clock | October 10, 2006Grand Rounds 3.3 are up on Unbounded Medicine.
The 41st Carnival of Homeschooing is up on Nerd Family.
BTW, this is my 1000th post on this blog!
clock | October 10, 2006I wish more bloggers would read and bookmark this post (I don't know when I first wrote it, but I moved it up top on April 20, 2006):
This is an old post but I wanted to bring it up to top as I recently saw some blogs shut down improperly, i.e., deleting the complete content.
Every now and then a blog shuts down. There are as many reasons as there are bloggers, ranging from getting bored, through getting Dooced, to dying. Every blogger goes about shutting down the blog in different ways. I tried here to put down, in more or less systematic way, the dos and donts of shutting down a blog. If…
clock | October 10, 2006If you are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference and you think you'll be hungry after a cold January day spent talking about science, medicine, journalism and blogging, sign up for dinner now.
clock | October 10, 2006I see that I was the only one answering this week's Ask The ScienceBlogger question (so far). Perhaps these two new studies will inspire some of my SciBlings to add their own thoughts:
Everybody Dance: The Energy You Use Won't Shorten Your Life:
The theory that animals die when they've expended their lifetime allotment of energy may be reaching the end of its own life, according to a study presented at The American Physiological Society conference, Comparative Physiology 2006. However, the longitudinal study leaves open a newer form of the theory -- that antioxidants help prolong life by…
clock | October 10, 2006I went to Quail Ridge Books last night. I will post my report (hopefully with pictures and movie-clips) tomorrow at noon.
clock | October 10, 2006
James Hrynyshyn is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | October 9, 2006Kevin is back from China and busy with school, work and herping in the Sandhills so it took him some time to put together this last installment, covering the last few days in China, the last-ditch efforts to ID some of the mysterious frogs, and the glorious return.
We have yet to get together for a beer, but if he decides to continue writing on his own blog, I'll let you know.
Conclusion
13 September
We arrived back in Beijing around noon. It was a good two hours until we finally made it back to the institute of zoology. Emma wasn't getting off work (she was teaching English at an…
clock | October 9, 2006
A January 20, 2006 post placing a cool physiological/behavioral study into an evolutionary context.
There are two main hypotheses - not mutually exclusive - for the adaptive value of having a circadian clock. One is the Internal Synchronization hypothesis, stating that the circadian clock serves to synchronize biochemical and physiological processes within the body. The second is the External Synchronization hypothesis, stating that the circadian clock serves to syncronize the physiology and behavior to the natural environment.
The prediction from the Internal Hypothesis is that circadian…
clock | October 9, 2006Yes, I like some strange movies, but I arrived in the USA too late to see The Greatest American Hero TV show. Can you tell me more about it?
These people have just released the DVDs of the show. Should I get myself a copy?
clock | October 9, 2006The brand new edition of Encephalon is up on Cognitive Daily. Could you be accepted to attend Encephalon University?
clock | October 9, 2006Red Is For Hummingbirds, Yellow For Moths:
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the future of red and yellow varieties of a San Diego wildflower may depend on the fates of two different animals. They report in the current issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology that monkeyflowers have two different animal pollinators. The red form, common along the coast, is strongly preferred by hummingbirds, while yellow monkeyflowers, found east of I-15, are favored by hawkmoths.
Study Suggests Earlier Crop Plantings Could Curb Future Yields:
In an ongoing bid to…
clock | October 9, 2006As I have written so much about Lakoff before, I feel I should say something - anything - to defend him from the onslaught he's seen lately on Seed's scienceblogs here, here, here, here and here.
What I think is important is to distinguish between several different things that Lakoff does. It appears that the word "Lakoff" triggers different frames in different people!
1. Theory of metaphors. As I stated repeatedly before, I am agnostic about his science. I defer to Chris on that issue. It is possible that Lakoff is wrong on his ideas about mind, language and metaphor. Future research…
clock | October 9, 2006
Mr R is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | October 8, 2006Tarheel Tavern #85 is up on Another Blue Puzzle Piece. I am such an idiot - I forgot to send anything this week!
clock | October 8, 2006Animals Resistant To Drunken Behavior Offer Clues To Alcoholism's Roots:
Animals with a remarkable ability to hold their liquor may point the way toward the genetic underpinnings of alcohol addiction, two separate research teams reported in the October 6, 2006 issue of the journal Cell. Earlier studies have shown that people with a greater tolerance for alcohol have a greater risk of becoming alcoholics, according to the researchers.
What about natural species differences?
Home, Home On The Range: How Much Space Does An Animal Really Need?:
Instead of wandering around aimlessly, most animals…
clock | October 8, 2006
Paul Jones is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | October 7, 2006Pediatric Grand Rounds, Volume One, Edition Thirteen, is up on Kim's Emergiblog.