One difference between reading Open Laboratory anthologies and reading the original posts included in them is that the printed versions are slightly edited and polished. Another difference is that the Prefaces and Introductions can be found only in the books. They have never been placed online.
But now that four books are out and we are halfway through collecting entries for the fifth one, when only the 2009 book is still selling, I think it is perfectly OK to place Prefaces and Introductions that I wrote myself online. I wrote Prefaces for the 2006, 2007 and 2008 book, as well as the…
clock | May 9, 2010Get all the information about people and concepts mentioned in the video here:
Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.
clock | May 9, 2010...perhaps you and thousands of your friends can all simultaneously walk down the street wearing one of these:
[yes, sales will help feed my family, so there is my Conflict Of Interest statement for posting this here]
clock | May 8, 2010The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
- Elwyn Brooks White
clock | May 8, 2010Carnival of Mathematics #65 is up on Maxwell's Demon.
Friday Ark #294 is up on Modulator.
clock | May 7, 2010There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.
- Duke Ellington
clock | May 7, 2010There are 26 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:
Repeated and Time-Correlated Morphological Convergence in Cave-Dwelling Harvestmen (Opiliones, Laniatores) from Montane Western North America:
Many cave-dwelling animal species display similar morphologies…
clock | May 7, 2010Last week, at the SigmaXi pizza lunch (well, really dinner), organized by SCONC, we were served a delicious dish - a lively presentation by Dennis Meredith about Explaining Research, the topic of his excellent new book - in my humble opinion the best recent book on this topic.
His presentation was almost identical to what he presented on our panel at the AAAS meeting in February in San Diego, and you can check out the slideshow (with the audio of his presentation going on with the slides) here.
Dennis and I are friends, and he attended 3-4 of the four ScienceOnline conferences to date and you…
clock | May 6, 2010Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
- Dr. Laura Schlessinger
clock | May 6, 2010There are 16 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:
Sibling Competition and Conspicuousness of Nestling Gapes in Altricial Birds: A Comparative Study:
Nestlings of altricial birds capture parents' attention through conspicuous visual displays, including…
clock | May 6, 2010Our May Science Café (description below) will be held on Tuesday 5/18 at Tir Na Nog on S. Blount Street. This year there has been an incredible amount of geologic activity around the world. During this cafe we will be talking about volcanoes and earthquakes and how these and other forces have shaped North Carolina. Our café speaker for the evening will be Dr. Kevin Stewart from the Geology Department at UNC. It should be an interesting evening for all of us to learn more about the earth, how it changes, and how those changes can affect our present world. Dr. Stewart will have some of…
clock | May 5, 2010This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
- Douglas Noel Adams
clock | May 5, 2010There are 37 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:
First Known Feeding Trace of the Eocene Bottom-Dwelling Fish Notogoneus osculus and Its Paleontological Significance:
The Green River Formation (early Eocene, about 42-53 Ma) at and near Fossil Butte…
clock | May 4, 2010It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.
- Dr. Frank N. Furter
clock | May 4, 2010Today, four of seven PLoS journals published new articles. I took a look and picked (under the fold) those I found interesting and/or 'bloggable'. 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:
Mapping the Evolution of Scientific Fields:
Despite the apparent cross-disciplinary interactions among…
clock | May 3, 2010It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
clock | May 3, 2010Last week I went to Sigma Xi to hear Dennis Meredith speak about Explaining Research. I posted my summary of his talk over on Science In The Triangle blog so click on over.....
clock | May 3, 2010Carnival of the Blue #36 is up on Observations of a Nerd.
Circus of the Spineless #50 is up on Arthropoda.
Scientia Pro Publica #28 is up on Mauka to Makai.
clock | May 3, 2010There are 32 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:
Novel Weapons Testing: Are Invasive Plants More Chemically Defended than Native Plants?:
Exotic species have been hypothesized to successfully invade new habitats by virtue of possessing novel biochemistry…