clock | June 20, 2007Greg Laden has a special guest-blogger for today's Tangled Bank #82, someone from the past, intrigued by this thing we call "The Blogos Fear".
clock | June 20, 2007The 2006 Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports were released today. Mark Patterson reports on the PLoS journals, three of which have made it to the list for the first time, as they are too new, so their ratings are based on just a portion of the time:
The 2006 impact factors have just been released by Thompson ISI. The first two PLoS journals continue to perform very well: 14.1 for PLoS Biology (14.7 in 2006); 13.8 for PLoS Medicine (8.4 in 2006). The PLoS community-run journals also received their first impact factors: 4.9 for PLoS Computational Biology; 7.7 for PLoS Genetics; and 6.0…
clock | June 20, 2007After 10 years of fighting for open source, net neutrality, free information and open education, Lawrence Lessig has decided to change his career and to seriously attack the problem of corruption in the U.S. politics. It's not going to be easy, but having Lessig on our side in this battle is a great assett. Read his explanation (though you know I disagree with him on Obama and corruption) as it is very telling and well-written.
Hat-tip: Danica (where you can also see the movie of Lessig giving a speech in which he made the announcement).
clock | June 20, 2007Catalogue of Organisms
Morbid Anatomy
Street Anatomy
Scientific curiosity
The Bird's Brain
YOKOFAKUN
Banapana
Shadow of the Hegemon (check out the archives - this blog is oooold!)
clock | June 20, 2007Four Stone Hearth #16 is up on Hominin Dental Anthropology.
Education Carnival #124 (Back to the Beach) is up on What It's Like on the Inside.
Carnival of Homeschooling #77 is up on Consent Of The Governed.
clock | June 20, 2007Are Rattlesnakes Entering Suburbia?:
A researcher for Washington University in St. Louis, along with colleagues at the Saint Louis Zoo and Saint Louis University are tracking timber rattlesnakes in west St. Louis County and neighboring Jefferson County. They are investigating how developing subdivisions invade the snakes' turf and affect the reptiles.
Reconstructing The Biology Of Extinct Species: A New Approach:
An international research team has documented the link between the way an animal moves and the dimensions of an important part of its organ of balance, the three semicircular canals…
clock | June 19, 2007It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active it is dangerous.
- Crystal Eastman
clock | June 19, 2007On the heels of this post, I was informed of another Web2.0 site for scientists that just launched - SciTalks collects talks and lectures by scientists on a variety of topics. There are already many clips available on the site, which you can rate, or add some from your own collection. You can find out more about the site here and at the site's blog.
clock | June 19, 2007What's in a name? It's just a word, a tag we use to talk about people so everyone knows wo we are talking about, isn't it? Or at least that is how it should be, don't you think?
But it is not, as anthropologists (and now psychologists as well) have been telling us for a long time. There is a reason why names run in families (with the addition of Jr., II, III, ...). There is a reason why there is a big market for Baby Names books. Names have subtle power over people.
Now, Sheril discusses a recent study from the University of Florida about the subtle effect of female names on their…
clock | June 19, 2007"Is sunshine good for you?" is the latest Ask a ScienceBlogger question and Nick Anthis did a great job answering it - focusing on the circadian aspects of the need for sunlight - in his response here. Excellent and quite correct, if I may say so, (and I had trouble commenting on his blog, so I'll put it here) except perhaps the details of the Viagra paper.
clock | June 19, 2007Carnival of the Green #82 is up on Enviroblog.
Gene Genie #9 is up on DNA Direct Talk.
Grand Rounds 3:39 are up on Code Blog.
Encephalon #25 is up on PsyBlog.
clock | June 18, 2007I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work", because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.... The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
- Andy Warhol
clock | June 18, 2007Haliaeetus
Finito
...Or Something
Science Hacker
k/o
All of My Faults Are Stress Related
The Evil Petting Zoo
Open Access Archivangelism
clock | June 18, 2007This one?
Or this one?
Framing Science is not just verbal. Visual aspects are also important.
clock | June 18, 2007I know Bay Area is a big blogging center - almost as dense with bloggers as Greensboro, NC - but I am not exactly sure which of the bloggers I know actually live there. Since I'll be in San Francisco in July, I'd like to meet some of the local bloggers. Is there a MeetUp? An aggregator? Do local bloggers attend Drinking Liberally? Is there anything happening during the summer at all?
The NC expats in San Francisco, Josh Steiger and Justin Watt, I'm sure I'll meet as we are friends and we'll be in touch. Perhaps I'll get to meet danah boyd (I missed it when she came here to UNC).
And of…
clock | June 17, 2007I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
- Rene Descartes