Open Laboratory 2013 - submissions so far

It is now expected by the science blogosphere that I post the full updated listing of all the submissions every Monday morning. This serves as a reminder for bloggers to submit their (and other people?s) posts, and to some extent prevents duplicate entries. But most importantly, it presents a growing listing of some of the most exciting work on science blogs. This is a weekly post where bloggers can discover each other and discover blogs they were not previously aware of. Thus it is also a promotion for all the bloggers involved.

The submission form for the 2013 edition of Open Lab is now open. Any blog post written since October 1, 2011 is eligible for submission. We will close the form on October 1st, 2012.

We accept essays, stories, poetry, cartoons/comics, and original art.

Once you are done submitting your own posts, you can start looking at the others?, including on aggregators like ScienceSeeker.org, Scienceblogging.org and Researchblogging.org.

You can buy the last five annual collections here. You can read Prefaces and Introductions to older editions here.

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3 Quarks Daily (Julia Galef): My Little Pony: Reality is Magic!

The II-I- blog: We, the pioneers.
The II-I- blog: The Great Revolution

A Blog Around The Clock: The New Meanings of How and Why in Biology?
A Blog Around The Clock: #scio12: Multitudes of Sciences, Multitudes of Journalisms, and the Disappearance of the Quote.
A Blog Around The Clock: Books: ?Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science? by Michael Nielsen
A Blog Around The Clock: Myths about myths about Thanksgiving turkey making you sleepy

A Hippo on Campus: Why men don?t listen and women are great at maths

A Schooner of Science: Fever dreams ? the true tale of Richard Spruce

Addiction Inbox: Reward and Punish: Say Hello to Dopamine?s Leetle Friend
Addiction Inbox: Army Doctor Sees Victory, and a Dangerous Drug Bites the Dust?Almost.

Anthropology in Practice: Beware: The Ides Have Come. No, Really. This Time It?s True.

Artologica: From the Cells to the stars

The Bug Chicks (Michael Barton): A taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!

Bug Girl?s Blog: How to get free media coverage for a bogus beehive design
Bug Girl?s Blog: Transcript of my ESA talk about Social Media

Cedar?s Digest: Purple Doesn?t Exist: Some thoughts on Male Privilege and Science Online

The Cellular Scale: The ?Human Neuron?, not so special after all?

CENtral Science IYC 2011: Chemistry Carnival: Your Favorite Chemical Reactions!

Chemjobber: How do institutions change? Not easily

Cocktail Party Physics: The Science of Mysteries: Of Granular Material and Singing Sands

Contagions: Mapping Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England
Contagions: Did India and China Escape the Black Death?

Cosmic Variance (Sean Carroll): Everything is Connected

The Curious Wavefunction: The unstoppable Moore hits the immovable Eroom

Deep Sea News (Miriam Goldstein): A wicked bad idear: National Geographic hunts bluefin tuna for entertainment and Eating Wicked Tuna: A marine scientist tries to figure out what the heck is going on fused into a single post.
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): On common names
Deep Sea News (Kevin Zelnio): #IamScience: Embracing Personal Experience on Our Rise Through Science
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): No fish is an island
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): A (fetid) river runs through it, the Brooklyn edition
Deep Sea News (Alexis Rudd): True Confessions of a Dolphin-Loving Marine Biologist
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain and Alistair Dove): James Cameron?s Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy?s junket?

Deep Thoughts and Silliness: The Problems of Interpreting Data

DiverseScholar: #SCIO12 Policy Report: Academia is Productive but Messy ? Effects on (Mis)Communication

EvoEcoLab: The Message Reigns Over the Medium
EvoEcoLab: Trying to Catch His Breath With a Hole-Ridden Safety Net

The Febrile Muse: Inflammatory Language No 1. The ongoing cycle

From The Lab Bench: Google Search Engine Software goes ?Chemistry?
From The Lab Bench: Old News for Carbon Dioxide, New Threats for Climate Change

Gaines, on Brains: Seeing into the future? The neuroscience of d?j? vu

Galileo?s Pendulum: If You Love a Flower Found on a Star

GeoSphere: The Art of Geology

Green Tea and Velociraptors: What is a Fossil Species..?
Green tea and Velociraptors: Dinosaurs: Then and Now

The Haystack: How Jagabandhu Das made dasatinib possible
The Haystack: On Birth Control,?Plan B,? and?Batman
The Haystack: Biogen Idec Reveals Clinical Data for (Really) Small Oral MS Drug BG-12

io9 (Maria Konnikova): What Happens When Alice and Anti-Alice Meet? (A Celebration of Lewis Carroll?s 180th Birthday)
io9 (Annalee Newitz): You are bitching about the wrong things when you read an article about science

Just Like Cooking: Petition Expedition ? Cancer in Laundry Detergent?
Just Like Cooking: This Just In ? File Under ?Huge Marine Polyethers?
Just Like Cooking: Did Someone Say Pink Slime?
Just Like Cooking: hERG: Legs, Drugs, and Heartbeats
Just Like Cooking: Super Tasters and Smells in Space
Just Like Cooking: The Chemistry Popularity Conundrum

Last Word on Nothing (Sally Adee): Better Living Through Electrochemistry
Last Word on Nothing (Christie Aschwanden): What beer and running taught me about science (part 1 of 2) and/or Life without beer: part 2 of my beer & running science experiment

Life Traces of the Georgia Coast: Georgia Life Traces as Art and Science

Listen to Us!: Moby the Manta Ray

Literally Psyched: Our Storytelling Minds: Do We Ever Really Know What?s Going on Inside?

Magma Cum Laude: This is what a geologist looks like

My Growing Passion: When Plants Parasitise Fungi: myco-heterotrophy

Neurophilosophy: Sleights of hand, sleights of mind

Neurotic Physiology: Do you love Science? Well, that depends, do you like sleep?
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Does your menstrual blood attract BEARS?!
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Laptops and WIFI are coming for your SPERM. Again.
Neurotic Physiology: Overeating and Obesity: Should we really call it food addiction?
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: The Social Psychology of Flatulence

Observations (Ferris Jabr): Animals Exposed to Virtual Reality Hold an Emergency Meeting

The Organometallic Reader: Ligand Field Theory & Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory

Powered by Osteons: From Birth to Burial: the Curious Case of Easter Eggs
Powered by Osteons: Childbirth and C-Sections in Bioarchaeology
Powered by Osteons: Line on the left, one cross each: Bioarchaeology of Crucifixion
Powered by Osteons: A Brief History of Bioarchaeology ? Part I: America
Powered by Osteons: Lead Poisoning in Rome ? The Skeletal Evidence

PsySociety: Why Jersey Shore Won?t Make You Dumber: The Importance Of Responsible Science Journalism
PsySociety: If I Were A Well-Off White Man? I Might Not Understand Other People Very Well.

Reportergene: Where are your cells from?
Reportergene: Packaging madness

The Scicurious Brain: Cocaine and the sexual habits of quail, or, why does NIH fund what it does?
The Scicurious Brain: It hurts so good: the runner?s high

Science. How hard can it be?: A tale of generations
Science. How hard can it be?: When we become nature?s mice.

Science Is Everyone?s Story: The Health Cost of Black Women?s Hair Products
Science Is Everyone?s Story: Energy Journalism: Cleaning up the Numbers

Science Sushi: Evolution: The Rise of Complexity
Science Sushi: Time ? and brain chemistry ? heal all wounds
Science Sushi: The Joke Isn?t Funny ? It?s Harmful

Scientific American Guest Blog (Meera Lee Sethi): Internet Porn Fills Gap in Spider Taxonomy
Scientific American Guest Blog (Cheryl Murphy): Learning the Look of Love: That Sly ?Come Hither? Stare
Scientific American Guest Blog (Cheryl Murphy): Music can change (the way we see) the world
Scientific American Guest Blog (The Dog Zombie): The Hearty Ingredients of Canis Soup
Scientific American Guest Blog (Paige Brown): Catalytic Clothing?-Purifying Air Goes Trendy
Scientific American Guest Blog (Melanie Tannenbaum): Trayvon Martin?s Psychological Killer: Why We See Guns That Aren?t There
Scientific American Guest Blog (Melanie Tannenbaum): If It Looks Like a Compliment, and Sounds Like a Compliment?Is It Really a Compliment?

The Scorpion and the Frog: The ?Love Hormone? Pageant and The ?Love Hormone? of 2012 fused into one.

Skulls in the Stars: Fran?ois Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world!

Social Dimension: New Ways to Measure Science
Social Dimension: The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes

Southern Fried Science: If fish evolved on land, where did they all go? Evolution and Biodiversity in the Ocean

Speakeasy Science: Cough Syrup, Dead Children, and the Case for Regulation

Squid A Day: Neurotoxins In Stranded Squid (With Bonus Rant About Academic Publishing)
Squid A Day: Why Aren?t Humboldt Squid Giant?

The Starving Neuron: Fooled by the senses.
The Starving Neuron: 24 hours in the lab
The Starving Neuron: Bad behaviour

This View of Life: There is Grandeur (Really)

Token Skeptic: Eye-Witness To A Crime And Not Raisins ? Reflections On The Bystander Effect In Helping Behaviour

We Beasties: Allergies 101
We Beasties: Allergies 101 ? Part deux
We Beasties: Allergies 101: Part the Third

Words in mOcean: I?m a marine biologist, but sometimes I wish that what I did sounded a bit less interesting?

Zoonotica: How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 1 and How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 2

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Future Versions of Firefox Could Feature Built-In Video Chat

For a while now, Mozilla has been looking beyond the core browser features to expand Firefox's capabilities. Last week, the Firefox team showed an interesting new demo at the ITEF 83 meeting in Paris. In this demo, the Firefox team shows a new browser-based video chat feature for Firefox that is completely based on JavaScript and other open standards. The most important of these standards for this demo is WebRTC. With WebRTC - which is part of the developing HTML5 standard - developers can enable real-time services, including file sharing, voice calls and video calls right in the browser.

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Adopt Don&#39;t Shop: Mutt Monday | Dog Leader Mysteries

Today, I take a new plunge online. I am not simply pro pet adoption. I adopted a child. Years ago, my family was created through foster care then adoption.

My husband and I became foster care parents when a baby girl came to us in shocking ill-health. Failure to thrive. Losing weight at 4 lbs. 12 oz., she had never made eye contact with anyone. Not her biological mother nor her boyfriend, not the nurses or doctor in the hospital. When I first held the baby, I felt scared. I worried. Could we make a connection?

But as I listen to her mother talk, the tiny infant began staring up at my face. I risked a looked into a pair of stunningly clear blue eyes. That was the?beginning of an unbreakable bond.

Nothing was easy in that first year of our infant?s health struggles and adoption. In fact, all our efforts to adopt mushroomed into a messy nightmare. The problems never stopped. The level of legal and emotional difficulty increased each week as she grew. But despite how hopeless it looked for that baby, over a year after taking her home, we were able to finalize our adoption. We became a family.

I tell this because I recently read that most people think adopting a pet is a good thing. But only 20% actually adopt a dog, cat or rabbit.

Dogs bond with the people who love and care for them.

Why?

I have a few guesses.

1. Adoption is a warm fuzzy word, splashed on highway signs and used by nonprofits to ask for donations. But how many people actually have adopted family members? Is adoption so removed from the 80% ?who do not adopt that they never think of it as a personal and desirable option?

2. A myth exists about bonding. It looms both over children in foster care and rescue dogs. In the dog world, most breeders, trainers and other experts talk about puppies. They claim this is the best time to train and socialize. This maybe true. But what is not true is that rescue dogs cannot be trained or will not bond with their new families. I know. I?ve adopted, bonded with, plus trained four rescues. And took in two sweet escaped rabbits, who we still miss because their long healthy lives ended.

I know one thing, A mere 20% of American adopters is not enough to save the lives of millions of dogs produced by puppy mills. Every year, those puppies die of inbred illness or killed in shelters for lack of a home.

If you are on the fence about adopting or shopping for a dog, go see a nearby dog rescue, talk to the volunteers and meet the dogs. I think you will be happily?surprised how wonderful, friendly and willing these homeless hounds are.

You can learn tons from dog rescuers, adopters and shelter staff/volunteers. I have.

In the end, adoption is all about love and family building.

Remember April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals month.

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Deborah Taylor-French writes mysteries for children; full of dog characters, animal rescue and positive dog leadership. Fetch her blog at www.dogleadermysteries.com. Deborah has been a guest artist for California?s Artists in the Schools, holds an M.A. from UCLA and has led numerous educational arts workshops. She has parented five adopted dogs. She is a member of the California Writers Club.

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My Chemical Romance Star Frank Iero & Wife Jamia Welcome Son

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How to Choose the Right Accounting and Financial Services ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]April 8th, 2012 admin. As complexities increase in the world of business, measuring and managing finances becomes a critical task. Without an efficient system to look after the accounting/ bookkeeping, payroll processing and back office ...

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Violence dims Syria truce hopes; 100 killed

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops pounded opposition areas, activists said, killing 74 civilians in an offensive that has sent thousands of refugees surging into Turkey before next week's U.N.-backed ceasefire aimed at staunching a year of bloodshed.

At least 15 rebels and 17 security force members were also killed, raising the death toll in violence to over 100.

Each side has accused the other of intensifying assaults in the run-up to the truce due to take effect early on Thursday if government forces begin pulling back from towns 48 hours earlier in line with U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan.

The military shelled Deir Baalba district in Homs, killing four people, the grassroots Local Coordination Committees opposition group said. Thirteen men were also found killed in cold blood in the same area, it said.

Amateur activist video showed scenes of carnage said to be the aftermath of the shelling. Mangled limbs and body parts in blankets were being loaded on a pick-up truck. A second video showed 13 men who appeared to have been tied up and executed.

No comment was immediately available from Syrian officials. The videos could not be independently verified. The government has placed tight restrictions on media access in Syria.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 74 civilians had been killed, including 40 in an army attack on al-Latmana, in Hama province, that began on Friday. The rebel Free Syrian Army lost 15 men in the battle, it said, and 17 members of the security forces were killed across the country.

In an activist video from al-Latmana, mourners held aloft the limp corpse of a child. A row of bodies lay on the ground.

The Observatory report said 12 were killed by shelling as the army swept through villages in Idlib province.

A rocket hit a bus travelling from Lebanon to Syria at Jousa just inside Syria, a Lebanese security source said. Witnesses said six Syrians were killed. Lebanese medics confirmed two dead and nine wounded. It was not clear who had fired the rocket.

Rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad attacked army posts north of Aleppo before dawn, killing an officer and two men, and assaulted a helicopter base, activists said.

Syrian commandos shot dead three rebels in an overnight raid on a "terrorist den", Syria's state news SANA agency reported.

Country towns north of Aleppo have endured days of clashes and bombardment, prompting 3,000 civilians to flee over the Turkish border on Friday alone - about 10 times the daily number before Assad accepted Annan's plan 10 days ago.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday the number of refugees entering Turkey was rising. Ankara fears an all-out war in Syria would unleash a flood of refugees.

"At the moment?we have?24,000 Syrians who have entered Turkey. Of course this number is rising," Erdogan told reporters before departing on a trip to China.

"We are taking measures for this, though?we will not close the gates. The United Nations, however, has to?toughen its stance," he said. "In particular Kofi Annan has to hold firm. He?announced a deadline of April 10. I believe that he should monitor the situation very closely."

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The Syrian leader is fighting a popular uprising, which he blames on foreign-backed "terrorists", that has spawned an armed insurgency in response to violent repression of protests.

While many in Syria's Sunni Muslim majority back the revolt, especially in provincial areas, Assad retains support from his own minority Alawite sect and other minorities fearful that his overthrow would lead to civil war or Islamist rule.

In Damascus, thousands of flag-waving Assad supporters came out to mark the founding in 1947 of Syria's ruling Baath Party.

The bloodletting of the past week or so does not bode well for implementation of Annan's ceasefire plan.

This requires Assad to "begin pullback of military concentrations in and around population centers" by Tuesday.

Rebel Free Syrian Army commander Colonel Riad al-Asaad said his men would cease fire, provided "the regime ... withdraws from the cities and returns to its original barracks".

Syria has said the plan does not apply to armed police, who have played a significant role in battling the uprising in which security forces have killed more than 9,000 people, according to U.N. estimate. Syria says its opponents have killed more than 2,500 troops and police since the unrest began in March 2011.

Annan's plan does not stipulate a complete army withdrawal to barracks or mention police.

Satellite pictures published by U.S. ambassador Robert Ford showed Syrian artillery and tanks still close to communities.

"This is not the reduction in offensive Syrian government security operations that all agree must be the first step for the Annan initiative to succeed," Ford said in Washington.

A statement by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the April 10 timeline "is not an excuse for continued killing".

"The Syrian authorities remain fully accountable for grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. These must stop at once," Ban said on Friday.

(Additional reporting by Afif Diab in Baalbek and by Alexandra Hudson in Ankara; Writing by Douglas Hamilton; Editing by Alistair Lyon and Alessandra Rizzo)

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Artist Updates (4/06/12) : MusicRow ? Nashville&#39;s Music Industry ...

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Alan Jackson recently visited the Tonight Show With Jay Leno to perform ?So You Don?t Have To Love Me Anymore.? Check it out at the 35:50 mark below.

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Kellie Pickler returned to her American Idol roots last night (4/5) to perform on the results show. Pickler sang the song ?Where?s Tammy Wynette? off her acclaimed new album 100 Proof.

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The Band Perry recently performed a three-song set at CMT?s 2012 upfront presentation to an invitation-only crowd at New York?s Museum of Arts & Design. In attendance were Viacom execs Phillippe Dauman and Tom Dooley; Van Toffler, President, Viacom Music and Logo Group; and CMT President Brian Philips.

(L-R): Neil Perry; Philippe Dauman, President & CEO, Viacom; Kimberly Perry; Tom Dooley, Sr. EVP & COO, Viacom; Reid Perry. Photo: Picturegroup

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Trace Adkins has partnered with Louisiana-based, family-run Hightower Enterprises to create Trace Adkins Hightower?s Country Smoked Sausage exclusively for Brookshire Grocery Company. The grocery chain operates 152 stores in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. ?When you think about home cooking, you think about family and tradition,? said Adkins. ?The Hightower?s family business was a part of my family?s meals growing up. I?m happy to join them as they expand beyond Louisiana to all the families served by Brookshire Grocery Company stores.?

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Atlanta Southern rock band Blackberry Smoke will perform at the famed Georgia Theatre Saturday, April 7 at 9 pm/ET. MTV Network?s high-definition music channel Palladia will air the show, which will feature guest performances by Zac Brown and Clay Cook of Zac Brown Band and Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie.

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Curb Records has released Lee Brice?s ?I Drive Your Truck? for purchase and download in the iTunes store ahead of the April 24 release of his sophomore album Hard 2 Love. Brice?s current single ?A Woman Like You? is approaching the top of all the charts, and has sold over 600,000 downloads to date.

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Country duo Miss Willie Brown (Kasey Buckley and Amanda Watkins) have the iTunes Free Download of the Week with ?You?re All That Matters to Me? through Monday, April 9. The song was written by Robert John ?Mutt? Lange and produced by Nathan Chapman. Additionally, the duo will appear on the Monday, April 9 episode of CW?s Hart of Dixie.

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Black River Entertainment?s Craig Morgan will make his debut appearance on late night show Conan on Wednesday, April 11. The show airs weeknights at 10 pm/CT on TBS.

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Congratulations to Average Joe?s artist Matt Stillwell, who married his longtime girlfriend Lindsey Crawford March 22 at the Vegas Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.

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Teen sensation Payton Rae is filming the video ?Stomp The Fire Out? with director Stephen Shepherd. The song (written by Pete Sallis, Karyn Williams, and Brian White) is the first single from Rae?s upcoming album project. The 16-year-old social media wiz has over 120k Twitter followers and 5.5 million YouTube views.

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