May 6, 2010
There are 16 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, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
May 6, 2010
Our May Science Café (description below) will be held on Tuesday 5/18 at Tir Na Nog on S. Blount Street. This year there has been an incredible amount of geologic activity around the world. During this cafe we will be talking about volcanoes and earthquakes and how these and other forces have…
May 5, 2010
This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the…
May 5, 2010
There are 37 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, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
May 4, 2010
It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.
- Dr. Frank N. Furter
May 4, 2010
Today, four of seven PLoS journals published new articles. I took a look and picked (under the fold) those I found interesting and/or 'bloggable'. 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…
May 3, 2010
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
May 3, 2010
Last week I went to Sigma Xi to hear Dennis Meredith speak about Explaining Research. I posted my summary of his talk over on Science In The Triangle blog so click on over.....
May 3, 2010
Carnival of the Blue #36 is up on Observations of a Nerd.
Circus of the Spineless #50 is up on Arthropoda.
Scientia Pro Publica #28 is up on Mauka to Makai.
May 3, 2010
There are 32 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, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
May 3, 2010
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
May 3, 2010
The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions for submitting are here.
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A Blog Around The Clock: What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?
A Blog Around The Clock:…
May 2, 2010
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
- Don Marquis
May 2, 2010
... was just announced!
May 2, 2010
Carnival of Evolution #23 is up on Evolution: Education and Outreach official blog.
Festival of the Trees 47 is live at Nature's Whispers.
May 1, 2010
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Dr Samuel Johnson
May 1, 2010
In ten days, new Periodic Tables:
May 11, 2010 at 7:00 P.M.
The Importance of Being Dad: Paternal Care in Primates
Although human males often get criticized for being "deadbeat dads", the truth is that compared to most mammals, human males are simply outstanding fathers. Join us as Dr. Susan…
May 1, 2010
Dynamically Programmable Alarm Clock:
Though it ignores biology - the sleep cycles (which some alarm clocks now measure and use) - this is nifty nonetheless.
May 1, 2010
I posted 153 times in April.
First, importantly, I again committed scienceblogging in April, with the post Evolutionary Medicine: Does reindeer have a circadian stop-watch instead of a clock?.
April focus appears to be Twitter - hence two posts specifically about it: Twittering is a difficult art…
April 30, 2010
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
- Dr Joyce Brothers
April 30, 2010
James Hrynyshyn has renamed and moved his blog, Island Of Doubt to a new place, still here on scienceblogs.com, Class: M. Adjust your bookmarks and subscriptions.
April 30, 2010
I And The Bird #124 is up on Birds, Words, & Websites.
Berry Go Round #27 is up on A Neotropical Savanna.
Four Stone Hearth: Number 91 is up on Sexy Archaeology.
The latest Change of Shift - Vol. 4, Number 22 - is up at Emergiblog.
Friday Ark #293 is up on Modulator.
April 29, 2010
Man always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
- Douglas Noel Adams
April 29, 2010
Introducing Beaker, inspired by our panel at AAAS a couple of months ago. Go take a look.
April 29, 2010
Four out of seven PLoS journals published new articles today. Under the fold are those I personallyt found most interesting and/or 'bloggable'. 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…
April 29, 2010
Alice Wilder (@alicewilder) - Psychologist and maker of Kidos, Blues Clues, Super Why and Think It Ink It
Beth Blecherman (@techmama) - Cofounder of SiliconValleyMoms and Editor CoolMomTech
Maya Bisineer (@thinkmaya) - founder of @memetales
Stephanie Aaronson (@SAGalluch) - Senior Director, PBS…
April 29, 2010
Marc Sirkin (@autismspeaks) - Chief Community Officer, Autism Speaks
Ray Chambers (@Malaria_Envoy) - The United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Malaria
Stefanie Michaels (@adventuregirl) - Travel Expert:
April 28, 2010
I have always been waiting for something better - sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.
- Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
April 28, 2010
Andy Dixon (@andydixn) - ex-convict with convictions stopping cycle generational incarceration, spent 27 years in prison.
twittterer/singer/songwriter/author Geo Geller (@geogeller) - Artist, Photographer, Humanitarian
April 28, 2010
There are 31 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, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
