April 6, 2009
Babies Born To Women With Anxiety Or Depression Are More Likely To Sleep Poorly:
A study in the April 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that babies are more likely to have night wakings at both 6 months and 12 months of age if they are born to women who suffered from anxiety or depression prior…
April 5, 2009
This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
- Shaquille O'Neal
April 5, 2009
One of the (many) motivations for writing the epic post about New Journalism last week was to try to end once for all the entire genre of discussing the "bloggers vs. journalists" trope.
I have collected the responses to the piece here and it is quite flattering that the post got hat-tips from…
April 5, 2009
Jay Rosen tweets:
New method: slow blogging at PressThink, daily mindcasting at Twitter, work room at FriendFeed. Example: post in gestation http://is.gd/okca
This is how I understand that:
Step 1 is mindcasting on Twitter (often misunderstood for time-wasting lifecasting, e.g., this), Step 2 is…
April 5, 2009
I know everyone and their grandmother has already posted this. But, if there is going to be a virally spread internet meme, this one is much better than most:
April 4, 2009
Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
- Patty Sheehan
April 4, 2009
April Scientiae is up on Candid Engineer in Academia
Friday Ark #237 is up on Modulator
April 4, 2009
No Sponge In Human Family Tree: Sponges Descended From Unique Ancestor:
Since the days of Charles Darwin, researchers are interested in reconstructing the "Tree of Life", and in understanding the development of animal and plant species during their evolutionary history. In the case of vertebrates…
April 3, 2009
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
- Duke of Edinburgh
April 3, 2009
So, let's see what's new in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS ONE this week. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own…
April 3, 2009
The 2008 anthology was noted in the American Scientist's Bookshelf yesterday!
Here are the 2009 submissions to date and, below them, codes for Submission buttons. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts:
A Blog Around The Clock: Circadian Rhythm of Aggression in…
April 3, 2009
Sleep May Help Clear Brain For New Learning:
A new theory about sleep's benefits for the brain gets a boost from fruit flies in the journal Science. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found evidence that sleep, already recognized as a promoter of long-term…
April 2, 2009
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
April 2, 2009
Look what came in the mail yesterday! The Art and Politics of Science by Harold Varmus and, since he is in some way my boss, with a very nice personal inscription inside the cover. I am excited and already started reading it.
And speaking o Varmus, he seems to be everywhere. See this article in…
April 2, 2009
I posted 239 posts in March.
The best post of the month, IMHO, is Defining the Journalism vs. Blogging Debate, with a Science Reporting angle which is now slowly accumulating comments as well as links from various places online.
My second-best post was the in-depth review of Fiddler On The Roof…
April 2, 2009
Chris Mooney knows what he's talking about: The Push for Restarting the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment:
I'm starting to detect some buzz on this very important front, which I wrote about in detail in 2005's The Republican War on Science and elsewhere. Basically, the story is this: In…
April 2, 2009
Nicholas Kristof from the New York Times has written a blog entry about pneumonia being under recognized on the global health agenda, in the media and by people in industrialized countries. Many people don't know that pneumonia kills more children than malaria, measles and AIDS combined:
It's been…
April 2, 2009
Peter Suber: A field guide to misunderstandings about open access:
The woods are full of misunderstandings about OA. They thrive in almost every habitat, and the population soars whenever a major institution adopts an OA policy. Contact between new developments and new observers who haven't…
April 2, 2009
Nice four articles:
The Gears of the Sleep Clock By Allan Pack:
When people have trouble sleeping--such as, in extreme cases, shift workers--those problems are not always rooted in disturbances in circadian rhythm, argues the University of Pennsylvania's ALLAN PACK. Instead, his studies of sleep…
April 2, 2009
Carnival of the Arid #3 is up on
Coyote Crossing
I and the Bird #97 is up on Great Auk - or Greatest Auk?
Festival of the Trees #34 is up on The Marvelous in Nature
Berry Go Round #15 is up on A Neotropical Savanna
April 2, 2009
Mother's Criticism Causes Distinctive Neural Activity Among Formerly Depressed:
Formerly depressed women show patterns of brain activity when they are criticized by their mothers that are distinctly different from the patterns shown by never depressed controls, according to a new study from…
April 1, 2009
But even in wartime, the Constitution doesn't protect just freedom of popular speech, or the right to support the government, or the expression of political views that don't make anyone mad.
- Steve Chapman
April 1, 2009
Carnival of Evolution #10 is up on Oyster's Garter
Change of Shift: Volume Three, No. 20 is up on Emergiblog
April 1, 2009
The winner has just been announced - you will need to click to see who it is!
April 1, 2009
Genetic Basis For Migration In Monarch Butterflies Uncovered:
Scientists studying Eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have uncovered a suite of genes that may be involved in driving the butterflies to migrate towards Mexico for the winter. Their research describes 40 genes…
March 31, 2009
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 31, 2009
You really need to go to a PLoS ONE paper and take a look - we have done some nifty home remodeling ;-)
What is really new and important is that there are all sorts of article-level metrics on each paper. The same goes for all the other TOPAZ-based PLoS journals (i.e., all but PLoS Biology - you…
March 31, 2009
Encephalon #67 is up on Neuroskeptic
Podcast Of The Blue #1 is up on Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 28 are up on Running a hospital
Carnival of the Green #173 is up on Eco Joe's
Friday Ark #236 is up on Modulator
March 31, 2009
Month Of Conception Linked To Birth Defects In United States:
A study published in the April 2009 issue of the medical journal Acta Pædiatrica is the first to report that birth defect rates in the United States were highest for women conceiving in the spring and summer.
Action Video Games Improve…
March 30, 2009
When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
