clock | December 11, 2006The guy who prvided the initial audio file of his amazing conversations with Verizon reps has now set up a blog about it. You can read the transcript, check the comments, find new developments on the case, and discover new similar cases.
Verizon is in trouble - see just how many blogs are covering this - bad publicity. They better invest into some basic arithmetics classes for their employees pronto. That will cost them about 0.002 million dollars, ...no, cents, ...no, dollars! Oh, whatever, it's just a matter of opinion anyway.
clock | December 11, 2006Grrrl, PZ and John will be panelists at the Media Worskshop during the next SICB meeting. You bet I am jealous! SICB is the coolest of all science meetings ever!
Their workshop is about science blogging:
Media Workshop: Hey, Wanna Read My Blog?
Blogs are online "diaries" that are growing in popularity. Popular political and social commentary blogs are making the news, but is there more out there than chatty gossip and collections of links? How about some science? Can this trendy technology be useful for scientists? Come to the Media Workshop and find out! Experienced science bloggers…
clock | December 11, 2006How does that work? (April 03, 2005)
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Alcohol 'binges' in rats during early brain development cause circadian rhythm problems
Rats are nocturnal animals and normally begin their activity slightly after darkness sets in. The rats that had been exposed to alcohol began activities slightly before darkness set in.
When normal rats - or for that matter, humans and other animals - are in situations without environmental cues about day and night, the body's circadian clock generally drives behaviors on a cycle slightly greater than 24 hours.…
clock | December 11, 2006The Synapse #13 is up on Neurocontrarian. Go take a look.
This will be the last edition of The Synapse. The two neuro-carnivals are going to fuse into one, so in the future, only submit your entries to Encephalon.
clock | December 11, 2006From Hot Springs To Rice Farms, Scientists Reveal New Insights Into The Secret Lives Of Archaea:
In the world of microbes, as in politics, some groups just can't seem to shake the label ''extremist.''
Another Boost For Stem Cell Research:
In the wake of the Australian Senate's decision to pass the human embryo cloning legislation, another Australian research breakthrough is likely to strengthen the case for embryonic stem cell research.
Microfluidic Device Used For Multigene Analysis Of Individual Environmental Bacteria:
When it comes to digestive ability, termites have few rivals due to the…
clock | December 11, 2006Lots of Rs....
Radioactive Banana
Radiology Grand Rounds
Ragesoss 2.02: Academics and Scholarship
Ragesoss 2.03: Nerdy Stuff
Raleigh Philosophical Society
Rambling Thoughts of the Prof Bil The Man
Ramblin' Prose
Random Access Mazar
Random John reloaded
Random Ramblings
Random thoughts
Random_speak
Rangel MD
Ranting Nerd
Rants and Raves
Rants for the Invisible People
Rationally Speaking
Ratty's Ghost
RBC - The Reality-Based Community
The Real Paul Jones
Real Climate
Reality Conditions
Real Values
Reason and Radical
Reassigned Time
Rebel Doctor
Recursivity
Red State Rabble
Reedmaniac
The…
clock | December 11, 2006
Ryan Somma is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
clock | December 10, 2006The old saw about the early bird just goes to show that the worm should have stayed in bed. (Heinlein 1973)
clock | December 10, 2006Nature is going crazy starting a bunch of new blogs:
* Methagora: The Nature Methods blog and comment forum.
* Nautilus: A blog for past, present and future authors.
* Peer-to-peer: A blog for peer-reviewers and about the peer-review process.
* Spoonful of Medicine: Musing on science, medicine and politics from the editors of Nature Medicine.
clock | December 10, 2006
In Memoriam
Louie adopted my mother-in-law. He lived outside and roamed that small block of houses. He was killed by a car about a month ago. This is the only picture of him, which my daugther took last summer.
clock | December 10, 2006Thanks to The Science Pundit for alerting me to this amazing animation (now also for sale as screensaver):
Secret Worlds: The Universe Within:
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe…
clock | December 10, 2006At the Age 91.
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Chile's democratically elected Marxist president in a bloody coup and ruled this Andean nation for 17 years, died Sunday, dashing hopes of victims of his regime's abuses that he would be brought to justice. He was 91.
clock | December 10, 2006Any more blogs starting with Q?
The Quantum Pontiff
Quantum Quandaries
Quark Soup
Querencia
The Questionable Authority (old)
The Questionable Authority (new)
The Quitters
Qulog 2.0
Quoth the Raven
Previously (I have just updated most of them with new blogs. Please add suggestions at any time in the future - I get e-mail notifications so I will get the message):
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clock | December 10, 2006So says Sahotra Sarkar in the latest American Prospect.
Hat-tip: Neil the Ethical Werewolf
clock | December 10, 2006From QOTD:
The Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel died at San Remo, Italy on this day in 1896. Under the terms of his will, his estate was arranged so as to grant prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Medicine or Physiology, Literature, and Peace, these five prizes were first awarded on the fifth anniversary of his death. In 1969 the Bank of Sweden joined the festivities and established a prize for Economics that is awarded at the same ceremony, erroneously called the Nobel Prize for Economics. The prize for Peace is awarded at the Oslo City Hall in the capital of Norway, the others are awarded at the…
clock | December 10, 2006From Merriam-Webster:
Pecksniffian ⢠\pek-SNIFF-ee-un\ ⢠adjective
: unctuously hypocritical : sanctimonious
Example Sentence:
"His book suffers from excessively long harangues against Pecksniffian prigs and temperance types who, he claims, are still trying to ruin our fun." (Mark D. Fefer, Seattle Weekly, January 22, 2003)
Did you know?
Seth Pecksniff, a character with a holier-than-thou attitude in Charles Dickens's 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit, was no angel, though he certainly tried to pass himself off as one. Pecksniff liked to preach morality and brag about his own virtue, but…
clock | December 10, 2006Sleep Problems -- Real And Perceived -- Get In The Way Of Alcoholism Recovery:
The first few months of recovery from an alcohol problem are hard enough. But they're often made worse by serious sleep problems, caused by the loss of alcohol's sedative effects, and the long-term sleep-disrupting impact that alcohol dependence can have on the brain.
Solving Darwin's Dilemma: Oxygen May Be The Clue To First Appearance Of Large Animals :
The sudden appearance of large animal fossils more than 500 million years ago -- a problem that perplexed even Charles Darwin and is commonly known as "Darwin's…