September 10, 2006
Paediatric Grand Rounds vol.1, no.11 is up on Breath Spa for Kids.
September 9, 2006
As in 'fake an orgasm'? A perfect metaphor.
September 9, 2006
Billy the Blogging Poet opened up the Tar Heel Tavern and we all had lots of beer and it was great fun! Go and read his account of the evening.
September 9, 2006
George Siemens of Connectivism blog wrote:
We have designed education to promote certainty (i.e. a state of knowing)...we now need to design education to be adaptable (i.e. a process of knowing).
David Muir of EdCompBlog picks up on that an adds:
Education should not only be about what you know -…
September 9, 2006
This nerd thing going on is really bugging me. I went back and re-did the test, changing only 2 or 3 answers to what I did before (not lying, just taking the other one of two possibly correct answers) and got a much higher score:
I agree with Jim that the quiz is not really measuring nerdiness so…
September 9, 2006
In A Technical Tour De Force, Scientists Take A Global View Of The Epigenome:
A collaboration between researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California at Los Angeles captured the genome-wide DNA methylation pattern of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana - the "…
September 8, 2006
Since I already posted, earlier in the week, the weirdest and most disgusting animal sex post ever, instead of writing a new one, I'll just send you to see some cute ladybug sex (scroll down to the middle of the post), which also reminded me of these pictures I dicovered a few months ago. Or…
September 8, 2006
This is what you see when you log in to Facebook today:
An Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg:
We really messed this one up. When we launched News Feed and Mini-Feed we were trying to provide you with a stream of information about your social world. Instead, we did a bad job of explaining what the…
September 8, 2006
How to collect and catalogue them.
September 8, 2006
Global Changes Alter The Timing Of Plant Growth, Scientists Say:
Different plant species mature at different times. Scientists studying plant communities in natural habitats call this phenomenon "complementarity." It allows species to co-exist because it reduces overlap in the time period when…
September 8, 2006
Fifth in the five-part series on clocks in bacteria, covering more politics than biology (from May 17, 2006):
In the previous posts in this series, I covered the circadian clocks in Synechococcus, potential circadian clocks in a couple of other bacteria, and the presence of clock genes (thus…
September 8, 2006
Fourth in the five-part series on clocks in bacteria (from April 30, 2006):
For decades, it was thought that prokaryotes did not have circadian clocks. Then, a clock was discovered in a unicellular cyanobacterium, Synechococcus (later also in Synechocystis [1] and Trichodesmium [2]) which quickly…
September 8, 2006
You may remember this chart from three days ago. Now, Rob Loftis updated his chart after the inputs of a number of bloggers and commenters over the past few days, and John Dupuis has his own chart he uses in teaching about the flow of scientific information.
September 8, 2006
The Center for Health Design Research has issued its Report on The Impact of Light on Outcomes in Healthcare Settings. You can download the entire report as PDF:
Light impacts human health and performance by enabling performance of visual tasks, controlling the body's circadian system, affecting…
September 7, 2006
TNG of Neural Gourmet tagged me with this meme, so how can I resist....
Why do you blog?
It's an addiction. It's therapy. It seems a waste if I think about something and don't write it down and let others see it and comment on it. And all of that would count even if I had no audience at all, but…
September 7, 2006
"Greenwashing is what corporations do when they try to make themselves look more environmentally friendly than they really are."
Will has more, much more....
September 7, 2006
When Ed announced that Elizabeth Edwards is coming to ConvergeSouth to lead a session about buidling online communities, a bunch of Republican commenters on his blog announced they are not going to show up because of her and found it hard (some, not all of them) to be persuaded that the conference…
September 7, 2006
...and it is not inert gasses. Check the 6th bunch of my SciBlings
September 7, 2006
From a press release (via e-mail):
U.S. Congressional Scorecards
109th Congress:
Washington, D.C. - The Secular Coalition for America (SCA) today released its House and Senate Scorecards of the 109th Congress. The SCA, an advocacy group for atheists, humanists, freethinkers, and other nontheists,…
September 7, 2006
The third installment in the five-part series on clocks in bacteria (from April 19, 2006):
As you probably know, my specialty are birds, so writing this series on clocks in microorganisms was quite an eye-opener for me and I have learned a lot. The previous two posts cover the clocks in the…
September 7, 2006
I have a bunch of plants on my porch, mostly ferns, but also some flowers. One of these has really tiny flowers that I thought would be pollinated by small insects - not bigger than a honeybee. So, I was really surprised to see a hummingbird come and sip nectar out of it. Moreover, it is a huge…
September 7, 2006
Publius analyzes the new Bush military commissions bill.
September 7, 2006
Landscape Corridors Promote Plant Diversity By Preventing Species Loss:
Landscape corridors - thin strips of habitat that connect isolated patches of habitat -- are lifelines for native plants that live in the connected patches and therefore are a useful tool for conserving biodiversity. That's the…
September 7, 2006
Change Of Shift #6 is up on Emergiblog.
September 7, 2006
My copy of the paperback edition of Chris Mooney's important book Republcan War On Science arrived in my mailbox yesterday. As there are substantial changes since the hardcover came out, I'll be taking a good look and, one of these days soon, post about it.
September 7, 2006
This is a good article about changes in sleep patterns that occur with old age.
September 6, 2006
The best local newspaper is free. Independent Weekly is excellent every week, but today, you have to read these two articles:
Godfrey Cheshire: Five years later: We're defeating ourselves
Bob Geary: In America, terror goes both ways
September 6, 2006
Since I do have a Facebook account and get updates, as I am interested in social software and how it is used by the next generation (including our students), I've been following this over the past couple of days: Inside the Backlash Against Facebook. People are furious with the new intrusive…
September 6, 2006
Obligatory Readings of the Day:
Amanda: Disney emerges from the grave, demands right wing propaganda so he can stop spinning
Publius: ABOUT THAT LENIN ANALOGY
David Neiwert: Projecting fascism
Sara Robinson: Tunnels and Bridges: A Short Detour
RobertDFeinmanOvercoming the Authoritarian Personality…
September 6, 2006
Here is a cool microbiology blog, if you can read Slovenian language (I can get the main idea of the post, but not understand every word). This blog is about science in general and this one is about food science.
