clock | November 7, 2006Pam is one of the CNN bloggers tonight. I already saw her on TV a couple of times. Let's see how much time they give them on TV and how much space online.
clock | November 7, 2006Last night I went back to my old campus to attend the Dr. Robert Rabb Lecture by Ken Miller. The Stewart Theater was packed. I saw a lof of old friends, but, as it was crowded, only got to spend some time talking to a couple of them.
Oh, there were bloggers there, too, of course. I first met up with Reed and Professor Steve Steve. Steve Steve is omnipresent (today in Raleigh, NC, yesterday in Vancouver, before that in Australia), omniscient and omnipotent (knew how and then fixed the computer and projector for the speaker) and benevolent (endless patience getting his picture taken with…
clock | November 7, 2006
Fair And Balanced, of course. Can't insult anyone by naming names, can you?
They, after all, just report and you decide which party it is....
clock | November 7, 2006I know, I know, Tuesdays are supposed to be for touchy-feely personal posts or navel-gazing posts about blogging, but today is an election, so I decided to go with provocative, hard-hitting stuff instead (originally posted on June 27, 2005, click on the clock-spiderweb to see the original):
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Back in 1991, before I left Belgrade, we were demonstrating against Milosevic. Many plackards and graffiti at the time compared Milosevic to Saddam. They were mostly NOT comparing him to Hitler. Why? Not because we liked Milosevic and did…
clock | November 7, 2006I voted at 9:40am and was voter #299 at our place which is huge! In some years there is less than that whole day.
Even more, earlier today, when I was dropping off my daughter at school around 7:50am, there was a line there with people even standing outside in the cold rain! I have NEVER seen a line there in the last 3.5 years here.
Oh, and if you are so new here that you do not know how I may have voted, I feel like this and this.
There is a judge race (officially non-partisan) in which I did not vote because the self-professed Democrat is bat-shit crazy (and not even endorsed by the…
clock | November 7, 2006Fossil Is Missing Link In Elephant Lineage:
A pig-sized, tusked creature that roamed the earth some 27 million years ago represents a missing link between the oldest known relatives of elephants and the more recent group from which modern elephants descended, an international team that includes University of Michigan paleontologist William J. Sanders has found.
Saving Threatened Turtles In The Caribbean:
Ecology and conservation experts from the University of Exeter are urging international governments to work together to protect threatened Caribbean sea turtle populations. The Cayman Islands…
clock | November 7, 2006Lindsay went down to Virginia this morning and is live-blogging (and photoblogging) the last hours of the campaign and the election there.
clock | November 7, 2006If you go to this page and click on the map, you will see where there are election problems and complaints and what they are (click on the state, then use the pull-down menu to choose the county in order to see a list of the actual complaints).
As expected, there are already many problems in Ohio, especially in Cuyahoga County.
(Via)
clock | November 7, 2006
Robert Knop is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | November 6, 2006Chronic Jet-Lag Conditions Hasten Death in Aged Mice
Researchers at the University of Virginia have found that aged mice undergoing weekly light-cycle shifts - similar to those that humans experience with jet lag or rotating shift work - experienced significantly higher death rates than did old mice kept on a normal daylight schedule over the same eight-week period. The findings may not come as a great surprise to exhausted globetrotting business travellers, but the research nonetheless provides, in rather stark terms, new insight into how the disruption of circadian rhythms can impact well-…
clock | November 6, 2006If you are in Chapel Hill (Orange County) NC and want to know how to vote on some races you did not pay much attention to, consult Concerned Citizen and Orange Politics. The debates in the comments at OP are quite informative as the candidates themselves tend to show up often.
For the broader Triangle area, check out the Independent and Exile on Jones Street.
For races across North Carolina, go for info to BlueNC
clock | November 6, 2006Bring your cell-phone with you (if you have one). Bring your camera (if you have one). Bring family or friends along to serve as each others' witnesses in case something happens.
And if you notice anything wrong with the way elections are going or your vote is counted? What do you do?
You need to respond immediately. Take a picture or a movie of the offense (discreetly if deemed neccessary). Then, you need to respond loudly enough that everyone in the building hears about it. Immediately complain to the election officials and do not back down until the problem is resolved. Inform…
clock | November 6, 2006From today's Quotes of the Day:
Tomorrow is election day in the US. At the table where I read, there is a stack of brochures proclaiming that each and every candidate is intelligent, honest, caring, devoted, hard working, well groomed, and straining at the bit to serve me and my community. Plus a few that say that the other guy is lying. My problem is that, with the two-party system, you only get to vote against one candidate in each race.
Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
- Bill Stern
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the…
clock | November 6, 2006Betsy recorded two sleazy robocalls up in New Hampshire. This should be on every TV and radio station tonight and in the morning!
clock | November 6, 2006
Making connections (from January 22, 2006)...
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I love Miss Frizzle from the cartoon "The Magic School Bus". She always says "Make connections, kids, make connections!" Here I'll try to make some tentative connections between two recent papers, both concerning health issues in humans.
The first paper, brought to my attention by Corpus Callosum, a blog I belatedly placed on my blogroll here only today, is titled Commonly Used Antidepressants May Also Affect Human Immune System, which is a high-hype way of presenting a finding that some…
clock | November 6, 2006Fossils Of Ancient Sea Monster Found In Montana:
A complete skull of a long-necked plesiosaur has been discovered in Montana. The 70-million-year-old skull is one of the best specimens of its kind found in North America.
Snow Data Helps Maintain Nation's Largest, Oldest Bison Herd:
NASA satellite data and computer modeling and US Department of Agriculture information are helping track the remnants of the once mighty bison herd in Yellowstone National Park as they migrate with the melting snowpack.
Reduced Body Temperature Extends Lifespan, Study Finds:
Scientists at the Scripps Research…
clock | November 6, 2006Welcome to the 10th edition of the Encephalon, the blog carnival of brains, minds, neurons, behavior and cognition. This was a busy week (and weekend) for me, so I decided to give up on the spectacularly difficult idea I had for creative hosting and go with a traditional style. After all, it is the contributors' posts that you came here to find, not my artistic aspirations. So, let's get right into it!
Coffee Mug, one of the bloggers on the original Gene Expression won the contest (by solving the neurotransmitter puzzle) last time I hosted The Synapse and the prize is - being highlighted…
clock | November 6, 2006
Troy Livingston is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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