clock | September 7, 2009If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove. Or you can remind yourself by checking this, this, this, this and this.
If you came to ScienceOnline09 (or followed virtually) you will remember that she co-moderated two sessions there: Open Access in the networked world: experience of developing and transition countries and How to paint your own blog images .
Well, today, Tatjana is in New York Times! I hear from those who get the papers in hardcopy, that the article starts on the front page, but the part with the interview with Tatjana and her husband Doug is on…
clock | September 6, 2009All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
- Peter M. Leschak
clock | September 6, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 340 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):
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clock | September 5, 2009I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
- Peter De Vries
clock | September 5, 2009As you've all already heard, Scienceblogs.com is thinking about introducing some new technical functionalities, including some community-building gadgets.
Now, you should go to this post on Page 3.14 and give your feedback. There is a poll there that you can do - it is a little unusual: you vote not by clicking but by dragging items up (which pushes other items down).
If the poll does not work for you, or if some of the items you really, really hate (and the poll does not allow you to NOT vote for any item), or if there are other things you'd rather see, please post a comment. They are…
clock | September 5, 2009Drumroll, please*....
Check out my brand new and unique HOMEPAGE!!!!
I never had a homepage before. I never made a static web-page in my life. I made blogs. I made many, many blogs. And I always used my main blog (this one since summer of 2006) as my homepage. But now that I am all over the place, on various social networks, while reserving the blog for Most Important Stuff only, it makes sense to have a homepage that links to everywhere I am on the Web. It makes it easy to tell people in person how to find me. It makes it easy to make Moo.com business cards. It removes the need for a dozen…
clock | September 5, 2009
Oh, did I tell you that Leonard Cohen will be in Durham in November? Yes, that Leonard Cohen whose music I grew up with?
Yes, I bought the tickets as soon as it was possible and will go to DPAC on November 3rd to hear him live. Finally!!!
I heard that his concert in Belgrade was magical and amazing. I hope it will be the same in Durham.
clock | September 5, 2009From Sigma Xi:
Greetings everyone. Here's hoping that summer treated you kindly and that you are ready to dive back into American Scientist magazine's annual Pizza Lunch speaker series. We begin this year at noon, Thursday, Sept. 24 at Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society here in Research Triangle Park.
Come hear UNC-Chapel Hill chemist Thomas J. Meyer discuss efforts to develop alternative energy sources that are safer than greenhouse gas emitting fuels. Meyer leads a new research center that this year landed $17.8 million in federal funding to try to develop solar fuels and next-…
clock | September 5, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 340 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):
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A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a Nurse- a guest post
A Blog Around The Clock: Why social insects…
clock | September 4, 2009We have entered the era of the imperial former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
- Lawton Chiles
clock | September 4, 2009There are 15 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:
Parsing Social Network Survey Data from Hidden Populations Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammars:
Human populations are structured by social networks, in which individuals tend to form relationships based…
clock | September 4, 2009The third Annual Rock Flipping Day will be on September 20th this year. So start scouting for good places to go and be ready to participate.
And if you find cool critters under the rock, you can always submit your posts to the Friday Ark, of which the issue #259 is now live on Modulator.
clock | September 3, 2009All are equal in birth and in death. Differences arise only during the interval. The Emperor and the beggar are both born naked; they sleep equally silently; they bow out without even leaving their new address. Then how can their reality be different? There can be no doubt on this score. All are basically the same.
- Atharva Veda
clock | September 3, 2009It's almost Friday, so let's see what's new in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS ONE this week. 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:
Googling Food Webs: Can an Eigenvector Measure Species' Importance for Coextinctions?:
Predicting the consequences of…
clock | September 3, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 300 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):
A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a Nurse- a guest post
A Blog Around The Clock: Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work?
A Blog Around The…
clock | September 3, 2009Change of Shift 4.5 is up on This Crazy Miracle Called Life
I and the Bird #108 is up on Zen Birdfeeder
Carnival of Evolution #14 is up on Southern Fried Science
clock | September 2, 2009The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, "I love children because they're so honest." There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.
- Bill Cosby
clock | September 2, 2009There are 23 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:
Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change on a Prairie Plant Community:
Climate change directly affects species by altering their physical environment and indirectly affects species by altering…
clock | September 2, 2009The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked John Wilbanks from the Common Knowledge blog to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background?
I'm John Wilbanks.
I abandoned a biology degree about six months into my university education, in…
clock | September 2, 2009Sheril is asking for pictures to serve as illustrations for her upcoming Kissing Book:
Have you ever taken a picture of bears nuzzling in the field or kissing fish? How about a provocative pair of human subjects? (With their permission!) Are you interested in having an image credited to you in a science book debuting next Fall? If you're a photographer with interesting pictures of kissing and cuddling [no higher than PG-13 content please], email me before September 14 at srkirshenbaum@yahoo.com.