clock | December 8, 2006Shelley scored quite a blogospheric scoop today - an exclusive interview with Irene Pepperberg.
clock | December 8, 2006Sea Urchin Genome Suprisingly Similar To Man And May Hold Key To Cures:
Sea urchins are small and spiny, they have no eyes and they eat kelp and algae. Still, the sea creature's genome is remarkably similar to humans' and may hold the key to preventing and curing several human diseases, according to a University of Central Florida researcher and several colleagues.
Evolution Of The Penis Worm: Research Reveals Embryos More Than Half A Billion Years Old :
Images of the developmental stages of embryos more than half a billion years old were reported by a University of Bristol researcher.
From A…
clock | December 8, 2006
Ifeoma Ndefo is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 7, 2006Once you get your new Nintendo console, make sure you are calm while playing. Otherwise, you are bound to break something.
clock | December 7, 2006Or the Carnival of the Godless? You can mine this site for ideas. Ooooh, scientific materialism! Scary! Papa Jeebus, protect me, please, because I am a coward!
clock | December 7, 2006A few days back, Alex posted about a new, easy way to calculate one's Hirsch Number ("H-Index"), a widely used measure of one's publications' worth. Yup, I did it for me and no, I am not telling you my number....
The site that published this, The Epidemiologic Enquiry, now that I had some time to take a longer look, has a bunch of other interesting things posted about scientific/medical publishing and the methods of epidemiological research. Worth a look.
clock | December 7, 2006Promoting Ethics in Science:
Increasingly, journals are appearing in front page scandals that expose undisclosed industry support of research and scientists who have faked results. Blackwell Publishing, trying to prevent such problems, recently released a comprehensive guide on publication ethics to the editors of its 805 academic journals. These principles provide practical advice to inform policies on a broad range of topics such as conflicts of interest. While the guidelines will not be mandatory, experts seem pleased and expect the move will help to clean up academic publishing.
clock | December 7, 20062006 Weblog Awards finals are now open for voting. The main menu is here. You can vote once per 24 hours over the next 10 days.
You can go directly to the Best Science Blog category and...good luck! Is there a science blog on the list anyone can NOT like?
Medical Blogs? Orac? Cheerful Oncologist? Again, a tough choice.
How about the Best Educational Blog? Berube? Education Wonks? Hard to choose.
Best Blog? Yuk! What horrendous choices! Only DailyKos deserves a vote from the whole list. When are Koufaxes starting?
Best New Blog - I only know (and like) Konagod.
Best Individual…
clock | December 7, 2006Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea:
The article offers a description and accompanying videos, such as the one showing a grouper and eel swimming side by side as if they are good friends on a stroll. It also offers quantification, which is truly hard to achieve in the field, of the tendencies involved in this mutually beneficial arrangement. The investigators were able to demonstrate that the two predators seek each other's company, spending more time together than expected by chance. They also found that groupers actively…
clock | December 7, 2006Amanda just reviewed Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma and also recently wrote a post on the same topic while under the influence of the book. I agree with her 100%, so go and read both posts.
I have read the book a couple of months ago and never found time to write a review of my own. I also remember that I finished the book on a Thursday afternoon - an important piece of information as it is on Thursday afternoons that there is a Farmers' Market here in Southern Village, barely a block from me. The first thing I did when I closed the book was to walk up to the Farmers' Market…
clock | December 7, 2006It's Thursday, so it is time for the next portion of my BIO101 lecture notes (May 15, 2006). As alway, I'd appreciate corrections of errors, and suggestions for improvement.
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Cell Differentiation and Embryonic Development
BIO101 - Bora Zivkovic - Lecture 2 - Part 2
There are about 210 types of human cells, e.g., nerve cells, muscle cells, skin cells, blood cells, etc. Wikipedia has a nice comprehensive listing of all the types of human cells.
What makes one cell type different from the other cell types? After all,…
clock | December 7, 2006The 49th Meeting of The Skeptics' Circle is up on Autism Street.
Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival - 4th Edition - is up on Yann Klimentidis' Weblog.
Circus of the Spineless #15 is up on Words & Pictures
The 28th Carnival of the Feminists is up at Diary of a Freak Magnet.
clock | December 7, 2006Revere reports that there is a new article in Nature (pdf) demonstrating even stronger scientific support for the innocence of the Tripoli 6, the one doctor and five nurses facing a possible death penalty in Libya. The final verdict will be read on December 19th. The international pressure from the medical world as well as the blogosphere has been enormous, but there is no sign that the Libyan government is listening to it. Certainly now, in the last stretch, we need to renew our efforts and broadcast about this and ask our readers to write letters to people in power. Janet provides…
clock | December 7, 2006Pendulums, Predators And Prey: The Ecology Of Coupled Oscillations:
Connect one pendulum to another with a spring, and in time the motions of the two swinging levers will become coordinated. This behavior of coupled oscillators---long a fascination of physicists and mathematicians---also can help biologists seeking to understand such questions as why some locations overflow with plants and animals while others are bereft, University of Michigan theoretical ecologist John Vandermeer maintains.
Why Do Some Queen Bees Eat Their Worker Bee's Eggs?:
Worker bees, wasps and ants are often considered…
clock | December 7, 2006
Philip Carl is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 6, 2006The Tangled Bank Survey #68: The Voyage of Discovery is up on Down To Earth. Captain Daniel Collins commandeers H.M.S. Tangled Bank full of ship naturalists.