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Cool scientists
Posted by ERV on November 25, 2010 It was 75 degrees yesterday. It got down to 24 today. And pretty much everyone else in the country is under a layer of ice/snow. But Im not gonna write about cold scientists. Im talkin about cool scientists. Chris Mooney, the expert on facades, appearances, and stabbing people in the back with a smile (you…
Dr. Kiki and ERV, LIVE!
Posted by ERV on October 28, 2010 Im going to be doing a live show for This Week in Science tonight! Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour Gonna talk about endogenous retroviruses and how to bring them back to life (just in time for Halloween!!) and all sorts of fun stuff (HIV-1, epigenetics, etc)! They uploaded the video if you couldnt catch it live–…
Umm… *taps mic*… hmmm…
Posted by ERV on September 7, 2010 In about a month Im going to be speaking at the Texas Freethought Convention. I can talk about anything. Which means I dont know what to talk about. I mean, I have lots of things I want to talk about, but I dont wanna be all “YEAHHHH!!!!”, and the audience not give a rats ass…
‘Songs From the Science Frontier’ Update and livestream
Posted by ERV on August 21, 2010 Montys project was officially funded, so he is spending today on Ustream, thanking his supporters with videos and songs and getting a chocolate cake smashed in his face at 7 pm Central: Online TV Shows by Ustream Thank you all so much for spreading the word and donating, guys! EDIT 4.55 pm– One of my…
Three more days to get “Songs From the Science Frontier”!
Posted by ERV on August 18, 2010 We only have until midnight Saturday– August 21st– to get another $1,860 for an amazing project. Songs From the Science Frontier A different way to get kids excited about science. A way YOU can help reach kids everywhere, from East LA to rural Georgia– anywhere kids might not be getting the best science education. Monty…
“Songs From the Science Frontier” – YOU can help kids get excited about science!
Posted by ERV on July 23, 2010 WARBLEGARBLETHISISSOCOOLYALL! Where to start? You all are aware of the fact we have ‘science education issues’ here in Oklahoma? Well not everyone here is sitting on their hands, shaking their heads, bemoaning what a shame it is. A fellow who lives in Stillwater, Monty Harper, is actually trying to do something about it in a…
University of Oklahoma luvs Darwin!
Posted by ERV on April 21, 2010 Hey you remember last year, OU had all these super cool presentations by scientists and evilution-themed activities for Darwins 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of ‘Origin’? Remember how OK politicians and religious radicals had a conniption fit over it? Well, the professor who spearheaded the Darwinabration, Piers Hale (comrade of the nefarious John Lynch),…
Steven Pinker at USAO (live-stream available!)
Posted by ERV on April 8, 2010 Steven Pinker will be speaking tonight at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chicasha! Steven Pinker asks audacious questions about the human mind — then boldly sets out to answer them. Recently named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in The World, he is enormously popular in the media and…
The Scientific Communication Messiah has arrived!
Posted by ERV on February 26, 2010 Boy, do I have egg on my face! After I just made fun of the absurdity of Chris Mooneys ‘building bridges with antivaxers’ or ‘ladders to heaven’ or ‘rope swings to Creationists’ or whatever strategy, Mooney is named a Templeton Foundation ‘fellow’. Like most of you, my initial response was “What a douche.” But then…
Good Science Journalism, Bad Science Journalism
Posted by ERV on January 5, 2010 I volunteer my ovum in the service of cloning more Carl Zimmers. Hes got a laymen-science appropriate-yet-not-dumbed-down-to-the-point-of-being-wrong article on the New York Times on one of the many ways we use viral evolution in the lab. A decade ago, scientists began running experiments that suggested the idea just might work. In one study, Dr. Lawrence…