clock | August 4, 2009A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
- Walt Disney's Cinderella
clock | August 4, 2009Carnival of the Blue #27 is up on OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE!
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 46 is up on Emergiblog
clock | August 4, 2009There are 19 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:
What You See Is What You Get? Exclusion Performances in Ravens and Keas:
Among birds, corvids and parrots are prime candidates for advanced cognitive abilities. Still, hardly anything is known about…
clock | August 4, 2009Ginny Barbour, Part 5: Open Access, Achievements and Looking Forward from PLoS on Vimeo.
clock | August 3, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 240 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 3, 2009There is a new science blog on the block, right here in the Triangle - the Wild Muse, written by DeLene Beeland who is a freelance science journalist and writer (and a twitterer).
The blog will mostly cover the 3 Es: ecology, evolution and environment. The first posts are Urban bird strikes, Monster of God, by David Quammen, Malaria in the modern world and Florida's imperiled smalltooth sawfish. Take a look.
clock | August 3, 2009Carnival of Space #114 is up at Cheap Astronomy
Carnival of the Green #191 is up on Humane Connection
clock | August 3, 2009Monday - time to check out PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, as well as, of course, PLoS ONE.
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:
Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing by Stuart M. Shieber:
Scholars write articles to be read--the more access to their…
clock | August 3, 2009Our photoblog, Photo Synthesis gets a new photoblogger every month or so. Today we have a change of the guard and welcome B. N. Sullivan of The Right Blue blog who specializes on underwater photography - go say Hello.
Seed Magazine's series, Revolutionary Minds, which highlights people who work on bridging the gaps between science and art, architecture, design, communication, and other fields, now has its own blog - go check it out.
clock | August 3, 2009Ginny Barbour, Part 4: PLoS Medicine's Fifth Anniversary and Future Plans from PLoS on Vimeo.
clock | August 2, 2009A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
- Victor Hugo
clock | August 2, 2009SciBling Walt Crawford indulges himself in some prognosticating about the (non)demise of various physical means of delivering information: music, films, magazine, newspapers and books. He takes a cautious, conservative tack there, for the most part. I am supposed to be the wide-eyed digi-evangelists around here, but I was nodding along and, surprising to me, agreeing with much of what he wrote.
But I'd like to follow-up on this with some additional caveats and thoughts of my own. You may have to read Walt's post first for the context, as this will be a direct riff off of him.
Regarded as some…
clock | August 2, 2009Ginny Barbour, Part 3: PLoS Medicine Open Access to Health Information from PLoS on Vimeo.
clock | August 1, 2009The reason a man must awaken is because it is dangerous to sleep, as man's present life proves.
- Vernon Howard
clock | August 1, 2009Gaming is first - but imagine the uses for this kind of technology in education or science:
clock | August 1, 2009It is time to announce the July winner. To see who won this time, you'll have to go here.
clock | July 31, 2009When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
- Ursula K. Le Guin