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"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 13, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and MalariaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES ANNEXES ANNEX 1. LIST OF BOXES, FIGURES AND TABLES ANNEX 2. THE GLOBAL FUND STRUCTURE AND REGIONS ANNEX 3. SUMMARY OF GLOBAL FUND-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS (Source: Open Medicine Blog -)
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - March 12, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Dean Giustini Tags: hiv Source Type: blogs

We got cartooned!!!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ROFL! Can you recognize your favourite sciencebloggers in this comic strip by Joseph Hewitt? To see larger (and read the associated text) go to Ataraxia Theatre Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 12, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Fun Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - Trust and Critical Thinking (video), Part 6Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Saturday, January 16 at 4:40 - 5:45pm C. Trust and Critical Thinking - Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, Desiree Schell, Greg Laden, Kirsten Sanford Description: Lay audiences often lack the resources (access to studies, background knowledge of fields and methods) to evaluate the trustworthiness of scientific information as another scientist or a journalist might. Are there ways to usefully promote critical thinking about sources and presentation as we provide information? Can we teach them to navigate competing claims? And can we do it without promoting a distrust of science itself? Read the comments on this post... (Source: A ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 12, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

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This study will form the basis for future research to understand the mechanisms of serine protease action, and examine the potential for rhinocerase to be used clinically to reduce the risk of human haemostatic disorders such as heart attacks and strokes. Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 12, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs

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Man must sit in chair with mouth open for very long time before roast duck fly in. - Chinese proverb Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 12, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

What really causes autism?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The vaccine theory is dead. What’s left?In January, after many years of inaction, British medical regulatory officials finally found Dr. Andrew Wakefield guilty of unethical behaviour in carrying out research that, he claimed, showed a connection between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. Soon after, The Lancet issued a full retraction of Dr. Wakefield’s 1998 paper, turning the page on an ugly chapter in the journal’s recent history that saw most of the coauthors disavow the autism/vaccine theory. That theory, already shown to be unsupported by the evidence in large studies, truly no longer holds wat...
Source: Canadian Medicine - March 12, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: vaccines autism Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Russ WilliamsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Russ Williams from North Carolina Zoological Society and the Russlings blog to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 11, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Scio10 Interviews Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - Trust and Critical Thinking (video), Part 5Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Saturday, January 16 at 4:40 - 5:45pm C. Trust and Critical Thinking - Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, Desiree Schell, Greg Laden, Kirsten Sanford Description: Lay audiences often lack the resources (access to studies, background knowledge of fields and methods) to evaluate the trustworthiness of scientific information as another scientist or a journalist might. Are there ways to usefully promote critical thinking about sources and presentation as we provide information? Can we teach them to navigate competing claims? And can we do it without promoting a distrust of science itself? Read the comments on this post... (Source: A ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 11, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

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This study comprehensively examines the early development of the adaptive immune system in an altricial-developing wild passerine species, the house sparrow (Passer domestics), by characterizing the half-life of maternal antibodies in nestling plasma, the onset of de novo synthesis of endogenous antibodies by nestlings, and the timing of immunological independence, where nestlings rely entirely on their own antibodies for immunologic protection. In an aviary study we vaccinated females against a novel antigen that these birds would not otherwise encounter in their natural environment, and measured both antigen-specific and...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 11, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs

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"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 11, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with DeLene BeelandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked T. DeLene Beeland to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is your (scientific) background? Geography: I live in Nor...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 10, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Scio10 Interviews Source Type: blogs

New science journalism ecosystem: new inter-species interactions, new nichesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Almost a year ago, Nature published a set of opinion articles, including Science journalism: Toppling the priesthood by Toby Murcott. I did not react at the time, but JR Minkel and Jessica Palmer did and got some interesting responses in the comments. The article was brought to my attention by Gozde Zorlu who is ruminating on the same ideas and will have a blog post about it shortly (and I will let you know when it's up). The article covers a lot of ground and has many layers. I finally read it and these are just some really quick thoughts, just to provoke discussion..... First, Murcott is complaining about being essenti...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 10, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science Reporting Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - Trust and Critical Thinking (video), Part 4Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Saturday, January 16 at 4:40 - 5:45pm C. Trust and Critical Thinking - Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, Desiree Schell, Greg Laden, Kirsten Sanford Description: Lay audiences often lack the resources (access to studies, background knowledge of fields and methods) to evaluate the trustworthiness of scientific information as another scientist or a journalist might. Are there ways to usefully promote critical thinking about sources and presentation as we provide information? Can we teach them to navigate competing claims? And can we do it without promoting a distrust of science itself? Read the comments on this post... (Source: A ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 10, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

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We present data from nine C. amblyrhynchos monitored within the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea off the coast of Australia. Shark presence and movements were monitored via an array of acoustic receivers for a period of six months in 2008. During the course of this monitoring few individuals showed fidelity to an individual reef suggesting that current protective areas have limited utility for this species. One individual undertook a large-scale movement (134 km) between the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef, providing the first evidence of direct linkage of C. amblyrhynchos populations between these two regions. Results in...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 10, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 10, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

Practice Management: Add travel medicine to your practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Travel can be rewarding in more ways than oneTravel medicine is not formally recognized as a specialty in Canada. Travel medicine consultations aren’t included on provincial lists of reimbursed services. Does that mean travel medicine doesn’t deserve your attention? Far from it.Because travel medicine consults are uninsured, you can charge patients directly and name your price. Administering all the various vaccines can bring in a fair-sized chunk of additional revenue, too.Because it’s not a specialty, says Dr. Jay Keystone, a longtime travel medicine expert and professor at the University Toronto, “any practition...
Source: Canadian Medicine - March 10, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: education vaccines practice management Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Christine OtteryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Christine Ottery from the MA program in science journalism at City University London to answer a few questions: Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophicall...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 9, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Scio10 Interviews Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - Trust and Critical Thinking (video), Part 3Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Saturday, January 16 at 4:40 - 5:45pm C. Trust and Critical Thinking - Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, Desiree Schell, Greg Laden, Kirsten Sanford Description: Lay audiences often lack the resources (access to studies, background knowledge of fields and methods) to evaluate the trustworthiness of scientific information as another scientist or a journalist might. Are there ways to usefully promote critical thinking about sources and presentation as we provide information? Can we teach them to navigate competing claims? And can we do it without promoting a distrust of science itself? Read the comments on this post... (Source: A ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 9, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

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There 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: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 9, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs

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"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 9, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

Welcome the newest SciBlings!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Go say Hello to Travis Saunders and Peter Janiszewski, the newest bloggers on the Scienceblogs.com network at Obesity Panacea. They cover health, physiology, nutrition and exercise - something we did not have here on the network before, at least not in such a concentrated form. Check out the archives of their old blog and then bookmark the new Obesity Panacea. Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 9, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Blogging Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Robin Ann SmithEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Robin Ann Smith from NESCent to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is your (scientific) background? I've spent mu...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 8, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Scio10 Interviews Source Type: blogs

Science blogs and public engagement with scienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study focuses on one of the ICTs that have already been adopted in science communication, on science blogging. The findings from the analysis of content and comments on eleven blogs are presented in an attempt to understand current practices of science blogging and to provide insight into the role of blogging in the promotion of more interactive forms of science communication. Analysis of blogs has been done before, so this article needs to focus on what new it brings to the literature - the analysis of comments. ======================== So far the discussion about science blogs develops primarily in the form of jo...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 8, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Blogging Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - Trust and Critical Thinking (video), Part 2Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Saturday, January 16 at 4:40 - 5:45pm C. Trust and Critical Thinking - Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, Desiree Schell, Greg Laden, Kirsten Sanford Description: Lay audiences often lack the resources (access to studies, background knowledge of fields and methods) to evaluate the trustworthiness of scientific information as another scientist or a journalist might. Are there ways to usefully promote critical thinking about sources and presentation as we provide information? Can we teach them to navigate competing claims? And can we do it without promoting a distrust of science itself? Read the comments on this post... (Source: A ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 8, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

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This study examines the relationship between testes size and three genetic patterns of mating: multiple paternity, extragroup paternity and alpha paternity. Using data from mammals, phylogenetically corrected general linear models demonstrate that both multiple paternity and alpha paternity, but not extra group paternity, relate to testes size. Testes size is greater in species with high multiple paternity rates, whereas the converse is found for alpha paternity. Additionally, length of mating season, ovulation mode and litter size significantly influenced testes size in one model. These results demonstrate that patterns o...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 8, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs

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If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. - Chinese proverb Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 8, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - Trust and Critical Thinking, Part 1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Saturday, January 16 at 4:40 - 5:45pm C. Trust and Critical Thinking - Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, Desiree Schell, Greg Laden, Kirsten Sanford Description: Lay audiences often lack the resources (access to studies, background knowledge of fields and methods) to evaluate the trustworthiness of scientific information as another scientist or a journalist might. Are there ways to usefully promote critical thinking about sources and presentation as we provide information? Can we teach them to navigate competing claims? And can we do it without promoting a distrust of science itself? Read the comments on this post... (Source: A ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 8, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

TEDxRTPEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Yesterday I spent the day at the RTP headquarters, attending TEDxRTP. The TEDx conferences are small, locally organized offshoots of the well-known TED conference. This was the first TEDx in the Triangle region (though Asheville beat us as being the first in the state) and, judging from the response of the audience, it seems everyone expects this will become a regular annual event. You can check out the Twitter account as well as the Twitter chatter if you search the #TEDxRTP hashtag. The event was livestreamed and the rough videos are already up on the Ustream channel. Better quality videos will be posted soon (Ustream ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 7, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs

Spring AwakeningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
On Friday, the Bride of Coturnix, Coturnietta, a friend of hers and I went to DPAC to see 'Spring Awakening'. As you may already know, this is a rock adaptation of an old play located in late-19th century Germany, following the growth and maturation of a group of high school students surrounded by a disciplinarian and authoritarian adult world, in which sex is taboo (so they have to learn on their own, feel guilt about it, and suffer consequences) and strict, dogmatic religion trumps every attempt at independent thought or questioning. I have not seen the play before, though I have heard the soundtrack a million times, bu...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 7, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Personal Source Type: blogs

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"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 7, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

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If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. - Chinese proberb Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 6, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

Ignite Raleigh #2 and TEDxRTP - what a week!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
On Wednesday, Bride Of Coturnix and I went to Ignite Raleigh. There was an Ignite show in many cities around the world that night, and the one in Raleigh was one of the biggest, with 702 people in attendance, in Lincoln theater (which is far too small for such a crowd - but crowdiness made it more intimate). It was a blast. I saw a lot of old friends, met some of the people I only know from Twitter or blogs, and met some new ones. All 19 talks were excellent, thought-provoking and, what is important at Ignite, they were all full of energy and fun (and funny!). It is hard to pick favourites, as each speaker was very differe...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 5, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs

American Scientist pizza lunch - genomic and personalized medicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
From the American Scientist: Our American Scientist pizza lunch talk falls later than usual this month to accommodate our magazine's May-June issue deadline. Keep open the noon hour on March 30 and come hear Geoff Ginsburg, director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Duke University, discuss genomic and personalized medicine. To keep you on your toes, we'll convene at a different spot: the easy-to-get-to headquarters of the NC Biotechnology Center here in RTP. Actually, as many of you know, there would be no pizza lunch this year without the support of the Biotech Center. In addition to their financial help, center st...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 5, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: North Carolina Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Science and Entertainment Part 6Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging Saturday, January 16 at 2 - 3:05pm D. Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging - Tamara Krinsky and Jennifer Ouellette Description: Over the past several years, the Internet has tangibly changed the way that movies and TV shows are produced and marketed. Blogs will call out ridiculous scientific errors found in stories and the critique can go viral very quickly; therefore, science advising is on the rise in an attempt to add some semblance of plausibility to your favorite flicks. As tools on the web continue to evolve, filmmakers and television creators are finding new ways t...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 5, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

Today's carnivalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The new Change of Shift is up on mamatrauma Friday Ark #285 is up on Modulator Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 5, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Carnivals Source Type: blogs

New and Exciting in PLoS ONEEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There 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: Winter Active Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) Achieve High Foraging Rates in Urban Britain: Foraging bumblebees are normally associated with spring and summer in northern Europe. However, there have been sightings of the bumblebee Bombus ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 5, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs

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He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others. -Samuel Johnson Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 5, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

Searching for grey literature in medicine 2010Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Finding the hard to finds: searching for the grey literature in medicine View more presentations from Dean Giustini. (Source: Open Medicine Blog -)
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - March 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Dean Giustini Tags: grey_literature Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Andrew FarkeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Andy Farke from the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, CA to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What i...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

The Ecological and Economic Importance of Sharks, Threats They Face, and How You Can HelpEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
From the NC Museum of Life Sciences: Program Type: Science Talk Date: Mar. 9, 7 pm - Mar. 9, 8 pm Location: Museum of Natural Sciences - Auditorium Fee: $6 General Public, $4 Members, $3 Students The Ecological and Economic Importance of Sharks, Threats They Face, and How You Can Help Lecture, slide show & video presentation by marine biologist David Shiffman David Shiffman and friendShiffman graduated with distinction in Biology from Duke and is now a Masters in Marine Biology candidate at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. His research focuses on the feeding behavior and conservation of sandbar sharks. Shi...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science Education Source Type: blogs

The Online News Association meeting - vote for my panelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Online News Association organizes a meeting every year (and gives Online Journalism Awards there). The next one will be in October 28-30, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The program is formed by the online news community submitting proposals, then everyone else voting the proposals up or down. I guess that the organizers also have some say in it (especially if the voting produces a horrible gender imbalance - easy to happen with so many proposals put forward by men). The proposals are now all up online and ready for your votes - you need to register (they have to avoid spammers, robots, automated votes, multiple votes from...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science Reporting Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Science and Entertainment Part 5Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging Saturday, January 16 at 2 - 3:05pm D. Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging - Tamara Krinsky and Jennifer Ouellette Description: Over the past several years, the Internet has tangibly changed the way that movies and TV shows are produced and marketed. Blogs will call out ridiculous scientific errors found in stories and the critique can go viral very quickly; therefore, science advising is on the rise in an attempt to add some semblance of plausibility to your favorite flicks. As tools on the web continue to evolve, filmmakers and television creators are finding new ways t...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

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This report uncovers an unprecedented and species-independent evolutionary pressure on virus capsids, based on the the notion that the simplest capsid designs (or those capsids with the lowest "hexamer complexity", ) are the fittest, which was shown to be true for all available virus capsids. The theories result in a physically meaningful periodic table of virus capsids that uncovers strong and overarching evolutionary pressures, while also offering geometric explanations to other capsid properties (rigidity, pleomorphy, auxiliary requirements, etc.) that were previously considered to be unrelatable properties of the indiv...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs

Today's carnivalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I and the Bird #120 is up on Sand creek almanac Berry-Go-Round #25 is up on Foothills Fancies Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Carnivals Source Type: blogs

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Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time. - Cher Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Clock Quotes Source Type: blogs

IN THE NEWS: Ottawa takes another stab at InsiteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Insite ruling appealed, againThe federal government has -- for the second time -- elected to appeal a British Columbia court's ruling that the supervised injection Insite does not fall under federal jurisdiction because it is a health facility. [CBC News] The news of Ottawa's intention to re-appeal sparked protests in Vancouver during the Olympics. [Globe and Mail] Read our previous coverage of the BC Court of Appeal's January decision that found against Ottawa. [Canadian Medicine]Isotope shortfall to worsenA radioisotope shortfall appears imminent, with western Canada likely to suffer to brunt of the damage, as a European...
Source: Canadian Medicine - March 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: law New Brunswick radiology British Columbia addiction pathology EMR Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Mark MacAllisterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Mark MacAllister, Coordinator of On-Line Learning Projects at the North Carolina Zoological Society to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 3, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs

Science Cafe Raleigh - Our bodies: the Final FrontierEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
From the NC Museum of Life Sciences: OUR BODIES: The Final Frontier Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 6:30-8:30 pm with discussion beginning at 7:00 followed by Q&A Location: Tir Na Nog 218 South Blount Street, Raleigh, 833-7795 We have come to think of the world as known. It isn't. Even basic parts of our own bodies remain totally unexplored. For example, have you ever stopped to wonder why you are naked? Aside from naked mole rats, we are among the only land mammals to be essentially devoid of hair. Why? Join us for a discussion about the human body and its adaptations to a world filled with predators, pathogens ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 3, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science Education Source Type: blogs

ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Science and Entertainment Part 4Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging Saturday, January 16 at 2 - 3:05pm D. Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging - Tamara Krinsky and Jennifer Ouellette Description: Over the past several years, the Internet has tangibly changed the way that movies and TV shows are produced and marketed. Blogs will call out ridiculous scientific errors found in stories and the critique can go viral very quickly; therefore, science advising is on the rise in an attempt to add some semblance of plausibility to your favorite flicks. As tools on the web continue to evolve, filmmakers and television creators are finding new ways t...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - March 3, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: SO'10 Source Type: blogs