March 19, 2009
Missing Piece Of Plant Clock Found:
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have identified a key protein that links the morning and evening components of the daily biological clock of plants. Their discovery, detailed in the March 13 issue of Science, solves a longstanding puzzle…
March 18, 2009
If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
- Leon Trotsky
March 18, 2009
Tomorrow's Nature has a nice, long article about the plight of science journalism and the potential role of science blogs in filling the void as science journalists are laid off and the news-media are going bankrupt and shutting down.
No commentary for me about it yet today - I hope others will…
March 18, 2009
There are 11 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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
March 18, 2009
It really helps the Open Lab project if a lot of people have handy little 'submit to Open Lab' buttons/badges on their side-bars. More blogs have it, the better. Just one click, and the entry is submitted (instead of coming here and searching for the link).
So, I asked for new button designs and…
March 18, 2009
Here are the submissions to date. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts:
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A Blog Around The Clock: Circadian Rhythm of Aggression in Crayfish
A Blog Around The Clock: Co-Researching spaces for Freelance Scientists?
A Blog Around The Clock…
March 18, 2009
Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America:
Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers who have discovered the smallest dinosaur species on…
March 17, 2009
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
- Desiderius Erasmus
March 17, 2009
Thanks to reader Paul for this tip - what an amazing piece of history: an instructional movie from the Sputnik Era, explaining why one should study science. Many of the arguments have not changed since then, though the details of sciences and technologies used in the film are very different. The…
March 17, 2009
Daniel Brown has written quite a nice post about science blogging, what it is, what it is for, and why one should read (and write) science blogs:
Science Blogging: The Future of Science Communication & Why You Should be a Part of it:
Over the past few years, a new development has arisen in the…
March 17, 2009
Those of you who were at ScienceOnline'09 already know this, because the news was first announced there, but now it is official - we have a new addition to ScienceBlogs.com: along with the English-language and German-language networks, we now also have the Portuguese-language network!
Please…
March 17, 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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
March 17, 2009
If you have been reading my blog for years, you may remember this passage:
I have seen "Fiddler on the Roof" on stage more than 20 times in my life, starting at about the age of seven. Since I was about 24, I saw the movie a few times. I have had, over the years, LPs, tapes and CDs of several…
March 17, 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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
March 17, 2009
Encephalon #66 is up on Ionian Enchantment
Carnival of the Green #171 is up on The Enobling Journey
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 26 are up on ACP Internist
March 17, 2009
Young Dinosaurs Roamed Together, Died Together:
A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the site in the Gobi Desert in western Inner Mongolia.
Female Birds…
March 16, 2009
I don't understand why Obama is abandoning the War on Science. It's the only war we were winning.
- John Oliver, on The Daily Show
March 16, 2009
The Implications of Multiple Circadian Clock Origins:
In the Beginning...
Genetics has had an awesome impact on our understanding of basic processes like circadian rhythms, which were mysterious before the incredibly successful marriage between genetics and recombinant DNA technology about 30 years…
March 16, 2009
Yesss!!! I know lots of people, especially in math, physics, engineering and computational biology have been yearning for this for a while. And, starting today, you can submit manuscripts to PLoS ONE in LaTeX. Read the formatting instructions carefully, then submit.
The first article submitted in…
March 16, 2009
From SCONC:
Tuesday, March 31
6:30 p.m.
"Life after Darwin: Are there still big discoveries to be made in biology?" NC State ecologist Rob Dunn continues the NC Museum of Natural Science's Charles Darwin Lecture Series. Free lecture; doors open at 6. Museum of Natural Science, downtown Raleigh.…
March 16, 2009
Big, big congratulations to Dorothea Salo for getting the richly deserved Advocates-Movers & Shakers 2009 award!!!
As digital repository librarian at the UW-Madison Library, all Dorothea Salo's computer knowledge is self-taught, leading to a "rough and ready" approach to making things work.…
March 16, 2009
Children As Young As Preschoolers Tend To Follow Majority Opinion:
When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of "following the crowd"? In a new report in Psychological Science…
March 16, 2009
You know I am very interested in the way the Web is changing the workplace, in many instances eliminating the need for having a physical office.
Michael Rosenblum appears to feel the same way about it:
Two years ago, we began a very interesting experiment with a major cable provider.
We built and…
March 16, 2009
July 24, 2008 presentation by Stephen Schneider for the Stanford University Office of Science Outreach's Summer Science Lecture Series.
Professor Schneider discusses the local, regional, and international actions that are already beginning to address global warming and describe other actions that…
March 15, 2009
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Orson…
March 15, 2009
From SCONC:
Wednesday, March 25
7 p.m.
"Something for the Pain: One Doctor's Account of Life and Death in the ER," a book reading and discussion by author Paul Austin, MD hosted by the American Medical Writers Association, Carolinas Chapter. Austin, a former firefighter who is now an emergency room…
March 15, 2009
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
March 15, 2009
You must have been sleeping if you have missed SciCurious' post Friday Weird Science: Condoms and 'Blunt Puncture' the other day. If you missed it - go now and read it.
But, the comment section also produced the idea that Sci should do an anonymous survey of the readers who have experienced condom…
March 15, 2009
The Giant's Shoulders #9 are now up on The Evilutionary Biologist
Four Stone Hearth #62 is up on Osteologiska föreningen
The 94th Carnival of Space is up on Out of the Cradle
Friday Ark #234 is up on Modulator
March 15, 2009
Dave Winer called up Jay Rosen and interviewed him about the potential of twitter-like platforms to become a news/journalistic medium. Listen to the podcast here. Join the discussion here.
Related: What does twitter mean for breaking news stories?
On Thursday morning (US Pacific Time), March 12,…
