February 2, 2009
From the Regulator Bookshop:
Time: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Location: Regulator Bookshop
Title of Event: Rob Dunn
NCSU ecology professor Rob Dunn will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys.…
February 2, 2009
How A Brain Chemical Changes Locusts From Harmless Grasshoppers To Swarming Pests:
Scientists have uncovered the underlying biological reason why locusts form migrating swarms. Their findings, reported in today's edition of Science, could be used in the future to prevent the plagues which…
February 1, 2009
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he…
February 1, 2009
Podcast of this morning's radio show is now up - you can listen to it here.
We covered ScienceOnline09, including its history, several individual sessions and underlying themes, the changes in science communication and journalism and more. A brief plug for PLoS at the beginning. Answered a couple…
February 1, 2009
Long-time readers of this blog remember that, some years ago, I did a nifty little study on the Influence of Light Cycle on Dominance Status and Aggression in Crayfish. The department has moved to a new building, the crayfish lab is gone, I am out of science, so chances of following up on that…
February 1, 2009
Carnival of the Arid #1 is up on Coyote Crossing. Get all your deserted bloggy goodness all in one place.
A new carnival is in the making - Diversity in Science - covering the minorities in science and engineering. February being the Black History Month, the inaugural edition of the carnival will…
February 1, 2009
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February 1, 2009
Bird Song Discoveries May Lead To Refinement Of Darwinian Theory:
For Williams College biology professor Heather Williams, the songs birds sing are more than a pleasant part of a spring day. They are a window into how communication works in the natural world. A birdsong is more than just an…
January 31, 2009
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
- Robert Peel
January 31, 2009
Emerging Model Organisms:
All exciting, but of course, I got it for the chapter on Japanese Quail. The protocol desribes how to make a transgenic quail. It sounds easy on paper. A few years back I took a graduate class and we spent the entire semester going through all the steps needed to make a…
January 31, 2009
Hubs on Nature Network are multiplying. First, there was a Boston hub, then a London hub, and now a brand new New York City hub. Toronto and Berlin are itching to be the next.
On the other hand, the Research Triangle group is still pretty small. I think it's due to a different geography. Boston,…
January 31, 2009
...but some people knew waaay back then that news will, one day, move from expensive paper to cheap internet:
From here
TechCrunch surfaced this look at a story that ran back in 1981 that covered
how internet news would someday be delivered. At least watch the last 30 seconds. The reporter remarks…
January 31, 2009
Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott.
Written at this time.
January 31, 2009
The very first blog carnival was conceived right here, in Chapel Hill, some four-five years ago or so. Since then, the idea took off and there are now thousands of blog carnivals, some generalist, some regional, but most are topical with topics ranging from food to sports to politics. But,…
January 31, 2009
Circus of the Spineless is back! Under the new management of Kevin Zelnio, this lovely carnival will re-start this month.
The next edition will be this Monday, February 2nd, on The Other 95% so send in your entries (kzelnio at gmail dot com) on all things invertebrate, anything carnival-worthy that…
January 31, 2009
skippy and Jonn Swift and Blue Gal are spearheading the Blogroll Amnesty Day (read the detailed instructions in there) again this year.
This weekend, a long weekend starting today and lasting four days, you are supposed to use the above logo, link to the Blogroll Amnesty Day post and link to five…
January 31, 2009
Berry Go Round #13 is up on Watching the World Wake Up
January 31, 2009
Dinosaur Fossils Fit Perfectly Into The Evolutionary Tree Of Life, Study Finds:
A recent study by researchers at the University of Bath and London's Natural History Museum has found that scientists' knowledge of the evolution of dinosaurs is remarkably complete.
Global Warming Fix? Some Of Earth's…
January 30, 2009
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
January 30, 2009
Check out Element Displays, including The Element Collection and Interactive Installations. Each page is also interactive - keep clicking for more information.
January 30, 2009
...to tune in in the morning.
January 30, 2009
There are 14 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…
January 30, 2009
Carnival of Evolution #8 is up on Biochemicalsoul
The fifty-ninth Four Stone Hearth is up on A Very Remote Period Indeed
Friday Ark #228 is up on Modulator
January 30, 2009
From NESCENT:
Carl Zimmer
"Darwin and Beyond: How Evolution Is Evolving"
February 12, 2009
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Talk Overview: Charles Darwin launched the modern science of evolution, but he hardly had the last word. In fact, today scientists are discovering that evolution works in ways Darwin himself…
January 30, 2009
How Does A Dog Walk? Surprisingly, Many Of Us Don't Really Know:
Despite the fact that most of us see our four-legged friends walking around every day, most of us-including many experts in natural history museums and illustrators for veterinary anatomy text books-apparently still don't know how…
January 29, 2009
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
- Nathan M. Pusey
January 29, 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…
