image via wikipedia
maybe being a court jester is not all bad you get to play music which increases your brains gray matter and improves your general cognitive ability and you get to entertain the court with your juggling skills which you will find out if you read the rest of this post is also good for your brain.
in a 2004 nature paper draganski et. al. examined ho...... [Show More]
there are new articles published tonight in plos biology plos medicine plos one and plos neglected tropical diseases here are my picks
read the rest of this post read the comments on this post...... [Show More]
resistance exercise reverses aging in human skeletal muscle
quoteabstract
human aging is associated with skeletal muscle atrophy and functional impairment sarco penia . multiple lines of evidence suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction is a major contributor to sarcopenia. we evaluated whether healthy aging was associated with a transcriptional profile reflecting mitochondrial impairm...... [Show More]
there are 11 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
...... [Show More]
the other day i was rummaging through an accumulation of three years of halfwritten blog posts that are tucked away behind the scenes at thinkbuddha these are thoughts that have not yet come to fruition ideas that started to emerge and then snuck back into their holes words in search of some kind of direction thoughts that are trying but failing to cohere around one particular subje...... [Show More]
... kr 2008 medicine in the popular press the influence of the media on perceptions of disease. plos one 310 e3552. doi10.137 1journal. pone.00035 52 full texta httpwww .plosone.o rgarticle info 3adoi 2f10.1371 372fjour nal.pone.0 003552
abstract
in an age of increasing globalization and discussion of the possibility of global pandemics increasing rates of reporting of these events may... [Show More]
everybody mosey on over to archaeoporn for the 23rd edition of four stone hearth a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest american sense of that word.
id like to draw your attention to a specific post in this edition from the folks over at anthropology.net . it is a review of a recent paper from plos one entitled genetic and linguis...... [Show More]
an article that just came out in plos one is the first to uncover a correlation between pathogen introduction and an extinction event in a mammalian species.
according to wyatt et al. in 1899 black rats were introduced to easter island via the s.s. hindustan and with them a pathogenic protozoan by the name of trypanosoma lewisi which causes sleeping sickness. while the black rats were wel...... [Show More]
fra dagbladet.no
en kopp kaffe er det som skal til for a rydde opp i minnene hos deg som lider av savnmangel.
blant forskerne er det velkjent at savnmangel svekker hukommelsen og far oss til a rote sammen ulike minner slik at vi noen ganger er helt overbevist om at vi husker opplysninger som slett ikke er riktige.
likevel en god kopp kaffe kan vare alt som skal til for a fa den...... [Show More]
...n deren permanente aktivierung. es sieht so aus als hatten wir nun einen weg gefunden diese wirkung zu blockieren berichten die forscher im wissenscha ftsmagazin plos onea httpwww .plosone.o rg . eines der groaen probleme war bisher das fehlen eines geeigneten medikaments. erst 2002 hatte eine randomisierte studie ergeben dass die einzige arznei im vergleich zum placebo keine wesentliche ver... [Show More]
...en deren permanente aktivierung. es sieht so aus als hatten wir nun einen weg gefunden diese wirkung zu blockieren berichten die forscher im wissenscha ftsmagazin plos one httpwww .plosone.o rg . eines der groaen probleme war bisher das fehlen eines geeigneten medikaments. erst 2002 hatte eine randomisierte studie ergeben dass die einzige arznei im vergleich zum placebo keine wesentliche ve... [Show More]
el odio transcurre por una red neuronal nica aunque comparte reas con el amor
isabel f. lantigua
madrid . la ltima novedad en torno a barack obama el candidato a la presidencia de eeuu es que dos neonazis habian urdido un plan para acabar con su vida...... [Show More]
la science a lare du web 2.0 recoupe un vaste ensemble de pratiques et dinstruments centras sur lutilisateur qui interrogent en profondeur les outils et les usages non numariques non participatifs qui ont encore cours dans les institutions de recherche et den seignement . antoine blanchard alias enro sociologue et agronome cofondateur du cfa des sciences e...... [Show More]
fotol iahealth 41
its a case of playground politics writ large. two celebrity moms have been slugging it out in the press overwhat elseva ccinations .
jenny mccarthy an outspoken antivaccine advocate recently slammed amanda peet over a comment she made in a cookie magazine article in which she called people who dont vaccinate their children parasi...... [Show More]
we are continuing our series in which we look at plos one articles that have a combination of good publicly available article level metrics usage data page views citations from google media coverage comments and ratings etc.
another such article is aversive learning in honeybees revealed by the olfactory conditioning of the sting extension reflex . i asked the auth...... [Show More]
dienekes points to another paper on european population substructure genomewide analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms uncovers population structure in northern europe
in this study we analysed almost 250000 snps from a total of 945 samples from eastern and western finland sweden northern germany and great britain complemented with hapmap data. small but statistically significa...... [Show More]
sexual cannibalism has fascinated biologists ever since the days of charles darwin.its a behaviour in which one member of a courting or copulating malefemale pair consumes the otherseen among mantises and other invertebrates including spiders midges and perhaps horned nudibranchs.
if you put a pair together and come back later youll just find the wings of the male and no other ...... [Show More]
for some families living near the apalachicola national forest in floridas panhandle their main source of income for generations has come from shoving a vibrating wooden stick in the mud. why to collect earthworms to sell to fishermen.
for kenneth catania a neurobiologist at vanderbilt the most interesting part of this socalled worm grunting was why the worms are at...... [Show More]
Feeds and posts are not affliated with ://URLFAN. They are displayed here simply for informational purposes, if you would like to remove your feed please contact us.
Bloggers mention this site on average every 2 days.
E-mail me
Feed subscribe
Is this your website? Activate our 
