<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[A Blog Around The Clock]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://blog.coturnix.org]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Bora Zivkovic]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://blog.coturnix.org/author/coturnix/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Around the blogs&#8230;.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Bouphonia: <a href="http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/2008/05/conservatism-to-come.html" target="_blank" title="">The Conservatism to Come</a>.<br />
SciCurious: <a href="http://scicurious.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/weird-science-its-friday/" target="_blank" title="">Weird Science: it&#8217;s Friday!</a>.  Since I do not have time and energy for my <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/friday_weird_sex_blogging/" target="_blank" title="">Friday Weird Sex Blogging</a> series, I am glad that someone picked up on it.  This post is about condoms and why they break.<br />
Echidne: <a href="http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#3387822838516161036" target="_blank" title="">He Loved Horses</a><br />
Two excellent posts and comment threads &#8211; I wish these guys were blogging back when I was in grad school: PhysioProf: <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/drugmonkey/2008/05/strategic_planning_how_to_comp.php" target="_blank" title="">Strategic Planning: How To Complete Fascinating Projects And Publish Them In Top Journals</a> and DrugMonkey: <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/drugmonkey/2008/05/strategic_planning_how_to_secu.php" target="_blank" title="">Strategic Planning: How to Secure Funding in a Climate of Arbitrary Selection</a><br />
Anna Kushnir wrote a letter to WIRED Science: <a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/why-are-senior.html" target="_blank" title="">Why are Senior Female Scientists so Heavily Outnumbered by Men?</a> There are mysogynist idiots in the comments who need a dose of organic shoe-polish&#8230;.<br />
Sukhdev in Web Land: <a href="http://blog.sukhdevsingh.com/2008/05/what-can-bloggers-do-for-open-access.html" target="_blank" title="">What can Bloggers do for Open Access?</a> and <a href="http://blog.sukhdevsingh.com/2008/05/open-access-what-it-is-and-why-it-is.html" target="_blank" title="">Open Access: What it is and why it is required for scholarly community?</a><br />
A little promotional stuff: <a href="http://www.plos.org/cms/node/356" target="_blank" title="">I&#8217;m Sorry I Haven&#8217;t a Kluge</a> and <a href="http://www.plos.org/cms/node/357" target="_blank" title="">It takes a village</a>.<br />
Jay Rosen: <a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/05/29/mcclellan_regrets.html" target="_blank" title="">What Happened to Scott McClellan in Longer Perspective: 100 Years of the White House Press</a><br />
Henry Gee: <a href="http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/henrygee/2008/05/04/the-ecology-at-the-maison-des-girrafes" target="_blank" title="">The Ecology at the Maison Des Girrafes</a> and <a href="http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/henrygee/2008/05/30/the-zoology-at-the-maison-des-girrafes" target="_blank" title="">The Zoology at the Maison Des Girrafes</a>.<br />
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2008/05/the_facts_arent_always_pretty.php" target="_blank" title="">Janet comments</a> on this article: <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/2008/05/3028n.htm" target="_blank" title="">Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research</a><br />
So, Bill Clinton did not, in kids&#8217; minds, change the <a href="http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(08)00106-7/abstract" target="_blank" title="">definition of sex</a>.<br />
Are they nuts? Belgian media <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/05/more-from-belgian-newspapers-who-don.html" target="_blank" title="">reject 20th and 21st century</a>.<br />
Do you know the nationality of scientists? <a href="http://network.nature.com/london/news/blog/matt/2008/05/30/quiz-time-part-2-country-of-origin" target="_blank" title="">Quiz Time! Part 2: country of origin</a><br />
Glenn Greenwald: <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/28/mcclellan/index.html" target="_blank" title="">Scott McClellan on the &#8216;liberal media&#8217;</a>, <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/28/gibson/index.html" target="_blank" title="">Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war</a>, <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/29/yellin/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN/MSNBC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative</a>, <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/30/allen/index.html" target="_blank" title="">The right-wing Politico cesspool</a> and <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/30/cohen/index.html" target="_blank" title="">Interview with former &#8216;Donahue&#8217; producer and MSNBC pundit Jeff Cohen</a>.<br />
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2008/05/30/all_things_e_coli.php" target="_blank" title="">Carl Zimmer</a> on <a href="http://www.ecolicommunity.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=244" target="_blank" title="">E.coli</a>.<br />
Jonathan Eisen: <a href="http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/05/top-10-things-francis-collins-might-do.html" target="_blank" title="">Top 10 Things Francis Collins Might Do After NHGRI</a></p>
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