clock | April 13, 2008It was a wonderful day this morning so the entire Gee family (including the dog) got in a car and went out to Holkham beach for a little walk, then to the Stiffkey Red Lion for lunch....
clock | April 13, 2008Shift Work Linked To Organ Disease, Study Suggests:
Disruption of an individual's natural sleep-wake cycle has been determined to be a contributing factor in the development of organ disease. The findings of U of T researchers were recently published in the Journal of American Physiology.
Mass Media Campaigns Can Convince Young Adults To Adopt Safer Sex Practices, Study Shows:
-- Two University of Kentucky researchers from the department of communication in the UK College of Communications and Information Studies have learned that targeted mass media campaigns alone can be effective in…
clock | April 13, 2008 I wrote this post back on January 23, 2005. It explains how clock biologists think and how they design their experiments:
So, are you ready to do chronobiological research? If so, here are some of the tips - the thought process that goes into starting one's research in chronobiology.
First, you need to pick a question. Are you interested in doing science out of sheer curiosity to discover stuff that nobody knew before (a very noble, but hard-to-fund pursuit)? Or would you prefer your work to be applicable to human medicine or health policy, veterinary medicine, conservation biology, or…
clock | April 12, 2008Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
clock | April 12, 2008Henry and I took Heidi the dog on a long walk around Cromer and East Runton, enjoying the scenery....
Cromer:
More under the fold...
The church in Cromer is waaaaaay too big:
Cromer crabs, on the pier:
The beach - the rocks on the beach are from late Cretacious, while the cliffs surrounding it are from Pleistocene:
Heidi loves to dig in the sand:
Henry's beach house:
About noon, we got tired and hungry, so we ate at a Bistro where dogs are allowed:
On the walk back, we passed through East Runton:
And hidden in the woods, is this memento of the most famous event in Cromer…
clock | April 12, 2008Now I know where Henry got the name for his blog - Cromer is the only place in the UK with a pier that has a theater on its end:
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clock | April 12, 2008Being out of the lab, out of science, and out of funding for a while also means that I have not been at a scientific conference for a few years now, not even my favourite meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms. I have missed the last two meetings (and I really miss them - they are a blast!).
But it is funny how, many years later, one still remembers some posters from poster sessions. What makes a poster so memorable?
I guess it has something to do with one's interests - there is just not enough time during a session to check out every single one out of hundreds (or…
clock | April 12, 2008On Friday, we all went to a nearby pub for lunch and passed Watson's old place, with a single helix (probably denoting one half of the pair):
By that time, what little jet-lag I had was gone, and I was ravenous. So, while others had chips (aka French fries), I indulged myself with some juicy English sausages:
Professor Steve Steve came along for lunch and posed for pictures with everyone:
clock | April 12, 2008So, around midnight we decided we were not tired and sleepy enough yet, so we found a pub that was open and had another round....
clock | April 12, 2008After a beer or two at The Eagle, we went for dinner to a nice place where we had to wait a little more, but the wait was worth it as the food was good and the company even better. So, food above the fold (a Before and After picture) and company under the fold:
clock | April 12, 2008Thursday night after work, the Plossians took me out for Guinness at The Eagle:
....more under the fold....
clock | April 12, 2008Steve Steve and I got a desk at the PLoS office to work at:
Bex is the one who really keeps PLoS ONE together:
clock | April 12, 2008More pictures from Daquise, as the alcohol levels in circulation rose... and everyone started singing....
clock | April 12, 2008After we froze at the pub, Karen, Malcolm, Mo, Joe, MissPrism, Nick, Matt, Kara, Professor Steve Steve and I went to a Polish restaurant called Daquise, where we had good food and too much to drink, including a couple of shots of slivowitza....
clock | April 12, 2008 This post is a modification from two papers written for two different classes in History of Science, back in 1995 and 1998. It is a part of a four-post series on Darwin and clocks. I first posted it here on December 02, 2004 and then again here on January 06, 2005:
II. Darwin on Time
There is a season for everything
And a time for every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die:
A time to plant and a time to reap.... (Ecclesiastes)
In this section I will attempt to evaluate from Darwin's writings what he thought about the selective role of environmental periodicities…