October 24, 2006
Grand Rounds 3.5: A Visual Tour is up on Health Care Law Blog.
Carnival of the Green #50 is up on How To Save The World.
Carnival of Homeschooling #43 is up on About Homeschool.
Four Stone Hearth will kick off its first edition on Anthropology Net on October 25th.
Next I And The Bird will be on…
October 24, 2006
There has been an exciting new addition fo the Conference Program - a new break-out session:
Illustrating your posts: Rosalind Reid, editor of American Scientist Magazine, leads a discussion about using photographs, illustrations, video clips and other multimedia to offer blog readers other ways to…
October 24, 2006
While we are discussing femiphobia, mysoginy and the "new male anger", you may want to take a break from hundreds and hundreds of comments on all the threads on all the posts (see the links within links on the last link!), and instead read an old, old science fiction story on the topic (is there…
October 24, 2006
Here's a fun old one...(December 04, 2005):
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When Milkriverblog asked for obscure-but-good movies the other day, I was busy and distracted, so I did not give it enough thought. If you ask nicely, he will send you MSWord file…
October 24, 2006
As the paper linked to in the previous post explains, everything is connected - clocks, sleep, hunger, obesity and diabetes.
An important part of understanding all these interconnections between clocks and food is to understand the food-entrainable clocks, i.e., how timing of meals affects the…
October 24, 2006
Sleep: it's required:
"....short sleep can hasten the arrival of the inevitable long sleep"
October 24, 2006
Eva of Easternblot is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
October 23, 2006
2000 comments on this blog (2002 actually). Unfortunately, I did not pay attention, so I made the round-number comment myself. So I get the prize (whatever it was).
October 23, 2006
I had a delightful lunch today with my blog-sparring-partner Mike Munger of Mungovitz End (see how my blog is labeled on his blogroll: "Coturnix's nonsense"). We had great time discussing politics, academia, Horowitz, blogging and the life in the Triangle. Oh, Mike is also running for North…
October 23, 2006
Hmmm, didn't it occur to him for a moment that "survival of the fittest" may be true back when Bruce Lee beat him up?
October 23, 2006
NOTE: Bumped to top to draw attention to added links:
Provocative and excellent post by Sara Robinson: There's Something About The Men. Most definitely read the comments as well. Then come back here in half an hour and read an old post of mine that I have scheduled for republishing at 11am.
I…
October 23, 2006
This is hillarious (Via). I wish I was as creative. I just make the telemarketers pronounce my full name correctly. Just calling me "Sir" does not cut it as I was never knighted by the Queen of England.
October 23, 2006
How birds know when and where to migrate (from April 03, 2006)
I've never ever expected to see the word "Zugunruhe" in New York Times! But here it is. It is one of my most favourite words of all times (right after "elusive"), and is even described pretty accurately:
Zugunruhe brooks no confusion.…
October 23, 2006
The fifth edition of the International Carnival of Pozitivities will appear right here on this blog on November 10th, 2006.
This is what Ron Hudson, the founder of the carnival wrote:
One of the aims of the ICP is to present a true picture of what it is like to live with HIV/AIDS in today's…
October 23, 2006
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
- Alvin Toffler
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
- Charles F. Kettering, 1876 - 1958
The test of a first-rate…
October 23, 2006
Encephalon #9 is up on Migrations. The next edition will be here on November 6th. Send your entries to: Coturnix AT gmail DOT com
October 23, 2006
Geoff Davis is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
October 22, 2006
All the sciencebloggers are taking a turn being interviewed on Page 3.14. Today, it's my turn so go and read more about me.
October 22, 2006
Carnival of Bad History #10 is up on Archy.
October 22, 2006
I've been waiting for this movie to come out since April. Now, it is not playing in the theater up the street. Perhaps I'll have to go elsewhere, driving, finding parking...but see it I will!
October 22, 2006
Magnetoreception is one of the most fascinating sensory modalities in living organisms. Most of the work has been done in homing pigeons, migrating birds and salmon. More recently, work has been done in mammals and fruitflies. But this sense is not limited only to the most complex organisms - it…
October 22, 2006
Still, it is strange to have a press release on a study before it even gets started:
Asia's Odd-ball Antelope Gets Collared:
A group of scientists led by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) working in Mongolia's windswept Gobi Desert recently fitted high-tech GPS (Global…
October 22, 2006
...the way to conduct a scientific experiment - with no oversight and secretly endangering people who are uninformed they are subject in the project.
October 22, 2006
Anton Zuiker got a nice article (about blogging and the local blogging community) published in Raleigh News & Observer. The article is here and Anton's personal version can be found here. Smartly, the article contains the URL of Blogtogether, so perhaps people will see it and register for the…
October 22, 2006
Beth Ritter-Guth is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
October 21, 2006
This week's Tar Heel Tavern is right next door - over on my SciBling's pad Terra Sigillata.
October 21, 2006
Harry Potter carnival #33 is up on The Pensieve.
October 21, 2006
Am I going to link to everyhing Sara Robinson writes? I guess the answer is yes, as long as she keeps churning out posts like this one. It's short - read it twice:
The government cannot harass you or jail you for your associations, your political views, or your religious beliefs. (Or, at least,…
October 21, 2006
...does not automatically translate into Republican advantage:
Will the new GOP ad make you more or less likely to vote for Republicans?
Less likely67%
More likely33%
Total Votes: 82,879
October 21, 2006
Visual Imagery Technique Boosts Voting, Study Finds:
Registered voters who used a simple visual imagery technique the evening before the 2004 election were significantly more likely to vote the next day, a new study found. It was all a matter of the visual perspective people took when they imagined…
