clock | May 15, 2007Seed Magazine sent two intrepid reporters to Albuquerque to cover this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (you may remember those under the old name of "Westinghouse"). They are busy filing their reports and you can find them all on the special scienceblogs Intel ISEF blog.
We never had science fairs in Yugoslavia - the science competitions were all in a paper-and-pencil style (like Math Olympiad), nothing to make or do, just theory and solving problems. I usually did better in math and English (as ESL) than in physics, chemistry and biology championships. But my…
clock | May 15, 2007The latest edition of Oekologie is a real feast - a chockfull of great posts wrapped around the snippets of ancient and medieaval Arabic science for the history buffs, courtesy of Jeremy Bruno. Enjoy!
clock | May 15, 2007Grand Rounds (Vol 3, No. 34) are up on Medical Humanities Blog
Carnival of the Green #77 is up on Natural Collection
clock | May 15, 2007Sleepless For Science: Flies Show Link Between Sleep And Immune System:
Go a few nights without enough sleep and you're more likely to get sick, but scientists have no real explanation for how sleep is related to the immune system. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine are finding that fruit flies can point to the answers.
Professor Creates 'Reverse Alarm Clock' That Keeps Young Children Sleeping:
John Zimmerman, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has developed an unconventional alarm clock…
clock | May 15, 2007Everybody is talking about Encyclopedia of Life these days. It is alll still very Beta - we'll wait and see how it turns out in the end. Many are enthusiastic, some are skeptical. But, what happened to the Tree of Life? Remember it from 1995 and after? I found it useful during the last decade for teaching and finding info. Why build a whole new thing when the old one could be updated and modernized instead - it is already chockful of information.
clock | May 14, 2007Panta Rei #5 - Chemical Sciences - is up on Nonoscience. Next edition is a Life Sciences special, planned for May 28, 2007 also at Nonoscience.
Carnival of the Godless #66 is up on The Atheist Experience.
Oekologie #5 - last call for submissions for tomorrow's edition on The Voltage Gate.
The next Carnival of the Liberals will be hosted by me on May 23rd.
The International Carnival of Pozitivities (HIV/AIDS) is now accepting submissions for its 12th edition to be published in June, 2007. on HIV Health and Support Network Community News
clock | May 14, 2007The other day I was chatting with my brother (the smarter brother of Sherlock Holmes) on the phone, and he said something that may have some truth to it - I was predisposed, from early childhood, to understand and like the Web and the blogs. How? By reading and re-reading a million times the books about the adventures of The Three Investigators. Actually, only four of the early books in the series were tranlated into Serbo-Croatian, but I read them over and over. Later, here in the USA, I managed to find and read a few more in English.
What does that have to do with blogging? Well, back…
clock | May 14, 2007From Paul I learned about the DRIADE Workshop on Digital data preservation, sharing, and discovery: Challenges for Small Science Communities in the Digital Era, organized by NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) and the UNC Metadata Research Center. I am not sure if the participation is by invitation only, or if it is free, but I'll try to sneak in somehow. We'll see if that works and will let you know if it does.
clock | May 14, 2007Rare Sighting Of Threatened Bottlenose Dolphins In English Channel:
On a crossing of the English Channel aboard the P&O Cruise Ferry, the Pride of Bilbao on the 5th of May, a large group of approximately 30 Bottlenose Dolphin was sighted by Clive Martin, Director for the wildlife charity Marinelife and senior Wildlife Officer for the Biscay Dolphin Research Programme.
DNA Reveals Hooded Seals Have Wanderlust:
Researchers have discovered a new fact about hooded seals, a mysterious 200 to 400 kilogram mammal that spends all but a few days each year in the ocean.
Simpler Way To Counter…
clock | May 13, 2007Yup, it happened again. My left shoulder popped out of the socket, right around 12:30 after midnight. I used to be able to put it straight back. My wife did it a couple of times before - she's a nurse after all. It first happened at a horse show when I was abotu 18 or so and had it fixed on the spot by a sports medicine doc. I had it put back by friends, passers-by, medical students, veterinarians, but as the time passes it gets more and more difficult to put back. This is the second time in a row (last time was about 5 years ago) that I had to go to ER, be put to sleep and wake up with…
clock | May 13, 2007Today's Obligatory Reading of the Day is this essay by Kagro X:
Have you ever read, seen, or heard a mainstream media account of some event in which you've been personally involved? Or in which you have developed, under whatever circumstances, some sort of expertise? Ninety-nine times out of hundred, people with that sort of personal or specialized knowledge of the events covered will come away with some sort of substantial complaint about the quality of the coverage...
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Why, though, should the general audience settle for "sufficient?" Or perhaps more to the point, why…
clock | May 12, 2007After all those years that I actually cared about this, now that I don't any more Serbia finally won the Eurovision contest!
clock | May 12, 2007Shackleford ponies are often in the media around here. Some love them, some hate them, some want to preserve them, some to exterminate them, and it is not easy to get all the surplus horses adopted each year. Perhaps the new findings of their Spanish origin (DNA will tell the tale of wild horses) will tilt the scales towards their preservation, especially on the island of Corolla.
Thanks to Bill for the heads-up.
clock | May 12, 2007PLoS blog
Blue Cat Blog
Yan Feng
Dangerous Intersection
PhDiva
1420Mhz
RichardDawkins.net Forums
George's Blog
Alone on a Limb
Nobel Intent
clock | May 12, 2007The first and the second editions of the new Learning in the Great Outdoors carnival are already up on Alone On A Limb. It's time to set up the homepage with archives, instructions for submissions and hosting, etc.
clock | May 12, 2007
Venomous Brown Widow Spiders Making Themselves Known In Louisiana:
A dangerous spider is making itself known to Louisiana residents. The brown widow spider is becoming more common, according to entomologists with the LSU AgCenter.
Bat Flight Generates Complex Aerodynamic Tracks:
Bats generate a measurably distinct aerodynamic footprint to achieve lift and maneuverability, quite unlike birds and contrary to many of the assumptions that aerodynamicists have used to model animal flight, according to University of Southern California aerospace engineer Geoffrey Spedding.
Could Carrots Be The…
clock | May 11, 2007Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter F. Drucker
clock | May 11, 2007First, I'd like to thank Archy, Rev. BigDumbChimp, Melissa and PZ for the birthday wishes.
Also, a couple of my blog readers (who, I assume, wish to remain anonymous), hit my amazon wish list and bought me birthday presents which arrived with perfect timing - today. I am very happy I got this, this and this. Thank you so much!
I had a wonderful day today. After sleeping late, we went up to the Village green in Southern Village, feasted on the recently revamped menu of the Town Hall Grill, got coffee and gelato (as well as my favourite newspaper) at La Vita Dolce (which has really improved…