clock | June 16, 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:
General Intelligence in Another Primate: Individual Differences across Cognitive Task Performance in a New World Monkey (Saguinus oedipus):
Individual differences in human cognitive abilities show…
clock | June 16, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 160 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
A Blog Around The Clock: Yes, Archaea also have circadian clocks!
A Blog Around The Clock: Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work?
A Blog…
clock | June 16, 2009Yup, I know this comes from our 'competition', the Science magazine, but it is a worthy cause:
The Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) has been established to encourage innovation and excellence in education, as well as to encourage the use of high-quality on-line resources by students, teachers, and the public. In 2009, the prize will recognize outstanding projects from all regions of the world that bring freely available online resources to bear on science education.
Winning projects should reinforce one or more of the four strands of science learning recommended by the…
clock | June 16, 2009The Giant's Shoulders #12 is up on thoughts from gut bacteria
Scientia Pro Publica 6 is up on Mauka to Makai
The latest Grand Rounds are up on ACP Internist
clock | June 15, 2009History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
- Mark Yost
clock | June 15, 2009
Poor Sleep Is Associated With Lower Relationship Satisfaction In Both Women And Men:
A bidirectional association exists between couples' sleep quality and the quality of their relationship, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
Less Than Half Of Older Americans Get The Recommended 8 Hours Of Nightly Sleep:
Older Americans with depressive symptoms and poor mental health tend to get seven hours of sleep per night or less, according to a research abstract that will be…
clock | June 15, 2009There are 18 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:
Variable Food Begging Calls Are Harbingers of Vocal Learning:
Vocal learning has evolved in only a few groups of mammals and birds. The developmental and evolutionary origins of vocal learning remain…
clock | June 15, 2009The June edition of Accretionary Wedge: Let's Do a Time Warp! is up on Outside the Interzone
Boneyard returns at When Pigs Fly Returns
CARNIVAL OF THE GREEN #184! is up on The Conservation Report
clock | June 14, 2009The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
clock | June 14, 2009Follow me on Twitter and you'll see this stream (to see more than one-sided conversation, search me there as well and check if there are comments on FriendFeed):
RT @ljthornton Students: Roughly 2 hours of tweets from "student living in Tehran," 22: http://bit.ly/wVpJl
#CNNFail: Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence. http://tr.im/osmp (via @jayrosen_nyu)
@HowardKurtz Hours and hours of ....talking to the camera revealing no useful information?
@HowardKurtz perhaps CNN and its audience have very different ideas of what is reporting, what is useful information, what is coverage.
@…
clock | June 13, 2009The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn
- A. Toffler
clock | June 13, 2009Hmm, I usually do this on Fridays, but I was busy. So here is a Saturday sampler of papers from all seven PLoS journals published last week. 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.
Melanopsin as a Sleep Modulator: Circadian Gating of the Direct Effects of Light on Sleep and Altered Sleep Homeostasis in Opn4â/â Mice:
Light affects sleep in two ways: indirectly through…
clock | June 13, 2009He is the BBC's latest star - the cab driver who a leading presenter believed was a world expert on the internet music business.
The man stepped unwittingly into the national spotlight when he was interviewed by mistake on the corporation's News 24 channel.
With the seconds ticking down to a studio discussion about a court case involving Apple Computer and The Beatles' record label, a floor manager had run to reception and grabbed the man, thinking he was Guy Kewney, editor of Newswireless.net, a specialist internet publication.
Actually, he was a minicab driver who had been waiting to drive…
clock | June 13, 2009The 92nd Edition of Carnival of the Liberals is up on OBAMA ACTION COMICS!
Friday Ark #247 is up on Modulator
clock | June 13, 2009Female Water Striders Expose Their Genitalia Only After Males 'Sing':
Chang Seok Han and Piotr Jablonski at Seoul National University, Korea have found that by evolving a morphological shield to protect their genitalia from males' forceful copulatory attempts, females of an Asian species of water strider seem to "win" the evolutionary arms race between the sexes. Instead, females only expose their genitalia for copulation after males produce a courtship "song" by tapping the water surface.
African Bird Species Could Struggle To Relocate To Survive Global Warming:
African bird species could…
clock | June 12, 2009There is nothing good about blindly abiding to certain paradigms, simply because you were instructed by authoritative figures from the stages of infancy to do so ...
- Vanesh Naidoo
clock | June 12, 2009There are 15 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:
The Timing of the Shrew: Continuous Melatonin Treatment Maintains Youthful Rhythmic Activity in Aging Crocidura russula:
Laboratory conditions nullify the extrinsic factors that determine the wild expected…
clock | June 12, 2009Sorry, could not resist posting this:
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