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Photos of where you do science could be featured in the next issue of
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Photographer Felice Frankel says the best way to learn science is through art.
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Pictures from the Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich.
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Just one day to go before the second annual
North Carolina Science Blogging Conference at Research Triangle Park! Can't attend? ScienceBlogs correspondent Virginia Hughes will be blogging live.
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Stream ScienceBlogs content on your blog or website with our new widget.
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Uncropped versions of the photos from our channel homepages.
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Next Monday, October 22, Barrett will read from her new novel,
The Air We Breathe, at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
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One DonorsChoose project, created by a fifth grade teacher in rural North Carolina, aims to get parents involved in their kids' science projects.
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Theo Jansen's kinetic 'beach animals' blend engineering with fine art.
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Three heady days in San Francisco on "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity."
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Posted on August 27, 2007 10:07 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The
New York Times launches My Times—and gives a nod to ScienceBlogs.
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Google boldly goes where no online mapping service has gone before.
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An Eisenhower-era relic of space history, reproduced on the web.
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Take a moment to check out ScienceBlogs' latest addition,
Angry Toxicologist, for hawk-eyed health commentary with a side of erudition and humor.
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In this short video,
Seed's art director narrates the creation of the cover art for the August 2007 issue of
Seed—from
E. coli-covered stamps and an agar-filled petri dish.
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Welcoming ScienceBlogs' newest addition,
Neurophilosophy.
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Started on June 3 by "20-something geek" and ScienceBlogs fan Mina Murray,
Weird Science is a blog written specifically for adolescents.
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Geeky music video does wonders with dice.
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were chosen by Philon of Byzantium in 200 B.C. Could it be time for an update?
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Paul Torrens' geosimulation lab uses virtual reality to study crowd dynamics.
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Why is beef on everybody's brain?
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University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne responds to Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback about evolution, education, and the rejection of science.
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A piece of paper can't be folded in half more than seven times?
Molecule of the Day didn't buy it.
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Check out an online "
Memory" exhibit put out by San Francisco's interactive museum,
Exploratorium.
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Seed correspondents are
Live-Blogging the International Science and Engineering Fair. Come see what the next generation of cutting-edge scientists is up to.
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Armchair explorers don't have to eat seals.
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The Earth isn't the only thing that's hotter than ever.
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New York's American Museum of Natural History presents
Beyond, a new IMAX show of 30 tweaked--and stunning!--space photos.
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Alan Saunders pays tribute to scientists with "Lego vignettes."
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It's game day. How did Fossil Fuels fare against Erlenmeyer Flask in the penultimate match in the Mortar and Pestle Division of the Science Spring Showdown?
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What's the difference between psychology and neuroscience? In an age of deepening understanding of the brain, does it make any sense to study the mind? Dave and Greta Munger of Cognitive Daily take on the first question in ScienceBlogs' new query series.
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"Big time, Dave, it's huge! Let the griping begin! We've opened the lines and we wanna hear from you. What do YOU think about these match ups? Is this just about right? Or does it make about as much sense as a taco in a Chinese restaurant?"
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If you're thinking about pollen much and you're not a farmer or a beekeeper, chances are you probably suffer from wicked seasonal allergies. Then again, you could be an artist. Kysa Johnson, a painter whose work explores microcosmic and macrocosmic...
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The flaming, 20-foot Rube Goldberg machine that closed the Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society, in glorious video.
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Jessica Hagy of Indexed gets a book deal. Graph-lovers everywhere rejoice.
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"Have a little respect for your scientific minority. Without them you would still be freezing, starving, and dying of horrific diseases."
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Do you feel unsatisfied, irritated, impatient with yourself? An art exhibition of a spoof pharmaceutical taps into real anxieties.
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Posted on March 1, 2007 9:05 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A new filtered feed brings the highlights of ScienceBlogs right to your reader.
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Why the stereotype of the lonely brainy woman is a trope whose time has come; plus, a new photo gallery (and contest) celebrating "girl-geeks" of style and substance.
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Sharpen your pencils, fire up your computers, and enter an unbeatable science is culture t-shirt design for your chance to win a 60-gig iPod, $1500 in cash, and, you better believe it, an Uncle Milton green gel ant farm.
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Tune in to daily podcasts from the route up Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest free-standing mountain and, at 19,340 feet, the highest peak in Africa.
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Screwing our way to a greener future.
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Combatting the cycle of TV addiction.
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Sinking whaling ships since 1979.
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You can influence the Truth.
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ScienceBlogger Zuska conducts an online course on pleasure, excitement, and desire in feminist theories of science. Join in, read along, and get your
jouissance on.
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Climate change is gaining coverage in mainstream media. This Flash game from the BBC furthers the cause.
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Watch the Earth breathe.
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A little-known Google tool to tickle your infographic fancy.
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Two photographic points of view on labware.
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From McSweeney's Books,
Animals of the Ocean: In Particular the Giant Squid, by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, looks like it's for kids, but it is actually for people like you.
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Plants don't really need soil; just ask the French.
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A century of city smog can take its toll.
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Science education + sixties mod design sense = compelling artwork from the inside of a childrens' biology book.
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If fertility levels were to remain unchanged at today's levels, world population would rise to 244 billion persons in 2150 and 134 trillion in 2300, clearly indicating that current levels of high fertility cannot continue indefinitely.
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of
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This first-hand story, as its author notes, "isn't for the faint hearted and for some should not be read while eating."
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You may have seen the rather exciting NY Times article this morning: "Judge Embeds a Puzzle in 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling." Apparently, Judge Peter Smith stuck 40 bold/italic letters into his ruling on a suit against Dan Brown (Brown won)....
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In my former life, long before I had even heard of Seed, I studied 17th century English literature and dipped occasionally into history of science. One of my favorite figures in 17th century science was mad, bad Margaret Cavendish, the...
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