clock | March 2, 2009A voice from Latin America:
Many scientists use science blogs to post information on their work and receive comments from other scientists and from people outside the usual circle of readers. Some authors even suggest posting in blogs part of their works before publishing them, in order to exchange ideas and bring new perspectives. Scientists who use blogs consider them a complement to - not a replacement of - scientific journals, since they represent documents that do not substitute articles, but that establish a maturing stage of scientific work preparation, which is static and limited in…
clock | March 2, 2009...is now online.
See summaries by Caryn Shechtman, Arikia Millikan and me. Update: Also see Talia Page both on Space Cadet Girl and TalkingScience.
clock | March 2, 2009Circus of the Spineless Issue 36 is up on Invertebrate Diaries
Encephalon Edition 65 is up on PodBlack Cat
Berry Go Round #14 is up on Gravity's rainbow
Four Stone Hearth #61 is up on Moore Groups Blog
Carnival of the Liberals LXXXV is up on The Lay Scientist
clock | March 2, 2009Underlying Sleep Problem Linked To Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder In Children:
A study in the March 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests the presence of an intrinsic sleep problem specific to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and supports the idea that children with ADHD may be chronically sleep deprived and have abnormal REM sleep.
Butterfly Found To Be New Species, Because Of Its Mustache:
After nearly a century in the Natural History Museum collections, a new butterfly species has been discovered because of its mustache.
Coffee Cultivation Good For Diversity In…
clock | March 1, 2009History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
- Thurgood Marshall
clock | March 1, 2009You have been Expelled.
No, not by me, by your own party.
The Republican party is now a clown car.
The sane, thoughtful conservatives have left it over the years, some prominent ones quite publicly last year, either more openly by stating they are leaving GOP, or a little more carefully, by endorsing Obama for President.
What is left are racist, sexist, homophobic, femiphobic, xenophobic, Creationist, authoritarian, theocratic, cowardly scuzbuckets like Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, Bobby Jindal, Steve Sailer, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Anne Coulter and Joe The Plumber.…
clock | March 1, 2009From SCONC:
Thursday, March 5
7 p.m.
What Good is it to Feel Good? The Science of Positive Emotions
From our "what the world needs now" file, Dr. Barbara Frederickson, head of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at UNC will share thoughts from her new book, Positivity. You can strengthen relationships, relax the mind and relieve stress by thinking positively. Part of the Current Science Forum at Morehead Planetarium, UNC.
clock | March 1, 2009Carnival of Evolution #9 is up on Moneduloides
March Scientiae: Role Models is up on Liberal Arts Lady
Festival of the Trees #33 is up on Local ecologist
Skeptics' Circle #106 is up on Disillusioned Words
Friday Ark #232 is up on Modulator
clock | March 1, 2009In February I posted 166 times. This includes two BPR3-icon-worthy posts about science! The first was on Circadian Rhythm of Aggression in Crayfish with the longish addendum on citing blog posts in scientific literature. The second was An Awesome Whale Tale, and, related to this paper, I announced the new Palaeontology Collection in PLoS ONE in Fossils! Fossils! Fossils!. I also did an interview with Dr.Adam Ratner.
I have covered another session in ScienceOnline'09 - Saturday 3:15pm - Blog carnivals. Miss Baker and her students were on NPR and one of the students wrote a Malaria Song that…
clock | March 1, 2009Desert Ants Smell Their Way Home:
Humans lost in the desert are well known for going around in circles, prompting scientists to ask how desert creatures find their way around without landmarks for guidance. Now new research shows that Desert Ants input both local smells and visual cues into their navigation systems to guide them home.
Controversy Over World's Oldest Traces Of Life:
The argument over whether an outcrop of rock in South West Greenland contains the earliest known traces of life on Earth has been reignited, in a study published in the Journal of the Geological Society. The…
clock | February 28, 2009So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | February 28, 2009Actually, Journalists do take some of the blame for the death of newspapers:
But why is the business model dying?
Competition is a factor, and blogs are obviously part of that mix. But again, if I'd started a business and someone else opened up down the street and offered a more appealing product, and I lost customers, would it be fair to blame the other guy alone for my problems?
In a free market, we have competition. Yes, it can suck when you're not on the winning side. But there's nothing saying that you can't start a new business, or reform your existing one to compete.
Newspapers remain…
clock | February 28, 2009Gunnar Engblom explains Facebook to newbies.
Just go to Facebook and search for 'Birding' - people, groups, events.
clock | February 28, 2009Because they are more realistic than the MSM - this clip is even more relevant today than it was when first released:
clock | February 28, 2009Babies Learn Music While Sleeping:
Early screening and treatment for infants with hearing problems, and the ability to computer-generate musical scores, are two very different possible outcomes of some "off-the-wall" research. Until recently, little has been known about the perceptions humans have when they enter the world. Although adult perception has been extensively researched, how, or even if, the brains of newborn babies perceive patterns in the world remained a mystery.
Scientists Discover Why Teeth In Mammals, But Not Sharks, Form In A Single Row:
A system of opposing genetic forces…
clock | February 27, 2009Sometimes you are overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you?
- Marian Anderson
clock | February 27, 2009You may be aware that PLoS ONE has started making Collections of papers in various areas of research. The older PLoS journals have been making collections for a long time. PLoS ONE is just starting. Last month we put together the first such collection - Stress-Induced Depression and Comorbidities: From Bench to Bedside.
Today, we are happy to unveil our second collection - the PLoS ONE Paleontology Collection!
It is important to keep in mind that there are two types of collections: the first type is a one-off, closed collection, often associated with a conference, where we ask for or are…