clock | May 6, 2007Thought Capital
Neurozone
The Situationist
Library of Congress Blog
Madam Fathom
The Dispersal Of Darwin
Plant Physiological Ecology
On The Brain
Cat Cubed
clock | May 6, 2007Three out of ten Republican presidential candidates raised hands in the recent debate indicating they do not believe in evolution. Jason has an excellent round-up of responses (Arianna Huffington rocks!) with some good comments by readers as well. How can you help combat scientific ignorance? If your blog is NOT a science blog, try to do what Mike suggests and link to five science-related posts every week.
There is plenty of stuff here at scienceblogs.com, but you can also use this page when you are looking for science posts, especially the science-related carnivals listed at the very…
clock | May 6, 2007Gene Genie, the carnival of human genetics, now has a homepage and the Sixth issue is now up on ScienceRoll
clock | May 6, 2007Tatjana Jovanovic is a fellow escapee from Serbia and a fellow biologist. She got her MS in Biology at the University of Belgrade and has collected enough data before emigrating to be able to immediately get a PhD if someone would sponsor her here. She is currently in Arizona, but she is moving to North Carolina later this year. She will send you her impressive CV on demand - her publications range from immunology to pest control, but most of it is focused on small rodents, their avian predators and the dynamics of predator-prey relationships. She has combined lab and field work, from…
clock | May 5, 2007"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax -
Of cabbages - and kings -
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings."
- Lewis Carroll
clock | May 5, 2007I know it's almost halfway between the first and second Science Blogging Conference, but reviews of the first one are still coming out. Check out the latest one, written by Eva Amsen and published by 'Hypothesis' yesterday.
clock | May 5, 2007Street Sense won the Derby in style. He hung back in 19th place (out of 20 horses) for most of the race. About 3/4 miles before the end, jockey Borel switched to a new gear and stepped on the gas. He passed all but the last two horses by riding on the rail - all the other horses (and it was horses, not jockeys) just moved away from him as he passed them one by one. That was so fast, all the other horses looked like Clydesdales in comparison. Not wanting to gamble any more, Borel decided to pass the last two on the outside and won so easily he started celebrating a hundred yards before…
clock | May 5, 2007Writing actual science posts takes a lot of time, research, thinking and energy. I assembled a large pile of papers I want to comment on and I actually started writing posts about a couple of them already, but Real Life interferes...and it is so much easier and quicker to post a short opinion-post or a linkfest.
Also, my mind has lately been mostly focused on Science Blogging, more Science Blogging, Open Science, Open Notebook Science, organizing the next Science Blogging Conference, Framing Science, Teaching Science and similar stuff I've been reading about a lot lately due to the…
clock | May 4, 2007If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
- Stephen King
clock | May 4, 2007..and not just debates and C-span in an election year. I am unlikely to miss the three legs of the Triple Crown in any given year. Tomorrow at 6pm ET is the Kentucky Derby and I'll be watching!
clock | May 4, 2007Which of these new terms you particularly like or dislike? Do the Lulu.com survey:
"BLOG", "BLOOK", "BLEADER" AND "BLAUTHOR"
- WHICH IS THE UGLIEST, OR COOLEST, BLOGGING TERM OF THEM ALL?
WIN A FREE ISBN OR PRIZE-WINNING BOOK BY TELLING US WHAT YOU THINK!
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the invention of the word "blog", the fifth of the word "blook" (books based on blogs or websites), and the second of the Lulu Blooker Prize-the first literary prize for blooks. To mark this historic occasion, we're asking what YOU think of all the wonderful-or gruesome?-new words spawned…
clock | May 4, 2007BloggingPoet.com
Field Notes from an Evolutionary Psychologist
Writing the Biological
Petrona
Blogfish
Elm Rock City
Culture Dish
In-Mind
Nanopolitan
clock | May 4, 2007Weekend is coming so you'll have some time (at least at night) which can be spent in much less useful activities than reading these three articles:
12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know
A Blogger's Disclaimer
The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs
clock | May 4, 2007Yes, the Scienceblogs.com is invading the Facebook! You are free to join the ScienceBlogs Fan Club, the Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique and /or The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. See ya there.... Next step: MySpace!
clock | May 4, 2007Making the second Science Blogging Conference even bigger and better, we are happy to announce that the January 19th, 2008 meeting will be hosted by Sigma Xi (publishers of American Scientist) in their gorgeous new building in the Research Triangle Park. Their conference facilities can house more people (225 as opposed to 170 we had last time) and provide more space for shmoozing between and after the sessions.
For those who arrive early, there will be Friday afternoon events, sessions and meals on or close to the UNC campus. We have tentatively secured two excellent session leaders so…
clock | May 4, 2007Arunn and Selva are wondering why more Indian scientists don't write blogs, while Danica wonders the same about Serbian scientists. I guess every nation will have its own idiosyncratic ways of getting there, but it is also important to note that in the USA where most of the popular science blogs are located and where there are LOTS of scientists, only a tiny percentage writes blogs or considers doing so in the future. Canadians, Western Europeans and Australians are already catching up in proportion to their own scientific populations. The rest of the world will probably catch up in a few…
clock | May 4, 2007Sleep Deprivation Can Threaten Competent Decision-making:
Gambling is a risky activity that can potentially result in the loss of a significant amount of money. A study published in the journal SLEEP finds that sleep deprivation can adversely affect a person's decision-making at a gambling table by elevating the expectation of gains and making light of one's losses following risky decisions.
Coral Reef Fish Make Their Way Home:
Coral reef fish hatchlings dispersed by ocean currents are able to make their way back to their home reefs again to spawn, says a groundbreaking study recently…
clock | May 3, 2007Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess