clock | August 4, 2008Due to weather prognosis and expectation of a large crowd, the Meet The SciBling event will have to change location:
....we've decided to change the location of Saturday's Reader Meetup. The new spot will be at a bar on the west side called Social. (It's about 20 blocks south of the AMNH)....
2pm-4pm on Saturday, August 9
Social
795 8th Ave (close to 48th St.)
New York, NY 10019
clock | August 4, 2008Sleep Apnea Linked To Increased Risk Of Death:
Sleep-disordered breathing (also known as sleep apnea) is associated with an increased risk of death, according to new results from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort, an 18-year observational study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.
World's Smallest Snake Found In Barbados:
The world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length, has been identified on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The species -- which is as thin as a spaghetti noodle and…
clock | August 4, 2008Carnival of the Blue #15 is up on Sea Notes
Carnival of the Green #139 is up on Everyday Trash
Carnival of the Godless #97 is up on Kieran's Commentary
Don't forget to submit your entries for the next editions of Praxis and The Giant's Shoulders!
clock | August 4, 2008There's a war under the bed...
Gallery of The Absurd
Resplendent Chaos
Digital Ethnography
30Threads
Ether Wave Propaganda
Dependable Erection
clock | August 4, 2008My SciBling John Lynch recently published a very interesting paper, on a topic close to my heart: Does Science Education Need the History of Science? by Graeme Gooday, John M. Lynch, Kenneth G. Wilson, and Constance K. Barsky. Isis, 2008, 99:322-330
This is a part of a broader focus issue of Isis on the topic of History of Science. I got the paper two weeks ago, but only now found some time to sit down and read it. And I was not disappointed! Fortunately for all of us, the entire paper is available online for free (yeah!), so you can read it in its entirety.
While using the fight against…
clock | August 4, 2008Vedran Vucic has put together a new aggregator that uses some of the RSS feeds from scienceblogs.com. Check it out here. It is mainly going to be shown to researchers and interested folks in Serbia, but of course everyone in the world can access it and use it.
clock | August 4, 2008Cleaning up and updating my enormous Blogroll is not an easy task, and I have fallen far too behind to be able to do it in a day or two. May need a month or two. Perhaps you can help me. 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. Let's start with blogs whose names begin with numbers and symbols:
0xDE
10000 birds
11D
1420Mhz
2 cents worth
2 sides 2 ron
3 Bulls
3D Science News
3 quarks daily
30Threads
400 words
49 percent
5/17
500 Or Less
511
80 beats…
clock | August 4, 2008Alex, Dan and John Wilkins have wise things to say about metaphors in biology, Big Biology and a recent article by Sir Paul Nurse.
clock | August 4, 2008Mo has the scoop - a fascinating interview with Heather Perry, one of the rare people who voluntarily underwent trepanation surgery.
clock | August 4, 2008The new blog carnival, covering the way science is changing (or not changing enough) in the 21st century - Praxis, is about to start. The call for submissions is now open - send them to me at Coturnix AT gmail dot com by August 14th at midnight Eastern.
The business of science - from getting into grad school, succeeding in it, getting a postdoc, getting a job, getting funded, getting published, getting tenure and surviving it all with some semblance of sanity - those are kinds of topics that are appropriate for this carnival, more in analytic way than personal, if possible (i.e., not "I will…
clock | August 4, 2008There are lots of meetings and events this week....
The biggie this week is, of course, SciFoo, the third iteration of the most amazing meeting of scientists, techies and other interesting people who tend to think outside the box. I never hid my disappointment that my last year's participation did not lead to a repeat invitation this year. Perhaps next year....
For those in the Bay Area at the time, both those arriving a couple of days early for SciFoo and for those who live there, there is BioBarCamp which is described as an "unconference focused on life sciences, biotechnology, synthetic…
clock | August 4, 2008Two years ago on this day, PLoS ONE opened for submissions (and surprisingly many manuscripts - 70 - got submitted immediatelly).
clock | August 3, 2008The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
clock | August 3, 2008Classroom 2.0:
...the social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.
NoodleTools: Basic Language Literacy:
Online Opportunities for Young Writers - Publications Which Accept Student Submissions
clock | August 3, 2008Emerging Scientific Discipline Of Aeroecology:
Aeroecology is the emerging discipline for studying how airborne organisms -- birds, bats, arthropods and microbes -- depend on the support of the lower atmosphere that is closest to the Earth's surface.
Fruit-fly Study Adds Weight To Theories About Another Type Of Adult Stem Cell:
It turns out that an old dog - or at least an old fruit-fly cell - can learn new tricks. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that mature, specialized cells naturally regress to serve as a kind of de facto stem cell during the fruit-fly…
clock | August 3, 2008Today I talked to a low-information voter who always voted Democratic, but it wavering right now, thinks "McCain is kinda cute" and "McCain is likely to pick a moderate for VP" and "if Obama picks Hillary for VP, he'll have me". Arrrgh!
My responses:
"He is worse than Bush. All Bush wanted was to have fun, go to parties and be able to say 'Hey guys, guess what - I am the President!' McCain is an unhinged, diabolical, sexist, violent nutcase"
If you want to stay in Iraq for 100 years, vote McCain:
If you want to bomb Iran, vote McCain:
If you want a guy prone to senior moments, vote…
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