clock | January 12, 2008PhysioProf
Cognition and Language Lab
Writer's Daily Grind
OA/UofA
Star Stryder
Grannyhelen's Kitchen
clock | January 12, 2008Some Birds Can Communicate About Behavior Of Predators:
With the aid of various alarm calls the Siberian jay bird species tells other members of its group what their main predators-¬hawks¬-are doing. The alarm calls are sufficient for Siberian jays to evince situation-specific fleeing behaviors, which enhances their chances of survival. This discovery, being published by Uppsala University researcher Michael Griesser in the journal Current Biology, shows for the first time that animals can assess and communicate about the behavior of predators.
High Degree Of Antibiotic Resistance Found In…
clock | January 12, 2008International Carnival of Pozitivities 2.7 is up on The Spin Cycle
Friday Ark #173 is up on Modulator
clock | January 12, 2008Rokeri s Moravu - Ja Tarzan a ti Dzejn (Morava is a big river in Serbia)
Yes, this is a parody of "newly-composed folk" music of the 1980s Serbia:
Ja Tarzan a ti Dzejn lele dunje ranke
ja tarzan a ti dzejn lele dunje ranke
od moravski krokodili cu pravim opanke
pletem vezem i carapke saram
sas svoju se citu razgovaram
predem vunu dragani za gunjce
preslicu mi okrece majmunce
clock | January 11, 2008Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
clock | January 11, 2008Boris Hartl interviews Anton Zuiker , the manager of internal communications at Duke University Health System, founder of BlogTogether.org, and the co-organizer of the Science Blogging Conference. Excellent read.
clock | January 11, 2008All the cool kids are doing it, so I did it, too, with no surprises:
It is fun, though you know I disagree that ideology can be mapped on a 2D coordinate system.
But you can sure play and see for yourself.
clock | January 11, 2008From an e-mail from the Science Communicators of North Carolina:
At noon on Friday, January 18, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham will host a seminar by Josh Rosenau, the Public Information Project Director at the National Center for Science Education. Rosenau, who is in town for the Science blogging conference, will opine on the subject of "Talking to the Media about Evolution and Creationism." The discussion is sure to be lively.
clock | January 11, 2008Bloggers often highlight e-mail they get. I also get a bunch of loony stuff (and if it is not loony I try to respond, unless it is a medical question which I cannot ethically answer as I am not an MD, or a "do my homework for me" requests from students which I ignore) which ends up in Trash in nano-seconds. The loony stuff is soooo easy to recognize at first glance, there is no need to actually read that stuff and I am usually not compelled to use that kind of stuff as inspiration for blog posts. Just a waste of my time.
But what I got last night is something I just cannot help but wish to…
clock | January 11, 2008Today at 2pm EST, tune in to NPR Science Friday with Ira Flatow for the discussion of the Science Debate 2008.
clock | January 11, 2008If you look at the Program page on the wiki for the Science Blogging Conference, you will see, for the Saturday program, there are 12 excellent sessions, a panel and a talk. Each has a discussion page which you should edit to add your own thoughts, ideas and questions.
One of the sessions I expect to have a big draw, particularly with so many science teachers at the conference, is the session on Teaching Science: using online tools in the science classroom, led by a real pro on the topic - David Warlick. David already has an ongoing discussion of the session on his own blog where you are…
clock | January 10, 2008Oliver Mandic - Pitaju me
This was years before Boy George. Yes, a patriarchal kind of guy in Belgrade broke his TV screen when he saw this. The older generations could not really stomach the whole transgender experiment, but the youngsters loved Oliver because he was really cutting edge, experimental, novel and courageous:
clock | January 10, 2008On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell
clock | January 10, 2008Ancient Cave Bears Were As Omnivorous As Modern Bears:
Rather than being gentle giants, new research reveals that Pleistocene cave bears ate both plants and animals and competed for food with the other contemporary large carnivores of the time: hyaenas, lions, wolves, and our own human ancestors.
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Chimpanzees May Build Their 'Cultures' In A Similar Way To Humans:
Socially-learned cultural behaviour thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found. Historically, scientists believed that behavioural differences…
clock | January 10, 2008M. Mitchell Waldrop (author of the delightful book Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos) interviewed me and a bunch of others back in August about the changing ways of science communication. I completely forgot about it, but was reminded yesterday when he e-mailed me to say that the draft of the article is now online on the Scientific American site: Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?
The idea is that the draft will be improved by commentary by readers - and sure enough, there are already 19 comments there - before it goes to print in a future issue of the…
clock | January 10, 2008I and the Bird #66 is up on Born Again Bird Watcher
Change of Shift: Vol.2, Number 14 is up on Nursing Jobs.org
Carnival of Space #36 is up on Cat Dynamics
History Carnival #60 is up on The Victorian Peeper
clock | January 10, 2008"Why isn't there a birth control pill for men?" is the latest "Ask A ScienceBlogger" question. I am sure my SciBlings will rise to the occasion and explain both the biological and social barriers to the development, production and marketing of such a pill. I will be more light hearted, with a brief look at alternative methods proposed over the years intended to make guys temporarily infertile. Let's start with this delightful, funny, yet informative, movie:
The movie can be found here, via Science of the Invisible (Thanks for the heads-up).
Perhaps this quack had a point after all! Would…
clock | January 10, 2008I can't believe that the Conference is only about 10 days away! Almost everything is set and ready to go and we are all very excited.
If you look at the Program page, we have assembled a star-studded group of speakers and moderators who will lead sessions on a number of interesting topics. Of course, if you are registered, you will be there to participate in person. But even if you are not, you are not completely shut out - there are ways that you can participate from a long distance away.
Go again to the Program page and you will notice that each session has a link to its own Discussion…