clock | February 9, 2010No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
- Charles E. Wilson
clock | February 9, 2010At Pizza Lunch talks, we hear a lot about efforts to decipher the physical world. But what about psychological realms? How do you measure them, especially on a large scale among people scarred by trauma? At noon on Thursday, Feb. 18, come hear Dr. Jeffrey Sonis discuss "Cambodian Attitudes and Mental Health on the Eve of the Khmer Rouge Trials." The UNC-Chapel Hill physician and public health researcher is studying how Cambodians are responding to the genocide trials.
American Scientist Pizza Lunch is free and open to science journalists and science communicators of all stripes. Feel free to…
clock | February 9, 2010Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Maria Droujkova to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is your (scientific) background?
At any given time, I typically work…
clock | February 9, 2010Berry-Go-Round #24 is up at The Phytophactor
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 20 are up on Edwin Leap
clock | February 9, 2010Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything
Saturday, January 16 at 10:15 - 11:20am
E. Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything - Pal MD and Val Jones.
Description: We all know that there are potential pitfalls to having a prominent online presence, but for physicians, the implications affect more than just themselves. How should doctors and similar professionals manage their online life? What are the ethical and legal implications?
Some preliminary reading can be found here.
clock | February 9, 2010As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Visual Search for Human Gaze Direction by a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes):
Humans detect faces with direct gazes among those with averted gazes more efficiently than they detect faces with averted gazes among those with direct gazes. We examined whether…
clock | February 8, 2010A member of Parliament to Prime Minister Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir", said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
clock | February 8, 2010Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Ken Liu from Scivee.tv to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is your (scientific) background?
KL: I am a serial entrepreneur…
clock | February 8, 2010Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything
Saturday, January 16 at 10:15 - 11:20am
E. Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything - Pal MD and Val Jones.
Description: We all know that there are potential pitfalls to having a prominent online presence, but for physicians, the implications affect more than just themselves. How should doctors and similar professionals manage their online life? What are the ethical and legal implications?
Some preliminary reading can be found here.
clock | February 8, 2010There are 16 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Spontaneous Recovery of the Injured Higher Olfactory Center in the Terrestrial Slug Limax:
Of all organs and tissues in adult mammals, the brain shows the most limited regeneration and recovery after…
clock | February 7, 2010By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
- Charles Dickens
clock | February 7, 2010The complete list of blog/media coverage of ScienceOnline2010 is becoming huge (and also swiftly falling down and off the page), but I wanted to put up on top just a choice of blog posts that completely or partially cover the 'journalism and media track' of session at the meeting, as I found them very insightful. I know, there were many other topics at the meeting, and blog posts covering them, but I feel the discussion of science in the media and journalism was the leitmotif of this year's meeting and it brought about some of the liveliest sessions and most interesting posts (not just for…
clock | February 7, 2010
Sabine Vollmer interviews Keynote Speaker Michael Specter for Science In The Triangle Blog.
clock | February 6, 2010The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband, I'd give you poisoned tea."
He answered, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
clock | February 6, 2010
Sabine Vollmer interviews Keynote Speaker Michael Specter for Science In The Triangle Blog.
clock | February 5, 2010Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
- Charles de Gaulle
clock | February 5, 2010PLoS shirts are always hot items in labs and at conferences. People just love them. They ask for them, get them as prizes, or buy them, and proudly post pictures of themselves wearing them....
With the spring coming, we decided to make the range of items available in the PLoS store much more diverse. You can now find tiny Future PLoS Author shirts for kids. And elegantly done embroidered tees, hats and hoodies.
We introduced items with a lot more fun colors. And added T.rex to a number of dino tees, mugs and mousepads. There is LOTS to choose from, so take a look around the PLoS store.
Hmmmm…
clock | February 5, 2010Diversity in Science Carnival #6: Perspectives on STEM Diversity and Outreach from ScienceOnline2010 - is up on Urban Science Adventures! ©
The latest Change of Shift is up on RehabRN
Friday Ark #281 is up on Modulator
clock | February 5, 2010Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is marketing, and much more. We will discuss the many ways that podcasting technology and techniques can be used to help you reach your communication goals.
Watch all six video parts of the recording of this session:
Podcasting in Science, Part 1
Podcasting in Science, Part 2
Podcasting in Science, Part 3
Podcasting in Science, Part 4
Podcasting in Science, Part 5
Podcasting…
clock | February 5, 2010There are 26 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Sleep Deprivation Impairs Object-Selective Attention: A View from the Ventral Visual Cortex:
Most prior studies on selective attention in the setting of total sleep deprivation (SD) have focused on behavior…