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PLoS ONE Second Birthday Synchroblogging Competition - final list of entries
The deadline for the PLoS ONE Second Birthday Synchroblogging Competition is now officially over. Here are all the posts written for the competition - 18 posts, written by 17 people, covering 22 PLoS ONE articles. Liz, Dave, Jason and I will be reading them today and will announce the winner as soon as we can:
Barn Owl of Guadalupe Storm-Petrel: DNA Repair During Spermatogenesis: Gimme a Break! about the article: Deletion of Genes Implicated in Protecting the Integrity of Male Germ Cells Has Differential Effects on the Incidence of DNA Breaks and Germ Cell Loss
Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science: Predatory slime mould freezes prey in large groups about the article: Exploitation of Other Social Amoebae by Dictyostelium caveatum
Scicurious of Neurotopia (version 2.0): Why Did the Dolphin Carry a Sponge? about the article: Why Do Dolphins Carry Sponges?
Scicurious of Neurotopia (version 2.0): Einstein was smart, but Could He Play the Violin? about the article: Practicing a Musical Instrument in Childhood is Associated with Enhanced Verbal Ability and Nonverbal Reasoning
Allyson of Systems Biology & Bioinformatics (Semantically Speaking) on One way for RDF to help a bioinformatician build a database: S3DB (also cross-posted on The mind wobbles: One way for RDF to help a bioinformatician build a database: S3DB) about the article: A Semantic Web Management Model for Integrative Biomedical Informatics
Simon Cockell of Fuzzier Logic: Contextual Specificity in Peptide-Mediated Protein Interactions about the article: Contextual Specificity in Peptide-Mediated Protein Interactions
Mike Haubrich of Tangled Up in Blue Guy : Small-Bodied Humans on Palau - A Disagreement about the articles: Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia and Small Scattered Fragments Do Not a Dwarf Make: Biological and Archaeological Data Indicate that Prehistoric Inhabitants of Palau Were Normal Sized
Martin of The Lay Scientist : Catching Snowflakes: The Media and Public Perceptions of Disease about the article: Medicine in the Popular Press: The Influence of the Media on Perceptions of Disease
Nir London of Macromolecular Mod
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