clock | August 11, 2008Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
clock | August 11, 2008For those of you who have enjoyed Kevin's herpetology dispatches from China two years ago, you may want to go over to the FieldHerpForum.com and read his reports from this year's trip.
clock | August 11, 2008Elephant Memories May Hold Key To Survival:
A recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) suggests that old female elephants--and perhaps their memories of distant, life-sustaining sources of food and water--may be the key to survival during the worst of times.
Fry Me Kangaroo Brown, Sport:
Skippy could be on more menus following a report that expanding the kangaroo industry would significantly cut greenhouse gases.
'Lost Tribe' Of Clinician-scientists: Medical Doctors Who Do Research Could Be A Dying Breed:
The road from disease research to…
clock | August 11, 2008After four days - last three of which I had no internet access - and after11 hours of travel door-to-door (or 8 hours from entering an airport and exiting another airport), I am home. Exhausted.
As I knew that several other Sciblings had to deal with the chaos of NYC air-travel this weekend. We were prepared - took it slowly and easily. Read a book. Could not login to JetBlue wireless (I think my PLoS laptop has so many layers of security, it does not allow me to connect to public wifi deemed too dangerous - that's why I need to get myself a Mac AirBook, or a Wee, for travel). People-…
clock | August 10, 2008Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new ... program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
- Art Buchwald
clock | August 10, 2008To protect the anonymous, nobody in the pictures is named, tagged or linked in any way. So, you don't know who is a blogger, who is Seed staffer, who is a reader, except for the few obviously well knows faces:
clock | August 10, 2008To protect the anonymous, nobody in the pictures is named, tagged or linked in any way. So, you don't know who is a blogger, who is Seed staffer, who is a reader, except for the few obviously well knows faces:
clock | August 9, 2008You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100.
- Woody Allen
clock | August 9, 2008We barely made it to our 6am flight (so we did not get stranded like Sheril), so Mrs.Coturnix an I got to NYC about 7-ish and spend the entire day walking down the Lower East side of Manhattan, from the U.N. to Battery Park, and then took a cab back to the hotel (the last picture) where we started meeting the first SciBlings (next set of pictures, later today):
clock | August 9, 2008Aggregator of RSS Feeds about disability and special needs issues, another one made by Vedran. As always, you can contact him with suggestions for more feeds to add.
clock | August 8, 2008I and the Bird #81 is up on the Marvelous in Nature
Friday Ark #203 is up on Modulator
Linnaeus' Legacy #10 is up on The DC Birding Blog
Four Stone Hearth #45 is up on remote central and Four Stone Hearth #46 is up on Testimony of the spade.
Don't forget to submit your entries to Praxis, Giants' Shoulders, Hourglass, Festival of the Trees and
Boneyard.
clock | August 8, 2008Continuing with asking for your help in fixing my Blogroll:
Every couple of days or so, I will post here a list of blogs that start with a particular letter, and you add in the comments if you know of something that is missing from that list.
See so far:
Numbers and Symbols
A
B
Today brought to you by letter C. This is what is on the Blogroll right now. Check also the Housekeeeping posts for other C blogs I have discovered in the meantime. Check links. Tell me what to delete, what to add:
Cabinet of Wonders
Café Philos: an internet café
Calamus
Canadian Cynic
Cannablog
The Cape Fear Mercury…
clock | August 8, 2008Aggregator of news about infectious diseases, another one made by Vedran. As always, you can contact him with suggestions for more feeds to add.
clock | August 7, 2008Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
- Earl Nightingale
clock | August 7, 2008...but if you do, I hope it was enjoyable! And edifying, of course. Kind of science that is amenable to experimentation at home.
clock | August 7, 2008I will have to turn in early as tomorrow morning Mrs.Coturnix and I are getting up at the crack of dawn and traveling to NYC to meet the SciBlings (and readers).
I did not have enough time to schedule long posts for the next four days, apart from the ubiquitous ClockQuotes, and I doubt I will have much time and inclination to post from there (though I may post some pictures!), which will give you a breather and an opportunity to catch up with me! Perhaps you can dig through the Archives and read and comment on older posts. Or you can check out lots of other cool blogs and perhaps help me…
clock | August 7, 2008On Tuesday night, when I posted my personal picks from this week's crop of articles published in PLoS ONE, I omitted (due to a technical glitch on the site), to point out that a blog-friend of mine John Logsdon published his first PLoS ONE paper on that day:
It's a updated and detailed report on the ongoing work in my lab to generate and curate an "inventory" of genes involved in meiosis that are present across major eukaryotic lineages. This paper focuses on the protist, Trichomonas vaginalis, an organism not known to have a sexual phase in its life cycle.
Here is the paper (and check John's…