clock | March 11, 2008There are 48 new articles published in PLoS ONE this week. Rate, comment, send trackbacks....
The Phylogeny of the Four Pan-American MtDNA Haplogroups: Implications for Evolutionary and Disease Studies:
Only a limited number of complete mitochondrial genome sequences belonging to Native American haplogroups were available until recently, which left America as the continent with the least amount of information about sequence variation of entire mitochondrial DNAs. In this study, a comprehensive overview of all available complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes of the four pan-American…
clock | March 11, 2008POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:
Title: Manager of Web and Publications
Reports to: Director of Operations
Project Exploration Background: Cofounded in 1999 by paleontologist Paul Sereno and educator Gabrielle Lyon, Project Exploration is a nonprofit science education organization that works to make science accessible to the public-- especially minority youth and girls--through personalized experiences with science and scientists. Project Exploration meets its mission through youth development programs, services for schools and teachers, and public programs such as exhibits and online initiatives.…
clock | March 11, 2008Micronesian Islands Colonized By Small-bodied Humans:
Since the reporting of the so-called "hobbit" fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia, debate has raged as to whether these remains are of modern humans (Homo sapiens), reduced, for some reason, in stature, or whether they represent a new species, Homo floresiensis. Lee Berger and colleagues from the University of the Witwatersrand, Rutgers University and Duke University, describe the fossils of small-bodied humans from the Micronesian island of Palau. These people inhabited the island between 1400 and 3000 years ago and share some…
clock | March 11, 2008Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 25 is up on Canadian Medicine
Carnival of the Green #118 is up on The Expatriate's Kitchen
The 115th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on At Home With Kris
clock | March 10, 2008Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.
- Epictetus
clock | March 10, 2008Lots of interesting stuff in PLoS Medicine and PLoS Biology this week, as well as a special, one-day-in-advance paper in PLoS ONE:
Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia:
Newly discovered fossil assemblages of small bodied Homo sapiens from Palau, Micronesia possess characters thought to be taxonomically primitive for the genus Homo. Recent surface collection and test excavation in limestone caves in the rock islands of Palau, Micronesia, has produced a sizeable sample of human skeletal remains dating roughly between 940-2890 cal ybp. Preliminary analysis indicates that this material is…
clock | March 10, 2008Why are Republicans (and their voters) so insecure about their masculinity? What are they covering up with their aggression and machismo? Why everything they say and do in an election boils down to some mythical and barbaric notion of manliness:
War cheerleaders ask: 'Is Obama man enough to be president?'
Thus, everyone who opposes them is always tagged as a 'sissy', although it is them who are fearful cowards. If you criticize cowards you are shrill and effeminate and hysterical like a woman, is that how it works?
The religion of balance and centrism
How much you want to bet that these…
clock | March 10, 2008I had great fun meeting Rick MacPherson last summer in San Francisco, so I was very happy that he could come to the second Science Blogging Conference in January where he co-moderated a panel on Real-time blogging in the marine sciences. Do not miss out on reading his blog Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your scientific background? What is your Real World job?
Aloha, Bora, and thanks for the opportunity to chat. I'm on the Big Island of Hawaii as I write…
clock | March 10, 2008You bet there will be! But it will have a different name. Anton and I met yesterday afternoon (and the whole committee will meet in a couple of weeks), looked at all the feedback we got from the last meeting and started planning for the next one.
So, the third conference will be called ScienceOnline'09 (the new website will be up in a couple of weeks at scienceonline09.com, as well as a new, more reliable wiki). You will still be able to get to it from the scienceblogging.com page in the future.
The new name reflects the broader perspective of the meeting. Neither the first nor the second…
clock | March 9, 2008SCONC Second Wednesday AND the BlogTogether bloggers meetup will occur jointly this month, at Tyler's Taproom, Durham!
Does science make you thirsty?
Jargon got you down?
Want to kick back with other SCONCs?
We're here for you. Come hang with other science communicators on Wednesday, March 12 and talk shop. Or not. Whatever. This is a social event, a chance to talk with people who share your passion for explaining science.
There's no official start time, but say 5-ish. Early arrivers: grab a table. Wear your SCONC pin to find each other.
Tyler's Taproom is on the American Tobacco Campus next…
clock | March 9, 2008Congratulations to Rev. BigDumbChimp for posting the 8000th comment on this blog!
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There are other versions of this on YouTube as well...some funnier than others....
clock | March 9, 2008Glenn Greenwald: Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press (the 424 comments are also worth at least skimming through).
Jay Rosen: An Attractively Against-the-Grain Enterprise...
Rachel Sklar: WaPo Writer Proves Own Thesis With Inane Op-Ed (follow ALL the links in the article as well).
clock | March 9, 2008A Democrat and a physicist won a special election in the Dennis Hastert's uber-Republican district (also birthplace of Ronald Reagan) yesterday. He is an overall Good Guy.
clock | March 9, 2008On the Wired Science blog - The Internet Is Changing the Scientific Method:
If all other fields can go 2.0, incorporating collaboration and social networking, it's about time that science does too. In the bellwether journal Science this week, a computer scientist argues that many modern problems are resistant to traditional scientific inquiry.
The title of the post is a big misnomer as the paper does not say anything about the change in the Scientific Method, but about the change scientists go about their work (perhaps "methodology"?). Read the rambunctious comment thread.
The paper is…
clock | March 9, 2008The Boneyard XV is up on Laelaps
International Carnival of Pozitivities 2.9 is up on Creampuff Revolution
clock | March 9, 2008
I bought a book yesterday. You should buy yourself a copy, too. The best writer in the blogosphere, on the most famous dog in the blogosphere. You'll be touched.
clock | March 9, 2008Charles Leadbetter: People power transforms the web in next online revolution
Anna Kushnir: Science Participation and Going Incognito
Wobbler: Digital Scholarly Communication & Bottlenecks
Jonathan A. Eisen: Open Evolution
Peter Suber: Aiming for obscurity (the links within are important)
Stian Haklev: A "Fair Trade" logo for academic research?