clock | March 23, 2009World Water Day synchroblogging is up on Crikey Creek
Gene Genie #44 is up on Mary Meets Dolly
Friday Ark #235 is up on Modulator
clock | March 22, 2009All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
- Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (1880 - 1964)
clock | March 22, 2009For science nerds:
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clock | March 22, 2009As I'm sure you already know, I saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' this weekend at the new Durham Performing Arts Center. Actually, I did not see it once, I saw it twice (complicated story how that happened). Bride of Coturnix and I went alone on Friday night, and we brought the kids with us on Saturday afternoon. Which was good timing as today Topol had to cancel and Tevye is being played by his understudy.
First, I have to admit I am very happy that DPAC (the Durham Performing Arts Center) is doing so well. As Breakfast with Pandora says, building an enormous new art and performance center at this…
clock | March 22, 2009Ticking Of Body's 24-hour Clock Turns Gears Of Metabolism And Aging:
All animals, including humans, have an internal 24-hour clock or circadian rhythm that creates a daily oscillation of body temperature, brain activity, hormone production and metabolism. Studying mice, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Northwestern University found how the biological circadian clock mechanism communicates with processes that govern aging and metabolism.
Is Parenting A Joy Or A Trial?:
As the nation prepares to celebrate motherhood, a University of York economist is…
clock | March 21, 2009Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
- Kurt Herbert Alder (1902-1958)
clock | March 21, 2009
Here are the submissions to date. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts. And you have two days left to vote for the best submission button.
A Blog Around The Clock: Circadian Rhythm of Aggression in Crayfish
A Blog Around The Clock: Co-Researching spaces for Freelance Scientists?
A Blog Around The Clock: The Shock Value of Science Blogs
a k8, a cat, a mission: Moms asking for help
a k8, a cat, a mission: What does good mentorship look like?
a k8, a cat, a mission: Praise and Appreciation
a k8, a cat, a mission: Proximate mechanisms
a k8, a cat, a mission…
clock | March 21, 2009Fossil Fragments Reveal 500-million-year-old Monster Predator:
Hurdia victoria was originally described in 1912 as a crustacean-like animal. Now, researchers from Uppsala University and colleagues reveal it to be just one part of a complex and remarkable new animal that has an important story to tell about the origin of the largest group of living animals, the arthropods.
Not All Bats Land The Same Way:
People have always been fascinated by bats, but the scope of that interest generally is limited to how bats fly and their bizarre habit of sleeping upside down. Until now, no one had studied…
clock | March 20, 2009It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
- Jim Rohn
clock | March 20, 2009And there is something amazing about sharing the same space with a legend. At the age of 74, after 42 years and 2500 shows, Topol is finally retiring his role of Tevye in the Fiddler On The Roof. And he is just amazing.
clock | March 20, 2009Just like we did last year at about the same time, Sheril, Abel and I went to Duke and talked to the students of the 'Science and the Media' class taught by Misha Angrist.
We talked about science blogging, got some great questions from the students, and then went out for lunch - it was a lovely day here in the Triangle today.
Update: There was another blogger there, stealthily! Dr.Isis was simultaneously gmail chatting with Sheril and Abel during class. When Abel got asked why he blogs, he decided to also ask Dr.Isis - now, here is the answer.
And here are a couple of pictures from the event…
clock | March 20, 2009There are 19 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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Phase Shifting Capacity of the Circadian Pacemaker Determined by the SCN Neuronal Network Organization:
In mammals, a major circadian pacemaker that drives daily rhythms is located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN…
clock | March 20, 2009Is The Hippopotamus The Closest Living Relative To The Whale?:
Hippos spend lots of time in the water and now it turns out (or researchers argue), they are the closest living relative to whales. It also turns out, the two are swimming in a bit of controversy. Jessica Theodor, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary, and her colleague Jonathan Geisler, associate professor at Georgia Southern University are disputing a recent study that creates a different family tree for the hippo.
Female Mammals Follow Their Noses To The Right Mates:
Female…
clock | March 19, 2009It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | March 19, 2009So, let's see what's new in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens and 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:
Robust Food Anticipatory Activity in BMAL1-Deficient Mice:
Food availability is a potent environmental cue that directs circadian locomotor activity in rodents. Even though nocturnal rodents prefer to forage at night, daytime food anticipatory activity (FAA) is observed prior to short meals…
clock | March 19, 2009I and the Bird #96 is up on The Birdchaser
Change of Shift: Volume 3, Number 19 is up on Emergiblog
Carnival of Homeschooling #168: The Blarney Edition is up on The Homeschool Cafe
clock | March 19, 2009Where? To visit Dr.Isis.
Why? To help an Undergraduate win a science scholarship:
The APS has very kindly agreed to allow us (hang tight, I'm not asking for money, seriously) to fund an award at this year's Experimental Biology meeting for the undergraduate woman who submits the best abstract. Each year the APS awards seven David Bruce Awards for undergraduate research excellence and, within the structure of this program, the APS will be adding an eighth award specifically from me and my lovely readers (but I'm not asking for money. I promise). I really loved the idea of using my blog to…
clock | March 19, 2009Peter Suber reports:
The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to MIT a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise…