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October 30, 2008
If you don't think you are a brain in a vat, then there are certain things in life you regard as true—things that are also accepted as true by most other people. When events happen, there are generally highly...
Posted by Arikia Millikan at 11:30 PM • 0 Comments •
October 28, 2008
Hello again, ScienceBlogs enthusiasts. Today we will be taking a look at this week's hot posts in the Environment and Humanities & Social Science channels. I'm Arikia Millikan, your ScienceBlogs intern, and I'll be your guide. Environment channel photo. The...
Posted by Arikia Millikan at 2:19 PM • 0 Comments •
October 27, 2008
Greetings ScienceBlogs readers, and welcome to this week's edition of the Life Science and Physical Science Channel updates! I'm Arikia Millikan, your local Sb intern, and I'll be providing commentary on today's "best of." Life Science channel photo. A model...
Posted by Arikia Millikan at 12:32 PM • 0 Comments •
October 23, 2008
H3y sC13Nc3bl092 r34D3R2, 4Nd W3LC0m3 70 73h w33KLy 73CHN0l09Y cH4nn3l UPD473! That means, "Hey ScienceBlogs readers, and welcome to the weekly Technology Channel update!" in 1337. I'm Arikia Millikan, and I'll be your host. Technology channel photo. A dramatic shot...
Posted by Arikia Millikan at 11:30 PM • 0 Comments •
Those of you who have been following this year's DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge may know that ScienceBlogs has already raised over $18,000 for public school classrooms that lack adequate funding for science education. Our readers have been remarkably generous, averaging over...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 3:51 PM • 0 Comments •
What, then, is the Singularity? It's a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Although neither utopian or dystopian, this epoch will...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 10:11 AM • 0 Comments •
October 22, 2008
I'm going to try something a bit different with the weekly updates, so consider this the pilot episode. Since I read the majority of the blog posts pretty much every day, I want to use these updates to deliver a...
Posted by Arikia Millikan at 1:13 AM • 0 Comments •
October 20, 2008
The DonorsChoose '08 Blogger Challenge has been wildly successful so far; you, our readers, have exceeded expectations with your generous donations, now totalling over $16,500. Whether it's the competitive aspect that's driving you to donate or simply the goodness of...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 2:45 PM • 0 Comments •
Meet the ScienceBloggers to celebrate 1,000,000 comments on ScienceBlogs!
Posted by Virginia Hughes at 2:20 PM • 24 Comments •
October 17, 2008
Next up—the full-sized pictures featured this week on the Politics and Medicine & Health channels and some note-worthy posts. Politics. Sarah Palin using technology. From Flickr, by asecondhandconjecture...
Posted by Arikia Millikan at 3:19 PM • 0 Comments •
For the past five weeks, the German-language arm of ScienceBlogs, Sb.de, has featured a specialty blog, For Women in Science. The blog, sponsored by L'Oreal, has posted several interviews with notable women in science, including the general secretary of the...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 10:34 AM • 0 Comments •
October 16, 2008
In this entry, you will find: The large versions of the Environment, Humanities & Social Science, and Education and Careers channel photos and the best posts of the week. Environment. From Flickr, by KhayaL...
Posted by Arikia Millikan at 6:44 PM • 0 Comments •
No one is in a better position to understand how policy affects science than working scientists themselves. Scientists & Engineers for America Action Fund and ScienceBlogs asked several well-known figures in science—including recent Nobel Prize winner Martin Chalfie and "father...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 12:55 PM • 0 Comments •
October 15, 2008
Tuesday, October 14th marked the world's first Open Access Day. The open access movement has revolutionized the way that scientific research results are shared; anyone with the Internet can view scientific journal articles at no cost through open access journals...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 5:25 PM • 0 Comments •
Women in science contend with a unique set of issues in addition to those shared by all working scientists: how to break into what are often strongly male-dominated fields; how to contend with rampant stereotyping and expectations of female scientists;...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 4:05 PM • 0 Comments •
October 14, 2008
On October 7, ScienceBlogs readers, bloggers, and editors gathered in the Lower East Side for a night of rooftop revelry to celebrate the posting of our millionth comment. We ate, drank, and talked about all things science. In reader Kevin's...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 11:47 AM • 0 Comments •
October 13, 2008
Getting back in the swing of things with Channel posts, what's inside: The large versions of the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week. Life Science. This cuttlefish was thrilled...
Posted by Arikia Millikan at 3:40 PM • 0 Comments •
October 1, 2008
ScienceBloggers band together. And no, unlike the many parties they've been banding together at recently, this time it's for a good cause: DonorsChoose.org....
Posted by Stuart Fox at 4:53 PM • 0 Comments •
In this post: the large versions of the Education and Careers and Politics channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week. Education and Careers. Math class in Penang, Malaysia. From Flickr, by cleong...
Posted by Stuart Fox at 2:13 PM • 0 Comments •
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