clock | April 1, 2010.....was just announced on the everyONE blog so go ahead and click right here and go see who won this month's prize.
clock | April 1, 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 Christie Wilcox, my newest SciBling here (three blogs to the left, then around the corner) at Observations of a Nerd to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself?…
clock | March 31, 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 Jonathan Eisen of Tree Of Life blog (and Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology) 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…
clock | March 31, 2010Berry Go Round #26 is up on Gravity's Rainbow
Grand Rounds - the Health Care Reform Edition - are up at See First
Friday Ark #288 is up on Modulator
clock | March 30, 2010Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
clock | March 30, 2010There are 9 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:
Delimiting Species without Nuclear Monophyly in Madagascar's Mouse Lemurs:
Speciation begins when populations become genetically separated through a substantial reduction in gene flow, and it is at this…
clock | March 30, 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 Misha Angrist from Duke (and the blog GenomeBoy), the fourth person in the Personal Genome Project whose entire genome was sequenced (thus one of the first 20 humans with a sequenced genome), to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The…
clock | March 29, 2010It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette
clock | March 29, 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 Ed Yong from Not Exactly Rocket Science 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…
clock | March 29, 2010Now that the 2009 edition of Open Laboratory, the fourth annual anthology of the best writing on science blogs, is out and getting the first (very positive!) reviews on blog and in the media, it's time to start looking ahead at the next year.
Yesterday I cleaned up the submission form, made the necessary edits, and opened it up - please go to the new Submission Form and start entering the posts you consider worthy of publishing in the book.
Each entry needs to be originally published as a blog post between December 1st 2009 and December 1st 2010 to be eligible.
You can nominate as many…
clock | March 28, 2010There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
- Coco Chanel
clock | March 27, 2010Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
- Clarence Day
clock | March 27, 2010This was a busy, crazy week.
On Monday and Tuesday I was in Boston. You may remember I went to Boston last year as well and for the same reason - spending a day at the WGNH studios, helping with the World Science project that combines radio, podcasts and online forums. You have probably noticed I have posted announcements of these throughout the year.
A short story airs on the radio show The World, about some science-related topic with a global angle. The same scientist (or physician, or science journalist) who is interviewed for a couple of minutes on air is also interviewed for 20 minutes…
clock | March 26, 2010Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.
- Clive Staples Lewis
clock | March 26, 2010Now that this blog has won the ResearchBlogging.org Award in the Biology category, people are coming here and looking for biology posts. And on a blog with almost 10,000 posts, they may not be easy to find. So, I put together a collection of posts that I think are decent under the fold. Different lengths, styles, topics, reading-levels - hopefully something for everyone:
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)
Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work?
Some hypotheses about a possible connection between malaria…
clock | March 26, 2010You may have noticed very sparse blogging last couple of days - just the pre-scheduled Clock Quotes...
Well, I have some laptop problems (Dell PC with WinXP, only FF as browser).
The first inklings of problems showed up right after the AAAS meeting last month. I have been dutifully cleaning with Symantec, Spyware Doctor, SUPERantispyware and Spybot Search&Destroy almost daily since then. My Malwarebytes does not work - after uninstalling it, I get an error when trying to reinstall. Ad-Aware does not let me start (says I am a wrong user for it). WTF?
The problem is this - Google sites…
clock | March 26, 2010If you are a regular reader of Scienceblogs.com, you have probably already learned that two of our blogs have moved over to Discover blogs.
Razib of Gene Expression has moved from here to his new digs over there. Read his Goodbye post on Sb and his Welcome post over at Discover.
Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science has moved from here to his new digs over there. Read his Goodbye post on Sb and his Welcome post over at Discover.
Razib and Ed are joining the small but elite blogging network, backed by the well-known Discover brand, the likes of Carl Zimmer, Phil Plait, Sean Carrol et al.,…
clock | March 25, 2010Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.
- Clara Winston
clock | March 24, 2010I wanna do a better album each time. And if I cannot do that, I will not record.
- Celine Dion