clock | December 14, 2006Gas On Your Mind: Snail's Brain Provides Insights Into Human Learning :
Scientists at the University of Leicester are to gain a greater insight into the workings of the human mind -- through the study of a snail's brain.
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Dr Straub commented: "The gas nitric oxide has two faces. It can be highly toxic and kill. However, it is also found naturally in the brain where it is used by nerve cells to communicate with each other. So, whilst it can be poisonous, the body also uses it beneficially as an internal signal."
"During brain development, nitric oxide can promote the growth of…
clock | December 14, 2006Any other notable blogs starting with U?
UDreamOfJanie
Uggabugga
Ugly Overload
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Postdoc
Unbossed
Uncertain Principles
Unclaimed Territory (Glenn Greenwald)
Uncommon Dissent
The Uncredible Hallq
Under the Mosquito Net
Unfogged
Unqualified Offerings
Unscrewing The Inscrutable
Upside-Down Hippoppotamus
Useful Chemistry
Useful Chem Experiments
Useful Chem Molecules
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clock | December 14, 2006
Joy McCracken is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
clock | December 13, 2006
I am not sure about their real names, but I call my Mother-in-law's cats Maximilian (right) and Minimilian (left). They are brothers.
clock | December 13, 2006Memory Improves After Sleep Apnea Therapy:
Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may improve their memory by using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). A new study published in the December issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), shows that the majority of patients with OSA, who were memory-impaired prior to treatment, demonstrated normal memory performance after 3 months of optimal CPAP use. The study also showed that memory improvement varied based on CPAP adherence. Patients who used CPAP for at least 6 hours a night were…
clock | December 13, 2006Oekologie is a new blog carnival focused on ecology and environmental science. While Carnival of the Green is focused more towards conservation issues and sustainability, this carnival is going to focus on the science behind it. It will appear monthly on the 15th of each month, starting in January. You can start sending submissions or signing up to host.
clock | December 13, 2006It's not just PZ any more. The Scienceblogs.com will now see twice as many squid, cuttlefish, octopuses and nautiluses than before. How? Why? Because the reinforcements are here! Welcome our newest SciBlings, the Deep Sea News!
clock | December 13, 2006It came to me so naturally - no big thinking involved, no tweaking the results, this is who I am:
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.
clock | December 13, 2006Let me state up front that this is not a topic I know anything about, but I have always had a curiosity for it, so let me just throw some thoughts out into the Internets and see if commenters or other bloggers can enlighten me or point me to the most informative sources on the topic. This is really a smorgarsbord of seemingly disparate topics that I always felt had more in common with each other than just the fact that they have something or other to do with traffic. I am trying to put those things together and I hope you can help me (under the fold).
1. Models of Traffic Flow
There are two…
clock | December 13, 2006Now behind the Wall, but plenty of excerpts available in this March 26, 2005 post...
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Ha! The New York Times has this neat article, that is almost half as good as my early (and so far most frequently linked) post "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep". Here are some excerpts, go read the rest:
The Crow of the Early Bird
THERE was a time when to project an image of industriousness and responsibility, all a person had to do was wake at the crack of dawn. But in a culture obsessed with status--in which every…
clock | December 13, 2006If you missed the Hardball last night, you can watch it here.
Here is Raleigh News & Observer:
'Hardball' not so hard for Edwards:
Likely Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards passed the world leader pop quiz Tuesday night.
He correctly identified the leaders of Canada, Mexico, Iraq, Germany, South Africa and Italy when quizzed by Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's "Hardball" program.
In fact, Edwards seemed to have little trouble fielding questions, ranging from the war in Iraq to his relative lack of foreign policy experience to his political ties to organized labor, before a live…
clock | December 13, 2006Embryonic Patterning Makes The Feathers Fly: Dots Versus Stripes In Chicken Feathers Controlled By Patterning Pathway :
At the American Society for Cell Biology's 2006 conference, scientists will describe their latest research on patterning, on the molecular and systems level.
Midges Send Undeniable Message: Planet Is Warming :
Small insects that inhabit some of the most remote parts of the United States are sending a strong message about climate change.
Research Highlights How Farmers' Agri-environment Schemes Could Do More For Wildlife:
New research offers an explanation for why numbers of…
clock | December 13, 2006OK, is there a blog missing from this list?
Tales from the Microbial Laboratory
Talking Points Memo
Tall, Dark, and Mysterious
The Taming of the Band-Aid
Tangled Bank
Tart juice
TBogg
Terra Sigillata (old)
Terra Sigillata (new)
Terry
Tete-tete-tete
The Thinking Meat Project
Thomasburg Walks
Those Who Can't Teach Wish They Could
Thoughts from Kansas (old)
Thoughts from Kansas (new)
Thoughts in a Haystack
Three Bulls!
Three-Toed Sloth
Thus Spake Zuska (old)
Thus Spake Zuska (new)
Tild~
Toilet Paper with Page Numbers
To Go Beyond Yesterday
Too Clever By Half
Tom Watson: My Dirty Life & Times…
clock | December 13, 2006The Carnival Of Education: Week 97 is up on Education Wonks.
Carnival of Homeschooling - Week 50 is up on Apollo's Academy.
clock | December 13, 2006
David Elstein is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
clock | December 12, 2006The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
clock | December 12, 2006Hysteria is real, study finds:
Hitherto unexplained cases of partial paralysis or numbness may have a physical cause after all, scientists say.
Why laughter is contagious:
You can catch it without asking for it, or even necessarily wanting it. Now, scientists say they have an idea of why.
Humor beats disease, researchers find:
Scientists are reporting what they call most direct evidence yet that ability to laugh saves lives.
clock | December 12, 2006
This neighborhood tomcat is very friendly and sometimes comes by to say Hello to our cats and the dog.