clock | March 1, 2007The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
clock | March 1, 2007Being sick and all, I completely missed a great new science carnival - Scientiae - a blog carnival about the broad topic of "women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics." The first edition just went up on Rants of a feminist engineer and it is chockful of good stuff (not to mention rich mining for future blogrolling).
clock | March 1, 2007The latest edition of The Four Stone Hearth is up on Hot Cup Of Joe - it's all about Letters.
The 55th Skeptics' Circle is up on The Second Sight - it's all about Numbers.
clock | March 1, 20072008 Science Blogging Conference
Not to be bragging, but the '07 Science Blogging Conference was a great success, and most attendees voiced their approval of Chapel Hill as a permanent venue for the event, so Anton and I are starting early in planning for the next one.
There are rumors of a mid-summer equivalent event to be held on the West Coast (Seattle or somewhere there) which would be great - more the merrier - but we will also try to find some way to help a few West-Coasters make their way to North Carolina in winter as well.
We pored over all of your feedback forms and read all the…
clock | March 1, 2007City Ants Take The Heat:
While Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, has generated greater awareness of global warming, most people remain unaware of the more rapid warming that has occurred within major cities. In fact, large cities can be more than 10 degrees hotter than their surroundings. These metropolitan hot spots, which scientists refer to as urban heat islands, can stress the animals and plants that make their home alongside humans. Until recently, biologists had focused so much on the effects of global climate change, that they had overlooked the effects of urban warming.
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clock | February 28, 2007The 108th edition of The Carnival of Education is up on Dr. Homeslice
Carnival of Homeschooling #60 is up on Homeschool Hacks
clock | February 28, 2007This is a story about two mindsets - one scientific, one not - both concerned with the same idea but doing something very different with it. Interestingly, both arrived in my e-mail inbox on the same day, but this post had to wait until I got out of bed and started feeling a little bit better.
First, just a little bit of background:
Circadian oscillations are incredibly robust, i.e., resistant to perturbations and random noise from the environment. Ricardo Azevedo has described one model that accounts for such robustness in his two-part post here and here and others have used other methods…
clock | February 28, 2007A few are under the fold, but many more can be found here.
This one is older, back when Chris Mooney was in Raleigh for a book reading:
Prof.Steve Steve with Larry Moran at the Friday dinner just before the Science Blogging Conference:
Larry and Jane Moran:
Prof. Steve Steve watching Janet blogging:
Color scheme fits with the Darwin shirt:
With Rep. Brad Miller on Saturday night at the end of the Conference:
Meeting Paddington Bear:
Though I guess Steve Steve would prefer to meet Amanda Panda instead:
clock | February 28, 2007Researchers Discover Key To Body's Ability To Detect Subtle Temperature Changes:
Scientists have long known the molecular mechanisms behind most of the body's sensing capabilities. Vision, for example, is made possible in part by rhodopsin, a pigment molecule that is extremely sensitive to light. It is involved in turning photons into electrical signals that can be decoded by the brain into visual information. But how the human body is able to sense a one-degree change in temperature has remained a mystery.
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Antarctic Marine Explorers Reveal First Hints Of Biological Change After…
clock | February 27, 2007Be regular and orderly in your daily affairs that you may be violent and original in your work.
- Gustave Flaubert
clock | February 27, 2007Bad History Carnival is back after a winter break! The 13th edition is up on Old is the New New blog.
clock | February 26, 2007Encephalon no. 17 (Pirate-style) is up on Pure Pedantry.
The ninth edition of the Radiology Grand Rounds is up at Cochinblogs
clock | February 26, 2007Why Even Close Associates Sometimes Have Trouble Communicating:
Particularly among close associates, sharing even a little new information can slow down communication. Some of people's biggest problems with communication come in sharing new information with people they know well, newly published research at the University of Chicago shows.
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Older Adults May Be Unreliable Eyewitnesses, Study Shows:
A University of Virginia study suggests that older adults are not only more inclined than younger adults to make errors in recollecting details that have been suggested to them, but are…
clock | February 25, 2007Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it.
- Erich Fromm