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Archives for August, 2009
ScienceOnline’09 – interview with Danielle Lee
Posted by Coturnix on August 27, 2009 The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline’09 back in January. Today, I asked Danielle Lee from the Urban Science Adventures! © blog to…
In vitro veritas
Posted by Coturnix on August 27, 2009 My new t-shirt arrived: From Zazzle.
Clock Quotes
Posted by Coturnix on August 27, 2009 There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man. – Alan Stewart Paton, 1903 – 1988
The Open Laboratory 2009 – the submissions so far
Posted by Coturnix on August 26, 2009 Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 300 entries, all of them, as well as the “submit” buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Posted by Coturnix on August 26, 2009 There are 22 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own…
Hollywood and science
Posted by Coturnix on August 26, 2009 Robert Scoble interviews science blogger and author Jennifer Ouellette about the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a “recent initiative by the National Academy of Sciences, was set up to build a new kind of social network of scientists and movie directors.” Worth a watch:
Re: Design
Posted by Coturnix on August 26, 2009 From NESCent: > “Re: Design” – This is a dramatization of the scientific correspondence between Charles Darwin and botanist Asa Gray, and is a product of the Darwin Correspondence Project. NESCent is co-sponsoring this theatrical production with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, WUNC-TV and the NCSU Theater Dept. The production will be staged at…
Clock Quotes
Posted by Coturnix on August 26, 2009 It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. – Raymond Chandler, 1888 – 1959
PLoS ad (video)
Posted by Coturnix on August 25, 2009 Wow – I had no idea this existed: Until Graham Steel visited the Cambridge office and posted about his experience. Instead of trusting Google Maps (which always gets me lost in Durham, NC) I relied on the experience of a Cambridge cab driver when I visited last year.
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Posted by Coturnix on August 25, 2009 There are 33 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own…