clock | December 4, 2008Carnival of Evolution #6 is up on Observations Of A Nerd
Mendel's Garden #26 is up on A Free Man
Skeptics' Circle 101: The African Edition, is up on Ionian Enchantment
clock | December 4, 2008New Giant Toothless Pterosaur Species Discovered:
A researcher at the University of Portsmouth has identified a new species of pterosaur, the largest of its kind to ever be found. It represents an entirely new genus of these flying reptiles that ruled the skies 115 million years ago.
Antioxidants Are Unlikely To Prevent Aging, Study Suggests:
Diets and beauty products which claim to have anti-oxidant properties are unlikely to prevent aging, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. Researchers at the Institute of Healthy aging at UCL (University College London) say this is because…
clock | December 3, 2008There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
clock | December 3, 2008There are 14 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:
Large Differences in Aging Phenotype between Strains of the Short-Lived Annual Fish Nothobranchius furzeri:
A laboratory inbred strain of the annual fish Nothobranchius furzeri shows exceptionally short life…
clock | December 3, 2008
As you know, Anton Zuiker, David Kroll and I were on the radio earlier today, chatting for an hour with Ernie Hood of Radio In Vivo, here in Carrboro.
We discussed science communication, education, publishing, blogging, popularization, journalism, social networking, Second Life, etc. The focus was on ScienceOnline09, but we also mentioned The Open Laboratory anthologies (2006, 2007 and 2008), LabLit.com, the NCCU BRITE, Duke Health, Inside Duke Medicine, PLoS, BlogTogether, SCONC and, of course, our blogs.
Try to find an hour of peace and quiet and listen to the show here (mp3).
And then…
clock | December 3, 2008I landed in SF twice (it's a great visual spectacle approaching the Bay), but I had no idea what was going on in front of me, in the cockpit:
clock | December 3, 2008I promised solutions in 24 hours, and it's been a little more than that now, so here are the sources:
1. I suppose that the mere fact that I was in the company of two friends itself proves that I wasn't actually some kind of hermit when it came to my rat studies.
Rats by Robert Sullivan (not a blogger, as far as I know)
2. They're screwing the security guards in the bathroom.
The Wisdom of Whores by Elizabeth Pisani
3. By the end of the nineteenth century, organic synthesis was widely accepted and the vital force theory was abandoned.
Tomorrow's Table by Pamela Ronald
4. Cyanobacteria…
clock | December 3, 2008BONEYARD #26: "My Favourite Museum" - is up on Traumador the Tyrannosaur
Carnival of the Blue #19 is up on WaterNotes
December 2008 History Carnival is up on Frog in a Well
The 54th issue of the Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival is up on Cognition and Culture
The 153rd Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Po Moyemu--In My Opinion
clock | December 3, 2008Molecular Partnership Controls Daily Rhythms, Body Metabolism:
A research team led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has discovered a key molecular partnership that coordinates body rhythms and metabolism. Lazar and his colleagues, including the study's first author, Penn Veterinary Medicine doctoral student Theresa Alenghat, studied a protein called NCoR that modulates the body's responses to metabolic hormones. They engineered a mutation into mice that prevents NCoR from working…
clock | December 2, 2008Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinic Saying
clock | December 2, 2008There are 10 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:
If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping:
The concept of an individual swapping his or her body with that of another person has captured the imagination of writers and artists for decades. Although this…
clock | December 2, 2008It started with Henry who was bored with the simplicity of the "pick the nearest book" meme and decided to make it really hard!
Mike picked it up and tagged a few people, including me and Wilkins.
So, what are the rules? Hey, Henry came up with this, so feel free to make the rules as you go. After all, what's he gonna do - release calcium from intracellular stores?
OK, pick not one but TEN books. They don't need to be the closest to you - take your time and make good picks. It's not easy - you want people to work hard, but still figure out the sources eventually. Goldilocks Principle…
clock | December 2, 2008Melatonin May Save Eyesight In Inflammatory Disease, Study Suggests:
Current research suggests that melatonin therapy may help treat uveitis, a common inflammatory eye disease. People with uveitis develop sudden redness and pain in their eyes, and their vision rapidly deteriorates. Untreated, uveitis can lead to permanent vision loss, accounting for an estimated 10-15% of cases of blindness in the US. Uveitis has a wide variety of causes, including eye injury, cancer, infection, and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. There is currently no optimal…
clock | December 1, 2008A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter
clock | December 1, 2008It's midnight! So, the submission form is now closed.
Over the past year we have collected hundreds of excellent entries for the anthology - thanks to all who made the submissions.
Jennifer Rohn has lined up some star people to judge all the entries, and in the end, we'll have the best 50 (plus a poem and a cartoon/image) published in a book with Lulu.com. We will announce the winners in a couple of weeks or so, but in the meantime, bookmark this post - this is the best of science blogging for the year!
And if the winter break is long enough for you to read all of these entries and…
clock | December 1, 2008Berry Go Round # 11 is up on Catalogue of Organisms
Carnival of Elitist Bastards, VIII is up on Cafe Philos
Carnival of the Green #156 is up on Healthy Child Healthy World
clock | December 1, 2008
This Wednesday at 11am, tune in to Radio In Vivo with Ernie Hood at WCOM-FM 103.5 in Carrboro, NC (or check out the podcast online afterwards), because the show will be fantastic:
Radio In Vivo
December 3, 2008
Guests: David Kroll (NCCU), Anton Zuiker (Duke), Bora Zivkovic (PLOS) - co-organizers of ScienceOnline'09
Topic: ScienceOnline'09, coming Jan. 16-18, 2009, Sigma Xi, RTP
Ernie will even open up the phone lines (919-929-9601) for the audience so you can call in to heckle us or ask really tough questions ;-)
clock | December 1, 2008Now you can donate a subscription to Seed Magazine to a classroom of your choice:
Earlier this year, as part of the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge, ScienceBlogs readers donated over $18,000 toward science literacy.
Seed Media Group was proud to donate a further $15,000, bringing the ScienceBlogs community's total contribution to over $33,000. Schools around the nation are already putting these badly-needed funds toward science classrooms and labs.
Science literacy is a crucial element in driving progress. We believe that by providing the next generation access to scientific perspectives, by…
clock | December 1, 2008Let's see what is new in PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology and PLoS ONE today:
Time-of-Day-Dependent Enhancement of Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus:
Adult neurogenesis occurs in specific regions of the mammalian brain such as the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. In the neurogenic region, neural progenitor cells continuously divide and give birth to new neurons. Although biological properties of neurons and glia in the hippocampus have been demonstrated to fluctuate depending on specific times of the day, it is unclear if neural progenitors and neurogenesis in the adult brain are temporally…