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
Again, in a dark room, my camera used long exposures and thus many pictures are fuzzy. But you can see that we had lots and lots of readers come to see us, together with the NYC Skeptics:
There are 57 new articles in PLoS ONE this week. 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:
How Do Humans Control Physiological Strain during…
Survival Of The Fittest: Even Cancer Cells Follow The Laws Of Evolution:
Scientists from The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton and the University of California discovered that the underlying process in tumor formation is the same as for life itself--evolution. After analyzing a half…
The Boneyard #22 is up on Laelaps
The Hourglass #2 is up on Ouroboros
The 30th edition of Medicine 2.0 carnival is up on SharpBrains
Grand Rounds, Vol 4, # 47 are up on Medical Humanities Blog
The 137th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Sprittibee
And don't forget to submit your entries for the…
The new blog carnival, covering the way science is changing (or not changing enough) in the 21st century - Praxis, is about to start. The call for submissions is now open - send them to me at Coturnix AT gmail dot com by August 14th at midnight Eastern so I can post the carnival on the 15th in the…
For those of you who have enjoyed Kevin's herpetology dispatches from China two years ago, you may want to go over to the FieldHerpForum.com and read his reports from this year's trip.
Elephant Memories May Hold Key To Survival:
A recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) suggests that old female elephants--and perhaps their memories of distant, life-sustaining sources of food and water--may be the key to survival during the…
After four days - last three of which I had no internet access - and after11 hours of travel door-to-door (or 8 hours from entering an airport and exiting another airport), I am home. Exhausted.
As I knew that several other Sciblings had to deal with the chaos of NYC air-travel this weekend. We…
To protect the anonymous, nobody in the pictures is named, tagged or linked in any way. So, you don't know who is a blogger, who is Seed staffer, who is a reader, except for the few obviously well knows faces:
To protect the anonymous, nobody in the pictures is named, tagged or linked in any way. So, you don't know who is a blogger, who is Seed staffer, who is a reader, except for the few obviously well knows faces:
We barely made it to our 6am flight (so we did not get stranded like Sheril), so Mrs.Coturnix an I got to NYC about 7-ish and spend the entire day walking down the Lower East side of Manhattan, from the U.N. to Battery Park, and then took a cab back to the hotel (the last picture) where we started…
Aggregator of RSS Feeds about disability and special needs issues, another one made by Vedran. As always, you can contact him with suggestions for more feeds to add.
I and the Bird #81 is up on the Marvelous in Nature
Friday Ark #203 is up on Modulator
Linnaeus' Legacy #10 is up on The DC Birding Blog
Four Stone Hearth #45 is up on remote central and Four Stone Hearth #46 is up on Testimony of the spade.
Don't forget to submit your entries to Praxis, Giants'…
Continuing with asking for your help in fixing my Blogroll:
Every couple of days or so, I will post here a list of blogs that start with a particular letter, and you add in the comments if you know of something that is missing from that list.
See so far:
Numbers and Symbols
A
B
Today brought to you…
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
- Earl Nightingale
I will have to turn in early as tomorrow morning Mrs.Coturnix and I are getting up at the crack of dawn and traveling to NYC to meet the SciBlings (and readers).
I did not have enough time to schedule long posts for the next four days, apart from the ubiquitous ClockQuotes, and I doubt I will have…
On Tuesday night, when I posted my personal picks from this week's crop of articles published in PLoS ONE, I omitted (due to a technical glitch on the site), to point out that a blog-friend of mine John Logsdon published his first PLoS ONE paper on that day:
It's a updated and detailed report on…
