An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
- Ernest Hemingway
clock | June 10, 2010The Essence of Online Science Journalism
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clock | June 10, 2010There are 25 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:
Identification of a Circadian Clock-Controlled Neural Pathway in the Rabbit Retina:
Although the circadian clock in the mammalian retina regulates many physiological processes in the retina, it is not known…
clock | June 10, 2010USA Science & Engineering Festival Announces Nifty Fifty; Top Scientists Will Tell Their Stories in DC-Area Schools:
Ever wanted to talk with a Nobel Laureate? Did you know red wine goes well with steak, but also has anti-aging properties? Want to uncover the mysteries of baseball's knuckleball? These and other intriguing questions are answered at the Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival, the biggest celebration of science the World has ever seen!
Inspired by international science festivals that draw crowds in the hundreds of thousands, the goal is to increase our nation's…
clock | June 9, 2010Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
- Erma Louise Bombeck
clock | June 9, 2010There are 16 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:
Human's Cognitive Ability to Assess Facial Cues from Photographs: A Study of Sexual Selection in the Bolivian Amazon:
Evolutionary theory suggests that natural selection favors the evolution of cognitive…
clock | June 9, 2010Scientia Pro Publica #32 is up on The Dichotomous Trekkie 2.0.
Four Stone Hearth #94 is up on Anthropology in Practice.
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 37 are up on MDiTV.
clock | June 9, 2010OK, a busy day, mostly offline, so here's another provocation for you to trash in the comments ;-)
There are several different aspects of science communication. If we classify them, somewhat artificially, by who is the sender and who is the receiver of information, we can have something like this:
A) Scientists to scientists - mainly via scientific journals, also conferences, and recently via blogs and social networks.
B) Scientists to traditional media - mainly via institutional press releases, now also blogs and social networks.
C) Traditional media to interested ("pull" method) lay…
clock | June 8, 2010To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
- Erich Fromm
clock | June 8, 2010Tuesday - let's take a look at 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:
Disrupting Circadian Homeostasis of Sympathetic Signaling Promotes Tumor Development in Mice:
Cell proliferation in all rapidly renewing mammalian tissues follows a circadian rhythm that is…
clock | June 8, 2010 Joanne Manaster of Joanne Loves Science has just announced a science book reading contest for young readers (and movie-makers): Kids Read Science and Teens Read Science. Watch the introductory video:
Check out the contest instructions for details:
The contest is simple--just do what I do quite often. Read a non-fiction science book and make a video! Oh, you have to be a kid or teen. Just making that clear. Age 8-12 can enter Kids Read Science and ages 13-18 can join Teens Read Science. We will be thrilled to see you all be creative and articulate. Tell us what you learned in less than five…
clock | June 8, 2010These days I am swallowing one good science book after another. 2010 seems to be a great year for science book publishing!
But I have also noticed that almost all of these books are written by science bloggers (or at least active Twitterers)! Some are writers first, and started blogging later. Others started as bloggers, and decided to also write a book.
Some use their blogs as writing labs, putting out ideas, getting feedback, honing the message, then collecting, fine-tuning and editing a couple of years of blog material into a book.
Others keep the two worlds pretty much apart - book…
clock | June 7, 2010I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett McKinley Dirksen
clock | June 7, 2010Go say Hello to my newest Scibling, Maryn McKenna at Superbug (which is also the title of her latest book). Also check out the archives of her old blog.
clock | June 7, 2010To get disclaimers out of the way, first, Vanessa Woods (on Twitter) is a friend. I first met her online, reading her blog Bonobo Handshake where she documented her day-to-day life and work with bonobos in the Congo. We met in person shortly after her arrival to North Carolina, at a blogger meetup in Durham, after which she came to three editions of ScienceOnline conference.
I interviewed Vanessa after the 2008 event and blogged (scroll down to the second half of the post) about her 2009 session 'Blogging adventure: how to post from strange locations'. At the 2010 conference, she was one of…
clock | June 7, 2010The list is growing fast - check the submissions to date and get inspired to submit something of your own - an essay, a poem, a cartoon or original art.
The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions for submitting are here.
You can buy the last four annual collections here. You can read Prefaces and Introductions to older editions here.
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A Blog Around The Clock: What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?
A Blog Around The Clock: My latest scientific paper:…
clock | June 6, 2010Throw 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
clock | June 6, 2010You may have heard that, about six months ago, Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer started a new Monday Science/Technology section.
Among other articles, there is also an ongoing weekly feature - a brief interview with a science blogger (usually, but not always, located in North Carolina), conducted by amazing and unique Delene Beeland (blog, Twitter).
Today was my turn (actually not - the blogger who was scheduled for this week had a good reason not to be interviewed in this particular week, and I was glad to help in a hurry).
You can now read the interview with me at…