clock | December 29, 2009
And today, to finish with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 11:30am - 12:35pm:
A. Medical journalism - Walter Jessen and Karl Leif Bates
Description: It could be argued that healthcare already has a "killer app" - search. According to research by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 61% of us look online for medical information. In an age of horizontal information distribution and social networks, what sort of medical information, disinformation and misinformation does one find? How do we fight publishers of medical…
clock | December 29, 2009There are 19 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:
Explaining the Imperfection of the Molecular Clock of Hominid Mitochondria:
The molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA has been extensively used to date various genetic events. However, its substitution rate…
clock | December 28, 2009The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Cameron Neylon from the Science in the open blog to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background?
My background is in protein chemistry and biochemistry. Broadly speaking what I do is take…
clock | December 28, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Anne-Marie Hodge is a Biology graduate student at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. She blogs on Endless Forms and Pondering Pikaia and is on Twitter. I interviewed Anne-Marie last year.
Nancy Shute is a science and medical writer and the blogger for US News & World Report. She is currently the vice president of the National Association of Science…
clock | December 27, 2009I have made this a rather long letter because I haven't had time to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal
clock | December 26, 2009Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past:
Live this day, a if 'twere they last.
- Bishop Thomas Ken
clock | December 26, 2009This movie should be made, with Emma Watson starring:
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
clock | December 25, 2009Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, that spends his whole time in recreation is ever whetting, never mowing; his grass may grow and his steed starve. As, contrarily, he that always toils and never recreates, is ever mowing, never whetting; laboring too much to little purpose; as good no scythe as no edge.
- Bishop Joseph Hall
clock | December 25, 2009
I always opened it this way. My Mom taught me this decades ago. What are you saying? We are descended from monkeys?!@#$%^&*! No way!
clock | December 25, 2009
Interesting how the parent is steering the youngster towards the bag, trying to get it to use it as a prop!
clock | December 24, 2009Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here.
- Bill T. Jones
clock | December 24, 2009Is Our Self Nothing but Reward? Neuronal Overlap and Distinction between Reward and Personal Relevance and Its Relation to Human Personality:
The attribution of personal relevance, i.e. relating internal and external stimuli to establish a sense of belonging, is a common phenomenon in daily life. Although previous research demonstrated a relationship between reward and personal relevance, their exact neuronal relationship including the impact of personality traits remains unclear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we applied an experimental paradigm that allowed us to explore the…
clock | December 23, 2009Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Calvin - Bill Watterson 'Calvin and Hobbes'
clock | December 23, 2009It is always interesting to dig through one's blog archives and see what happened when, or get reminded of a post one forgot was ever written ;-)
So, here are some of the key posts on A Blog Around The Clock from 2009, chosen from almost 2000 posts that appeared here this year (which is MUCH less than the number of posts in 2008 - I've been slacking off!):
Science
Circadian Rhythm of Aggression in Crayfish
An Awesome Whale Tale
Do you love or hate Cilantro?
Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work?
Yes, Archaea also have circadian clocks!
Introducing…
clock | December 23, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 10:15 - 11:20am:
A. Article-level metrics - Peter Binfield
Description: In an attempt to measure the article, as opposed to the journal it is published in, PLoS has recently implemented a suite of article-level metrics on all PLoS Articles. These metrics include online usage, citations, social bookmarks, comments, notes, ratings, and blog coverage. This presentation will go into the motivation for this program; provide information on how it has been implemented; and cover…
clock | December 23, 2009There are 21 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:
Universal Behavior of Extreme Price Movements in Stock Markets:
Many studies assume stock prices follow a random process known as geometric Brownian motion. Although approximately correct, this model fails…