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Best of November at A Blog Around The Clock

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I posted 33 times in November. That is, on A Blog Around The Clock only (not counting the posts on The Network Central, The SA Incubator, Video of the Week, Image of the Week, or editing Guest Blog and Expeditions).

A couple of brand new posts:

Myths about myths about Thanksgiving turkey making you sleepy


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Books: ‘Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science’ by Michael Nielsen

Let’s Talk About Evolution [Video]

A couple of updates, interviews, and announcements:

Some updates on #scio12, #NYCscitweetup, Story Collider and more.

Interview, in Spanish, in Journal of Feelsynapsis

Updates: #scio12, #soNYC, #NYCSciTweetup and more.

Announcing the sessions of the upcoming ScienceOnline2012 meeting:

Mathematics – Algebra and Statistics and more – at ScienceOnline2012

Information, data and technology at ScienceOnline2012

Health and Medicine at ScienceOnline2012

Education at ScienceOnline2012

Movies and Video at ScienceOnline2011

Sound and Music at ScienceOnline2012

Visual Communication at ScienceOnline2012

Scientists and the Media, at ScienceOnline2012

Writing, narrative and books at ScienceOnline2012

Outreach, activism and persuasion at ScienceOnline2012

Making it in the new media ecosystem, at ScienceOnline2012

Another Q&A with a participant of last year's meeting:

ScienceOnline2011 - interview with Kathleen Raven

And a few more videos from the ScienceOnline2011 sessions:

#scio11 – Blogging on the Career Path

#scio11 – Perils of Blogging as a Woman under a Real Name

#scio11 – Blogging in the Academy

#scio11 – MLK, Jr., Memorial Session

#scio11 – It’s All Geek to Me

Several re-posts from the old archives:

Lesson of the Day: Circadian Clocks are HARD to shift!

Sun Time is the Real Time

The Scientific Paper: past, present and probable future

Spring Forward, Fall Back – should you watch out tomorrow morning?

BIO101 – Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

BIO101 – Physiology: Regulation and Control

Blogs – a means to finding people to do rhythmic things with?

BIO101 – Physiology: Coordinated Response

Hot Peppers – Why Are They Hot?

Previously in the "Best of..." series:

2011

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

2010

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

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2009

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November

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January