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
Sex Ends As Seasons Shift And Kisspeptin Levels Plummet:
A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at Berkeley scientists in the March 2007 issue…
John Edwards Identifies Global Warming as a Priority in His Presidential Campaign:
John Edwards has clearly made global warming a prominent part of his campaign at least at this early stage and has met one of the criteria (#2) that I identified. By including it as one of the issues he has chosen to…
Martin Rundkvist is a very smart guy. By renaming his blog from Salto Sobrius to Aardvarchaeology, he has displaced my blog from the vaunted #1 spot on the alphabetical list of SB blogs on the front page! Go say Hello and Welcome to this great addition to the Seed blogging family!
I've been lazy over the holidays with my blogging, so I'll defer, once again, to Physics Of Sex blog:
Part 2 of Pumped Up and Ready for Love: Sex and Fluid Physics
And once the flow gets going, you may want to make sure that your toys are ethical.
Zoo trumpets birth of rare African okapi :
The Brookfield Zoo announced this week the birth of a baby okapi - an endangered African animal that looks as if it were put together by committee.
With a dark brown body and striped upper hind legs, the 1-month-old female looks a bit like a zebra, but…
Which one are you? (December 25, 2005)
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Big debate over Wonkery and Activism on blogs is brewing around the biggies in the Left Blogistan. Let me rehash it quickly before starting my own rant.
It all started with a Washington Monthly article titled Kos Call by…
How Zebra Finches Learn Songs: Cellular Killer Also Important To Memory:
A protein known primarily for its role in killing cells also plays a part in memory formation, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report. Their work exploring how zebra finches learn songs could have…
If you read the papers or watched TV today, you may have gotten the impression that Edwards announced his run this morning around 9am in front of TV cameras. Wrong! The MSM folks think they still matter and are blind to everything happening outside of their domain.
The first people he directly…
That title was the only way I could think of to connect nurses and birds....
I and the Bird #39 - A Visit from Sandy Claws - is up on Natural Visions.
Change of Shift: Vol 1, No 14 is up on NeoNurseChick
Here is the next installment of my lecture notes for teh adult education speed-class in biology. As always, I ask for corrections and suggestions for improvement (May 20, 2006):
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BIO101 - Bora Zivkovic - Lecture 3 - Part 1
Imagine that you are a zebra, grazing…
Africa's Least-known Carnivore In Tanzania: Mongoose Is One More Rare Find:
The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced that a camera-trap study in the mountains of Southern Tanzania has now recorded Africa's least-known and probably rarest carnivore: Jackson's mongoose, known…
Edwards has unleashed his campaign website, where you can find all the info, join the discussion on the blog and see a preview of what he'll say tomorrow in NOLA on this video (and no, I am not paid by his campaign - my support is amateur):
John Edwards is announcing his presidential candidacy tomorrow in New Orleans, followed by a tour of town-hall meetings in Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina and North Carolina. I'll be at the last one and may have some pictures etc. I'll probably resuscitate my old blog to avoid…
99th Carnival of Education is up on Right on the Left Coast
The 52nd Carnival of Homeschooling: A Year and a Day - is up on What Did You Do in School Today?
Perhaps. But we do other stuff just like chicken (December 09, 2004):
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Fantastic news in science:
Researchers compare chicken, human genomes
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/nhgr-rcc120804.php
Some highlights:
Chicks have less junk DNA…
Singing For Survival: Gibbons Scare Off Predators With 'Song':
It is well known that animals use song as a way of attracting mates, but researchers have found that gibbons have developed an unusual way of scaring off predators -- by singing to them. The primatologists at the University of St…
Fiona Morgan of Independent Weekly is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially common knowledge.
- W. Willard Wirtz, US…
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