Adventures in Ethics and Science

Stepping away from silence.

Category: Blogospheric science

This month, Sheril Kirshenbaum and Dr. Isis are spearheading a blogospheric initiative to call attention to a continuing epidemic of mass rapes in Liberia even six years after the end of its 14 year civil war, and to try to...

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Deadlines rapidly approaching for two blog carnivals of note (plus a way to help raise money for an award without knowing where your wallet is).

Category: Announcements

First about those carnivals:...

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Light in the darkness.

We can shake our tiny fists, or we can shake our tiny checkbooks and try to bring a bit more light to the darkness. (And maybe a tax-deduction.)

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Blogging, philanthropy, and commerce. (Oh my!)

I realize that I forgot to mention here that I've been writing posts on the Invitrogen-sponsored group blog What's New in Life Science Research. The blog is hosting discussions about stem cells, cloning, biodefense, and genetically modified organisms. (The cloning...

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DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: last day.

This is the last day of Blogger Challenge 2008. You have mere hours left to give to our challenges and get in on Seed's prize drawing (which includes that spiffy iPod Touch)....

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Blogger Challenge 2008 thank-you poem: ethics.

Reader Patrick made a generous donation to my challenge, and wrote: I want to thank you for the posts on Ethics. It is a subject that I feel is mostly neglected during a scientist's formal education. We end up learning...

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Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: chemistry.

Regular reader Duke (who this blogger knows as "Dad") made a generous contribution to my challenge and requested sprog art and a limerick on the subject of chemistry. (Like my mom, he indicated that this donation was to go to...

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Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: astronomy.

Regular commenter Super Sally (who this blogger knows as "Mom") made a generous contribution to my challenge and requested sprog art and a limerick on the subject of astronomy. (She also indicated that this donation was to go to the...

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Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: memory.

Ewan made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge and, as he did last year, he requested a poem illustrated by the sprogs on the subject of memory. It turns out that drawing "memory" is pretty...

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Blogger Challenge 2008: funds from Seed and a chance to vote on which propsal should get the money.

By now you've probably seen the news that Seed has kicked in $15,000 to fund projects in our Blogger Challenge slates. We are, as always, thrilled at our Overlords' generosity. This year, though, rather than applying the money at the...

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