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Category: Kids and science
Hey ScienceBlogs readers: you rock! In a year where lots of folks are waiting for the signs of economic recovery to be manifest in their daily lives, and where public school budgets have been even more hard hit than they...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:16 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
Happy Hallowe'en and welcome to the last day of the 2009 Social Media Challenge. With your help, ScienceBlogs bloggers have raised more than $56,000 to help public school teachers pay for classroom supplies, fund field trips, and support activities to...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Basic concepts
No, I'm not going to be able to get away with claiming that truth is beauty, and beauty, truth. The first issue in understanding truth is recognizing that truth is a property of a proposition. (What's a proposition? A proposition...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:19 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Philanthropy
As I noted earlier this week, Hewlett-Packard is going to be distributing another $200,000 in the DonorsChoose 2009 Social Media Challenge. They're dividing up that pool of money according to how much each challenge has raised as a proportion of...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
It's day 20 of the 2009 Social Media Challenge in which generous ScienceBlogs readers (among others) help raise funds through DonorsChoose for books, supplies, field trips, and other classroom projects in cash-strapped U.S. public schools. So far, we've made impressive...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
Our month-long drive with DonorsChoose to raise funds for public school classroom projects has been under way for almost two weeks now. At the moment, the ScienceBlogs leaderboard show a total of $15,890 from 121 generous donors, benefiting 6,971 public...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
About 5 hours ago, "HP from Palo Alto, California" just rocked our world (and helped a bunch of public school classrooms) by plunking down $50 on each of the 13 challenges mounted by ScienceBlogs bloggers in the DonorsChoose 2009 Social...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:37 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
Today is the one week mark in our month-long drive with DonorsChoose to raise funds for public school classroom projects, and it is no surprise that ScienceBlogs readers have been generous in their support. As I write this post, the...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
Here's a quick update on how the ScienceBlogs contingent is doing in the DonorsChoose 2009 Social Media Challenge. Since we kicked off the challenge on Thursday, three more blogs have mounted challenges: A Blog Around the Clock (challenge here) Christina's...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:24 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
I don't usually go looking for a fight, but there are some cases where I'll make an exception. You know, of course that I'm a big fan of DonorsChoose. And you'll recall that PETA's tactics make them a problematic organization...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:40 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks