clock | December 27, 2006Edwards has unleashed his campaign website, where you can find all the info, join the discussion on the blog and see a preview of what he'll say tomorrow in NOLA on this video (and no, I am not paid by his campaign - my support is amateur):
clock | December 27, 2006John Edwards is announcing his presidential candidacy tomorrow in New Orleans, followed by a tour of town-hall meetings in Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina and North Carolina. I'll be at the last one and may have some pictures etc. I'll probably resuscitate my old blog to avoid cluttering this one with all the political horse-race stuff.
Liveblogging from the event in NOLA are a couple of bloggers at OAC. Scoble will also be there.
I hope that Ford's death does not suck out too much air out of news-shows on TV tomorrow.
From last fall when Edwards took a few hundred UNC students…
clock | December 27, 200699th Carnival of Education is up on Right on the Left Coast
The 52nd Carnival of Homeschooling: A Year and a Day - is up on What Did You Do in School Today?
clock | December 27, 2006Perhaps. But we do other stuff just like chicken (December 09, 2004):
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Fantastic news in science:
Researchers compare chicken, human genomes
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/nhgr-rcc120804.php
Some highlights:
Chicks have less junk DNA:
In their paper published in Nature, members of the International Chicken Genome
Sequencing Consortium report that the chicken genome contains significantly less
DNA than the human genome, but approximately the same number of genes.
Researchers estimate that the chicken has about 20,000-23,000…
clock | December 27, 2006Singing For Survival: Gibbons Scare Off Predators With 'Song':
It is well known that animals use song as a way of attracting mates, but researchers have found that gibbons have developed an unusual way of scaring off predators -- by singing to them. The primatologists at the University of St Andrews discovered that wild gibbons in Thailand have developed a unique song as a natural defence to predators. Literally singing for survival, the gibbons appear to use the song not just to warn their own group members but those in neighbouring areas.
Scanner Offers Humane Way To Look At Bird Bones:
Why…
clock | December 27, 2006
Fiona Morgan of Independent Weekly is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 26, 2006Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially common knowledge.
- W. Willard Wirtz, US Secretary of Labor
clock | December 26, 2006What is the oldest science blog?
Not medicine, not technology/gizmos/gadgets, not conservation, not nature writing, not atheism - a real science blog?
clock | December 26, 2006You can get to it from the sidebar or from the cute little grey button right under the banner...
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clock | December 26, 2006Grand Rounds goes back home to Blogborygmi for the 3.14 Best of Year edition, with some interesting history (and statistics) of the carnival. This is a real treat with entries being not best of the week, but best of the year.
clock | December 26, 2006Here is the background information and here is the growing list of nominations.
I am still looking for a poem, a post about women and/or minorities in science, something from chemistry, geology and/or ecology (not environment/conservation), and a post about stereotypes of scientists in the society (e.g., movies, TV).
I have realized that having an online poll and asking people to evaluate 100+ posts will be too unwieldy, so instead I asked several of my friends, including a couple of SciBlings, several science bloggers not affiliated with Seed, a non-science blogger and a non-blogging…
clock | December 26, 2006This is so old (January 02, 2005) yet quite prescient...
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Some blogs have thousands of daily visitors because they were there first. It is like carbonated drinks. Even if you make a drink that is much better than Coke or Pepsi, you are doomed to bankrupcy because they pre-empted you. And sure, even in the early days there was competition, and people like Kos, Atrios, Billmon, Drum, Marshall etc. were probably better than their competition, thus they are now deservedly the stars of the blogosphere. That does not mean they have managed to retain the high quality of…
clock | December 26, 2006Cyberspace May Overcome Ethical Constraints In Experiments:
Psychological experiments that stopped 40 years ago because of ethical concerns could instead be conducted in cyberspace in the future. By repeating the Stanley Milgram's classic experiment from the 1960s on obedience to authority -- that found people would administer apparently lethal electrical shocks to a stranger at the behest of an authority figure -- in a virtual environment, the UCL (University College London) led study demonstrated for the first time that participants reacted as though the situation was real.
Wolves Are…
clock | December 26, 2006
Patty and her mother Kim Gainer are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 25, 2006Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), letter to Count Schomberg, 31 August 1769
clock | December 25, 2006Now that the 2006 Weblog Awards are over (and congratulations to all of my favourites for wins or good showing), we are all warmed up and ready for the Real Deal - the Koufaxes!
First, and most importantly, go over to Wampum and hit their PayPal button (on the left top side-bar), or their Amazon.com donation button, and hit it with as much as you can. The way Koufaxes are done is real - no paperless voting machines there! And that costs. And it helps the community if the good folks of Wampum have enough money for the generator (yes, they make their own power!), servers, new hard-drives and…
clock | December 25, 2006
Terry Smith is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 24, 2006Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold