October 18, 2006
I tend to rant about sleep in adolescents for various reasons, but other people focus on other age groups. Infants are one such group, interesting because it takes a while for their circadian rhythms to consolidate resulting in "sleeping through the night".
For years, the only serious book on…
October 18, 2006
Mark Pruett wrote something I heartily agree with:
Raise children with a wild streak:
A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics stresses the importance of childhood playtime. It reinforces my own belief that many young adults have been cheated by years of excessive schoolwork and…
October 18, 2006
Have Traits, Will Travel: Some Butterflies Travel Farther, Reproduce Faster:
Researchers have uncovered physiological differences among female Glanville fritillary butterflies that allows some to move away from their birth place and establish new colonies. These venturesome butterflies are stronger…
October 18, 2006
The 89th Carnival of Education is up on Poor, Starving, College Student
October 18, 2006
Jason Smith is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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October 17, 2006
Razib and commenters are commenting on this article which appears to be 19th century SF-fantasy repackaged as "serious science" about the future evolution of the human species. Actually, the article is so silly, Razib does not even want to waste time on it and points out only one of the obvious…
October 17, 2006
Echidne and Amanda found a couple of incredibly stupid wingnut articles attacking Halloween and showing these guys have no idea what feminism is. Lance adds the dimension of fear to this discussion, and Publius moves the fear factor to other areas of life.
October 17, 2006
Kim of Emergiblog has assembled a wonderfully caffeinated edition of Grand Rounds. Hurry over before she falls asleep after her night shift! And she follows with some good advice on hosting a carnival.
October 17, 2006
Elizabeth Edwards will be reading from and signing her book in Pittsboro on Thursday at:
McIntyre's Fine Books & Bookends
2000 Fearrington Village Center
Pittsboro, North Carolina
919-542-2121
Thursday, October 19th at 7:00 p.m.
They'll have a digital camera set up if you'd like to have a…
October 17, 2006
A very old post (from September 04, 2004), but you may like it anyway.
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The other day, we were discussing birth order on JREG (http://www.jregrassroots.org/), and this is what I wrote about me and my brother:
My older brother and I are quite…
October 17, 2006
As the mid-term elections are approaching and the new polls are coming out every day, you may want to refresh your poll-reading skills as well as your general statistics knowledge, plus send your not-as-well-informed readers to learn about it at Echidne's place: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.…
October 17, 2006
John Ettorre is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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October 16, 2006
In response to wonderful fisking by Ed of a really silly Creationist screed, Archy comments on the use of the terms "Darwinist" by Creationists, as a marketing tool to paint biologists as dogmatic, while at the same time avoding the term "creationist" in order to paint themselves as scientific:…
October 16, 2006
If you are still under the influence of ConvergeSouth and cannot wait a whole year for the next one, or if you have missed this weekend and need your fill soon, perhaps you can make it to Atlanta in February.
October 16, 2006
Carnival of the Godless #51 is up on The Greenbelt.
October 16, 2006
Read these two one after another:
This is a new angle and thinking outside the box: Sara's Sunday Rant: The Culture of Planning, Part I
Lance has a nice rant on politics and education: Yahoo culture
October 16, 2006
If you happen to be in the Triangle tonight and have some free time, come to the blogger meetup at 7pm at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
October 16, 2006
Revere, Janet and Mike have updates on the dire situation of the Tripoli Six as well as excellent suggestions for what YOU can do about it. Please spread the word by blogging and e-mail.
October 16, 2006
Nothing too complicated today, but something you should all know (from March 13, 2006).
I have mentioned this in my very first post here: in a natural state, humans do not sleep a long consecutive bout throughout the night. The natural condition is bimodal - two bouts of sleep interrupted by a…
October 16, 2006
Yesterday, I spent a wonderful day in Greensboro, most of it on the NC A&T campus attending ConvergeSouth. I am still trying to recover from the event, so this post is just a big Hello to everyone I met there and another post about buidling online communities inspired by the meeting will follow…
October 16, 2006
...to the Lab Cat!
October 16, 2006
History Carnival #41 is up at ClioWeb.
October 16, 2006
Garrett French is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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October 15, 2006
Good article by Michael Pollan in today's NYT Magazine: The Vegetable-Industrial Complex
October 15, 2006
Mendel's Garden #8: Harvest Edition is up on Discoverying Biology in a Digital World.
October 15, 2006
Anton Zuiker is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
October 14, 2006
A beautifully written edition of Tar Heel Tavern is up on Poetic Acceptance.
October 14, 2006
John bemoans the state of science journalism, with some added history of the Atlantis hypothesis.
October 14, 2006
Effects Of New Sleep Medication Appear Unlikely To Have Potential For Abuse Or Cognitive Impairment:
In a study of 14 adults with histories of sedative abuse, the newly approved sleep medication ramelteon does not appear to have effects that indicate potential for abuse or motor or cognitive…
October 14, 2006
I love it when David Neiwert takes a break from Minutemen and White Pride and writes a post about killer whales. In this latest such post, he ties the concern for his favourite animals to Republican War On Science and the upcoming mid-term elections.
