My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Originally written on September 1, 2006, re-posted today to raise more dust ;-)
There has been a lot of commentary online about the Inside Higher Ed article about an UCLA primate researcher who quit his research due to being terrorised by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and the follow up…
Shakesville (formerly known as Shakespeare's Sister) is four years old.
Afarensis is four years old.
Highly Allochthonous is three years old.
What is it about October and all those blogiversaries? What were all those people doing nine months prior....
The October issue of the Journal of Biological Rhythms came in late last week - the only scientific journal I get in hard-copy these days. Along with several other interesting articles, one that immediately drew my attention was Clock Gene Wikis Available: Join the 'Long Tail' by John B. Hogenesch…
Are you registered? Do you know where to vote? You can find information and register (if you are not) here (this is an Obama site, but it works for everyone):
Can I vote early in person?
One-Stop Early Voting in North Carolina starts on Thursday, October 16 and lasts until Saturday, November 1.…
I said I was going to introduce the participants at ScienceOnline09 in non-daily but larger batches. So, today, I introduce a large contingent of people coming from the National Institute of Environemental Health Sciences (NIEHS):
NIEHS News Director Robin Mackar
Web Manager Cheryl Thompson…
...current politicians and events can be found here. Unfortunately, I cannot whet your appetite by posting one of the pictures here as:
All images copyright Zina Saunders - do not use without permission
My DonorsChoose board includes challenges like this one, for example: Media Literacy in Science:
I am a high school science teacher in North Carolina who wishes to move his students into the 21st century with the skills necessary to become lifelong learners in the global environment.
All too often…
Carnival of Space - NASA birthday edition - is up on Alice's Astro Info
And write and submit posts for Mendel's Garden (on the first Sunday of November on evolgen), for Praxis (on October 15th, at The Other 95%) and for The Giant's Shoulders (on October 15th at Second Order Approximation).
Antisocial Behavior May Be Caused By Low Stress Hormone Levels:
A link between reduced levels of the 'stress hormone' cortisol and antisocial behaviour in male adolescents has been discovered by a research team at the University of Cambridge.
Gas From The Past Gives Scientists New Insights Into…
Female Medical Students Underestimate Their Abilities And Males Tend To Overestimate Theirs:
Despite performing equally to their male peers in the classroom and the clinic, female medical students consistently report decreased self-confidence and increased anxiety, particularly over issues related…
The offal refers to....
....those parts of a meat animal which are used as food but which are not skeletal muscle. The term literally means "off fall", or the pieces which fall from a carcase when it is butchered. Originally the word applied principally to the entrails. It now covers insides…
What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure…
From Sigma Xi:
Greetings everyone. We meet again at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 15 in RTP to hear NCSU associate professor James Bonner discuss "Emerging Nanotechnology: A New Risk Factor for Lung Diseases?" As you know, the commercial use of nanomaterials has outpaced scientific assessments of any…
Apparently yes: Freshwater Farm Ponds Turning into Crab Farms:
North Carolina's native blue crab population has been at historic lows since 2000. Dr. Dave Eggleston, director of NC State's Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST) and professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences,…
There are 12 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. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Importance of Achromatic Contrast in Short-Range Fruit…
There are now 142 people registered and the Program is becoming more and more impressive by the hour!
If you have a cool website, software or application that you would like to showcase, add your name to the Demo page - all the demos will be screencast and posted on the site, with links to you -…
Can You Heal Me Now?
While many Americans view cell phones as indispensable to their social and professional lives, more and more Africans are finding cell phones to be indispensable to good health. In sub-Saharan villages, for example, mobile phones are playing a key role in health care delivery,…
Lots of stuff happening locally at Community Cartographies Convergence:
OCTOBER 16: DURHAM, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Talk by Berkeley-based radical cartographer Trevor Paglen at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
in conjunction with the Visiting Artists Series of Duke's Department of Art, Art…
In today's Grist - Politics and the Dinner Table: Weighing Obama's and McCain's stances on food and farm policy:
In the end, Pollan is likely right: Whatever the candidates are saying now (or not saying at all), events may require the 44th president to deal with food issues in ways that break…
Wow! Six of my DonorsChoose projects - Science Laboratory Kits, Who Gives A Hoot!, No More Worksheets!, Vroom! Vroom! Forces and Motion, What's the weather for today? and Math Mania have now been fully funded!
Unfortunately, not by my readers.... (pout)
If this keeps happening I'll add some more…
