I wonder how much more (and more accurate) detail this guy would get when sober. And how much less most other people would be able to say when sober....

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance. - Dax Ward

Hat-tip: Annalee Newitz: Crazy Brazilian pranksters managed to get a colony of real ants to carry tiny protest signs in a demonstration against the insecticide Baygon. Need I say that I welcome our new insect overlords?

I decided, since there are many, to put them under the fold now. But you should check them out - some excellent, thought-provoking stuff: Journalism is not a zero-sum game If you think the web is useless, make it useful. If you think Wikipedia is full of errors, correct the ones you find, or shut up. If you think the web only consists of ill-informed echo chambers, get in there and add an informed view. Along the way, you might just find that there are hundreds of thousands of people doing exactly the same thing. Guest Post: Energy Ministers of the Americas Come Together in D.C - State…

Neil Fraser was curious about this question, so he built a centrifuge at home and recorded a lava lamp at 3G (which is higher than Jupiter, actually). He explains the details here. [hat-tip]

I and the Bird #123 is up on Idaho Birding Blog The latest edition of Change of Shift is up over at Nurse Me Friday Ark #291 is up on Modulator

USA Science & Engineering Festival Calls for Entries to New Kavli Science Video ContestCalls for Entries to New Kavli Science Video Contest: WASHINGTON -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Science is cool and The Kavli Foundation is challenging K-12 students across the nation to explain why. The first ever Kavli Science Video Contest will be held this year during the USA Science & Engineering Festival October 10-24, 2010 in Washington, DC. This two-week celebration of science based in the nation's capital, includes events ranging from student brown bag lunches with Nobel Laureates to a two-day…

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. - David Viscott

Today, four out of seven PLoS journals published new articles. Here's my pick of papers I find most 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: Use of Herring Bait to Farm Lobsters in the Gulf of Maine: Ecologists, fisheries scientists, and coastal managers have…

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 Leah D. Gordon from MEASURE Evaluation 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…

There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to-the-minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move. - David Letterman

There are 19 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: BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data: The transfer of scientific data has emerged as a significant challenge, as datasets continue to grow in size and demand for open access sharing…

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 Elia Ben-Ari of the To Be Determined 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? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is…

If you attended ScienceOnline2010, either physically or virtually, you know that Anil Dash was there, leading a session called Government 2.0. Anil Dash is a pioneer blogger (and of course twitterer) and the very first employee of Six Apart, the company that built blogging platforms including MoveableType (which is used by Scienceblogs.com) and Typepad. Just before ScienceOnline2010, Anil made an official announcement that he will be leading Expert Labs (also on Twitter) which is a new project funded by AAAS to facilitate feedback by the experts (including scientists, of course) to the Obama…

From the USA Science & Engineering Festival: WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It's the 30th Anniversary of the Rubik's Cube, and the USA Science & Engineering Festival is planning a You CAN Do the Rubik's Cube tournament in Washington, D.C., October of 2010. Teams from Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia are eligible to compete. Here's a video from the first You CAN Do the Rubik's Cube tournament held this spring in San Diego. Rubik's Cube creator Professor Erno Rubik will receive a Lifetime Science and Math Education Achievement Award from the…

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed. - David K. Shipler

Four of the seven PLoS journals published today. Let's 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: Male Accessory Gland Protein Reduces Egg Laying in a Simultaneous Hermaphrodite: Seminal fluid is an important part of the ejaculate of internally fertilizing animals. This fluid…

Michael Specter, author of Denialism, the Keynote Speaker at ScienceOnline2010, spoke at TED conference a couple of months ago. The video of his TED talk is now up, and Michael wrote an editorial to go with it:

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 Joanne Manaster from Joanne Loves Science to answer a few questions. Where does blogging fit into what I do? I began my website about two years ago, while I was in a bit of a life crisis. As everything was chaotic, I thought, "What has ALWAYS been…

Go say Hello to Alex Wild, over on the Myrmecos blog - ants, an occasional insect that is not an ant, and amazing photography.