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clock | July 27, 2009Lots of cool papers today in 4 out of 7 PLoS journals! 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 - you go and look for your own favourites:
Charles Darwin's Reception in Germany and What Followed:
In Germany, Charles Darwin's thinking was accepted very quickly after the publication of On the Origin of Species in November, 1859. This was due, in no…
clock | July 24, 2009On Fridays I usually take a look at new papers in all seven PLoS journals. 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:
Circadian Clock Genes Contribute to the Regulation of Hair Follicle Cycling:
The hair follicle renews itself by repeatedly cycling among growth, regression, and rest phases. One…
clock | July 22, 2009There are 9 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:
Numbers in the Blind's 'Eye':
Although lacking visual experience with numerosities, recent evidence shows that the blind perform similarly to sighted persons on numerical comparison or parity judgement tasks…
clock | July 22, 2009Our system was down fpr the past 17.5 hours so I could not post this last night, so here it is now. There are 22 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:
Relativity Theory and Time Perception: Single or Multiple Clocks?:
Current theories of interval timing…
clock | July 20, 2009Still getting all my Legos together after the trip, here are some of the highlight from various PLoS journals from last Friday and 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:
You Say You Want a Revolution: An Interview with Pat Brown:
I have known Pat Brown for about two decades and he…
clock | July 16, 2009There are 23 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:
Morphometrics Parallel Genetics in a Newly Discovered and Endangered Taxon of Galápagos Tortoise:
Galápagos tortoises represent the only surviving lineage of giant tortoises that exhibit two different…
clock | July 15, 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:
The Aversive Effect of Electromagnetic Radiation on Foraging Bats--A Possible Means of Discouraging Bats from Approaching Wind Turbines:
Large numbers of bats are killed by collisions with wind turbines and…
clock | July 14, 2009There are 12 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:
Reef Endemism, Host Specificity and Temporal Stability in Populations of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates from Two Ecologically Dominant Caribbean Corals:
The dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium forms symbioses with…
clock | July 13, 2009There are 10 new articles published Friday night and 8 new articles published tonight in PLoS ONE. 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:
Aquaculture Enclosures Relate to the Establishment of Feral Populations of Introduced Species:
Many species introduced by humans for social and economic…
clock | July 10, 2009There are 19 new articles published last night and 22 new articles published today in PLoS ONE. 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:
Energy Stores Are Not Altered by Long-Term Partial Sleep Deprivation in Drosophila melanogaster:
Recent human studies reveal a widespread association…
clock | July 7, 2009There have been 19 new articles Monday night and 11 new articles Tuesday night in PLoS ONE. 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:
Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost:
Sex is considered as an evolutionary paradox, since its positive contribution to Darwinian fitness remains…
clock | July 4, 2009Just trying to catch up with the publicartions in various PLoS Journals this past week. Here are some interesting titles.
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:
What a Plant Sounds Like: The Statistics of Vegetation Echoes as Received by Echolocating Bats:
More than 800 species of bats…
clock | July 2, 2009I am running to the Lindau Harbor for the last day's trip and will be offline for the next 12 or so hours. So I don't have time for a long post right now about this cool new dinosaur paper we just published in PLoS ONE.
So please check it out - see what it is all about and read the paper itself.
clock | June 30, 2009Just because I am galivanting in Lindau does not mean I could not take a look at the brand new papers published in PLoS ONE, PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases last night. A few titles caught my eye - take a look. 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:…
clock | June 26, 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:
A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures:
The impact of scientific publications has traditionally been expressed in terms of citation counts. However, scientific activity has moved…
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 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, 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 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…