clock | May 23, 2007Tangled Bank #80 is up on Geek Counterpoint
Carnival of Education #120 is up on I Thought a Think.
Carnival of Homeschooling #73 is up on The Lilting House.
Scroll down this page to see the latest Carnival of the Liberals.
And don't forget to send me your entries for next week's I And The Bird: coturnix AT gmail DOT com
clock | May 23, 2007As promised, I will gather here (and update a couple of times during the day) some of the most interesting posts from around the blogosphere about the celebrations of the 300th birthday of Carl von Linne aka Carolus Linnaeus, the guy you cussed at when, back in high school, you had to memorize the order of taxonomic categories: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species (and you all know the mnemonic, don't you?).
So, what's with the name? Is it Linnaeus or von Linne? Merriam-Webster explains:
But today we come not to praise Linnaeus but to parse his various names. When…
clock | May 23, 2007Stronger together. Should have thought of that back in 1991. But, perhaps it's not too late...
clock | May 23, 2007
One In Six European Mammals Threatened With Extinction:
The first assessment of all European mammals, commissioned by the European Commission and carried out by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), shows that nearly one in every six mammal species is now threatened with extinction. The population trends are equally alarming: a quarter (27%) of all mammals has declining populations and a further 33% had an unknown population trend. Only 8% were identified as increasing, including the European bison, thanks to successful conservation measures.
Scientists Concerned About Effects Of Global…
clock | May 22, 2007Is the plant [Thalictrum lucidum] sufficiently distinct from T. flavum? It seems to me a daughter of time.
- Carl Linnaeus [Planta, an satis distincta, a T. flavo? Videtur temporis filia. Species plantarum 1753]
Hat-tip
clock | May 22, 2007Well, it's been a while.... since I hosted the CotL #3 about a year and a half ago. It's ripe time to do it again. Not that it was ever easy to choose ten best written and most creative posts out of dozens of great entries! I spent the last few days agonizing and wishing I could include 20 or 30 or 40...but rules are rules, so here it goes, the brand new Carnival of the Liberals:
The Ridger of The Greenbelt digs for deeper causes in Not slavery - abolition:
Upsetting tyrants is noble, isn't it?
Charles H. Green knows that Trust Matters and right now you should trust me that his post is well…
clock | May 22, 2007
If this gets more widely known (and, with this post, I am trying to help it become so), you can just imagine the jokes about the new challenges to the aviation industry and the renewed popularity of the Mile High Club, or the cartoons utilizing the phallic shape of airplanes!
Hamsters on Viagra Have Less Jet Lag, Research Shows (also Viagra helps jet-lagged hamsters, maybe humans, too: study and Viagra 'improves jet lag'):
Hamsters given Pfizer Inc.'s Viagra adapted more quickly to changes in their internal clocks, scientists said.
Hamsters given sildenafil, the chemical name of the drug…
clock | May 22, 2007Tomorrow is 300th birthday of Carl von Linne (or Carlus Linnaeus) and there will be celebrations in Sweden and around the world. So, tomorrow is a good day for a post about him (and if I find enough time and energy, I may compile the best ones into a mini-carnival).
clock | May 22, 2007Encephalon #23 is up on Madam Fathom
Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 35 are up on ImpactED Nurse
clock | May 22, 2007Remember just the other day when I posted about Arsene Lupen, one of my childhood heroes? OK, Sherlock Holmes (called Herlock Sholmes for copyright reasons in the Lupen books) was a greater hero - there is probably not a single book or story I have not read at least once in my life.
I could also remember there was another French one, but I forgot his name so I omitted him from my post. I could recall the smell and sight of the beautiful new hardcover translations, and how my mother and her friends looked down on them and would not believe me that the books were well-written, smart and…
clock | May 22, 2007Suicyte Notes
The Stone of Tear
Snarkmarket
Egghead (Research at UC-Davis)
Biology-Blog
The Meming of Life
Omniscopic: A rich worldview
clock | May 22, 2007You may have heard that Ken Ham is opening his freak show circus Museum of Creation "Science" in Cincinnati on May 28th. There will be protesters picketing. Hopefully there will also be people who will come in and laugh out loud at each exhibited piece. I also hope that the media coverage will be funny - and that is where we in the blogosphere can help.
Archy has all the information about it and has suggested a one-day carnival (an apt name for the thing, for once) of sorts which will appear on May 27th on Pharyngula.
So, write something and send the Permalink to PZ or blogswarm it by…
clock | May 22, 2007
Sleep Apnea Patients Have Greatly Increased Risk Of Severe Car Crashes:
People with obstructive sleep apnea have a markedly increased risk of severe motor vehicle crashes involving personal injury, according to a new study. The study of 800 people with sleep apnea and 800 without the nighttime breathing disorder found that patients with sleep apnea were twice as likely as people without sleep apnea to have a car crash, and three to five times as likely to have a serious crash involving personal injury. Overall, the sleep apnea group had a total of 250 crashes over three years, compared with…
clock | May 21, 2007No more blogging until late tonight or tomorrow morning as it is a Monday and on Monday evenings I teach. Today's topic is Biological Diversity, from its origins through its evolution to its current state. Fun!
clock | May 21, 2007Fused Nasal Bones Helped Tyrannosaurids Dismember Prey:
New evidence may help explain the brute strength of the tyrannosaurid, says a University of Alberta researcher whose finding demonstrates how a fused nasal bone helped turn the animal into a "zoological superweapon."
Jet Lag, Circadian Clocks Explained:
Circadian clocks regulate the timing of biological functions in almost all higher organisms. Anyone who has flown through several time zones knows the jet lag that can result when this timing is disrupted. Now, new research by Cornell and Dartmouth scientists explains the biological…
clock | May 21, 2007First, I tentatively reserved a spot for myself for the Science Foo Camp on August 3-5, 2008 in Mountain View, CA.
Then, there is nothing for a long time, then three conferences I want to go to, and for all three I have some degree of negotiations about presenting about Open Science or science blogging or in some way being involved, and all three are almost simultaneous:
ConvergeSouth 2007 in October 19-20, 2007, in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC on October 21-23, 2007
ASIS&T: Joining Research and Practice…
clock | May 21, 2007Far too gene-centered for my taste, but an excellent chronobiology primer (pdf) nonetheless.
clock | May 21, 2007Carnival of the Green # 78 is up on Everydaytrash
Pediatric Grand Rounds 2.3 are up on Ami Chopine
clock | May 20, 2007Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
- Motto of the Baltimore Grotto