clock | October 3, 2009Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
- Aleksandar Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
clock | October 3, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
New SEAPLEX videos: The North Pacific Gyre - Miriam Goldstein Talks Plastic Aboard SEAPLEX and The Garbage Patch - Chelsea Rochman studies Salps with SEAPLEX
Journalism as capitalism
Google Rules - A high school principal tries to harness the precepts of What Would Google Do?
How to build a meandering river in your basement
Clock gene and moonlight help corals to co-ordinate a mass annual orgy
Brooks is wrong on Beck---very wrong
SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #138 - Ten challenges for open-access journals…
clock | October 3, 2009Crossing the Line? Biomedical Technology in Sports
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
6:30-8:30 pm with discussion beginning at 7:00 followed by Q&A
Location: Tir Na Nog 218 South Blount Street, Raleigh, 833-7795
In the end, it was a split second rather than an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ruling that kept double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius from competing in the Beijing Summer Olympics. He didn't hit the 400-meter qualifying time of 45.55 seconds, despite running a personal best 46.25 on his carbon-fiber prosthetic legs at a track meet in Lucerne, Switzerland. In…
clock | October 2, 2009In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
clock | October 2, 2009Anne Frank: the only existing film images (0:09-0:14):
July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her wedding, the bride lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39. The Frank family lived at number 37, also on the second floor. The Anne Frank House can offer you this film footage thanks to the cooperation of the couple.
More at Mashable.
clock | October 2, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
igNobels 2009
China Is Wordless on Traumas of Communists' Rise
Turkey: student protester hurls shoe at IMF chief
Blogging a science conference: Interview with Alex Knoll
Friday Weird Science: The shark with two 'heads'
How Google Wave could transform journalism
Do Vaccines Cause Autism? Correlation vs. Causation: video1 and video2
The eScience revolution - Rensselaer researchers to create semantic Web platforms for massive scientific collaboration
M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree
Which university has the…
clock | October 2, 2009Let's check all seven PLoS journals 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 and Social Cues Regulate Ion Channel Trafficking:
Excitable cells, such as neurons and muscle cells, control behavior by generating action potentials, electrical signals that propagate along the cell…
clock | October 2, 2009ScienceBlogs campaign is kicking some behind - we are ahead of the Fashion Blogs, Twitter and Gawker challenges!!!
clock | October 2, 2009Berry Go Round #20 is up on Further thoughts
Festival of the Trees #40 is up on Local ecologist
Friday Ark #263 is up on Modulator
clock | October 1, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Why newspapers fold - a case study: Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News - Text and video of speech delivered at UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit at Google in Silicon Valley - thinking like a newspaper, not like a media org.
UK teenager killed by tumour not Glaxo vaccine
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: September 30, 2009
What sort of 'trigger' are they waiting for?
It's DonorsChoose time and Win a ScienceBlogs Swag Bag when you participate in the Donors Choose 2009 Challenge and ScienceBlogs has overtaken…
clock | October 1, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 380 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 1, 2009The 16th edition of the Carnival of Evolution is up on Pleiotropy
The Circus of the Spineless #44 is up on Quiche Moraine
I and the Bird #110 is up on Foovay's Cauldron
clock | October 1, 2009As regular readers of Scienceblogs.com already know, October is the month when a bunch of us raises challenges to fund science, math and technology projects in schools.
Several of my Sciblings have already set up their challenges and a few more will add theirs soon, I know. There will be a healthy competition with some other blogging networks, of course ;-)
You can find my challenges at Classroom Science Around The Clock, look at the projects - all coming from 'High Poverty' schools in North Carolina - and donate whatever you can. If many people pitch in a little bit each, these projects will…
clock | September 30, 2009A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein
clock | September 30, 2009I have posted 131 times in September (exact same number as August), including many cool videos as well as a few pictures from a recent trip to the zoo. This month I also started importing the best links I posted on Twitter over the day, in Tweetlinks.
In September I interviewed Victor Henning, John Wilbanks and Kevin Emamy.
At work, the most exciting news was the release of Article-Level Metrics at PLoS - Download Data. I announced the Blog Pick Of The Month and that PLoS ONE won the '09 ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation!. Then I did an Interview with Dr.Derya Unutmaz, Section Editor for…
clock | September 30, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Interplanetary paleontology?
Policy change before peer review: OA needed?
A Sick T. rex
Peter Lawrence's Kafta tale of research grant funding
Ensuring Integrity in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Accentuate the Negative
Obama announces $5 bln for new medical research
Conference travel fellowship for best evolution-themed blog in 2009
Write a blogpost about evolution, compete, get famous and win a ticket to an interesting conference!
The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief
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clock | September 30, 2009We are very excited to announce a new sponsor for ScienceOnline2010! It is National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). Among some other ways they will help the meeting get bigger and better than ever, the good folks at NESCent are also going to help two bloggers with travel costs to the conference. Read carefully how you can get one of these two grants:
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Are you a blogger who is interested in evolution? The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is offering two travel awards to attend ScienceOnline2010, …