Charles Darwin Lecture Series - Dale Russell: "Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land"
clock | August 20, 2009DARWIN LECTURE SERIES CONTINUES!
How did we come to be here? Answers to this question have preoccupied
humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of
living things, in the physical environments of Earth - from mountaintops
to the depths of the ocean, in the chemistry of this world and those
nearby, in the tiniest particles of matter, and in the deepest reaches
of space. On Tuesday, September 29, Senior Curator of Paleontology Dale
Russell presents a talk based on his new book "Islands in the Cosmos:
The Evolution of Life on Land," which follows evolution from its origins…
clock | August 19, 2009I have no fear of death, Must be wonderful, like a long sleep. But let's face it: it's how you live that really counts.
- Katharine Hepburn
clock | August 19, 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: Yes, Archaea also have circadian clocks!
A Blog Around The Clock: Why social insects do not suffer from…
clock | August 19, 2009Change of Shift: Vol. Four, Number 4 is up on Emergiblog
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 48 are up on Invisible Illness Week
clock | August 19, 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:
Hippocampal Sharp Wave/Ripples during Sleep for Consolidation of Associative Memory:
The beneficial effect of sleep on memory has been well-established by extensive research on humans, but the…
clock | August 19, 2009Talk given by Peter Binfield at the ISMTE meeting (slides and audio):
The Future of Online (Academic) Publishing - Presentation to the ISMTE August 2009
Tags: journals academic publishing STM online publishing PLoS PLoS ONE article level metrics
clock | August 18, 2009Two recent events put in stark relief the differences between the old way of doing things and the new way of doing things. What am I talking about? The changing world of science publishing, of course.
Let me introduce the two examples first, and make some of my comments at the end.
Example 1. Publishing a Comment about a journal article
My SciBling Steinn brought to our collective attention a horrific case of a scientist who spent a year fighting against the editors of a journal, trying to have a Comment published about a paper that was, in his view, erroneous (for the sake of the argument it…
clock | August 18, 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 Erin Cline Davis of 23andMe 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 Erin Cline Davis. I grew up in southern California, then headed east for college at MIT. I liked it, but those…
clock | August 17, 2009The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
- Woody Allen
clock | August 17, 2009The Giant's Shoulders #14 is up on The Dispersal of Darwin
Encephalon #74 is up on Neuronarrative
Carnival of the Green #193 is up on The EcoChic
clock | August 17, 2009Monday - let's see what's up in PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS ONE and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 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:
Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study:
About 1 in 10 women and 1 in 4 men have a chronic condition called sleep-…
clock | August 17, 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 Bjoern Brembs 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?
As a boy, I was always out and about chasing and catching animals. I've been fascinated by watching animals behave and at the time…
clock | August 17, 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: Yes, Archaea also have circadian clocks!
A Blog Around The Clock: Why social insects do not suffer from…
clock | August 16, 2009The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
- Wilson Mizner
clock | August 16, 2009
It is official - ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual conference on science and the Web, will be held on January 15-17th, 2010 in the Research Triangle Park area (the exact location to be announced).
Please join us for this three-day event to explore science on the Web. Our goal is to bring together scientists, physicians, patients, educators, students, publishers, editors, bloggers, journalists, writers, web developers, programmers and others to discuss, demonstrate and debate online strategies and tools for doing science, publishing science, teaching science, and promoting the public…
clock | August 16, 2009At one point I came as close as 5 yards to it - click on little thumbnails to see bigger pictures:
clock | August 15, 2009... We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
- William Shakespeare William Shakespeare