clock | December 18, 2006Almost there....
YakimaGulagLiteraryGazett
Yellow Doggerel Democrat
Yesh.com
You all win. I got a blog.
YoungFemaleScientist
Yowling from the Fencepost
Previously (and please you can add suggestions at any time in the future - I get e-mail notifications so I will get the message):
Number/Symbol
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
clock | December 18, 2006Just How Useful Are Animal Studies To Human Health?:
Animal studies are of limited usefulness to human health because they are of poor quality and their results often conflict with human trials, argue researchers in a study online in the British Medical Journal.
Before clinical trials are carried out, the safety and effectiveness of new drugs are usually tested in animal models. Some believe, however, that the results from animal trials are not applicable to humans because of biological differences between the species.
So researchers compared treatment effects in animal models with human…
clock | December 18, 2006
Katarina Aram of Purdue University, a commenter on Panda's Thumb is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
clock | December 17, 2006The first edition of Oekologie will be on January 15th on Infinite Sphere. Send your best serious ecological science posts the day before to be included in the new carnival.
Last week, RPM of evolgen asked his readers to find blogs that cover ecological science (and not just nature and conservation) and they came up with quite a few good ones. Spread the word - let's make Oekologie a success and an incentive for ecologists to write more about the nitty-gritty science. Nice nature pictures and stories are great for Friday Ark, I And The Bird or Circus of the Spineless, and environmental…
clock | December 17, 2006Ah, everyone is too busy getting ready for the holidays to remember to send their entries to the Tar Heel Tavern, so, this week, it is pretty small, but I am glad to see that I am not the only one writing about driving and traffic.
BTW, do not forget the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Blogger MeetUp tonight at 7pm at the library.
clock | December 17, 2006Fluid Displacement From Legs To Neck Can Lead To Obstructive Sleep Apnea:
When a person lies down, a small amount of fluid displaced from the legs to the base of the neck can narrow soft tissue around the throat and increase airflow resistance in the pharynx by more than 100 percent, predisposing the person to obstructive sleep apnea.
----------------------
In obstructive sleep apnea, a blockage in the throat or upper airway causes victims to repeatedly stop breathing long enough to decrease the amount of oxygen in the blood and increase the carbon dioxide.
--------------------------
"Our…
clock | December 17, 2006John Edwards, Untucked:
But maybe something is really changing inside the son of a millworker. This week he will launch a series of short documentaries on his Web site, OneAmericaCommittee.com, offering behind-the-scenes glimpses of life on the campaign trail. The Webisodes, previewed exclusively by NEWSWEEK, show Edwards struggling with how to show more authenticity on the campaign trail. "I'd rather be successful or unsuccessful based on who I really am, not based on some plastic Ken doll," he says in one episode. "But ... we're so conditioned to say what's safe ... and it's hard to shed…
clock | December 17, 2006Sensory Nerve Discovery In Diabetes Opens Door To New Treatment Strategies:
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the University of Calgary and The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine have found that diabetes is controlled by abnormalities in the sensory nociceptor (pain-related) nerve endings in the pancreatic islet cells that produce insulin. This discovery, a breakthrough that has long been the elusive goal of diabetes research, has led to new treatment strategies for diabetes, achieving reversal of the disease without severe, toxic immunosuppression. This research is…
clock | December 17, 2006According to this article (and the podcast of the NPR show linked there), you should like my deep voice. I got it from my Dad. He sang the deepest Bass in many choirs over decades, toured the world and cut records. His voice was absolutely amazing. His best friends' voices (well, those were all the guys from the bass-baritone section of the choir) were also amazing. So, from very early on I was aware of the power of the human voice.
But, I recently realized that my voice appears to be higher-pitched when I speak and sing in English than when I speak or sing in Serbian, probably due to…
clock | December 17, 2006I know only these two - do you know any others:
Xark!
Xenogere / strange behavior /
Previously (and please you can add suggestions at any time in the future - I get e-mail notifications so I will get the message):
Number/Symbol
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
clock | December 17, 2006Discovery May Help Predict When Toxoplasma Can Be Deadly :
Toxoplasma is arguably the most successful animal parasite on earth: It infects hundreds of species of warm-blooded animals, most notably half of humanity. Its unusual ability to overcome the numerous challenges of infecting and reproducing inside such a wide range of creatures has long intrigued scientists, and now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified two of the proteins critical to its ability to thrive.
One Gene 90 Percent Responsible For Making Common Parasite Dangerous:
More than a decade of…
clock | December 17, 2006
Boris Hartl of North Carolina Biotechnology Center is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
clock | December 16, 2006You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden
clock | December 16, 2006Yesterday I listened to a segment on All Things Considered called Atheist Brigade Takes Arguments to the Tolerant (podcast) with some trepidation. But, when it all ended, I thought it was not bad at all. Apart from a couple of intolerant sentences in the beginning by someone named Wolf (if I remember correctly) and a stupid quote of Pat Robertson, most of the time was given to Sam Harris who also had the last word. The phrase "no atheists in foxholes" was debunked and an NPR correspondent (John Burnett) who used it in the past came on the show to apologize. It is telling that he had no…
clock | December 16, 2006Next issue of the Seed Magazine will have an article about scienceblogs.com. You can see a composite cartoon of all of us (without, unfortunately, our most recent additions) here. We look funny, don't we? Quiz: find Grrrl and Orac in the picture - how long did it take you? It took me forever!
clock | December 16, 2006Rumors are that he will make the official announcement around Christmas. Brilliant! His main issue is poverty and he'll anounce from the city that became the symbol of poverty in America (not that it does not exist everywhere - but it is a symbol) and remind everyone about the post-Katrina plight of the poor, the GOP inability and unwillingness to do anything right about the disaster, and the Republican racist rhetoric about the "welfare queens" and "God smiting New Orleans because of homosexuality".
clock | December 16, 2006Why is Joe Klein surprised? Is this news something against the narrative he and his buddies were trying to build over the past year or so? Whither The Inevitable Hillary?
The Des Moines Register is reporting these numbers in a poll of Iowa Democrats conducted in October by Harstad Research for a group called Environmental Defense:
* John Edwards 36%
* Hillary Clinton 16%
* Barack Obama 13%
* Tom Vilsack 11%
Among county Democratic Party leaders, the numbers are even more startling:
* Edwards 40%
* Vilsack 15%
* Obama 11%
* Clinton 8%
See this comment by…
clock | December 16, 2006Including the work on circadian clocks in fruitflies by an old friend. I'm glad she managed to lose only about 6 weeks of work. When hurricane Fran hit Raleigh back in 1996, I lost 6 months!