clock | October 18, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 420 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
10 days of science: Astronomical art: Representing Planet Earth
2020 Science: Hooked on science - ten things that inspired me to become a scientist
A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a…
clock | October 18, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption.
@cshirky: "After teaching 10 years, the only good measure of student progress I know is the number of open problems they can successfully characterize."
STELLA! Science, Technology & Engineering Library Leaders in Action!
How Twitter Can Save Your Life in a Zombie…
clock | October 17, 2009If it's painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue.
- Alice Duer Miller
clock | October 17, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
I tweeted a lot today. I was mesmerized by the rich tweetstream emanating from the National Science Writers conference in Austin - see today's program and tune in tomorrow for more.
Unfortunately, there was not that much tweeting from the ASBH (bioethics) conference in D.C., but I will get the first-hand detailed report…
clock | October 16, 2009What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
- Alfred North Whitehead
clock | October 16, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
FIND's Filmmaker Forum 2009: Getting an Education about Film Festivals - 'Film Independent's Filmmaker Forum: Cracking the educational market & the new role of film festivals'.
'Calvin Trillin accurately and hilariously explains how Wall St. started to fail when smart people went there':Wall Street Smarts
'Is a Big Pool…
clock | October 16, 2009Diversity in Science Carnival #3: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, is up on Drugmonkey
Friday Ark #265 is up on Modulator
clock | October 15, 2009A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
- Alfred Wiggam
clock | October 15, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 420 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
10 days of science: Astronomical art: Representing Planet Earth
2020 Science: Hooked on science - ten things that inspired me to become a scientist
A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a…
clock | October 15, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Framing the Mexican wolf debate.
Beagle Project Blog: Darwin and the Adventure: media linkfest.
10 Huge Successes Built On Second Ideas misses Flickr....
Why I am getting both seasonal and swine flu vaccines and why you should, too.
Science Got Ardi Wrong or: The Enigma of Ardipithecus.
In which I have seen the future of…
clock | October 15, 2009Some cool papers tonight in 4 out of 7 PLoS journals. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Short Telomeres in Hatchling Snakes: Erythrocyte Telomere Dynamics and Longevity in Tropical Pythons:
Telomere length (TL) has been found to be associated with life span in birds and humans. However…
clock | October 15, 2009I and the Bird #111 is up on Twin Cities Naturalist
Change of Shift From BlogWorld! is up on Emergiblog
clock | October 15, 2009DARWIN ON FACEBOOK: HOW CULTURE TRANSFORMS HUMAN EVOLUTION
AFTER HOURS EVENT FEATURING ANTHROPOLOGIST PETER RICHERSON
WHAT SciCafe presents Darwin on Facebook: How Culture Transforms Human Evolution, featuring Anthropologist Peter Richerson.
Help celebrate the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species with a night about Darwin, culture, and social media. Come hear anthropologist Peter Richerson of UC Davis explain how social networking sites like Facebook may affect the course of human evolution as he launches a discussion about how our success as a species owes much to our…
clock | October 15, 2009NCSU AND UNC-CHAPEL HILL PROFESSOR TROY NAGLE TO DISCUSS THE JOINT DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AT OCTOBER RESEARCH DIRECTORS MEETING
The Research Triangle Park, N.C. - The Triangle Area Research Directors Council (TARDC) has announced that Dr. Troy Nagle, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NCSU and UNC-Chapel Hill, will be the keynote speaker at next week's TARDC event, to be held at The Research Triangle Park's Headquarters building. Dr. Nagle will speak on the joint departments of biomedical engineering at NCSU and UNC-Chapel Hill and bridging academic and research cultures.
Dr…
clock | October 14, 2009Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
- Alfred Sheinwold
clock | October 14, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
The Audacity of Greed: How Private Health Insurers Just Blew Their Cover by Robert Reich: "Health insurers have just made the best argument yet about why a public insurance option is necessary."
RT @Caterina: Things on the internet grow fungally, not virally. The metaphor is completely wrong.
Open Access 101 - new animated…
clock | October 14, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 420 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
10 days of science: Astronomical art: Representing Planet Earth
2020 Science: Hooked on science - ten things that inspired me to become a scientist
A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a…
clock | October 14, 2009There are 17 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Circadian Modulation of Gene Expression, but not Glutamate Uptake, in Mouse and Rat Cortical Astrocytes:
Circadian clocks control daily rhythms including sleep-wake, hormone secretion, and metabolism. These…