clock | January 2, 2007
Alisa White is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 1, 2007Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
clock | January 1, 2007Food From Cloned Animals Safe? FDA Says Yes, But Asks Suppliers To Hold Off For Now:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued three documents on the safety of animal cloning -- a draft risk assessment; a proposed risk management plan; and a draft guidance for industry.
The draft risk assessment finds that meat and milk from clones of adult cattle, pigs and goats, and their offspring, are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals. The assessment was peer-reviewed by a group of independent scientific experts in cloning and animal health. They agreed with the methods…
clock | January 1, 2007 If you are interested in the background and recent history of the research on mammalian SCN in line of Erik Herzog's work I described in VIP synchronizes mammalian circadian pacemaker neurons and A Huge New Circadian Pacemaker Found In The Mammalian Brain, you may want to look at these old Circadiana posts as well:
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Cutting Edge: Circadian Rhythm of Astrocytes (February 02, 2005):
Erik has done it again. He is not one to publish 30 papers per year, but whenever he publishes one, it always gives me the chills and thrills! What beautiful science:
Circadian Rhythm…
clock | January 1, 2007The conference is only 19 [13] days from today! It's getting really exciting!
The program is shaping really well:
On Thursday (January 18th) we will have a teach-in session. About 20 people have signed up so far (update: 30, thus the session is now full). We'll use Wordpress to help them start their own blogs, so I'll have to make one of my own in advance and play around to figure out the platform before I teach others.
On Friday (January 19th), we'll have dinner and all the bloggers present will read their posts. We have not decided on the place yet, but perhaps a site that has wifi, or…
clock | January 1, 2007Update: Deadline for submissions is January 2nd at noon EST.
Wow! I posted the call for suggestions on Friday night, it is a weekend and a holiday, the traffic is down to a half, yet I got so many suggestions already, both in the comments and via e-mail! I am also very happy to see how many people are suggesting not just their own but other people's posts. This is going to be heckuva job for me! All science bloggers are my friends and I will have to dissappoint so many of them in the end. I wish I could collect 500 posts instead of just 50.
As I stated in the original post, I am looking…
clock | January 1, 2007What Crawls Beneath: Ground Spider Diversity Linked To Healthy Habitats:
None of Takesha Henderson's discoveries are named Charlotte, but they are weaving a new chapter in Texas entomology. Her graduate studies at Texas A&M University have led to the discovery of 25 new spiders in Brazos County and one species found for the first time in Texas.
Do Galaxies Follow Darwinian Evolution?:
Using VIMOS on ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of French and Italian astronomers have shown the strong influence the environment exerts on the way galaxies form and evolve. The scientists have for the…
clock | January 1, 2007
Xan Gregg is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 31, 2006If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
clock | December 31, 2006Happy New Year to all my readers!!! I wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2007, a paper published, a grant funded, a tenure achieved, and all other goals reached.
Some blog stats:
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Technorati Rank: 3,847 (which is more than a 200 slide down over the past month or so), which I did not think to compare to others, but Martin did and found out is the second best ranking of the Scienceblogs universe.
clock | December 31, 2006The Tar Heel Tavern - New Year's Eve 2006 Edition - is up on ...Slowly She Turned.
clock | December 31, 2006To Elude Bats, A Moth Keeps Its Hearing In Tune:
Current understanding of the co-evolution of bats and moths has been thrown into question following new research reported in the journal Current Biology. Dr James Windmill from the University of Bristol, UK, has shown how the Yellow Underwing moth changes its sensitivity to a bat's calls when the moth is being chased. And in case there is another attack, the moth's ear remain tuned in for several minutes after the calls stop.
Adults Living With Children Eat More Fat Than Do Other Adults:
Adults living with children eat more saturated fat -- the…
clock | December 31, 2006
Robin Mackar is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 30, 2006An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
clock | December 30, 2006...I attended the Edwards rally in Chapel Hill, NC, together with some 5000 other people. My musings can be found here and here.
clock | December 30, 2006
Why burn or recycle when zoo animals love them - some eat them, some play with them, but they are certainly not wasted.
Hat-tip: Russlings