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Category Archives: Carnivals
Tar Heel Tavern
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All The Creatures Big And Small
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Educational Shift
Change Of Shift #2 is up on Emergiblog.
Jukebox edition of the Carnival of Education is up on School Me!.
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A New Carnival
Carnival of Community Campaigns
….will be a fortnightly roundup of all the best posts put together by local community campaigns, aiming to spread their message – an international forum for local campaigns.
The carnival will favour the voices of people excluded from power, people and communities who the establishment parties may sometimes court at election time, but forget as soon as the polls are closed – turning back to their corporate paymasters, at least until the next time they want our votes!
Carnival Roundup
Last Carnival of Education (teaching, educational policy) was on NYC Educator and the next one is tomorrow on School Me.
Last Animalcules (microorganisms) was on Aetiology and the next will be on July 13th, 2006 on Science Matters.
Last Change Of Shift (nursing) was on Emergiblog and the next one will be on July 13th, also pm Emergiblog.
Last Friday Ark (animals) was on The Modulator and the next one will be on July 14th, also, as always, on The Modulator.
Last History Carnival (history) was on Chapati Mystery and the next one will be on July 15th on Air Pollution.
Last Tar Heel Tavern (North Carolina blogging) was on Freelance Writing for the Nonprofit Community and the next one will be on July 16th on A Sort of Notebook.
Last Pediatric Grand Rounds was on Breath Spa for Kids and the next one will be on July 16th on PediatricsInfo.
First Encephalon (cognitive neuroscience) was on Neurophilosopher’s blog and the next one will be on July 17th on Pure Pedantry.
Last Carnival of the Green (sustainability, environment, conservation) was on The Eester Republic and the next one will be on July 17th on Powering Down.
Last Grand Rounds (medicine) was on Donorcycle and the next one will be on July 18th on Chronic Babe.
Last Carnival of Homeschooling (homeschooling) was on Why Homeschool and the next edition will be on July 18th on Nerd Family.
Last Tangled Bank (science, nature, medicine, environment and interaction between science and society) was on e3 Information Overload and the next one will be on July 19th on Salto Sobrius.
Last Carnival of the Liberals (lefty politics) was on The Uncredible Hallq and the next one will be on July 19th on Brainshrub.
Last edition of the Carnival of Feminists was on Ink and Incapability and the next one will be on July 19th on Figure: Demistifying the Feminist Mystique.
Last Skeptic’s Circle (pseudocscience, quackery and such) was on Skeptic Rant and the next one will be on July 20th on Mike’s Weekly Skeptic Rant.
First Anniversary Special Spectacular Edition of I And The Bird (birding and birdwatching) was on 10000 Birds and the next edition will be on July 20th on Bogbumper.
Last Mendel’s Garden (genetics) was on Genetics and Health blog and the next one will be on July 21st on Viva La Evolucion.
Last The Synapse (neurobiology, brain and behavior) was on A Blog Around The Clock and the next one will be on Jyly 23rd on Neurophilosopher’s Blog.
Last Carnival of the Godless (religion from godless perspective) was on Daylight Atheism and the next one will be on July 23rd on Beware of the Dogma.
Last Philosophy Carnival (philosophy) was on Adventures in Ethics and Science and the next will be on July 24th on Bondaries Of Language.
First Radiology Grand Rounds was on Sumer’s Radiology Site and the next one will be on July 30th, also on Sumer’s Radiology Site.
Last Circus of the Spineless (invertebrates) was on Science And Sensibility and the next one is on July 31th on Words And Pictures
Last Festival of the Trees (trees) was on Via Negativa and the next one will be on July 31st on Roundrock Journal.
Last Carnival of Bad History (misuse and abuse of history) was on Frog In A Well and the next one will be in late July on Hiram Hover’s place.
Last Carnivalesque (alternating between early modern and ancient & medieval history) was on The Virtual Stoa and the next one will be some time in July on some blog….
First Bio::Blogs (carnival of bioinformatiocs and computational biology) was on Public Rambling and the next one will be on August 1st onNeil Saunders’ Personal Website.
Last Teaching Carnival (higher ed) was on Raining Cats and Dogma and the next one will be, after summer vacation, on September 1st on WorkBook.
Tar Heel Tavern
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The Synapse, Vol.1, n.2
Welcome to the second edition of The Synapse, the new neuroscience carnival.
This time, you have a puzzle to solve. Next to each entry, there is an image depicting the structural formula of a neurotransmitter, neurohormone or neuromodulator. Your job is to figure out what they are and leave the answers in the comments (or in your own posts that link to this edition). If I have managed to figure out MovableType by now, you should be able to click on images to enlarge.
Watch out – not everything is mammalian, or even vertebrate neurochemistry! The winner – whoever is the first to correctly identify all ten compounds – will be highlighted first and with an extra post, when I host Encephalon, the other neurocarnival, later this Fall on November 6th. Some answers are easy but some are hard, so this exam is open book. Bonus points for extra precision, e.g., getting the exact variant if there are multiple possibilities.
So, let’s begin:
1. Scientifically Minded looks at the potential perils of the new form of polygraph and why people are led to think it may be better than the old kind, in fMRI lie detection back in the news.
2. Neurophilosophy has two entries: one about Ethics at the dawn of the neurotechnological age and the other about Kuru: Study of Fore peoples predicts an epidemic of vCJD.
3. PZ Myers of Pharyngula dissects the amazing Octopus brains.
4. Robots that see and hear are nothing new, but researchers are now developing machines that can distinguish and identify odors. Joe Kissell of Interesting Thing of the Day has more in Robots that Smell: Interesting Thing of the Day
5. Jenna is an undergrad physiology student with a wonderful blog Cyberspace Rendezvous. In Achromatopsia, she looks at injury-caused loss of color perception.
6. David Ng of World’s Fair sent American Pitch: More on music and science, a piece on pitch perception (the neurology part) as it relates to American Idol (not so neurological).
7. Vaughan of Mind Hacks comments in the Brain re-growth after 19 years unconscious.
8. Jake Young of Pure Pedantry has two very different posts this week: about the Homunculus – The Lies You Learn in College: Motor Cortex Edition and about emotions – Do mice have empathy?
9. The Neurocritic serendipitously wrote Are You Conscious of Your Precuneus? just days before the big news hit. So, it was easy to follow up with The Precuneus and Recovery From a Minimally Conscious State.
10. Evil Monkey of Neurotopia spans neuroscience from perception – Nobody Expects the Spanish… err, a Chick in an Ape Suit to medical molecular biology – SIRT1 Pathways and the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Pathology
11. And finally, from me, circadian stuff, of course, this time in hamster brains: Tau Mutation in Context.
Next edition of The Synapse will occur two weeks from now and the host will be Neurophilosophy.
I will post correct quiz answers right here once someone gets them all correct or in 48 hours, whichever comes first.
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Carnival of Feminists
The Synapse – last call for submissions
The second installment of The Synapse, the neuroscience carnival, will be held right here this coming Sunday, on July 9th. Please send your submissions to me by Saturday night at 8pm EDT at: Coturnix1 AT aol DOT com.
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Do you homeschool?
Next edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling will be hosted by Why Homeschool next Tuesday. Send your submissions by 6pm PST on Monday for the inclusion in the carnival.
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Refreshing Skepticism
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Tangled Liberals
Tangled Bank #56 is up on e3, Information Overload
New Carnival of the Liberals is up on Uncredible Hallq
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Medicine at home?
Grand Rounds 4th of July version (Vol. 2 No. 41.) is up on Rangel MD.
Week 27 of the Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Tami’s blog.
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Positively Philosophical Brains
The first edition of Encephalon, neuroscience carnival, is up on Neurophilosopher’s blog.
The new Philosophy Carnival is up on Adventures in Ethics and Science.
The first edition of the International Carnival of Pozitivities, carnival by HIV-positive bloggers, is up on 2sides2ron.
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Bio-History in Mendel’s Grand Tavern
The second edition of Mendel’s Garden, the genetics carnival, is up on Genetics and Health Blog.
The first issue of Bio::Blogs, a carnival of bioinformatics is up on Public Rambling
History Carnival XXXIV is up on Chapati Mystery.
The new Pediatric Grand Rounds are to be found on Breath Spa for Kids.
The 71st Tar Heel Tavern, the North Carolina carnival, is up on Slowly She Turned (e-mail me if you want to host next week or in the future!).
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Neuroscience carnivals
Yes, there are two neurocarnivals. They occur on alternate weeks.
So, if you have written something this past week, send your entry to the Encephalon which will be posted on Neurophilosopher’s blog on 3rd July, 2006.
Posts you write afterwards, during next week (or, if you really, really, really hate Neurophilosopher and really, really, really, love me), send to me for the inclusion in the next edition of the Synapse, to be held right here on July 9th, 2006.
Both carnivals are listed on Blogcarnival.com so you can use their automated submission forms.
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The trees, the trees, I speak for the trees!
EduBlogging of the week
Bad, Grand, and Green
Carnival of Bad History is back from hiatus and will, under the new management, become a monthly carnival. Excellent new issue, number 6, is now up on Frog In A Wall – Japan. Enjoy!
New Grand Rounds are up on Medview.
Carnival of the Green #33 is up on Jen’s Green Journal.
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The Synapse
The Synapse, new carnival of neuroscience – from molecules to cognition and everything in-between – is the first carnival that originated here on SEED scienceblogs.com. Today, the first edition saw the light of day, so you should go over to Pure Pedantry to check it out. The homepage of the carnival, with archives, instructions for submission, etc., can be found here.
In two weeks, on July 9th, 2006, the carnival will be held here, on A Blog Around The Clock. Please send your entries to me by July 8th at midnight (Eastern Time). You can send your entries to: the DOT synapse DOT carnival AT gmail, or straight to me at: Coturnix1 AT aol DOT com, or you can use the automatic submission form over on Blogcarnival.com.
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Today’s Carnivals
Carnival of the Godless #43 is up on Silly Humans.
The Tar Heel Tavern #70:qualities of life, is up on Another blue puzzle piece.
Radiology Grand Rounds Volume-I are up on Sumer’s Radiology Site.
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Carnival Roundup
In chronological order, starting with tomorrow….[under the fold]
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Circus of the Spineless – call for submissions
Next edition of the Circus of the Spineless, the wonderful carnival of creepy-crawlies and everything living without a spine, will be hosted by David of Science And Sensibility, a wonderful New Zealand science blog. The carnival should appear on June 30th, so send your entries on time – about a day in advance – to: winda002 AT student DOT otago DOT ac DOT nz
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Skeptic’s Circle
37th meeting of the Skeptic’s Circle is now a Triangle with a distinctly marine flavour..as in…Bermuda! Go check it out at Autism Diva.
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Change Of Shift, v.1, n.1
I and the Bird #26
A delightful World Cup-themed edition of I and the Bird is up on The Hawk Owls’ Nest. A great round-up and an excellent example of creative hosting.
Next edition is the First Year Anniversary of the carnival, so it goes back home to 10000 Birds. The theme is “why you blog, why you bird, or why you blog about birds”. Send your entries to Mike by July 5.
Tangled Bank
Carnival of the Liberals #15
Carnival of the Liberals is up on Varkam’s portion of the group-blog Neural Gourmet. This is a competitive carnival where the host picks the Ten Best Posts of the week, out of several dozens entries. I am very happy to see that Top Ten this week include four posts from science blogs, and of those, two are from scienceblogs.com.
EduCarnivals
A New Carnival!
Carnival of the Green
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Carnivalesque
Ready for some history blogging? New edition of Early Modern Carnivalesque is up on The Virtual Stoa.
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Things to read today…
Pediatric Garden
Carnival Roundup
Next Teaching Carnival (higher ed) will be on or after June 16th, 2006 on Raining Cats and Dogma.
First Mendel’s Garden (genetics) will be on June 18th, 2006 on The force that through….
Next Pediatric Grand Rounds will be on June 18th, 2006, on Unintelligent Design.
Next Carnival of the Green (sustainability, environment, conservation) will be on June 19th, 2006 on Savvy Vegetarian.
Next Carnival of Bad History (misuse and abuse of history) will be on June 20, 2006 on Frog In A Well[thanks to Jonathan Dresner for updating me on this]
Next Grand Rounds (medicine) will be on June 20th on Psychological Perspectives.
Next Carnival of Homeschooling (homeschooling) will be on June 20th, 2006 on HomeSchoolBuzz.
Next Tangled Bank (science, nature, medicine, environment and interaction between science and society) will be on 21 Jun 2006 on Centrerion.
Next Carnival of the Liberals (lefty politics) will be on June 21st, 2006 on Neural Gourmet (Varkam’s blog).
Next Carnival of Education (teaching, educational policy) will be on June 21th, 2006 on Why Homeschool.
Next Skeptic’s Circle (pseudocscience, quackery and such) will be on June 22, 2006 on Autism Diva.
Next I And The Bird (birding and birdwatching) will be on June 22, 2006 on The Hawk Owls’ Nest.
First Change Of Shift (nursing) will be on June 22nd, 2006 on Emergiblog.
Next Friday Ark (animals) will be on June 23th, 2006 on The Modulator.
Next Carnival of the Godless (religion from godless perspective) will be on June 25, 2006 on Silly Humans.
First The Synapse (neurobiology, brain and behavior) will be on June 25th, 2006 on Pure Pedantry.
First Radiology Grand Rounds will be on June 25th, 2006 on Sumer’s Radiology Site.
Next Carnivalesque (alternating between early modern and ancient & medieval history) will be on 20-ish of June at an undisclosed location.
Next Circus of the Spineless (invertebrates) will be on June 30th, 2006 on Science And Sensibility.
First Festival of the Trees (trees) will be on July 1st, 2006, on Via Negativa.
History Carnival (history) will be on July 1st, 2006 at Chapati Mystery.[thanks to Sharon for updating me on this]
The first Encephalon (cognitive neuroscience) will be on July 3rd, 2006 on Neurophilosopher’s blog.
Next Philosophy Carnival (philosophy) will be on July 3rd, 2006 on Adventures in Ethics and Science.
Next Animalcules (microorganisms) will be on July 13th, 2006 on Science Matters.
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Carnival of the Liberals – call for submissions
Message from the proprietors of the Carnival of the Liberals:
Dear Liberal Carnivalers,
Did you think we’d disappeared? Don’t worry (or celebrate), you’re not getting rid of us that easily!
Some logistical issues caused a bit of a delay and resulted in The Uncredible Hallq swapping hosting slots with Varkam at Neural Gourmet. Varkam will be hosting Carnival of the Liberals #15 on Wednesday, June 21st and and the deadline is Tuesday, June 20th by 7PM EDT. So, what are you waiting for? Get to sending in those submissions!
Note: Anyone who sent in something prior to this message, there’s no need to resend it. Varkam has a copy of everybody’s submissions thus far.
BTW: We’ve still got hosting slots in August (16th and 30th), so if anyone’s interested, shoot me an e-mail. We’ve had a lot of new people participating in CotL in recent weeks, so why not give a thought to hosting? We’d love to see some new faces taking a turn at their own editions.
See everyone Wednesday at Neural Gourmet!
The wee, tiny, little ones….
Animalcules 1.9, the carnival of microscopic life, is up on Aetiology. This is the first time I don’t have anything there – just too swamped with everything. I promise I’ll be good next time.
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Carnival of Education – call for submissions
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Grand Philosophers, Round Philosophers
Grand Rounds Vol 2 No 38 is up on Haversian Canal.
Philosophers’ Carnival XXXI is up on Kenny Pearce’s blog.
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Carnival of the Green #31
Welcome to the thirty-first edition of the Carnival of the Green. I am still trying to figure out the details of Movable Type after my move here last Friday (and please look around – there are 45 fantastic science bloggers here at SEED’s ScienceBlogs), so fancy graphics and creative hosting will have to wait for some other time. Let’s just take a straightforward look at this week’s entries.
Is it sexual repression that’s behind the religious right’s obsession with gay marriage? Or are they just plain evil? Either way, they are using it to distract us from the far more serious issue of global warming. Says Future Geek in You know what they say about homophobes…
Although the primary elections that this post specifically refers to is now over, Green LA girl thinks that as enviro bloggers, we can really help people make better voting choices by researching and writing about candidates’ commitment to the environment. This is especially true for local elections, for which info’s tough to come by. So, Vote prep for 6.6.06 and beyond.
My new blog-room-mate here, Grrlscientist of Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) wrote a review of the new film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, hosted by Al Gore.
Two of the PSD Blog authors have sent their posts this week. As part of Green Week the European Business Awards for the Environment were announced. This year had some very creative winners, and Christine Bowers reviews some of them in Rewarding innovators in green business. Richard Caines’ post – Carbon: think global, act local was written in honor of World Environment day. It gives some suggestions to those who care about big-picture global environment issues but also want to help make a difference in their day-to-day activities. It also announced that the World Bank Group has gone carbon neutral.
Harlan Weikle of Greener Magazine reports that nation’s largest bank launched a pilot program for associates wishing to make things a little greener on the commute: Bank of America pilots hybrids.
Marigolds2, aka Mary Ellen blogs on The Blue Voice. A New Generation Coming On is a post about the Tennessee music festival Bonnaroo, and how it is greening the music festival scene, partnering with NRDC, Stop Global Warming, and others.
Elsa of The Greener Side feels guilty about posting a bad word when describing Vegan Vixens, a cable access show that aims to get people to flirt with veganism: Veganism with legs, nice legs…
Al and the rest of City Hippy editors have produced a collective review of 10 soaps that are green in one way or another: Editors Choice: 10 Green Soaps. Have they missed your favourite? Feel free to add your own reviews.
Judy of Savvy Vegetarian found some good articles in the Organic Consumers Association newsletter. Every once in a while – well, quite often actually – Organic Consumers Association publishes a blockbuster newsletter, in which every item is major news. Read and take heed on The EPA, Dead Sheep & Goats, German Owned Water, Ethanol, GE Corn In Your Gut, Canadian Health Care, Conagra Survey, and Obese Kids
Laura Lynn Klein of Organic Authority asks Is the EPA Safeguarding Public Health?. It recently cut a deal with Amvac, the manufacturer of the pesticide DDVP (a known carcinogen) to allow the toxic pesticide to stay on the market.
Sludgie, written by Francis Stokes, takes a humourous look at environmental issues, this time about the way Global warming threatens famous wine regions: Global Warming Threatens Wine Sippers’ Ability To Be Completely Annoying.
Daniel Collins of Down To Earth sent two nice posts: Reading weeds on Aldo Leopold’s reading list, and Redesigning Yosemite Falls about protecting National Parks, and impacts of climate change.
With some minor modifications (or the use of a special additive), your diesel-powered car or truck can run on used vegetable oil, potentially saving you lots of money on fuel. The most Interesting Thing of the Day is Vegetable Oil as Diesel Fuel: Fries and a fill-up.
NC Conservation Network is a local blog dear to me. Heather wrote a post about the Smart Energy Primer, while Grady assumes that Everybody Likes Clean Water, Right? Right?!
Thank you all for coming here. If Carnival of the Green is new to you, you should check out the archives of previous editions. Also, please look around my new digs and also visit my neighbors once you’re done reading the carnival entries.
Special thanks goes to Dee’s ‘Dotes for hosting last week’s carnival which you should check out if you happened to miss it. Next edition (COTG #32) will be hosted at Savvy Vegetarian Blog next Monday.
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Upcoming Carnivals
In chronological order so you know how much time you have to write and submit your posts:
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New Neuroscience Carnival – The Synapse
The Synapse is a new neuroscience carnival. The first edition will appear on Pure Pedantry on June 25th, and the second two weeks later here on A Blog Around The Clock.
Anything involving the brain, nervous system, behavior and cognition is fair game for this carnival, from brand new research to historical studies, from pure basic science to applications in medicine or robotics. Please send the links for the first edition, including your name, your blog’s name and a short blurb about the post, to Jake at: jamesjyoung AT gmail DOT com.
Then, once your post appears in an edition of the carnival, you are eligible to become a host, so tell Jake on the above address and he’ll put you on the schedule. He is going to make a post that will serve as Homepage/Archives. All we need now is a really nifty logo, so if you have Photoshop talents, send your ideas to Jake as well.
BTW, it appears there is also a move to start a genetics carnival, which, should it become reality, should promptly lose the word “carnival” from its title. RPM (personal communication) has a great suggestion – “Mendel’s Garden”
Update: The genetics carnival has officially changed its name to Mendel’s Garden. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 pm on June 15. Use the Blog Carnival submission form.
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Carnival of the Green – call for submissions
Carnival of the Green has nothing really to do with the Green Party, but is a blog carnival that focuses on sustainability, ecology and conservation.
Next week, June 12th, the carnival will be hosted by me, right here on my new digs! I hope that means more exposure for all the entrants.
Check out the archives of previous editions of Carnival of the Green and see if you have written (or can write) something that fits with the theme.
You can send your entries to: carnivalofgreen AT gmail DOT com, or directly to me at: Coturnix1 AT aol DOT com. I’d like to have all the entries by midnight (Eastern Time) on June 11th.
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A Blog Around The Clock 