clock | January 2, 2009There are 9 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:
Population Dynamics Constrain the Cooperative Evolution of Cross-Feeding:
Cross-feeding is the exchange of nutrients among species of microbes. It has two potential evolutionary origins, one as an exchange of…
clock | January 2, 2009
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Talia Page is a future astronaut, senior staff at Talking Science, writer for Space Lifestyle magazine, Chief Editor for the Imagine Science Film Festival, and a blogger on Space Cadet. She will be on the panel Blogging adventure: how to post from strange locations.
Neeru Paharia is a doctoral student who is starting to build AcaWiki, a wiki of open-access long abstracts of peer-reviewed research, which she will present as a demo.
David Palange is a student and blogger in the Nicholas School of the…
clock | January 2, 2009Longstanding Theory Of Origin Of Species In Oceans Challenged:
New evidence uncovered by oceanographers challenges one of the most long-standing theories about how species evolve in the oceans. Most scientists believe that allopatric speciation, where different species arise from an ancestral species only after breeding populations have become physically isolated from each other, is the dominant mode of speciation both on land and in the sea. The key to this theory is the existence of some kind of physical barrier that operates to restrict interbreeding (gene flow) between populations so that…
clock | January 2, 2009The 31st edition of the Festival of the Trees is up on Rock Paper Lizard
Friday Ark #224 is up on Modulator
clock | January 1, 2009At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us with a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined with a Bonaparte at their head and disposing of all the treasure of the earth, our own excepted, could not by force make a track on the Blue Ridge or take a drink from the Ohio in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up from amongst us. It cannot come…
clock | January 1, 2009The most awesome January Scientiae is up on Thesis - with Children
Carnival of the Liberals #81 is up on Rust Belt Philosophy
clock | January 1, 2009The Psychology of Cyberspace is a course taught by John Suler in the Department of Psychology at the Science and Technology Center at Rider University. The website is a collection of a large number of thought-provoking essays on various aspects of human behavior online:
This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call "the psychology of cyberspace" - or simply "cyberpsychology." Continually being revised…
clock | January 1, 2009
Academic Evolution is Gideon Burton's blog, intended as a playground for posting drafts and eliciting feedback while he is writing a book of the same title. You can see the rough outline of the proposed contents of the book here:
This blog is intended to become Academic Evolution, the book. My model is Chris Anderson, whose Long Tail blog helped bring about his seminal book of the same name. Similarly, I am beta testing my ideas, developing them in keeping with the principle of transparency and with the goal of inviting public review and collaboration. I'm smart enough to know others are…
clock | January 1, 2009
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
April L. MacKellar is a doctoral student in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke.
Rick MacPherson works for the Coral Reef Alliance and blogs on Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets. He will be on the panel Blogging adventure: how to post from strange locations and will co-moderate the session Hey, You Can't Say That!
Robin Mackar is the News Director at the National Institute of Environemental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
Kelly Malcom is the Editor for Internal Communications at Duke University Health…
clock | January 1, 2009Another Reason To Avoid High-fat Diet: It Can Disrupt Our Biological Clock, Say Researchers
Indulgence in a high-fat diet can not only lead to overweight because of excessive calorie intake, but also can affect the balance of circadian rhythms - everyone's 24-hour biological clock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have shown.
Songs From The Sea: Deciphering Dolphin Language With Picture Words:
In an important breakthrough in deciphering dolphin language, researchers in Great Britain and the United States have imaged the first high definition imprints that dolphin sounds make in…
clock | December 31, 2008To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
- Clifton Fadiman
clock | December 31, 2008There are 12 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:
Temporal and Individual Variation in Offspring Provisioning by Tree Swallows: A New Method of Automated Nest Attendance Monitoring:
Studies of the ecology and evolution of avian nesting behavior have been limited by…
clock | December 31, 2008
Let's highlight some more of the participants of this year's ScienceOnline09 conference:
Greg Laden is an anthropologist, a part time independent scholar and part time associate adviser with the Program for Individualized Learning at the the University of Minnesota and a prolific SciBling blogger. He will be on the panel
Hey, You Can't Say That!
Benjamin Landis is a student in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke.
Patric Lane is the Health and Science Editor at UNC-Chapel Hill News Services.
Les Lang is the Director of Research Communications and Assistant Director of Public…
clock | December 31, 2008An ongoing meme [From, via] - list of cities/towns in which I have spent at least one night during 2008 (asterisk for places where I slept on non-consecutive nights):
New York City, NY*
Destin, FL
London, UK
Cambridge, UK*
Watford, UK
Cromer, UK
Trieste, Italy
Belgrade, Serbia
Berlin, Germany
A very Euro-focused year, compared with 2007 which was all over the USA, e.g., San Francisco (twice), New York City (twice), Boston, Milwaukee, Greensboro, Mountain View....
clock | December 31, 2008
See the discussion about identification of this strange animal here. Is it correct?