clock | November 2, 2006This week's question in the Ask a ScienceBlogger series is:
What's the most underfunded scientific field that shouldn't be underfunded?
The first and obvious answer is, of course, "my field", whatever it is.
But then....
But then I thought about my own field of chronobiology and I think that its funding goes as overal funding goes. When there is a lot of money to go around, clock researchers get their fair share. When everyone is suffering, so does my field. After all, circadian field is deemed pretty "sexy" - it was a runner-up in the year-end popularity lists of the Science magazine at…
clock | November 2, 2006...but I have to note that The Brummell loves Seed Magazine and reviews the whole last issue, article by article.
clock | November 2, 2006
I am currently teaching only the lab portion of BIO101 and will not teach the lecture again until January, but this is as good time as ever to start reposting my lecture notes here, starting with the very first one (originally posted on May 07, 2006) and continuing every Thursday over the next several weeks.
Although this is old, I'd love to get more comments on each of those lecture notes. Did I get any facts wrong? Is the material inappropriate for the level I am teaching? Is there a bette rway to do it? Are there online resources I can tap into…
clock | November 2, 2006Shelley has already explained the recent study about the life-span increasing properties of Resveratrol, a compound found in wine.
Article in NYT tries to make a quick calculation (apparently erroneous) as of how much wine a person would have to drink in order to receive the same dose as the lab mice got in this study - "from 1,500 to 3,000 bottles of red wine a day"!
Perhaps the dose would be smaller if you could stand drinking the super-sweet Scuppernong (from muscadine grape - Vitis Rotundifolia) wine from Duplin Winery here in Rose Hill, North Carolina. As horribly sweet as it is, I…
clock | November 2, 2006
Vedran Vucic is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. That is the third blogger from Belgrade (including myself) at the conference!!!! We are definitely having a Balkan session! With slivovitz.
Are you registered yet?
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clock | November 2, 2006Happy fourth blogiversary to John Dupuis, the confessing librarian! Go say Hello.
clock | November 1, 2006The next Chapel Hill Bloggers Meetup will be tonight, on Thursday, November 2nd at 6pm EST at Open Eye Cafe. I will try not to oversleep this time around and get to see you there.
clock | November 1, 2006Eva of Easternblot just published a nice article about circadian clocks in her school newspaper. Much good stuff was cut out during the editing process, but she posted those good parts on her blog so you can see what the editors left out.
clock | November 1, 2006Yikes! I hope nobody gave you this candy last night!
Is that just sand inside? I'd like to see someone do a chemical analysis of "Jesus' Blood"
From this child-terrorrizing site, via Mr.Sun.
clock | November 1, 2006The 91st Edition of the Carnival of Education is up on The Median Sib.
The 44th edition of Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Why Homeschool.
clock | November 1, 2006One of th efirst posts on Circadiana, just defining what the blog was about (January 17, 2005):
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When I first took a class on Biological Clocks (eleven years ago), the instructor explained why biorhythms are not science. This was done with such fun, and as aside, I did not take it seriously. I did not realize I was supposed to study this exercise in Baloney Detection. I was surprised when I saw the question on the first mid-term exam, asking us to debunk biorhythms point-by-point. I lost several points there. I have learned since then to pay…
clock | November 1, 2006
A.K. Ravishankar of the Biotechnologist2020 - Mr.Jatropha is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | October 31, 2006Check out the freshly unvailed Open Healthcare Manifesto, designed to foster "open media" in healthcare and medicine and to implement "some sort of a new "integrity standard" ... needed to help people sort through the junk that openness unfortunately tends to generate."
To see the details, download the HealthTrain - the Open Healthcare Manifesto (pdf) and the HealthTrain Press Release (pdf)
clock | October 31, 2006You may be aware of the $5000 scholarship for students who are science bloggers.
Now the 10 finalists have been announced and you should go here to cast your vote.
I have initially nominated (and will vote for) Jenna (Jennifer Wong) of Cyberspace Rendezvous which is, in my opinion, the best student science blog around at this time and I hope you vote for her (but I cannot blame you if you choose Shelley instead).
What are the techie blogs doing on that list I have no idea. I do not think those are science blogs, but I am not running the contest. So, do your part to help a real science…
clock | October 31, 2006The worst Tevye ever (January 26, 2005)
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I have seen "Fiddler on the Roof" on stage more than 20 times in my life, starting at about the age of seven. Since I was about 24, I saw the movie a few times. I have had, over the years, LPs, tapes and CDs of several different renditions. I can play a few of the tunes on the piano. I love it. That is my favourite show of all times.
I have heard the music so many times, my brain is so wired to it that I cannot stop myself from crying every time I hear it (that is why I don't listen to it in the car…
clock | October 31, 2006Humans do it, great apes do it, dolphins do it, now elephants (also here) have also been shown to do it - recognize themselves in the mirror, i.e., realize that the image in the mirror is the image of themselves and not a strange animal. That's a biggie in the world of cognitive science and the study of evolution of consciousness:
When the mirror was unveiled in their yard, they immediately walked over and began poking and prodding and inspecting and playing. They used their trunks to inspect it and then themselves. Two got on their hind legs to look on top of the mirror. One got on the…
clock | October 31, 2006When doctors get scary, than it is really scary - go check it out on Doctor Hébert's Medical Gumbo