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
I missed it when it happened, but this post was my 1000th since the move to Seed. My average is 8.2 posts per day. How about you?
Fortunately, MovableType has the ability to schedule posts for future publishing. Thus, I usually write a bunch of posts at night (it may take an hour or two to write…
Absolutely read this: If This Goes On....A Scenario. And read the comments (ignore the trolls, focus on people with insight and information).
Funny, when I wrote this, people said that I was "paranoid" while the point of the post that too many people are not paranoid enough.
I particularly like…
Since the mere mention of Libertarianism induces so much commenting and traffic, I am assuming people are interested in the topic. That post has a bunch of good old links. Here are three brand new ones - what do you think about each one of them?
by Markos Moulitsas
by Bruce Reed
by Harold…
Except that getting elected for office is not a right and saying that a Creationist is not to be trusted with governing is not bigotry.
(Hat-tip: Lindsay)
October 8-14 is Earth Science Week. This year's theme is "Be a Citizen Scientist!" Wolverine Tom is blogging hard this week - see this, this, this and this for now. How about an Earth Science Blogroll for all of us to bookmark?
As Nick says:
Interestingly, as opponents of science (.....) continue to take on increasingly scientific-sounding arguments (....) this study demonstrates that these are only quasi-scientific, manufactured to support a particular viewpoint and not intended to actually communicate new information.
I…
Durham Literacy Center is in trouble and needs your help.
Mold in DLC Office:
For several years, the presence of mold in the DLC building has been a nagging but manageable concern. In the past 4 years, DLC has spent more than $15,000 to contain and destroy the mold that grows in the building's damp…
Fourth Stone Hearth is a brand new blog carnival which promises to be really interesting (at least to me and a few other souls). Check out the homepage and contribute if this is your blogging expertise.
I wish more bloggers would read and bookmark this post (I don't know when I first wrote it, but I moved it up top on April 20, 2006):
This is an old post but I wanted to bring it up to top as I recently saw some blogs shut down improperly, i.e., deleting the complete content.
Every now and then a…
If you are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference and you think you'll be hungry after a cold January day spent talking about science, medicine, journalism and blogging, sign up for dinner now.
I see that I was the only one answering this week's Ask The ScienceBlogger question (so far). Perhaps these two new studies will inspire some of my SciBlings to add their own thoughts:
Everybody Dance: The Energy You Use Won't Shorten Your Life:
The theory that animals die when they've expended…
Kevin is back from China and busy with school, work and herping in the Sandhills so it took him some time to put together this last installment, covering the last few days in China, the last-ditch efforts to ID some of the mysterious frogs, and the glorious return.
We have yet to get together for…
A January 20, 2006 post placing a cool physiological/behavioral study into an evolutionary context.
There are two main hypotheses - not mutually exclusive - for the adaptive value of having a circadian clock. One is the Internal Synchronization hypothesis, stating that the circadian clock serves…
Yes, I like some strange movies, but I arrived in the USA too late to see The Greatest American Hero TV show. Can you tell me more about it?
These people have just released the DVDs of the show. Should I get myself a copy?
Red Is For Hummingbirds, Yellow For Moths:
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the future of red and yellow varieties of a San Diego wildflower may depend on the fates of two different animals. They report in the current issue of the Journal of Evolutionary…
As I have written so much about Lakoff before, I feel I should say something - anything - to defend him from the onslaught he's seen lately on Seed's scienceblogs here, here, here, here and here.
What I think is important is to distinguish between several different things that Lakoff does. It…
Animals Resistant To Drunken Behavior Offer Clues To Alcoholism's Roots:
Animals with a remarkable ability to hold their liquor may point the way toward the genetic underpinnings of alcohol addiction, two separate research teams reported in the October 6, 2006 issue of the journal Cell. Earlier…
