January 8, 2009
My year of flossing:
I flossed again last night.
I'm still waiting for that sense of ambient smugness (my loose translation here of arete, at least as it relates to the Artistotelian aspects of oral hygiene) that usually accompanies my occasional forays into a life of virtue. I think back here to…
January 8, 2009
Starting tomorrow at 1pm EST and lasting through most of Saturday (or until it's done), scienceblogs.com will be undergoing an upgrade to MoveableType4, specially fitted by SixApart for the gigantic network we have here.
What does it mean to you, the readers, and to us, the bloggers?
We will not be…
January 8, 2009
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…
January 8, 2009
Continuing with highlighting sessions at the conference - take a look at this one: Nature blogging
This session is moderated by Grrrlscientist and Kevin Zelnio:
Take your camera outdoors and bring your local natural beauty and wildlife to the homes of your readers. Add information about it. Join…
January 8, 2009
From: SCONC
Tuesday, Jan. 20
6:30 p.m.
Science Cafe, Raleigh - "Supernovae: The Violent Deaths of Stars"
Stephen Reynolds, professor of physics at NC State University, discusses the violent deaths of mega-stars ... in space, that is. We are quite literally made of star stuff as a result. Reynolds…
January 8, 2009
Polarized Light Leads Animals Astray: 'Ecological Traps' Cause Animal Behaviors That Can Lead To Death:
Human-made light sources can alter natural light cycles, causing animals that rely on light cues to make mistakes when moving through their environment. In the journal Frontiers in Ecology and…
January 7, 2009
History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells 'can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.
- John W. Campbell Jr
January 7, 2009
From Blog For Darwin:
February 12th-15th, 2009 participating bloggers around the world will be celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth (February 12th, 1809) with a BLOG SWARM, in which posts will be aggregated on BLOG FOR DARWIN to be kept as a resource for educators, students, and…
January 7, 2009
Christina Pikas gave an interesting talk recently with the title: Detecting Communities in Science Blogs:
Detecting Communities in Science Blogs
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: communication scholarly)
What she did was perform an analysis of link connections between science…
January 7, 2009
Responses by political, med- and science-bloggers range between mild optimism, meh and yikes:
Can Gupta Manage?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General? Yawn.
I'm not so sure about this pick
Orac on Gupta
Gupta for Surgeon General? Cool.
Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General? Here's My Gripe
Sanjay Gupta…
January 7, 2009
There are 10 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 7, 2009
Mendel's Garden No. 27 is up on Another Blasted Weblog
The latest Carnival of Education is up on Right Wing Nation
January 7, 2009
There are still some free spots, if you are coming to the Conference on Friday, for some of the Lab Tours (all at 3-4pm):
You can visit the Duke University Smart Home:
Check out the $2 million Smart Home, a living lab and dormitory for ten Duke students to live relatively sustainable and super…
January 7, 2009
Wonderful Cheese Is All In The Culture:
An international research team led by Newcastle University has identified a new line of bacteria they believe add flavour to some of the world's most exclusive cheeses.
Big, Old Mice Spread Deadly Hantavirus:
University of Utah researchers dusted wild deer…
January 6, 2009
Sometimes I reflect back on all the beer I have consumed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I…
January 6, 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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
January 6, 2009
Just check out this list - PLoS ONE papers are apparently on everybody's 'Best of 2008' lists these days. Now, that is impact!
January 6, 2009
From SCONC:
Tuesday, Jan. 13
7 p.m.
Periodic Tables -- "Buzzed: Using Fruit Flies to Understand Alcohol Addiction." The Science Cafe of Durham features Duke freshman Kapil Ramachandran, who won national recognition at age 16 for his work on the Diazepam binding inhibitor, a protein that apparently…
January 6, 2009
15th Monthly edition of the blog carnival Linnaeus' Legacy is up on Greg Laden's blog.
Grand Rounds Vol.5 No.16 are up on Edwin Leap.
Carnival of Homeschool: Week 158 - The 3rd Anniversary is up on Why Homeschool
January 6, 2009
Power Of Wilderness Experiences As A Catalyst For Change In Young Offenders:
Researchers in the University of Essex's Centre for Environment and Society have been working with young offenders from Essex to help them turn their lives around. Professor Jules Pretty, Jo Barton and Rachel Hine were…
January 6, 2009
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Remember that every satire has to contain a grain of truth....
January 5, 2009
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
- Jane E. Brody
January 5, 2009
Hotel Scienceblogs, that is. Do you remember David Dobbs and the blog Smooth Pebbles here on Sb? Well, David left the Borg, blogged for a while at his own non-Sb version of Smooth Pebbles and now he's back - with a new blog and a new title - Neuron Culture.
Welcome back, SciBling!
January 5, 2009
20th Carnival of the Blue is up on Biomes Blog
Carnival of the Green #161 is up on Tao of Change (a blog very local to me, here in Carrboro, NC).
Cabinet of Curiosities #12 is up on Walking the Berkshires
Edition #12 of Berry-Go-Round is up on Foothills Fancies
Festival of the Trees # 31 is up on…
January 5, 2009
The next edition of Praxis will be arriving on January 15th 2009 at Pod Black Cat.
The 7th edition of The Giant's Shoulders will be held on January 15th 2009 at The Questionable Authority.
Start submitting your entries.
January 5, 2009
Journey Of A Green Turtle From Indonesia Into Australian Opens Mystery Of 'oceanic Superhighway':
The remarkable journey of a green turtle from Indonesia into Australian waters is helping conservationists to track the migratory route of this species to the Kimberley-Pilbara coast - one of the few…
January 4, 2009
Tis the reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is…
January 4, 2009
Anne-Marie Hodge, the author of the delightful blog Pondering Pikaia has just started a new blog on the Nature Network and named it Endless Forms.
The Dispersal of Darwin has moved from Blogger to Wordpress, so please adjust your bookmarks and feeds for both of them.
January 4, 2009
2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species, so a lot of organizations are going full steam in promoting science, evolution and the history of science this year. Here are some of the examples:
The New Scientist has published…
