clock | September 15, 2009In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
- Homer
clock | September 15, 2009
Today PLoS ONE published a paper describing a very cool new fossil of a sauropod from Niger - an exquisitely preserved, almost complete skeleton. Of course, you can read it for free at:
A New Basal Sauropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the Early Evolution of Sauropoda:
Background
The early evolution of sauropod dinosaurs is poorly understood because of a highly incomplete fossil record. New discoveries of Early and Middle Jurassic sauropods have a great potential to lead to a better understanding of early sauropod evolution and to reevaluate the patterns of sauropod…
clock | September 15, 2009There are 23 awesome 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:
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed; How the Thermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus Responds to Oxidative Stress:
To avoid molecular damage of biomolecules due to oxidation…
clock | September 15, 200917 years ago, there were no broods of periodic cicadas emerging (and also none this year). But that year something much more momentous happened, on this day exactly - Catharine changed her name....into something translatable as 'The Bride Of Coturnix' ;-)
Happy anniversary, medawlin'
And what she got as a present?
A whole bunch of Howling Pig soaps - very, very nicely fragrant:
Howling Pig? This is where the name comes from:
The Legend Of The Howling Pig
Legend has it that once, long, long, ago, the pigs ran free in great, happy herds, roaming the wide open spaces of the lone prairie, much…
clock | September 15, 2009There is a new site for you to bookmark today - Futurity.org. This is a collaborative effort of, for now, 35 major Universities in the United States (those include, for my local readers, UNC and Duke - why is NCSU lagging behind?!).
The site is the answer to the question:
How will the public learn about important breakthroughs at leading research universities as traditional news outlets continue to shrink?
The site is taking selected science stories from the participating Universities and putting them together in one place, sorted by topics and searchable by tags (by topic or by school). Let'…
clock | September 14, 2009Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
- Alice Meynell
clock | September 14, 2009Monday, Monday - let's see what's new. 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:
Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research:
It is a summer day in 2009 in Cambridge, England, and K. (39) looks out of his lab window, wondering why he chose the life of a scientist [1]. Yet…
clock | September 14, 2009Introducing the Briefly series. Taking theory and presenting it in it's most concise form.
We start with the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood.
This video was produced without any funding from any outside sources. It was put together with donated creative time from a group with a desire to further public cognition of science.
Science has many amazing stories to tell, this is the first. The Big Bang Briefly.
clock | September 13, 2009Annual consumption is a function of people's expected lifetime earnings - not just their income at the current time.
- Milton Friedman
clock | September 13, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 360 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 | September 12, 2009It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
- Anthony Trollope
clock | September 11, 2009As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
- George Carlin
clock | September 11, 2009I heard someone else in the blogosphere does this on Fridays, but I could not resist stomping into his territory as this video is Teh Awesome, from the Seaplex expedition - a dead Giant Squid, torn apart by hungry marine biologists:
clock | September 11, 2009There are 22 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:
Major Role of Microbes in Carbon Fluxes during Austral Winter in the Southern Drake Passage:
Carbon cycling in Southern Ocean is a major issue in climate change, hence the need to understand the role of…
clock | September 11, 2009The latest edition of Scientia Pro Publica is up on Southern Fried Science
The 119th Skeptics' Circle is up on Cubik's Rube
Friday Ark #260 is up on Modulator
clock | September 10, 2009Only when an organization exists in stable circumstances, when its operations resemble clockwork, unvarying in their practices, can individuals be taken for granted or ignored without peril.
- Rosabeth Moss-Kanter