September 10, 2009
Here are all the finalists. And here is the proof:
September 10, 2009
On Speaking of Medicine:
PLoS Medicine turns 5 years old on October 19th, 2009. To highlight the crucial importance of open access in medical publishing we're holding a competition to find the best medical paper published under an open-access license anywhere (not just in PLoS) since our launch.…
September 10, 2009
I have been remiss this week....so here's a sampling from all seven PLoS journals over the course of this week. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (…
September 10, 2009
Best Slideshow About Social Media:
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
View more documents from Marta Kagan.
The follow-up to this., from Berci
September 10, 2009
At the NC Museum of Natural Sciences:
What's Bugging You? Animals We Love to Hate
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
8:00 - 10:00 am with discussion beginning at 9:00 followed by Q&A
Location: The Acro Cafe - 4th Floor of the Museum of Natural Sciences
Fire ants. Mosquitoes. Flies. Ticks. Gnats…
September 9, 2009
Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
September 9, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 360 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
September 9, 2009
Professor Nicky Clayton researches the social behaviour, intelligence and dance credentials of birds! As an accomplished dancer in her own right she has fused her passions by collaborating with Rambert Dance Company to produce a Darwinian inspired ballet called The Comedy of Change.
September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
6:30-8:30 pm with discussion beginning at 7:00 followed by Q&A
Location: The Irregardless Café, 901 W. Morgan Street, Raleigh 833-8898
Memory problems have become increasingly common as our population ages. The fear of developing dementia is one of the greatest…
September 9, 2009
Carnival of the Blue XXVIII is up on The Saipan Blog
Four Stone Hearth #75 is up on Ad Hominin
September 8, 2009
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 8, 2009
I know everyone in the sci-blogosphere is swooning over Carl Sagan. But as a kid I never cared much about him - I usually fell asleep halfway through each episode of 'Cosmos'. But I would not miss for anything an episode of 'The Underwater Odyssey of Commander Cousteau' with Jacques-Yves Cousteau.…
September 8, 2009
September Scientiae is up on Journeys of an Academic
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 51 are up on Medic 999
September 8, 2009
Dinosaur fossils have been dug out for a couple of centuries now. They have been cleaned up and mounted in museums and described in papers and monographs. The way this is all done has evolved over time - the early techniques were pretty crude compared to what palaeontologists do today. One of the…
September 8, 2009
And blog from there? For the Quark expedition!
The voting has been going on for quite a while now, but now we are in the final stretch. There are several hundred contestants, but only the top few vote-getters have a chance (they also need to pass an in-person interview).
The voting is well…
September 7, 2009
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep,
will make me sleep again;
and then, in dreaming,
the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me;
that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
- William Shakespeare
September 7, 2009
I am superhappy with my brand new Homepage. So now I want to do all sorts of fixin' around here.
The About page was horrendously out-dated so I did some quick fixes and edits to make it a little less embarrassing, though it probably needs a complete rethinking and rewriting from scratch one of…
September 7, 2009
Zombies of the mammoth steppes. Read it now. Can you find something as riveting, yet scholarly and trustworthy, in your newspaper today?
September 7, 2009
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove. Or you can remind yourself by checking this, this, this, this and this.
If you came to ScienceOnline09 (or followed virtually) you will remember that she co-moderated two sessions there: Open Access in the networked world:…
September 6, 2009
All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
- Peter M. Leschak
September 6, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 340 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
September 5, 2009
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
- Peter De Vries
September 5, 2009
As you've all already heard, Scienceblogs.com is thinking about introducing some new technical functionalities, including some community-building gadgets.
Now, you should go to this post on Page 3.14 and give your feedback. There is a poll there that you can do - it is a little unusual: you vote…
September 5, 2009
Drumroll, please*....
Check out my brand new and unique HOMEPAGE!!!!
I never had a homepage before. I never made a static web-page in my life. I made blogs. I made many, many blogs. And I always used my main blog (this one since summer of 2006) as my homepage. But now that I am all over the place,…
September 5, 2009
Oh, did I tell you that Leonard Cohen will be in Durham in November? Yes, that Leonard Cohen whose music I grew up with?
Yes, I bought the tickets as soon as it was possible and will go to DPAC on November 3rd to hear him live. Finally!!!
I heard that his concert in Belgrade was magical and…
September 5, 2009
From Sigma Xi:
Greetings everyone. Here's hoping that summer treated you kindly and that you are ready to dive back into American Scientist magazine's annual Pizza Lunch speaker series. We begin this year at noon, Thursday, Sept. 24 at Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society here in Research…
September 5, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 340 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
September 4, 2009
We have entered the era of the imperial former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
- Lawton Chiles
