clock | May 16, 2010This is one of the four TED videos we showed (according to the TED rules a TEDx has to show original TED videos as a certain percentage of the program) at TEDxRTP back in March:
When The Bride Of Coturnix posted this video on her Facebook Wall, she added this little note: "People often ask me what, exactly, Bora does for a living. This is the closest answer. The 'for a living' part is a bit of a gray area..." LOL
clock | May 16, 2010
I got this video from Orac's blog where an interesting comment thread is developing. This also goes against those who lament the "echo chambers" but those tend to be the same people who write HeSaidSheSaid articles every day - they live in a binary world where only "who wins the two-horse horserace" matters and anything more sophisticated than that is 'elitist' and to be ignored as 'outside of mainstream' which - the mainstream - they, the savvy Villagers with nice hairdos on TV, get to define.
clock | May 15, 2010Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart; one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
- Edgar Allan Poe
clock | May 14, 2010I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11
clock | May 14, 2010There are 23 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
The Microcephalin Ancestral Allele in a Neanderthal Individual:
The high frequency (around 0.70 worlwide) and the relatively young age (between 14,000 and 62,000 years) of a derived group of haplotypes,…
clock | May 14, 2010The latest edition of Change of Shift is up at The Muse, RN.
I and the Bird #125 is up on The Twin Cities Naturalist.
Friday Ark #295 is up on Modulator.
clock | May 13, 2010Thursday afternoon is the time when four out of seven PLoS journals publishe new articles and I pick those I find interesting myself. 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Cardiorespiratory Phase-Coupling Is Reduced in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea:
Cardiac and respiratory rhythms…
clock | May 13, 2010Continuing 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' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Tom Linden from the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Tell us a little more about your career trajectory so far: interesting projects past and present?
My passion always has…
clock | May 13, 2010Four Stone Hearth #92 is up on Sorting Out Science.
Carnival of Space #153 is up on Cumbrian Sky.
clock | May 12, 2010Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
- Earl Nightingale
clock | May 12, 2010There are 24 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Evidence for Emulation in Chimpanzees in Social Settings Using the Floating Peanut Task:
It is still unclear which observational learning mechanisms underlie the transmission of difficult problem-solving…
clock | May 12, 2010Continuing 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' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Tyler Dukes to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is your (scientific) background?
I…