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
This was a very busy day. I went to five science-related places/events today (and one yesterday).
The first three, this morning, were part of an education school trip with my daughter's class and her science teacher.
First we visited the OWASA Water Treatment Plant which provides tap water for…
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Geobloggers - who is coming to #scio10? There is a session proposed that you may want to join in
How @TomLevenson rakes Megan McArdle over hot coals on disingenuous science reporting: It's not that McArdle can't read...…
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Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?
The Paleo Paper Challenge in the Blogosphere (see also)
RT @anthonymobile: The Open Laboratory 2008 anthology of science blogs is one of the most fun things i've…
From Sigma Xi:
We'll reconvene at noon, Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, with a peek at one of the many ways technology helped our species survive and prosper long ago.
Steven Churchill, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, will…
Press release (in Swedish - translation from the Swedish by Ingegerd Rabow):
The Swedish Research Council requires free access to research results.
In order to receive research grants the Research council requires now that researchers publish their material freely accessible to all.
The general…
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Genes, Categories and Species, by Jody Hey, a book review.
Some wicked multimedia tools...
In the past, when a country switches from dollar to euro we invent a reason to bomb it. Too late now: The demise of the dollar…
As you are likely aware, the DonorsChoose campaign is in full swing here on Scienceblogs.com.
What you may not be aware is that Seed Media Group is in, with some nice prizes to the donors:
You can forward the donation receipt to scienceblogs@gmail.com for a chance to win some Swag Bags from…
There are 21 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. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
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Warning, Revisited
How Twitter is changing the way wars are fought
Come hang out with me at ScienceOnline 2010
Nature Communications: A breakthrough for open access? (and discussion)
Using tequila to make diamonds -…
There are 32 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. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Arikia Millikan, the former…
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Why Chicago Failed To Win The Olympics - because nobody but Americans wants yet another Games here....
I Unleash My Journalism Students To Critique Newsweek's Daniel Lyons
The discovery of heredity - some ideas we take…
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 390 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
- Aleksandar Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
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New SEAPLEX videos: The North Pacific Gyre - Miriam Goldstein Talks Plastic Aboard SEAPLEX and The Garbage Patch - Chelsea Rochman studies Salps with SEAPLEX
Journalism as capitalism
Google Rules - A high school…
Crossing the Line? Biomedical Technology in Sports
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
6:30-8:30 pm with discussion beginning at 7:00 followed by Q&A
Location: Tir Na Nog 218 South Blount Street, Raleigh, 833-7795
In the end, it was a split second rather than an International Association of Athletics…
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Anne Frank: the only existing film images (0:09-0:14):
July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her…
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igNobels 2009
China Is Wordless on Traumas of Communists' Rise
Turkey: student protester hurls shoe at IMF chief
Blogging a science conference: Interview with Alex Knoll
Friday Weird Science: The shark with two 'heads'…
Let's check all seven PLoS journals today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
