June 16, 2009
There are 20 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
June 16, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 160 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…
June 16, 2009
Yup, I know this comes from our 'competition', the Science magazine, but it is a worthy cause:
The Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) has been established to encourage innovation and excellence in education, as well as to encourage the use of high-quality on-line resources by…
June 16, 2009
The Giant's Shoulders #12 is up on thoughts from gut bacteria
Scientia Pro Publica 6 is up on Mauka to Makai
The latest Grand Rounds are up on ACP Internist
June 15, 2009
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
- Mark Yost
June 15, 2009
Poor Sleep Is Associated With Lower Relationship Satisfaction In Both Women And Men:
A bidirectional association exists between couples' sleep quality and the quality of their relationship, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd…
June 15, 2009
There are 18 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
June 15, 2009
The June edition of Accretionary Wedge: Let's Do a Time Warp! is up on Outside the Interzone
Boneyard returns at When Pigs Fly Returns
CARNIVAL OF THE GREEN #184! is up on The Conservation Report
June 14, 2009
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
June 14, 2009
Follow me on Twitter and you'll see this stream (to see more than one-sided conversation, search me there as well and check if there are comments on FriendFeed):
RT @ljthornton Students: Roughly 2 hours of tweets from "student living in Tehran," 22: http://bit.ly/wVpJl
#CNNFail: Twitterverse slams…
June 13, 2009
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn
- A. Toffler
June 13, 2009
Hmm, I usually do this on Fridays, but I was busy. So here is a Saturday sampler of papers from all seven PLoS journals published last 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…
June 13, 2009
He is the BBC's latest star - the cab driver who a leading presenter believed was a world expert on the internet music business.
The man stepped unwittingly into the national spotlight when he was interviewed by mistake on the corporation's News 24 channel.
With the seconds ticking down to a studio…
June 13, 2009
...in embedding FriendFeed conversations in a blog post:
June 13, 2009
The 92nd Edition of Carnival of the Liberals is up on OBAMA ACTION COMICS!
Friday Ark #247 is up on Modulator
June 13, 2009
Female Water Striders Expose Their Genitalia Only After Males 'Sing':
Chang Seok Han and Piotr Jablonski at Seoul National University, Korea have found that by evolving a morphological shield to protect their genitalia from males' forceful copulatory attempts, females of an Asian species of water…
June 12, 2009
There is nothing good about blindly abiding to certain paradigms, simply because you were instructed by authoritative figures from the stages of infancy to do so ...
- Vanesh Naidoo
June 12, 2009
There are 15 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
June 12, 2009
Sorry, could not resist posting this:
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June 11, 2009
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
June 11, 2009
There are 16 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
June 11, 2009
I And The Bird #102 is up on Birder's Lounge
June edition of Change of Shift is up on Florence dot com
Grand Rounds, Volume 5, Number 38 are up on The Jobbing Doctor
And there are only a couple of days left until the next Giant's Shoulders, so try to write and send in something appropriate on…
June 11, 2009
Circadian Rhythm: How Cells Tell Time:
The fuzzy pale mold that lines the glass tubes in Dr. Yi Liu's lab doesn't look much like a clock. But this fungus has an internal, cell-based timekeeper nearly as sophisticated as a human's, allowing UT Southwestern Medical Center physiologists to study…
June 10, 2009
If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)
- Ronald Wilson Reagan
June 10, 2009
As the boundaries between formal and informal scientific communication is blurring - think of pre-print sites, Open Notebook Science and blogs, for starters - the issue of what is citable and how it should be cited is becoming more and more prominent.
There is a very interesting discussion on this…
June 10, 2009
I know, this video is three years old, but it's cool anyway:
June 10, 2009
There are 17 new articles in PLoS ONE today. 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
June 10, 2009
I guess that is it's purpose. The very first pic I took with the new iPhone. Around the corner here in Chapel Hill.
June 10, 2009
From SCONC:
Science Cafe
July 14, 2009 | 7:00 P.M.
Uncovering the Mysteries of Human Fertility: On Sex, Fertile Days, and Why the Rabbit Dies
Speaker: Allen Wilcox, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Everyone knows where babies come from, but few people appreciate the extraordinary…
