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North Carolina:
Colleges should not discriminate against Martians and Tralfamadorians
Our governor agrees. At least in the print version of this article which has a somehwat different title: "Easley supports college for aliens". I wonder why they changed it for the Web version - is the editorial position that having...Posted on May 9, 2008 11:17 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For the Triangle locavores
A special issue of The Independent on local food scene: The road to real food Farm to table challenges Farmers' helpers One missing link: organic grains...Posted on May 9, 2008 10:18 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thanks, Jim Neal!
I wanted to write this, but Abel did it much more eloquently....Posted on May 7, 2008 10:41 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NC primary
I am about to go to vote. You can watch the NC results here. Update: Pam is liveblogging the election. If you have experiences from the polling places around NC today, post them in her comments....Posted on May 6, 2008 8:47 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Tar Heel Tavern is back!
The Tar Heel Tavern was the first blog carnival that focused on a geographical region instead of a topic. It was going strong for about two years, but I could not find enough time to manage it any more, so...Posted on April 23, 2008 3:42 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
BlueNC Blogger Bash
A rare blogging event that I will miss, but you should come and meet the local political bloggers and candidates....Posted on April 11, 2008 1:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Registration is open for ConvergeSouth 2008
ConvergeSouth 2008 is ready to roll: The Web site is online and registration is open: http://2008.convergesouth.com/ We're calling for presentations - see the schedule and apply to present. There's a brand-new Video Walking Tour on Thursday, October 16, with Robert...Posted on April 7, 2008 10:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Whassup?
You must have noticed that there wasn't too much effort on this blog over the past couple of weeks (except for the elaborate and too successful April Fools hoax). I've just been so busy lately. So, here is a quick...Posted on April 5, 2008 10:25 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Support Jay Ovittore
I have announced before my support for my friend and blogger Jay Ovittore in his race to unseat the Republican Congressman Howard Coble. But before he can get there, he first needs to defeat the establishment Democrats in the primaries,...Posted on March 28, 2008 7:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Carrboro Citizen is One
My favourite newspaper has been publishing for a year now. . Robert Dickson and Kirk Ross mark the anniversary. Newspaper is not dead....Posted on March 25, 2008 12:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Triangle Blogger Meetup
Next Triangle blogger meetup is this Wednesday at 6pm at Milltown (307 E. Main St., Carrboro). It is organized by our friends at Orange Politics, for several years the model for local political organizing online. It is likely some...Posted on March 24, 2008 2:59 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Alan Alda at the N.C. Zoo
He was here last Tuesday for filming of a scientific documentary for PBS: He was doing important work on an upcoming PBS special "The Human Spark", a three-part documentary about what makes us human, due to air next year. Alda,...Posted on March 13, 2008 11:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
SCONC/BlogTogether joint meetup
Yesterday we had our first blogger meetup since the Conference, the Triangle bloggers jointly with the NC science communicators. Who was there? Anton Zuiker, Russ Campbell, Brian Russell, Ernie Hood, Chris Brodie, Abel Pharmboy and Lenore Ramm who took the...Posted on March 13, 2008 10:03 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Triangle Bloggers AND Science Communicators joint Meetup
SCONC Second Wednesday AND the BlogTogether bloggers meetup will occur jointly this month, at Tyler's Taproom, Durham! Does science make you thirsty? Jargon got you down? Want to kick back with other SCONCs? We're here for you. Come hang with...Posted on March 9, 2008 10:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Coworking in Carrboro
Carrboro's Creative Coworking in the works: Freelance web designer Brian Russell's vision to create a shared workplace for freelancers and other creative types is moving toward a concrete Carrboro reality. The idea to open what he called a shared office...Posted on March 8, 2008 7:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Patricia Brennan on bird genitalia
News from SCONC: On Thursday, March 27 at 4 p.m., the Zoology Department at NCSU will host a seminar from Patricia Brennan of Yale University entitled "The Biology of Avian Genitalia: Form and Function." Brennan's work on the genital anatomy...Posted on March 7, 2008 7:29 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Zoo School X-Press
Regular readers must be familiar by now with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Today's news from the school - their students have put up the first issue of their online newspaper, the ZSX-Press. Go check it out! In related news,...Posted on March 6, 2008 8:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Reptile & Amphibian Day at the Museum
News from SCONC: The NC Museum of Natural Sciences presents Reptile & Amphibian Day on Saturday, March 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dozens of displays, activities and presentations highlight reptiles and amphibians from North Carolina and around the...Posted on March 6, 2008 7:29 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Linda Buck explains the sense of smell
News from SCONC: Linda Buck is the Nobel-Prize winner that may live farthest from NC (but still in the U.S.). She will give a seminar Monday, March 10 at 4 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Talley Center at...Posted on March 4, 2008 7:38 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Oliver Smithies on stem cells and gene targeting
News from SCONC: Oliver Smithies is the Nobel-Prize winner next door. A professor at UNC for almost 20 years, Smithies got the nod from Stockholm last fall. He will give a seminar at the Friday Center on Thursday March 6...Posted on March 3, 2008 7:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ConvergeSouth2008
Sue announces that the website will be up in two weeks, and the blog is already up and running. You can help with organization. In any case, mark you calendars: ConvergeSouth 2008 will be held on October 16-17, 2008 in...Posted on March 2, 2008 4:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Communicators of North Carolina meeting at NIEHS
The March SCONC meeting will be Wednesday, March 5, at 6 p.m. at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in RTP. The evening will include presentations on how NIEHS research impacts public health, the new NIEHS Web site...Posted on March 2, 2008 3:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Annie Get Your Gun
Last night we went to Raleigh Memorial Auditorium and saw the opening ("student") night of "Annie Get Your Gun", starring Larry Gatlin, who is apparently some big name in country music, and Raleigh-born Lauren Kennedy who we last saw as...Posted on February 23, 2008 10:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Congratulations to the good people of Greensboro
Greensboro is the only North Carolina town on the 'Popular Science' list of the America's 50 Greenest Cities. We still have a lot of work ahead of us until we catch up with the West Coast. (Hat-tip)...Posted on February 21, 2008 7:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ConvergeSouth08
Sue and Ed are starting to plan the fourth ConvergeSouth and are asking the community to help with the planning....Posted on February 19, 2008 7:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Cafe in Raleigh - Teenage Brains
Science Cafe on Teenage Brains : Teenagers sometimes act as though they were from a different planet. On Tuesday February 19, the Museum of Natural Sciences will host a science cafe entitled "Altered States: Inside the Teenage Brain" at Tir...Posted on February 18, 2008 6:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Darwin the Botanist - not just the orchids!
As a part of the Darwin Day celebration the North Carolina Botanical Garden has organized a series of events for today, culminating in the lecture "Darwin the Botanist" by Dr.William Kimler, a Darwinian scholar and the professor of History (of...Posted on February 12, 2008 1:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Zoo School - perhaps you can help
If you read my blog you must be aware how enchanted I am with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Unfortunately, at the last moment something came up, so the delegation of two teachers and six students could not make it...Posted on February 10, 2008 11:35 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
BlogTogether.org
Yesterday, a bunch of us (e.g., Paul, Brian, Ruby, Wayne, Jackson, Mark and me) got together for tea at Anton's house, analyzed the past year of bloggy activity and plotted to take over the world next year: meetups (a.k.a. beer-blogs-bowling...Posted on February 4, 2008 6:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nice article on Coworking
Carrboro Commons interviews Brian Russell about Carrboro Coworking. As a telecommuter, I am quite likely to participate in this. I'll keep you posted.......Posted on February 1, 2008 2:04 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Life Sciences in North Carolina
OK, this may not be very new, but for all of you taking a look at science in North Carolina next week due to the focus on the Science Blogging Conference, The Scientist has published a number of essays looking...Posted on January 12, 2008 11:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Anton Zuiker on blogging (and science blogging)
Wayne Sutton (of 'Local Conversations') posted a great interview on the evolution of blogging with Anton Zuiker: Local Conversation interviews Anton Zuiker from waynesutton12 on Vimeo....Posted on January 5, 2008 8:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ten Years Since The Kyoto Agreement....
Indy has the entire issue devoted to the topic of Global Warming, with some excellent articles: 10 years after Kyoto: You're getting warmer by Bill McKibben 10 years after Kyoto: Winners and losers by Sena Christian James Hansen won't be...Posted on December 8, 2007 10:38 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Rep. Brad Miller on Blogging
You may remember that a couple of weeks ago, a bunch of us bloggers got to meet Rep. Brad Miller (D - NC13) and talk about the effects of new media on politics. Now you can read two accounts of...Posted on December 7, 2007 4:38 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Congratulations to Enloe students!
For winning the second place at the Siemens science competition: Mentored by N.C. State University professors Donald Bitzer and Anne-Marie Stomp, the students developed a computer model that helps scientists determine which gene sequences to use to produce specific proteins....Posted on December 4, 2007 6:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Communicators of North Carolina (SCONC) events for December
The editors of American Scientist magazine invite you to join them next week for the current installment of the fabled Pizza Lunch Seminar. This time, they have invited Alan Finkel, a neurologist at UNC Hospital, to describe his studies on...Posted on November 30, 2007 5:14 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Meet Congressman Brad Miller
I'll be there, of course: Join Congressman Brad Miller for a discussion hosted by Ruby Sinreich of OrangePolitics.org and Brian Russell of Yesh.com about the impact of blogging on today's political environment. When: Thursday, November 29, 5:30pm - 7:30pm Where:...Posted on November 26, 2007 9:40 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New on....
...the computers and the Web: If you are not clear about the difference between the Net (aka Internet), the Web (aka World Wide Web) and the Graph (aka Social Graph), then this post is a must read (via Ed). He...Posted on November 23, 2007 8:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wineblogging in Durham tomorrow
Join us at the brand new Wine Authorities tomorrow night at 6pm for our special Durham Blogger MeetUp: The shop has a cool Enomatic machine with which you serve yourself a taste or glass of wine, and a nice big...Posted on November 13, 2007 1:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ovittore For Congress campaign to kick off this week
My friend, Greensboro blogger Jay Ovittore is running for Congress. He started the campaign blog and the website will be up soon. He is trying to unseat Howard Coble. The Press Conference will be on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at...Posted on November 13, 2007 9:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Tar Heel Tavern #111
After many, many months of drought, the Tar Heel Tavern is back, covering the drought and the water issues, both in NC and globally, on Mistersugar....Posted on November 11, 2007 10:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Breaking News: PLoS ONE Managing Editor visits the Chapel Hill office!
Yup, Chris Surridge, Managing Editor of PLoS ONE (and the author of the legendary comment) swung by the Chapel Hill office last night. Since my initial stint was in the San Francisco office, and Chris is working in the Cambridge...Posted on November 3, 2007 3:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Good short video interviews with local Web pioneers
Back at ConvergeSouth, Leonard Witt did several short video interviews with cool participants. Among others, you should definitely see brief interviews with Anton Zuiker, Kirk Ross and Ruby Sinreich....Posted on October 28, 2007 1:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go Greene!
Local elections are next week. This is my official endorsement for Sally Greene for Chapel Hill Town Council. And not just because she is a blogger. Or because she was endorsed by The Independent. But because of what Brian said....Posted on October 28, 2007 1:42 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bob Young - The connection between Ibiblio, Open Source, Lulu, and the number 42
Paul announced it and I will try my best to be there on Tuesday: Who: Bob Young, founder of Lulu.com, Lulu.tv and Red Hat Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm Location: Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Room 103...Posted on October 27, 2007 9:42 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ConvergeSouth: creepies, domestic tranquility and amplification of serendipity
So, while I still have a few more minutes on this wonderful wifi (another Scifoo camper attending ASIS&T meeting just walked into the coffee-shop a few minutes ago - how the world is small!), let me summarize my thoughts on...Posted on October 22, 2007 1:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
No drafts on tap due to the draught?
The last time we met at the Tar Heel Tavern was on April 2nd. After that, the inspiration dried out and no Tarheel-brewed amber-colored liquid was flowing for months. With the grass wilting everywhere around us, it was easy to...Posted on October 14, 2007 2:09 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Meet Fred Gould (sans mosquitoes) over pizza
Another thing I will also have to miss - the Inaugural Event of the 2007-2008 Pizza Lunch Season of the Science Communicators of North Carolina (SCONC), on October 24th at Sigma Xi Center (the same place where we'll have the...Posted on October 9, 2007 6:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Cafe Raleigh - Dinosaurs!
Speaker is Dr. Mary Schweitzer, the NCSU researcher who discovered and analyzed soft tissues in fossilized bones of T.rexPosted on October 9, 2007 5:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Challenger to Elizabeth Dole?
Kirk Ross in this week's 'Carrboro Citizen': Jim Neal, a key Democratic Party fundraiser, is on the verge of announcing a run for U.S. Senate, sources close to Neal say. Neal, a native of Greensboro who now lives in Chapel...Posted on October 8, 2007 9:13 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
UNC researcher wins a Nobel for the Knock-Out Mouse
Dr. Oliver Smithies, the Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA, together with Mario R. Capecchi and Martin J. Evans, won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine: This year's...Posted on October 8, 2007 8:42 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dinosaurs are coming to Raleigh!
OK, I live here, yet I had to learn from Brian that the AMNH dinosaur exhibit is coming to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh. The exhibit will be open from October 26, 2007 till March...Posted on October 7, 2007 12:11 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science 2.0 at SILS
Jeffrey Pomerantz invited me to give a brownbag lunch presentation on Science 2.0 yesterday at noon at the School of Information and Library Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was fun for me and I hope...Posted on October 6, 2007 6:43 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Foodblogging - the Dinner last night
The highlight of this week's foodblogging event must have been last night's dinner at Piedmont restaurant in Durham. Anton has several posts about the events of the past couple of days, including a detailed description (including the menu, and exactly...Posted on September 25, 2007 11:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Come to ConvergeSouth
This is why you should attend ConvergeSouth. OK, Anton will lead a session, and so will I, but check out the entire program - it is just getting more and more amazing every year! And it is probably the most...Posted on September 25, 2007 11:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Brian Russell is now a Social Software and Multimedia Consultant for Hire
And it is hard to find anyone better than Brian: I am now available for hire to consult on the creation, care, and feeding of online communities. Plus I can create audio and video for the web. To get an...Posted on September 25, 2007 10:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Foodblogging and the post-foodblogging science-blogging dinner
The three-day Foodblogging event has started, with a reading/booksigning by Michael Ruhlman at the Regulator bookshop in Durham. Among those in the audience were Reynolds Price, local bloggers Anton Zuiker and Brian Russell, as well as Anna Kushnir, foodblogger who...Posted on September 23, 2007 11:46 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Raleigh News and Observer on Anton Zuiker, Triangle bloggers, Science Blogging Conference
I was out and offline all day yesterday, so I missed this wonderful article by Dan Barkin in yesterdays' N&O (I just took the paper out of its plastic bag a few minutes ago): Bloggers to talk science. It tells...Posted on September 23, 2007 9:03 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The State of Life Sciences
The State of Life Sciences in North Carolina, that is....Posted on September 18, 2007 9:35 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A kick-ass Conference: Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity
Come see Sapolsky, Deacon, de Waal, Rosenberg, Dennett, Fox Keller and others talk about what it means to be human (or chimp).Posted on September 14, 2007 9:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Will Raymond For President!
OK, that is an overstatement (for now). Will Raymond for Town Council! There. That's better. I thought Will must be busy as I did not hear from him lately and he did not show up at any of the recent...Posted on September 13, 2007 9:31 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Meetup tomorrow night
The Triangle blogging season has started, so I hope many of you locals and visitors join us for the first meetup of the year: The Durham bloggers meetup will be the second Wednesday of each month at 6pm at Tyler's...Posted on September 11, 2007 12:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Blogger Meetup season to start this week
The first blogger meetup of the season will be this Wednesday, September 12th, at 6pm at Tyler's Tap Room in the American Tobacco Warehouse District. Come in large numbers, bring your friends! To stay informed about this and other local...Posted on September 8, 2007 6:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A high school at the zoo!
I rarely wish to be 14 again, but I certainly did when I read this news today, that N.C. Zoo and the Asheboro City Schools have just started something called AHS Zoo School. As Russ Williams explains: "Students have unprecedented...Posted on September 8, 2007 2:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Google in Southern Village
Back in January, there were rumors around town about Google opening an office in Chapel Hill. Then, a couple of days ago, I went up to the John Edwards HQ to pick up some bumper stickers for my new car...Posted on September 8, 2007 2:05 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Eat, eat, eat and live to blog about it!
Before we focus on science, and while the weather is still nice, we (and by "we" I mean "bloggers in the Triangle area of North Carolina") will have some other kind of bloggy fun, the one that involves taste buds!...Posted on September 5, 2007 10:32 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Coworking
Telecommuting is a great concept, providing flexibility of work-hours, availability when there is a family crisis, etc. But it is difficult to be self-disciplined at home. So many other things vie for attention, including that most excellent invention of all...Posted on September 3, 2007 3:17 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Triangle Bloggers
The August blogger BBQ traditionally kicks-off the new blogging season (see the pictures from the BBQ on Flickr). So, we now have a new schedule for the 07/08 meetups. Instead of having all the meetups in Carrboro, we will rotate...Posted on September 2, 2007 12:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks