clock | January 22, 2010It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
- George Gordon Noel Byron
clock | January 22, 2010I and the Bird #117 is up on the Marvelous in Nature
Change of Shift - Volume 4, No. 15 - is up on Emergiblog
Friday Ark #279 is up on Modulator
clock | January 22, 2010There are 18 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:
Innovative Individuals Are Not Always the Best Demonstrators: Feeding Innovation and Social Transmission in Serinus canaria:
Feeding innovation occurs when individuals choose a novel, unknown type of food…
clock | January 21, 2010You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.
- Bulgarian proverb
clock | January 21, 2010Busy with ScienceOnline2010 I did not have time to check out the new articles in PLoS ONE and other PLoS titles. Finally I found some time today, and here are my picks from the past few days. 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. There are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Moonlight Makes Owls More Chatty:
Lunar cycles seem to…
clock | January 20, 2010Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
- Charles Dickens
clock | January 20, 2010
People
You cannot see the feedback that many participants at ScienceOnline2010 have already provided to Anton and me (keep them coming - we take the responses very seriously), but the recurring theme for the "highlight of the conference" question was "Meeting the People"; and the main request for the future is "provide more time for informal conversations".
You will see even more of that kind of sentiment if you peruse the growing list of blog coverage. Or glean it from photographs posted on Flickr and Picasa here, here, here, here and here. Or on YouTube videos here and here.
While Early…