clock | December 28, 2007Here is the fifth and final installment of my Mother's travelogue. Feel free to ask questions. I will try to copy and post her published chapter from the book "We Survived" in about a month from now.
Family
Tuesday, November 13th
A beautiful, sunny day. I am trying to make myself look nice for the re-union with eight members of my family. They are coming from different parts of the country . We are meeting in the restaurant "London" at 10.30. A couple is coming from the North - a far-away kibutz - but that has not prevented them to be the first to arrive. I invited Isabelle to meet…
clock | December 28, 2007There are 23 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 27, 2007Galija was a popular band from Southern Serbia.
Da li si spavala
Da li si sanjala
Kako se ruši Avala?
Da li te nervira
Kad ti iz svemira
Pošaljem leptira?
Da li si sanjala
Kako je nestala
Voda iz plavog Dunava?
Da li si patila
Kada si shvatila
Da si me izgubila?
NaÄi ÄeÅ¡ cvet Å¡to po meni miriÅ¡e
NaÄi ÄeÅ¡ cvet koji nestaje
NaÄi ÄeÅ¡ cvet Å¡to po meni miriÅ¡e
BiÄe to cvet koji umire.
Da li si sanjala
Kako sa istoka
Putuje tajna poruka?
Kada me ne bude
Neka te probude
Talasi požude.
(2x)
NaÄi ÄeÅ¡ cvet Å¡to po meni miriÅ¡e
NaÄi ÄeÅ¡ cvet koji nestaje
NaÄi ÄeÅ¡ cvet Å¡to po meni miriÅ¡e…
clock | December 27, 2007Circus of the Spineless #28 is up on Catalogue of Organisms
I and The Bird #65 is up on WildBird on the Fly
The holiday edition of Change of Shift is up on Brain Scramble
clock | December 27, 2007Yesterday, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) which, among else, mandates the repository of all NIH-funded research into PubMedCentral within at most 12 months after publication.
Until now, the placement of NIH-funded research papers into publicly accessible repositories was not mandated, but recommended. However, only about 5% of the authors actually did it, as the process was complex and not always clear. This number is growing, but far too slowly. From now on, authors will have clear guidelines and assistance in making sure that all the…
clock | December 27, 2007...the intertubes:
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007)
When tigers cross the walls
Internet trolls really are clueless morons.
Krugman: Progressives, To Arms! Forget about Bush--and the middle ground.
The 2007 Medical Weblog Awards still taking nominations.
First, the neckties, now the sleeves (with no research to support either) but it makes it look like they are doing something.
A little more on anti-science conservatives.
clock | December 27, 2007But only those bloggers found on the blogroll of John Swift. Which is all the blogger that matter, anyway.
clock | December 27, 2007There are 30 new articles in PLoS ONE this week. Here are my picks:
Ultrasonic Communication in Rats: Can Playback of 50-kHz Calls Induce Approach Behavior?:
Rats emit distinct types of ultrasonic vocalizations, which differ depending on age, the subject's current state and environmental factors. Since it was shown that 50-kHz calls can serve as indices of the animal's positive subjective state, they have received increasing experimental attention, and have successfully been used to study neurobiological mechanisms of positive affect. However, it is likely that such calls do not only reflect…
clock | December 27, 2007Songbirds Offer Clues To Highly Practiced Motor Skills In Humans:
The melodious sound of a songbird may appear effortless, but his elocutions are actually the result of rigorous training undergone in youth and maintained throughout adulthood. His tune has virtually "crystallized" by maturity. The same control is seen in the motor performance of top athletes and musicians. Yet, subtle variations in highly practiced skills persist in both songbirds and humans. Now, scientists think they know why.
Scientist On Quest For Disappearing Eel:
A Queen's environmental scientist will head a new…
clock | December 27, 2007Lots of good stuff in PLoS Biology this week:
Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry:
Many palatable animals, for example hoverflies, deter predators by mimicking well-defended insects such as wasps. However, for human observers, these flies often seem to be little better than caricatures of wasps--their visual appearance and behaviour are easily distinguishable from those which they are attempting to mimic. This imperfect mimicry baffles evolutionary biologists, because one might expect natural selection to do a more thorough job. Here we discuss two types of…
clock | December 27, 2007Here is the fourth installment in the series - the fifth is coming tomorrow. Please comment and my Mom will respond.
Fulfilled lives of Dina and Jovan Rajs
Sunday, November 11th
The Hotel Dining room could accomodate all 800 participants. Members of the Conference Committee used the oportunity to let Israeli officials, polititicians and scientists address the audience and point out the significance of our gatherings. To me it was an oportunity to watch them all and imagine them as children, like me, who were lucky as I was, to stay alive in spite of all that could have happened…
clock | December 27, 2007There are 24 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 26, 2007Kada gledam tvoje lice
Uvijek osjetim vedrinu
Koju nosi ljetna noÄ
Dodirnem li tvoje ruke
Uvijek osjetim toplinu
Koju mi je dala moÄ
Kad nas napuste voljena
Sve radosti iz mladosti
Äak i kada bude teÅ¡ko
Sve do kraja svog života
Od tebe neÄu poÄ
I kad doÄe dan, naÅ¡ zadnji dan
Kad proÄe san, nas zadnji san
Kad nemiri budu dio nas
I kada nam kucne zadnji Äas
I tada Äuj, Deni, kao i sad
Da te volim ja
clock | December 26, 2007You are ... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
- Dag Hammarskjold, 1905 - 1961
clock | December 26, 2007Grand Rounds Vol. 4, No. 14 are up on MedGadget
The 151st Carnival of Education is up on History is Elementary
The 104th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Po Moyemu--In My Opinion
And, the Linnaeus' Legacy is looking for entries for the third edition.
clock | December 26, 2007This is the third post in the series. I mentioned before that my Mom taped her story for the Shoah project. You can access the tapes through the RENCI site.
Also, regulars here know that my Mom reads this blog and sometimes comments. I assume that she would not object to answering a couple of polite questions from readers.
Do the hidden Children Differ from the Others?
Saturday, November 10th
I liked the lecture of Robert Krell he gave this morning. He told us his "story". He comes from Holland, was hidden from 1942-1945 and after the war he reunited with his parents, who were…
clock | December 26, 2007There are 25 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 25, 2007For old Yugo-nostalgics:
Tili ste drugog od prvog trena
Cestitog momka iz najboje kuce
Niste joj dali da postane žena
Niste joj dali da je srce vuce.
Tili ste drugog, to ste joj rekli
I to da Å¡oldi ne rastu na grani
Nego nek cuva sve ca ste stekli
I ca ste za nju cuvali na strani.
Jubi sam, jubi vašu 'cer
Ma niste tili marinera
Tili ste momka na svom mistu
Tili ste zeta inžinjera.
Jubi sam, jubi vašu 'cer
Ja koji ne znam di bi sada
Sad kad je davno tuda žena
Ca vridi srcu da se nada.
Niste joj dali ni da mi piše
Kako se budi kad se svega siti
I kako more prica sve tiše
I kako cesto…
clock | December 25, 2007We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland