clock | December 31, 2007A man may fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
- Knox Manning
clock | December 31, 2007Food:
Where's the schmaltz? Look no further...
How religious curbs lead to great food (take with a grain of salt....and pepper and garlic).
My mother's sarma recipe will come shortly...
Drink:
Ask the expert on vodka: Just Like Water, But Better
What are you drinking tonight at midnight? The Friday Fermentable: Champagne and Sparkling Wines for New Year's
Good news for the liver cirrhosis (and the grapevine genome): Eat, Drink and Be Merry (but Not Too Much)
Books:
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (which I have reviewed ealrier this year) is now available, in its entirety, on the Web, for free (…
clock | December 31, 2007There are 21 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am…
clock | December 30, 2007Idoli, the best of the Yugoslav 1980s New Wave.
Plamene zore bude me iz sna
Fabricka jutra, dim iz dimnjaka
Pesma se ori, mladi radnici
Celicna jutra, hitam fabrici.
Drugovi moji, radni, veseli
Bicikle voze, ponositi svi
Drugovi moji, radni, veseli
Pobede nove nosicemo mi.
Sunce vec greje, vetar carlija
Jutarnja rosa, zemlja mirisna
Sunce vec greje, a a a a a
Bogata zetva, radujem se ja.
Popodne kruzok na koji idem ja
Tamo ce biti I moja devojka
Devojka plava, koju volim ja
Sa njom cu se vozit sajkama.
Visoke peci potpaljujem ja
Ruda se topi, nasmejan sam ja
Pesma se ori, peva fabrika
Pesma…
clock | December 30, 2007Time - our youth - it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.
- Helen Hoover Santmyer
clock | December 30, 2007Adult Male Chimpanzees Don't Stray Far From The Home:
When it comes to choosing a place to live, male chimpanzees in the wild don't stray far from home, according to a new report. The researchers found that adult male chimps out on their own tend to follow in their mother's footsteps, spending their days in the same familiar haunts where they grew up. Male chimpanzees are generally very social, but how they use space when they are alone might be critical to their survival, the researchers said.
Solving Another Mystery Of An Amazing Water Walker:
Walking on water may seem like a miracle to…
clock | December 30, 2007There are 22 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am…
clock | December 29, 2007Zdravko ÄoliÄ was hugely popular in the late 1970s and 1980s. I was a kid when he filled the Red Star Stadium (which normally seats 90,000 people for the soccer games, when the field itself is not full of people). It is incredible to see him coming back after a 15-year break, visibly older (and not dancing on stage any more) and fill the stadium again! And all those thousands of kids who are singing along and know all the lyrics were not even born when this song, for instance, was a hit - 1985:
Pogledom me miluje
k'o da me dodiruje
i svaki put
kao da je prvi
Ja stalno mislim prestat ce
iz…
clock | December 29, 2007The ability to concentrate and use time well is everything.
- Lido Anthony Iacocca
clock | December 29, 2007They come and go. The good blogs. Kate has decided to stop posting (but not delete) her magnificient Anterior Commissure. Perhaps it's because the topic is of interest to me: hormones and behavior, or because the topic is of universal interest - sex, or because of her personality shining through in each post, but this was one of my favourite blogs over the past several months. So, I am sad to see it closed. Perhaps one of her posts will make it into the Open Laboratory 2007 - that would be nice.
I understand she needs to wrap up her studies and get a postdoc. And she is busy with the…
clock | December 29, 2007Two grape genomes were published this year, one in Nature, the other in PLoS ONE. Larry Moran explains the methodologies and results of both and discusses the trustworthiness of each. The Nature paper is explained in The Grapevine Genome, and the PLoS ONE paper is discussed in The Second Grapevine Genome Is Published. Obligatory Readings of the Day.
clock | December 29, 2007Carnival Of The Godless (Late) Christmas Edition is up on Unscrewing the Inscrutable
Friday Ark #171 is up on Modulator
clock | December 29, 2007There are 22 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am…
clock | December 29, 2007
Plavi orkestar (Blue Orchestra) is one of the most popular bands from the territory of former Yugoslavia. Founded in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hezegovina in 1983. Plavi Orkestar / Blue Orchestra is described by music encyclopedias as one of the "cultural phenomenons of the 1980's and 1990s" (5 million copies sold). The band has remained popular to date, with 8 albums and more then 2500 concerts worldwide. The band was formed by Sasa Losic aka Losa who was the lead singer and songwriter of the group.
Suada
Ti si meni sve, ti mi dajes sve
i kad tebe nema tesko mi je
(2x)
Ako te ikad budu pitali…
clock | December 28, 2007Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
- Brendan Francis
clock | December 28, 2007Yup, I had sarma for dinner tonight. It's been a while since the last time I had some, but Mrs.Coturnix fixed it today, inventing her own recipe along the way. It was delicious!
clock | December 28, 2007On Fridays, I take a look at what's new in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Pathogens, Computational Biology and Genetics. Here are some of my picks for this week:
Neglected Diseases and Poverty in "The Other America": The Greatest Health Disparity in the United States?:
Large numbers of the poorest Americans living in the United States are suffering from some of the same parasitic infections that affect the poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
The Long and Thorny Road to Publication in Quality Journals:
Within the "Ten Simple Rules" series in PLoS Computational Biology, Dr. Bourne…
clock | December 28, 2007In the wake of the signed omnibus bill that funds NIH and ensures open deposition of NIH-funded research, here are some thoughtful questions:
Why the NIH bill does not require copyright violation:
The great advantage of the requirement to deposit in Pubmed (rather than simply to expose on a publisher or other website) is that the act is clear. You can't "half-deposit" in Pubmed. They have the resources to decide whether any copyright statement allows the appropriate use of the information or is suffiently restrrictive that it does not meet the NIH rules.
At some stage the community will get…