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
That's me. My Hobbit name. Generated with the The Hobbit Name Generator, provided by Graham Steel in the comments of this poetically frustulous post. And my elvish name is Inglor Tinuviel.
Keeping Beer Fresher:
Scientists in Venezuela are reporting an advance in the centuries-old effort to preserve the fresh taste that beer drinkers value more than any other characteristic of that popular beverage.
Futuristic Linkage Of Animals And Electronics:
The same Global Positioning System (GPS…
....so I never get to the point at which I am driven to behave like this:
One day soon, people will look back at videos like this one and wonder in astonishment that people in the past had to go to a place to work! That there used to be such a thing as the office! And that people wasted time,…
But what should it be called? In the wake of the great success of the Classic Papers Chellenge, Skulls In The Stars will turn it into a regular carnival. And this is where you come in - suggest a good catchy name for the carnival in the comments of this post (these names are taken, but can give…
If you are looking for a short, easy-to-understand statement that gets absolutely everything about Open Access completely wrong, you can't do much better than this: Hidden cost of open access in Times Higher Education. Luckily, the commenters set it straight. So does Peter Suber, who also adds an…
Bjoern Brembs alerts me to a cool new paper (OA so you can read the whole thing) - The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health by Randolph M. Nesse and Stephen C. Stearns:
Evolutionary biology is an essential basic science for medicine, but few doctors and medical…
Linnaeus' Legacy #7 is up on When Pigs Fly Returns
Four Stone Hearth #42 is up on Neuroanthropology
The 88th Skeptic's Circle is up on Jyunri Kankei
Carnival of Space #57 is up on Out of the Cradle
Friday Ark #194 is up on Modulator
M. LeBlanc: Playing Cards
Melissa McEwan: For the Record
Echidne: Why Vote For Obama? and Well Worth Reading
Neil Sinhababu: TEN GOOD REASONS FOR AN OBAMA/EDWARDS TICKET....
Amanda Marcotte: Feminists: Not really stupid
Pam Spaulding: Mike Signorile tries to bore into the 'if not Hillary, I'm…
Recent discussions about potential use of downloads in place of other bibliometric measures (including Impact Factor) made us think. So, we took a look at PLoS ONE stats to see which papers are the most visited to date. The results are here - the most visited ONE paper is Ionizing Radiation…
Spider Silk Can Be Stretchy Like Springs Or Like Rubber:
Spider silks are incredibly stretchy, but are they stretchy like elastic or springs? The answer lies in their amino acid content. Spider silks are made from proteins, and biologists have just discovered that the secret lies in the silk…
This is funny - I start reading interesting stuff, really stuff that I find catchy regardless of where I work....and it's all from PLoS ONE! We rock! The journal that some people regard as a repository for "boring, incremental stuff" is publishing all the most exciting papers around....just see…
There are 56 new articles published in PLoS ONE a few minutes ago. Please comment, rate and send trackbacks. Here are some of my personal favourites of the week:
East Learns from West: Asiatic Honeybees Can Understand Dance Language of European Honeybees:
The honeybee waggle dance, through which…
While the conference site is down and before the new one is built, I need, for myself, a list of blog carnivals I follow, so here I am putting it here for my own reference (let me know if I am missing a delightful and useful carnival - if you manage one of them, make sure I am on your mailing list…
Have you ever heard of TOMS Shoes? Apparently, this has been going on for two years now. Blake Mycoskie is making these shoes and, whenever you buy a pair for yourself, he sends another pair to a poor child in the developing world.
Circus of the Spineless #33 is up on Seeds Aside
Grand Rounds Volume 4 Number 37 is up on The Happy Hospitalist
The 127th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Tami's Blog.
Evolution Of An Imprinted Domain In Mammals:
The normal human genome contains 46 chromosomes: 23 from the mother and 23 from the father. Thus, you have two copies of every gene (excluding some irregularity in the pair of sex chromosomes). In general, which parent contributes a chromosome has no…
Go to http://www.slideworld.org, type in a keyword, and it will do a search of slideshows that contain that word. I typed "circadian" and found a lot....
Hat-tip: Ana
The media monitor:
"Timothy Caulfield has spent years listening to scientists complain that the media does a poor job of explaining science. As research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta, he has heard this so often, he says, that he started to believe it too. Finally…
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En Tequila Es Verdad
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Carnival of the Elitist Bastards
