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Fornvännen's Summer Issue On-Line

Fornvännen 2016:2 is now on-line on Open Access. Ola George reports on a Migration Period chamber grave excavated at Björkå in Överlännäs parish, Ångermanland. Peter Persson surveys chamber graves in all of Västernorrland county. Ny Björn Gustafsson on radiocarbon-dated beeswax and metalworking on Viking Period Gotland. Gunnar Andersson et al. on a recent addition to the collection of runestone fragments from the modern village next to Birka, which allowed them to stick all the fragments together into one monument. Magnus Lindberg & Maria Lingström on metal detecting in contract…

Michael Pater, Connecticut artist, died today

He was also my husband's uncle. I only found two of his images online, the remainder are photographs of prints we have on our walls - intentionally poor quality for those. He was a member of the Lyme Art Association, so there may be more information on their site.  The Courant (Hartford, CT) had this bit about him announcing a showing: The LAA Elected Artist first studied art in Hanover, Germany, while in the Lysenko refugee camp from 1945 to 1949 with Ivan Kubarsky (Armashevsky), Vasyl Perebyinis, Volodymyr Balas, Anatol Jabonsky and others. In 1949, Pater immigrated to the United States.…

My sweet-ass new business cards have arrived

Today my sweet new business cards arrived from Moo.com - a whole 6 days ahead of schedule! I've been trying to get some made for a while, and Moo.com have a seductively simply online card creator, allowing you to upload pictures or import them from Flickr, Facebook, etc. You can even use several different images if you want. Then pick colours and card stock, add your text, and hey presto! your cards are on their way. You even receive a sweet little box, dividers, and a buzzword bingo card: Perhaps you think this is the point where I give you some product code and receive a sneaky…

Advanced Adapting In Place

As I begin the final push on _Making Home_ my book on Adapting in Place (out next spring), Aaron and I will be offering the first ever "Advanced AIP Class" running from Tuesday, September 20 to October 25th. The class will build on the basic Adapting-In-Place skills that we've been talking about all these years in my classes, the blogs, etc... - triaging your situation, thinking about scenarios, and building both personal and community resilience, but this class moves beyond the basics into the larger question of how to make a life that both provides you some insulation from tough times, but…

IPCC Report: Now with More Certainty!

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the policymakersâ summary of its 2007 report today, and it was at once a momentous occasion and nothing new. Nothing new, that is, to the people whoâve been following the science for the past few decades and had already figured out that humans are causing global warming and are going to suffer for our folly. IPCC reports have tremendous authority, because they represent the work of the worldâs leading scientists conducting the most comprehensive review of scientific research produced on climate change. Now, theyâve said that they are 90%…

North Carolina science journalism/blogging projects getting noticed

If you are interested in the topic of science journalism, how it's changing, what's new, and who's who in it, you are probably already reading Knight Science Journalism Tracker. If not, you should start now. They have recently been digging around and finding projects with which I am involved in one way or another. For example, a few days ago, they profiled science blogs in general and scienceblogs.com in particular, but mainly focused on ResearchBlogging.org which aggregates and gives a stamp of approval to blog posts covering peer-reviewed research. The aggregator is a local thing - it is a…

My Review of Nicholas Wade's Book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History.

I first heard about Wade's book when a colleague started talking about bits and pieces of it. He was reading it pursuant to a writing a review. I asked the publisher for a review copy, which they kindly supplied, and started tracking the pre-publication reactions. After reading the first couple of chapters, I realized that I needed to write a review of this book, but I wanted to do something a bit more than a blog post. So, I contacted American Scientist. I had reviewed two books for them earlier. American Scientist is actually my very favorite science magazine (among magazines that are…

The Need for Science Journalism in the Developing World (& Sundry Other Links)

My latest Seed column, entitled "Extremophile Journalism," is now online. It's based on my experience at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Melbourne, Australia last April, where I learned much about the plight of science reporters in developing countries and emerging economies. Here's an excerpt: ...in many cases science journalists from the developing world face a series of hurdles that I, comfortably ensconced in Washington, D.C., simply never encounter. For some of these writers, basic research resources like cheap and reliable telephone service, libraries, and even…

Science Online 2010: thoughts for librarians

Again in no particular order, some thoughts and ideas that came to mind during Science Online 2010: I did quite a bit of library advocacy during the conference, and not just during the session dedicated to it! I noticed that I had the best luck when I could define a library service in terms of outcomes that would be useful to the person I was talking to. Not "IRs are great! Open access now!" but "if your interns deposit their presentations into the IR, your program will build institutional memory, and the interns themselves will build identities as researchers." Seems obvious enough, but the…

This Just In: Scientists Discover True Nature Of Bullying!

Jun. 28, 2010 10:45 PM ET SB COMMUNITY DEEMS PSEUDONYMOUS SOCKPUPPETERS ACCEPTABLE TARGETS FOR MOCKERY, DERISION Douchey McDoucherson, ScienceBlogs Writers ANYWHERE (SB) Scientists have recently discovered that popular bloggers can taunt and gloat over the downfall of unpopular bloggers, and bask in the warm glow of widespread support - but only if proper precautions are taken while engaging in this dangerous enterprise. Most of the relevant research was published in a leading online linguistics journal. Noted meangirl, petulant whiner, and internet gadfly Zuskaids was quick to critcize the…

Occupational injuries and illnesses in low-wage workers cost the US $39 billion in 2010

Celeste wrote earlier this year about a study by health J. Paul Leigh of University of California Davis (published in the Milbank Quarterly) that calculated the economic of work-related injuries and illnesses in the US: $250 billion in 2007 alone. Celeste and I requested that he return to the data behind that estimate and calculate the medical and productivity costs of injuries to the low-wage US workforce. With funding from the Public Welfare Foundation, he produced the white paper Numbers and Costs of Occupational Injury and Illness in Low-Wage Occupations, estimating that injuries and…

There is real money in alternative medicine

I sometimes get grief from my colleagues about subscribing to the Wall Street Journal, but it is worth every penny. Some of the best stories on health and drug development appear in the WSJ. Beyond its outstanding health reporting, even basic news articles will appear in the WSJ and get picked up, literally, three or four days later by CNN as though they were news. Contrary to other opinions, the WSJ is not a shill for the neoconservative movement - only its editorial page wields a heavy conservative hand which, I find, is fun to read just the same. I pay the extra $39 a year and have my…

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with DeLene Beeland

Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked T. DeLene Beeland to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is your (scientific)…

Podcastercon2006 - the Teaching Session

Brian Russell is organizing the 2007 Podcastercon. Let me show you how much fun the last year's Podacstercon was by reposting this January 16, 2006 post (also cross-posted on Science And Politics) about the exciting education session led by David Warlick of 2 Cents Worth blog: Sorry for three days of absence from this blog. I needed some time to recuperate after the Podacstercon which I attended last Saturday. It was a marvelous experience. For more information check out the Podcastercon blog, the wiki, a nice article in News and Observer, the blog reports via Technorati tags, Technorati…

Non-Science Friday: Annie get your metal hat! edition

Meathead of the Week: Bonds. Destroyed his moment in the sun years ago when he started doping. Enough said. Bonus Meatheads: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke who have been assuring everyone that the subprime mess has been contained. Oh, except for like our banks, and, like, the banks of Europe, um and like every entity that relies on the availability of credit to function. Whoops! Now this is Customer Service. I know this is going to sound familiar to you. I think we've all been there. This is a online chat transcript from Verizon customer service (…

Encephalon.... the late prize winning February edition

In preparing for this issue of Encephalon I got access to the submission email account and realized that I had won 500,000.00 euro! I am in no way going to share this wealth with anyone else since it is my turn to do Encephalon. Here's the proof: Dear Email ID Owner, This is to notify you that you have won 500,000.00 euro in our online email Promo Draw in which email ID´s are picked randomly by computerized balloting, Your email address was amongst those chosen for this period. contact: Dr. Mike Mejia, Accu Online Promotion. !#$%!#$%@I'mnottellingyousinceIwon.com…

Preparing for Thanksgiving Obamacare discussions

Wonkblog's Sarah Kliff has helpfully compiled "A guide to surviving Obamacare debates at Thanksgiving," and it starts off with a good one: "Your mom wants to know whether Obamacare is a total disaster." Kliff's response focuses on the disastrous rollout of Healthcare.gov, the online marketplace that was supposed to allow for easy health-insurance enrollment for people who need to get coverage. With the website improving but by no means problem-free, the enrollment numbers so far are dismally low. Kliff points out that some states that built their own online marketplaces have successfully…

eJournal browsing

so the Astrophysical Journal, Letters has gone online/print-on-demand and I kinda miss it, though I don't think I've actually picked up a printed copy for years the one thing us old fogeys keep reminiscing about, is how the old paper journals were nice for browsing. We'd wonder down to the library or reading room, and actually pick up the new journal and browse to the articles. The nice thing about that, is that you see the other articles in the issue, or some of the adjacent ones anyway. Those may be interesting, surprising and informative in a serendipitous sort of way. Can't do that if…

Separating the public and private spheres.

Depending on your blog reading habits, you may already have heard the news that feels almost like cosmic justice that a law firm has rescinded an offer of employment from a third year law student whose online activities the firm found troubling. The linked posts will give you some flavor for those activities (as will this post), so I'm not going to go into the gory details here. However, I wanted to say a few words about this comment Amanda Marcotte made on Sheezlebub's post on the matter: While it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, I simply have to voice my unease with the politics of…

Google eBooks: Will Printed Books Become a Quaint Memory?

Google announced yesterday that you can now access three million books from 4,000 publishers from their ebookstore. These eBooks can be read on an android, iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Nook and Sony bookreaders and - almost forgot - a computer. With this announcement, I wanted to share with ScienceBlogs readers an Op-Ed I published this Spring that discusses what we might be missing if electronic media were to replace printed media. What do you think? Please share your thoughts. Electronic books, like it or not, may eventually replace books in print. Borders launched an e-book store with more…

Links 7/27/11

Links for you. Science: Small amounts of antibiotics generate big problems Vaccine has nearly eliminated chickenpox deaths in children L'Eau Pour Chien: Why do dogs rub up against things that smell bad? Rule Changes Proposed for Research on Humans Other: Black Student Can't Be Valedictorian How a 1995 court case kept the newspaper industry from competing online A Vision for Economic Renewal -- An American Jobs Agenda Google's gormless "no pseudonym" policy BlaBlaMeter - how much bullshit hides in your text? Breaking: The President Has Options to Raise the Debt Limit Means Testing is a…

There is a reason Bush is not running on economy...

I heard this on NPR and now it is available online on Bloomberg.com: USA has slipped from 1st to 6th place in the World Economic Forum's annual rankings. As I have predicted immediately after the 2004 election, US is not going to survive another 4 years of Bush and retain primacy in anything - economy, scientific/technological leadership, military might, or moral high ground. Moral high ground is hard to quantify but do you really believe we are still Number One, the Shining Light, Beacon of Democracy, etc.? Military might - you decide. Now, economy is officially gone. Science/technology…

Nicholas Wade gets schooled, briefly

A few weeks ago, Nicholas Wade wrote a terrible review of Dawkins' latest book (it wasn't a negative review, but it just weirdly spun off into some half-baked philosophy of science). Now the poor guy has been publicly spanked. The NY Times published short letters of rebuttal from Dan Dennett and Philip Kitcher, and then published online another dozen letters. That last link is more of a mixed bag, with some good replies and some strangely skewed ones…but it's all fun anyway. Unfortunately, all the letters are necessarily short. This kind of corrective actually needs some longer discussion.

I'm off...

I am about to go offline now, early to bed, early to rise...travelling to San Fran tomorrow at dawn. Hopefully I'll be able to get back online by tomorrow afternoon. I have scheduled a lot of reruns of the old posts (twice a day) and new quotes (once per night), but I will post new stuff as well whenever I find time: the first day at PLoS, pictures from various blogger meetups (excluding the pictures of pseudonymous bloggers), pictures of my strange meal at Incanto...and on Monday morning something you'll probably find interesting but it is a secret right now.

KITP: Cancer Clone Wars

Clone Wars: how are stockbrokers like colorectal cancer cells? The Kavli Institute has a very interesting biophysics program series... This weeks colloquium: "Physics and Mathematics of Cancer Metastasis" - Robijn Bruinsma, UCLA, explains (NOT ONLINE YET podcast, video, slides) excellent colloquium on "cancer for theorists" including discussion of the basics of cancer and metastasis, mathematics of cancer epidemiology, including the Master Equation for microevolution of cancer cells, and open questions soon likely to be a KITP program... bottom line: everyone will get cancer, eventually,…

Evolution for you, for everyone, and for the spiders

I have a few items for you from the Evolution Front. First, you can have a free copy of an excerpt form the book Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating by Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig: Click here for the PDF file. That was complements of the NCSE. Speaking of the NCSE, you can also have the latest copy of the Reports of the National Center for Science Education in its new on-line format: CLICK HERE And when you are done reading that, you can watch this: "What Americans Think of Evolution"

How evolution works, sometimes.

A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing - trace a line. Each new user only sees the latest line drawn, and can therefore only trace this latest imperfect copy. As the line is reproduced over and over, it changes and evolves - kinks, trembling motions and errors are exaggerated through the process.* Once an accidental feature shows up, subsequent tracers try to reproduce it like good little replicators. Eventually you get a dancing chihuahua. A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals from…

New Wilco Album Online Streaming and Concert Tour

Last week I bought my tickets for the Wilco concert in July at Wolf Trap. The "alt country rock" band from Chicago has sired two of the best albums of the last decade, starting with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and followed by A Ghost is Born. (Best heard on vinyl.) I saw them in concert last year at the 930 Club and have eagerly awaited their lastest album release which fans will be happy to know is now available for free online streaming in its entirety. There's a citrus clean sound to this latest release, perhaps reflecting a lifestyle change for the band.

Linn(a)ean quote of the day

From 1788: "I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character, by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. I wish somebody would indicate one to me. But if I had called man an ape, or vice versa, I should have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so." And still the Institute for Creation Research sees Linnaeus as a fellow traveller. (And as an aside, Edmund Hovey's The Bicentenary of the Birth of Carolous Linnaeus [1908] is freely available online in multiple…

Hanging out at the Science Blogging Conference '08

And wouldn't you know it, we're supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow. In NC. I lived here for 8 years and saw hardly any snow, and what we got didn't last but for a day or two. At any rate, I'm having a good time. Getting to meet a bunch of colleagues from Seed again, and attending some good sessions on Public Heath and Medicine, and also Gender/Minority issues. We've had sessions on the uses of technology and also using blogging as a resource for K through Ph.D. education! Bora's got more on how you can check the conference out online. So, check it out!

iBioSeminars, an online library of seminars

iBioSeminars, a free online library of seminars aimed to spur students in India. They are soliciting feedback on the service before wider deployment. Bangalore's National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) will provide the servers. "Many bright students in science institutes and colleges in India do not always have access to the latest breakthroughs in research in the areas that they are interested in. An exposure to this information at an earlier stage, say at the B.Sc. level, will help students get a better grasp of their subject and make decisions about future study and work," says Prof…

Trouble with the IPCC; trouble at the homefront

In case anyone is wondering why I haven't posted anything for the past few days, what with all the fuss over the IPCC and all, it's not because I'm reluctant to comment on it. It's just that my little piece of western North Carolina is only now recovering from an ice storm that knocked the power to my house out last Friday morning. I've only been back online for a few minutes and trying to catch up with all the happenings. Of course, I'm horribly behind in work that pays, so it may be a while before I get back to blogging regularly. Stay tuned.

Getting Out of the Bushes

I just did an online commentary for The Guardian's science site about just how bad Bush's presidency has been on science, and particularly stem cell and climate policy. It starts out like this.... The presidency of George W Bush is waning and laming. The time has come to think about the future and when it comes to policies for US science and to the use of science in US policy, let's put it bluntly, pretty much anything will be an improvement. ...and it only gets meaner from there. So I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Click here to read the whole thing.

A Century of Nature

Just published by University of Chicago Press is A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World. The book contains seminal Nature papers published over the last 100 years, each of which is accompanied by commentary from a leading scientist in the field. Included in the book are the 1953 paper in which James Watson and Francis Crick reported the structure of DNA and 1980 paper in which Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus report homeotic mutations in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Some of the book's content has been made available online for…

Daniel Gilbert teaches Colbert how to be happy

Although I do not own a television set, my wife and I watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report every night, online. A couple of days ago Colbert had Daniel Gilbert on. Gilbert is a professor of Psychology at the Harvard main campus and has recently written a great book, Stumbling on Happiness. I had met Gilbert last year at a Seed dinner and saw him speak at an Edge/Seed sponsored round-table. His studies into happiness and affective forecasting are very insightful. To read previous posts on this subject click here, here, here and here. (The clip from the Colbert Report is bellow the fold…

Free advice for would-be plagiarists.

Disclaimer: Plagiarism is bad. A quick search for "plagiarism" on this blog will demonstrate that I've taken a clear stand against plagiarism. That said, if one were, hypothetically, planning a little online-copy-and-paste plagiarism, and if one's instructor has earned a Ph.D., in Philosophy, from Stanford, one might reconsider using the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as the source of several uncited sentences. There is a better-than-average chance that the instructor is familiar with SEP -- indeed, even with the specific entry you (hypothetically) are tempted to plunder. Even if she's…

Resveratrol: Not Just For Your Grandmother

How long before professional cyclists start swallowing concentrated resveratrol? And will we ban red wine as an illegal performance enhancing substance? An ordinary lab mouse will run about one kilometer -- five-eights of a mile -- on a treadmill before collapsing from exhaustion. But mice given resveratrol, a minor component of red wine and other foods, run twice as far. They also have a reduced heart rate and energy-charged muscles, just as trained athletes do, according to an article published online in Cell by Johan Auwerx and his colleagues at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and…

Rage 2.0

Why Rage? Because Henry inspired me (though Mrs.Gee made him edit out the 'excessive' language). Why 2.0? Because I am all gung-ho about everything 2.0. So there! So, like Henry, I will now proceed to rage about something.... Hotels I've been traveling a lot lately, often staying in some very top-of-the-line hotels around the USA and Europe. Lovely hotels. Very comfortable. Very clean. Great service. Good food. Lots of cool amenities. More and more environmentally friendly. Nothing really to complain about. And I certainly do not want to single out Millennium UN Plaza hotel just…

The Anti-Consumerist Gift Files: Seedy Stuff

Ok, those of you who know me know that I am not much of a consumer. If I can buy it used, make it myself, or make do with something I've already got, I'm pretty good. I hate the frenzy of shopping that accompanies the "Holiday" season, and I think the most awesome thing about being Jewish is that Chanukah is a minor holiday, and generally I'm sitting around with my feet up while everyone else is racing around. I'm a big fan of homemade gifts - this year most of the grownups in my family got homemade jams and such, and a bunch of meat chickens, raised at home at my house. Now I realize…

NASA: Augustine Reports

"Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation" Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee The Augustine Report on Human Spaceflight is out: all 157 pages of it (pdf), with press conference starting at 1 pm today. As you know, Bob, the committee, chaired by Augustine of the Augustine Report, and a list of impressive members (and, as you know, the output of a committee can to some extent be determined by the choice of membership...), had a mission to sort out the unsustainable and vague ambitions for human exploration in space that was the legacy of the last 20 years of…

Being All That You Can Be...In The Health Care Industry

I don't particularly enjoy having needles poked into my scalp and neck and shoulders and temples and I especially don't like having them poked into my forehead just above my eyebrows. Yet I allow my neurologist to turn me into a pincushion every three months because regular botox treatments subdue my migraines, and nothing else does. I like my neurologist; I trust him, and we have a good doctor-patient relationship. On this last visit we discussed my current medications and how they're working, and agreed that I could probably start scaling back one of them. My neurologist is at a…

Donors Choose - Coming Down to the Wire

We're now in the last two days of the DonorsChoose Bloggers' Challenge. As things currently stand, this blog is now $88 away from my $2,500 fundraising goal. Unfortunately, we've been more or less stalled for the last couple of weeks, so I'm going to add an incentive to see if we can get over the top. DonorsChoose has generously committed to give blogs that hit their goals with a 10% bonus that can be used to fund additional projects. I've already contributed some to my own challenge, but if we have met the goal by 10 pm tomorrow night, our family will also contribute 10% of the total…

Jonah Lehrer: he's baaaaack

Lehrer has landed a new book deal. This has sparked justifiable disgust: Maria Konnikova explains why. Lehrer is not the writer who simply made up a few Bob Dylan quotes and self-plagiarized (the way he’s portrayed in recent accounts of his latest book deal). He is the writer who got the science wrong, repeatedly, who made up facts, misrepresented information, betrayed editors, and lied, over and over and over again, for many years, in multiple venues, not just in a single book. He is, in other words, the writer and journalist who went against the basic tenets of the profession, and did so…

Once again, Facebook reporting algorithms facilitate harassment of pro-science advocates by antivaccine cranks

Nearly eleven years ago, back in April 2005, I opened my work e-mail (I was working at a different university back then) and saw an e-mail from someone whose name I had seen before, one Mr. William P. O'Neill. Opening the e-mail, I was shocked to find an e-mail to Orac; worse, the e-mail was cc'ed to my cancer center director, my division chief, and my chairman. In it, O'Neill outed me as Orac and was threatening to sue me over a post I did. Naturally, it was interspersed with accusations of my being a "pharma shill" and having lied about him. Now here's the odd thing. This is the post that…

What's New On ScienceBlogs.de, 3.20-3.26

These stories made headlines during the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de. GM Potato Goes to German Bundestag Tobias Meier, who has posted before at his blog WeiterGen about his concerns regarding the EU procedures for authorizing genetically modified food, is amused to find that the German Parliament's FDP (Free Democratic Party) faction is now asking more or less the same questions. "Only just in my blog," he writes, now in German Parliament... The German FDP party now questions the scientific basis of German ministers' ballot behaviour in EU boards, as exemplified by…

Health care deform

We are on record as favoring single-payer health care and taking certain things like vaccines out of the market system, but beyond that we don't do much health care politics here. But we have opinions, like everyone does, opinions formed by working for more than four decades within the health care and public health professions. Other than that, we are like most of you. Consumers of health care with our own particular view of the world. And since everyone else seems to be talking about it, so will we. At least we will today. Everyone knows that what Republicans hate and fear about health care…

Joel, Mitch. Six pixels of separation: Everyone is connected. Connect your business to everyone. New York: Business Plus, 2009. 288pp.

I was chatting with a colleague during the long commute home the other day and he noticed I was reading this book. "What's it like?" he asked. "Clay Shirky lite," I replied. And that's about right. In Six Pixels of Separation, Mitch Joel comes to grips with the effects of social media on marketing, media, sales and promotions, he covers a lot of the same ground as in Clay Shirky's classic Here Comes Everybody (review). Glib, conversational, fast-paced bite-sized -- an easy read for sure -- Joel does a solid job of translating Shirky's more scholarly approach to a business audience. Which…

Never Say Goodbye: Hawai'ian Goose

tags: Hawaiian Goose, Nene, Branta sandvicensis, Joel Sartore, National Geographic, image of the day Hawaiian Goose or Nene (Branta sandvicensis) 2,100 (Estimated 2,000 wild and 100 captive). Image: Joel Sartore/National Geographic [larger view]. Joel Sartore has shared some of his work on this blog before, so I am thrilled to tell you that National Geographic also appreciates his exemplary work. You can view more endangered animals of the United States that were photographed by the talented Joel Sartore here at National Geographic online. All images appear here by permission of National…

Never Say Goodbye: Mexican Spotted Owl

tags: Mexican Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis lucida, Joel Sartore, National Geographic, image of the day Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) An estimated 1,000 to 2,000 remain. Image: Joel Sartore/National Geographic [larger view]. Joel Sartore has shared some of his work on this blog before, so I am thrilled to tell you that National Geographic also appreciates his exemplary work. You can view more endangered animals of the United States that were photographed by the talented Joel Sartore here at National Geographic online. All images appear here by permission of National…

Blog-post as a scientific reference

The post coming immediately after this is, as far as I know, the only blog post so far that appeared in the List Of References of a scientific paper. A guideline for analyzing circadian wheel-running behavior in rodents under different lighting conditions by Corinne Jud, Isabelle Schmutz, Gabriele Hampp, Henrik Oster and Urs Albrecht is an excellent article on methodology (and reasoning behind it) of basic circadian research. It was published in an online open-source journal Biological Procedures Online. I strongly recommend it to my readers. The Reference #16 is to this post on Circadiana…