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clock | October 12, 2009Lots of interesting articles in PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
The Perfect Family: Decision Making in Biparental Care:
Previous theoretical work on parental decisions in biparental care has emphasized…
j7uy5 | October 12, 2009This is about chronic fatigue syndrome and the association with
XMRV. I apologize in advance for the provocative title, and the
subsequent gratuitous references to the Nobel Prize, but there is a
point to this.
Take a look at this summary of the "old-fashioned disease":
During the nineteenth century general paresis of the insane
emerged as a new psychiatric disorder which was extremely common and
completely devastating. While retrospective studies have found earlier
instances of what may have been the same disorder, the first clearly
identified examples of paresis among the insane were…
clock | October 10, 2009Let's look back at the week and see what's cool. 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
ECG Response of Koalas to Tourists Proximity: A Preliminary Study:
Koalas operate on a tight energy budget and, thus, may not always display behavioral avoidance reaction when placed in a stressful…
clock | October 9, 2009There are 17 new articles in PLoS ONE published last night. 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Was Dinosaurian Physiology Inherited by Birds? Reconciling Slow Growth in Archaeopteryx
Background
Archaeopteryx is the oldest and most primitive known bird (Avialae). It is believed that the…
clock | October 6, 2009There 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
From the Eye of the Albatrosses: A Bird-Borne Camera Shows an Association between Albatrosses and a Killer Whale in the Southern Ocean:
Albatrosses fly many hundreds of kilometers across the open ocean to…
clock | October 5, 2009There 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Dynamic Locomotor Capabilities Revealed by Early Dinosaur Trackmakers from Southern Africa:
A new investigation of the sedimentology and ichnology of the Early Jurassic Moyeni tracksite in Lesotho, southern…
clock | October 2, 2009Let'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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Circadian and Social Cues Regulate Ion Channel Trafficking:
Excitable cells, such as neurons and muscle cells, control behavior by generating action potentials, electrical signals that propagate along the cell…
clock | September 29, 2009There 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs:
Tyrannosaurus rex and other tyrannosaurid fossils often display multiple, smooth-edged full-thickness erosive lesions on the mandible, either…
clock | September 28, 2009There are 30 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Performance of Humans vs. Exploration Algorithms on the Tower of London Test:
The Tower of London Test (TOL) used to assess executive functions was inspired in Artificial Intelligence tasks used to test…
clock | September 25, 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, Mendeley, 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:
Neuroanatomical Variability of Religiosity:
We hypothesized that religiosity, a set of traits variably expressed in the population, is modulated by neuroanatomical variability. We tested this idea by…
clock | September 24, 2009Let's check all seven PLoS journals tonight.... 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Molecular Phylogenetics of the Genus Neoconocephalus (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) and the Evolution of Temperate Life Histories:
The katydid genus Neoconocephalus (25+ species) has a prominent acoustic…
clock | September 22, 2009There 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolution:
Integration of diverse data (molecules, fossils) provides the…
j7uy5 | September 17, 2009The people of Obama are selling jellyfish candy. Really.
style="display: inline;">The photo shows a diver next to a specimen of Nomura's jellyfish,
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomura%27s_jellyfish">Nemopilema
nomurai. These creatures occasionally
href="http://scienceblogs.com/guiltyplanet/2009/07/another_year_another_giant_jel.php">swarm
off the coast of Japan, where they are a nuisance. Some
creative souls have responded by
href="http://scienceblogs.com/shiftingbaselines/2008/02/more_jellies_fill_your_belly.php">finding
ways to eat them.
Now, schoolkids in the…
clock | September 16, 2009There are 15 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Molecular Phylogeny and Description of the Novel Katablepharid Roombia truncata gen. et sp. nov., and Establishment of the Hacrobia Taxon nov:
Photosynthetic eukaryotes with a secondary plastid of red algal…
clock | September 15, 2009
Today PLoS ONE published a paper describing a very cool new fossil of a sauropod from Niger - an exquisitely preserved, almost complete skeleton. Of course, you can read it for free at:
A New Basal Sauropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the Early Evolution of Sauropoda:
Background
The early evolution of sauropod dinosaurs is poorly understood because of a highly incomplete fossil record. New discoveries of Early and Middle Jurassic sauropods have a great potential to lead to a better understanding of early sauropod evolution and to reevaluate the patterns of sauropod…
clock | September 15, 2009There are 23 awesome 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed; How the Thermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus Responds to Oxidative Stress:
To avoid molecular damage of biomolecules due to oxidation…
clock | September 14, 2009Monday, Monday - let's see what's new. 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research:
It is a summer day in 2009 in Cambridge, England, and K. (39) looks out of his lab window, wondering why he chose the life of a scientist [1]. Yet…
clock | September 11, 2009There are 22 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Major Role of Microbes in Carbon Fluxes during Austral Winter in the Southern Drake Passage:
Carbon cycling in Southern Ocean is a major issue in climate change, hence the need to understand the role of…
clock | September 10, 2009I have been remiss this week....so here's a sampling from all seven PLoS journals over the course of this week. 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Classical Morphology of Plants as an Elementary Instance of Classical Invariant Theory:
It has long been known that structural chemistry…
clock | September 4, 2009There are 15 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Parsing Social Network Survey Data from Hidden Populations Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammars:
Human populations are structured by social networks, in which individuals tend to form relationships based…