clock | February 19, 2007But, apparently, that is the least of the problems of this study of sexuality in West European menopausal women.
BTW, a "visual analogue scale" looks like this:
You jot a mark where you feel is the best spot that reflects your answer. The researcher than uses the ruler to put a number on it. Perhaps once iPhone is out in July, this kind of research will be possible.
clock | February 19, 2007This was a meme I posted back on my birthday last year (May 11, 2006) - it's a shame not to move it to the new archives here....
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Carel Brest van Kempen tagged me with the 10 bird meme. A DC Birding Blog started the meme and is collecting the responses (over 50 so far) here.
As you can see, those are all birders and birdwatchers, real pros. They really know their birds. They picked their choices by beauty and grace, or by special meaning in their lives, or by excitement of having seen them.
But I am, unfortunately, not a birdwatcher. I always…
clock | February 19, 2007One of the perks of being a scienceblogger is a steady stream of offers of preview copies of books, as well as willingness of publishers to send one if asked. I have a huge stack of them - some read, some halfway, some waiting for a better future. I've reviewed some of them already. Sooner or later I will read them and review them all.
Recently, I complained that I had trouble getting a copy of Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion by Barbara J. King. Doubleday does not use e-mail! Their parent-company Random House explicitely refuses to use email for communication…
clock | February 19, 2007Light-sensitive Protein Found In Many Marine Bacteria:
New light has been shed on proteorhodopsin, the light-sensitive protein found in many marine bacteria. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated that when the ability to respire oxygen is impaired, bacterium equipped with proteorhodopsin will switch to solar power to carry out vital life processes.
More....
The Last Wild Hunt: Deep-sea Fisheries Scrape Bottom Of The Sea:
An international team of leading fisheries…
clock | February 18, 2007At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.
- Vinny Nayak
clock | February 18, 2007
Robotic Cameras Join Search For 'Holy Grail Of Bird-watching':
In the bayous of eastern Arkansas, amidst ancient trees both living and dead that provide nourishment to creatures of the swamp, hangs a high-tech sentinel patiently waiting to capture video of an elusive bird once thought to be extinct. Developed by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Texas A&M University, the high-resolution intelligent robotic video system installed in the Bayou DeView area of the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas is part of a major effort to locate the ivory-billed…
clock | February 18, 2007I'm sure PZ is inundated with e-mails from readers asking for a real evo-devo explanation, but in the meantime read the news report and see the picture:
clock | February 18, 2007The 104th edition of The Tar Heel Tavern is up on Freelance Writing for Nonprofits. The theme is 'paying tribute'.
Next week, the carnival will be on my old digs, Science And Politics, with no particular theme or topic. Just send your week's best to: Coturnix AT gmail DOT com
clock | February 18, 2007Ed Cone has a new op-ed up: The way we politick now:
Use new media to influence old media, for example, and read the Web to find out what people are talking about outside the campaign bubble. Understand that the news cycle is dead and that stories don't just fade away anymore; the Web operates in an eternal present, where information gets posted in close-to-real-time and remains a click away forever.
clock | February 17, 2007While Aaron Lerner was not a chronobiologist, his discovery of the hormone melatonin in 1958 was one of the key milestones in the biological rhythm research (just see how much I mention it around here) and the chronobiological community will always regard him as one of its own.
You can learn more about melatonin here (UPI got it wrong - the discovery was not made on human skin but a skin preparation of the frog Rana pipiens).
If you are interested, here are three of the first four Lerner's papers on the discovery of Melatonin:
ISOLATION OF MELATONIN, THE PINEAL GLAND FACTOR THAT LIGHTENS…
clock | February 17, 2007Kivi is hosting The Tar Heel Tavern tomorrow, so send your entries ASAP:
I am also hosting The Tarheel Tavern this weekend, the premiere carnival of North Carolina bloggers. My theme is "Paying Tribute." Since we are close to President's Day, and nobody I know actually honors our presidents on the day, I suggest we honor a person in our lives or history who really does deserve an extra bit of love and respect from us, via our blogs. NC bloggers can submit a post to me by Saturday night at kivi AT writingfornonprofits.com.
clock | February 17, 2007While you are reading this in your pajamas, I am enjoying doing this again.
clock | February 17, 2007Pro-science
Dammit Jim!
Tick Tock Talk: The IQ brain clock
Rosio Pavoris
Nove biologije
Glive
Mockingbird's Medley
Once Upon a Time...
Paperwight's Fair Shot
Mikrobyo.com
clock | February 16, 2007The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
- Leonard Cohen
clock | February 16, 2007After writing her side of the story in Salon, Amanda Marcotte is quite busy in the media these days, making various apperances on radio, including NPR's DayTo Day next week. She will also be joining TPM Cafe and has a post up on Huffington Post: Think Tanks, 503s and Rush Limbaugh--What's The Real 'Soft Money'
Now, Melissa McEwen published her take on the whole affair in Guardian: My life as a rightwing target. Check the comments and tell me that the Rightwingers are not delusional, dangerous psychopaths. And they are in the White House right now. (Oh, and if anyone thinks that Amanda and…