Three excellent new editions of these blog carnivals:

- Encephalon at Neuroskeptic: brain and mind topics.

- Grand Rounds at Running a Hospital: overall health and medicine, this week with special theme “when things go awry”.

- Change of Shift at EmergiBlog: nursing and related healthcare topics.

A couple of very well curated collections of recent blog posts:

Encephalon #64: hosted by Neurocritic, covering neuroscience and psychology. Please make sure to visit when you have some time to spare…because you will quickly become addicted to the quality content and superb presentation.

It’s Grand Rounds, What Do You Think? GOSH!: hosted by Kim at EmergiBlog,  with an interdisciplinary, “Napoleon Dynamite”, frame. Doesn’t seem to make sense? well, pay a visit.

If you want to read a wide cross-section of some of the best blog articles published in November, you may enjoy the masterful edition of MetaCarnival just published by Kim, including classic science papers, aspects of the medical and scientific life,  neuroscience, anthropology, and more. Enjoy!:

MetaCarnival: Volume One, Number 2

The next edition will be hosted by Bertalan at ScienceRoll on December 29th.

If you are a blogger or read blogs often, you know that there are a good number of excellent blog carnivals focused on specific themes. If you are interested in medicine, you know what carnival to visit. Education, the same. Biology, neuroscience, nursing, birds, aging, philosophy…a variety of topics are very well covered in the blogosphere.

What you probably haven’t come across is a high-quality “metacarnival” or “carnival of carnivals”, where you can read the best blog posts ACROSS topics, subjects, disciplines.

This is why a few blog carnival “organizers” are launching next Monday a monthly rotating “MetaCarnival” to feature the most interesting posts from a variety of high-quality blog carnivals.

Participating blog carnivals so far, alphabetically: Read the rest of this entry »

Quck heads up: Two excellent editions of these ongoing blog carnivals.

- Encephalon 46th Edition: selection of neuroscience and psychology blog. posts

- Grand Rounds 36th Edition: all things medical and healthy. 

This week’s editions of two excellent blog carnivals. Enjoy!

- Encephalon #45 – Life Is Good, Brains Are Better

- Grand Rounds 4:34 at the Health Business Blog

 

Two excellent blog carnivals-enjoy these superb editions, and discover many new quality blogs along the way:

-Encephalon Goes to Paris (Hilton) [Of Two Minds]: best of bi-monthly neuroscience and psychology blog posts 

-This Is, Like, Totally Rad Grand Rounds on April 1st, Okay?: best of weekly health and medicine posts 

Update 1: good Carnival of Human Resources

Update 2: Tangled Bank, with great science posts 

Some great blog carnivals this week; visit them if you want to read good blog posts on the following topics:

- Update 1: great edition of the Philosophers’ Carnival.

- Update 2: Encephalon #40: all topics neuroscience and psychology.

- Grand Rounds last week and this week: on health and medicine.

- Carnival of Education #160: on educational issues.

- Carnival of Mathematics #27.: great collection of math-related resources.

Here you have a few good recent blog carnivals (collections of selected blog posts around specific topics) 

- Tangled Bank: science-related posts across a variety of disciplines. 

- 2 editions of the Carnival of Education: this week and last one.

- HR carnival: because “human resources” have brains, too.

- Medicine 2.0: how web 2.0 can enhance the practice of medicine.

- Change of Shift: nursing topics.

- Gene Genie: human genetics.

Hot off the press!

We just found on the newstand an amazing special issue of Discover magazine on The Brain-An Owner’s Manual (Spring 2007), with fascinating articles on how the mind changes from infancy to old age, female vs. male brains (yes, we men have brains too), videogames as brain training (by Steven Johnson), an article titled “24 hours in the life of the brain”, the “most magnificent neurons, and much much more.

A bit technical, but not too much for anyone who reads popular science books. It will probably become a classic for brain aficionados. We can not find any mention of it in www.discover.com, so we will keep our eyes open and link to the index and more info as soon as we find somewhere to link to…