clock | June 26, 2009The Food hypothesis of human evolution was developed by Richard Wrangham, author of "Catching Fire". It was covered recently by my sciblings, including Erin, Razib and Ethan. It was also the topic on last week's Bloggingheads.tv.
But now, you can hear the interview with Wrangham on the World Science podcast, then go over to the forum and ask him questions. He'll be checking in the forums and responding for the next week or so.
Then let me know what you thought about it - the topic, the podcast, the forum.
[Reminder that I serve as an outside advisor to World Science]
Update: Wow! I did not…
clock | June 26, 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 one of my SciBlings and friends, Peter Lipson, aka Pal MD of the White Coat Underground, 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/medical) background?
I'm a husband, dad, and internist. An…
clock | June 26, 2009On Wednesday night, Anton Zuiker and I met over dinner at Town Hall Grill (and an amazing vocalist of local "Caribou Barbie Unboxed" band) and made some plans.
We confirmed the date - ScienceOnline'10 will be on 15-17th January 2010 in Triangle, NC.
We will have science and food related tours on Friday, ending with something special in the evening, followed by regular programming on Saturday (whole day) and Sunday (until noon). So, mark your calendars.
I'll post more information as it becomes available, but briefly: we are having it, economic crisis or not. Sigma Xi is the likely venue (but…
clock | June 25, 2009Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
clock | June 25, 2009Change of Shift, Volume 3 Number 26 is up on RehabRN
I and the Bird #103 is up on Birdfreak.com
clock | June 25, 2009If you are in any way following the developments in the world of science publishing, you have probably heard about the new effort by PLoS to establish article-level metrics for scientific papers (instead of the dreadful and erronoeus Impact Factor).
Today, Peter Binfield, the Managing Editor of PLoS ONE, published a paper entitled "PLoS ONE: Background, Future Development, and Article-Level Metrics" that covers all of that in great detail. The paper is, of course, Open Access, so you can download the PDF for free here and the related PowerPoint slideshow here.
Peter says:
The paper goes into…
clock | June 25, 2009Let's take a look at all seven PLoS journals 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:
Light, Sleep, and Circadian Rhythms: Together Again:
The 24-hour (h) light-dark (LD) cycle is a fundamental characteristic of Earth's environment and so its powerful influence on the behaviour and…
clock | June 25, 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 one of my SciBlings and friends, Scicurious of the Neurotopia, 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 name is Scicurious (please, call my Sci), and I'm a grad student studying…
clock | June 24, 2009The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
- Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr.
clock | June 24, 2009There are 14 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:
No Detectable Maternal Effects of Elevated CO2 on Arabidopsis thaliana Over 15 Generations:
Maternal environment has been demonstrated to produce considerable impact on offspring growth. However, few…
clock | June 24, 2009
Beating The Bullies: Changing Real-world Behavior Through Virtual Experience:
Social problems like bullying and stereotyping involve thoughts, feelings and reactions that resist change. New research shows that when students play active roles in virtual dramas their attitudes and behaviour can change.
How Big A Role Does Chance Play In The History Of Life?:
If the broad evolutionary diversification of a group of organisms were repeated by a few species in a single genus tens of millions of years after the group's initial diversification, what would that say about the roles of contingency,…
clock | June 23, 2009Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
clock | June 23, 2009Or better not. Is this the way Washington Post is trying to hasten its complete loss of respect and relevance? In the week they fired their only journalist worthy of that title?
Yuck!
[via @jayrosen_nyu]
clock | June 23, 2009There are 20 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:
A Fish Eye Out of Water: Ten Visual Opsins in the Four-Eyed Fish, Anableps anableps:
The "four-eyed" fish Anableps anableps has numerous morphological adaptations that enable above and below-water vision.…
clock | June 23, 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 one of my SciBlings, Greg Laden of the eponymous 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?
When I was young, I intended to become a priest. Since I was being raised among Jesuits…
clock | June 22, 2009Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.
- Nina Berberova
clock | June 22, 2009
Dinosaurs May Have Been Smaller Than Previously Thought:
The largest animals ever to have walked the face of the earth may not have been as big as previously thought, reveals a paper published June 21 in the Zoological Society of London's Journal of Zoology. Scientists have discovered that the original statistical model used to calculate dinosaur mass is flawed, suggesting dinosaurs have been oversized.
Boy Or Girl? In Lizards, Egg Size Matters:
Whether baby lizards will turn out to be male or female is a more complicated question than scientists would have ever guessed, according to a new…
clock | June 22, 2009Carnival of Space #108: Solstice Edition! is up on Starts With A Bang
Carnival of the Green #185 is up on The Daily (Maybe)
clock | June 22, 2009I am pretty sure it's a true bug (i.e., I am not being sloppy by calling just any ole' insect a bug). I got as close as I could with my iPhone, but the lighting was bad. This is on my porch and the bug is really large - about 1 inch in length of the body.
So, what is it?