January 20, 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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
January 20, 2009
Do we really have a new President? After eight dreary years, it's hard to believe it's possible. But here is the video documentation - it seems to be true!
January 20, 2009
Hourglass VII, the monthly carnival of the biology of aging, is up at brain health hacks
Grand Rounds 5:18: Ten Suggestions For Healthcare Reform, hosted by Dr.Val, now available on MedPage Today
January 20, 2009
Last year, the only snow day in the Triangle was January 20th. I remember, because a number of locals could not drive to the 2nd Science Blogging Conference. This year we were wiser so we organized it a few days early. And, lo and behold, on January 20th this year, we had snow again:
This was…
January 19, 2009
Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
- George Matthew Adams
January 19, 2009
Today, most of the ScienceOnline09 participants are either traveling home or trying to recover. While many managed to blog or liveblog during the conference, as well as discuss the conference on FriendFeed or Twitter and post pictures on Flickr, others have a different mode: taking some time to…
January 19, 2009
Just because I was busy with the conference does not meen that PLoS stopped the virtual presses to accommodate me! Of course, there are a bunch of cool new papers in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS ONE that have been published last week. As always, you should rate…
January 19, 2009
The Giants' Shoulders #7 is up on The Questionable Authority
Encephalon #62 is up on The Mouse Trap
Gene Genie #42 is up on Genetic Future
Friday Ark #226 is up on Modulator
Carnival of the Green #163 is up on SustainaBee
January 19, 2009
Humans Are Reason For Why Domestic Animals Have Such Strange And Varied Coat Colors:
You notice it in your everyday life, the bewildering diversity in coat colour among our pigs, dogs and other domestic animals. This stark contrasts with the uniformity of colour within wild animals. A new study on…
January 18, 2009
Connections, kids!
- Miss Frizzle
January 18, 2009
ScienceOnline09 is over, people are going home, and the online coverage so far appears to be very positive. I hope that conversations started at the conference continue, online and offline.
In the meantime, if you have participated either in RealLife or virtually, and while the memories are still…
January 18, 2009
And here is what bloggers wrote so far today:
The Logical Operator: Not-so-live blogging Science Online '09
The Logical Operator: Science Fiction on Science Blogs - Science Online '09, Day 1
The End Of The Pier Show: Lines Written At 1.20 am ET Sunday 18 January
The End Of The Pier Show:…
January 17, 2009
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
- Charles Darwin
January 17, 2009
Too tired (and it's too late) to write anything myself....but others have done it:
Sciencewomen: Overwhelmed at ScienceOnline 2009
Sciencewomen: Open Access publishing at ScienceOnline 2009
Sciencewomen: Alice's gender and science session: How can we be allies?
Sciencewomen: ScienceOnline09: The…
January 16, 2009
What a phenomenon it has been - science fiction, space fiction - exploding out of nowhere, unexpectedly of course, as always happens when the human mind is being forced to expand; this time starwards, galaxy-wise, and who knows where next.
- Doris Lessing
January 16, 2009
ScienceOnline09 is in full swing. I don't have much time and opportunity to go online, as you may have noticed - so many old friends to hug! Already a full day behind us - a lovely dinner at Town Hall Grill last night, Coffee Cupping this morning, Lab Tours in the afternoon (I went to the North…
January 16, 2009
Primate Culture Is Just A Stone's Throw Away From Human Evolution, Study Finds:
For 30 years, scientists have been studying stone-handling behavior in several troops of Japanese macaques to catch a unique glimpse of primate culture. By watching these monkeys acquire and maintain behavioral…
January 15, 2009
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
January 15, 2009
Praxis #6 is up on Podblack Cat
January 15, 2009
High-tech Imaging Of Inner Ear Sheds Light On Hearing, Behavior Of Oldest Fossil Bird:
The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature -- despite its reptilian teeth and long tail -- was…
January 15, 2009
I get e-mails about such events, so I thought I'd share, so you can attend some of these talks if you want:
NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott will be speaking twice in North Carolina shortly.
First, at 7:00 p.m. on January 27, she will be speaking on "Darwin's Legacy in Science and Society…
January 15, 2009
Four Stone Hearth (58th Edition) is up on Moneduloides
Skeptics' Circle #103 is up on Bug Girl's Blog
January 14, 2009
Dullard, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy, have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The…
January 14, 2009
Can't say "welcome a new SciBling" because he's not new! PalMD is now flying solo! He moved out of the fraternity house and rented his own house: White Coat Underground. Go say Hello, bookmark, susbcribe, update your feeds, whatever you like to do, but keep reading Pal.
January 14, 2009
The interest in the conference was overwhelming this year. When we opened the registration back in September we did not expect that we would have to close it in less than three weeks, already over our maximal number of 200. As a result, our waitlist got bigger and bigger and, occasionally, as…
January 14, 2009
It's here. The first traveling participants are arriving tomorrow! Anywhere between 200 and 240 people are expected at any given time during the three days of the conference, with another 60+ people, regrettably, remaining on the waitlist even after some last-minute cancellations allowed us to…
January 14, 2009
Voracious Sponges In Underwater Caves Save Reefs:
Tropical oceans are known as the deserts of the sea. And yet this unlikely environment is the very place where the rich and fertile coral reef grows. Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ensure the reef's…
January 14, 2009
Carnival of the Liberals # 82 is up on Accidental Blogger
The 159th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Alasandra's Homeschool Blog
January 13, 2009
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard David Bach
January 13, 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…
