZayZayEM
Previously (and please you can add suggestions at any time in the future - I get e-…
December 19, 2006
The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor were found guilty earlier today, against all the scientific evidence of their innocence. I second PZ's sentiment about this.
December 19, 2006
Grand Rounds Volume 3, Number 12.(Christmas Grand Rounds, Charlie Brown!) are up on Nurse Ratched's Place.
December 19, 2006
Laurie McCauley from Lee County School is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 18, 2006
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert Heinlein
December 18, 2006
Squid-inspired Design Could Mean Better Handling Of Underwater Vehicles:
Inspired by the sleek and efficient propulsion of squid, jellyfish and other cephalopods, a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher has designed a new generation of compact vortex generators that could make it easier for…
December 18, 2006
Well, not me, but people who know what I know. Heinrich aka Sir Oolius explains how the US military uses the knowledge of circadian rhythms and sleep in applications to torture. Just place the prisoners in a state of perpetual jet-lag and no temporal cues, then interrogate them at the time where…
December 18, 2006
We will not be meeting tonight. Check http://www.blogtogether.org for further annoucements.
December 18, 2006
Back in March 2005, I asked Heinrich of the She Flies With Her Own Wings blog to guest-post on Circadiana. He wrote two nice posts and this is the first of them (March 18, 2005). Perhaps I can get him to do some more...
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December 18, 2006
Two Central Mysteries In Genome Inheritance Solved:
The dance of the chromosomes during cell division, first described in the late 1800s and familiar to all high-school students from movies shown in biology classes, has long fascinated biologists. However, the molecular nature of a key component of…
December 18, 2006
Almost there....
YakimaGulagLiteraryGazett
Yellow Doggerel Democrat
Yesh.com
You all win. I got a blog.
YoungFemaleScientist
Yowling from the Fencepost
Previously (and please you can add suggestions at any time in the future - I get e-mail notifications so I will get the message):
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December 18, 2006
Just How Useful Are Animal Studies To Human Health?:
Animal studies are of limited usefulness to human health because they are of poor quality and their results often conflict with human trials, argue researchers in a study online in the British Medical Journal.
Before clinical trials are carried…
December 18, 2006
Katarina Aram of Purdue University, a commenter on Panda's Thumb is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 17, 2006
When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike.
- German proverb
December 17, 2006
The first edition of Oekologie will be on January 15th on Infinite Sphere. Send your best serious ecological science posts the day before to be included in the new carnival.
Last week, RPM of evolgen asked his readers to find blogs that cover ecological science (and not just nature and…
December 17, 2006
Ah, everyone is too busy getting ready for the holidays to remember to send their entries to the Tar Heel Tavern, so, this week, it is pretty small, but I am glad to see that I am not the only one writing about driving and traffic.
BTW, do not forget the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Blogger MeetUp tonight…
December 17, 2006
Fluid Displacement From Legs To Neck Can Lead To Obstructive Sleep Apnea:
When a person lies down, a small amount of fluid displaced from the legs to the base of the neck can narrow soft tissue around the throat and increase airflow resistance in the pharynx by more than 100 percent, predisposing…
December 17, 2006
John Edwards, Untucked:
But maybe something is really changing inside the son of a millworker. This week he will launch a series of short documentaries on his Web site, OneAmericaCommittee.com, offering behind-the-scenes glimpses of life on the campaign trail. The Webisodes, previewed exclusively…
December 17, 2006
Sensory Nerve Discovery In Diabetes Opens Door To New Treatment Strategies:
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the University of Calgary and The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine have found that diabetes is controlled by abnormalities in the sensory nociceptor (pain-…
December 17, 2006
According to this article (and the podcast of the NPR show linked there), you should like my deep voice. I got it from my Dad. He sang the deepest Bass in many choirs over decades, toured the world and cut records. His voice was absolutely amazing. His best friends' voices (well, those were all…
December 17, 2006
I know only these two - do you know any others:
Xark!
Xenogere / strange behavior /
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December 17, 2006
Discovery May Help Predict When Toxoplasma Can Be Deadly :
Toxoplasma is arguably the most successful animal parasite on earth: It infects hundreds of species of warm-blooded animals, most notably half of humanity. Its unusual ability to overcome the numerous challenges of infecting and reproducing…
December 17, 2006
Boris Hartl of North Carolina Biotechnology Center is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
December 16, 2006
You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden
December 16, 2006
And so are you!
Blogs rule!
December 16, 2006
Yesterday I listened to a segment on All Things Considered called Atheist Brigade Takes Arguments to the Tolerant (podcast) with some trepidation. But, when it all ended, I thought it was not bad at all. Apart from a couple of intolerant sentences in the beginning by someone named Wolf (if I…
December 16, 2006
Next issue of the Seed Magazine will have an article about scienceblogs.com. You can see a composite cartoon of all of us (without, unfortunately, our most recent additions) here. We look funny, don't we? Quiz: find Grrrl and Orac in the picture - how long did it take you? It took me forever!
December 16, 2006
Rumors are that he will make the official announcement around Christmas. Brilliant! His main issue is poverty and he'll anounce from the city that became the symbol of poverty in America (not that it does not exist everywhere - but it is a symbol) and remind everyone about the post-Katrina plight…
December 16, 2006
Why is Joe Klein surprised? Is this news something against the narrative he and his buddies were trying to build over the past year or so? Whither The Inevitable Hillary?
The Des Moines Register is reporting these numbers in a poll of Iowa Democrats conducted in October by Harstad Research for a…
December 16, 2006
Including the work on circadian clocks in fruitflies by an old friend. I'm glad she managed to lose only about 6 weeks of work. When hurricane Fran hit Raleigh back in 1996, I lost 6 months!
