Geekalicious:
Planning to be in/around/near New York City on August 9, 2008? There's a reader-Scienceblogger meet-up event in the works, being planned even as you read this, probably for around 3 pm. We'd like to know whether you think you'll be...
Posted on July 22, 2008 2:16 PM • 3 Comments •
At my mother's assisted living home, the staff helped my mom and other residents put in a small garden in the spring. Onions, featured in the planting, are now being enjoyed by all. Mom says they are past that first...
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Posted on July 5, 2008 7:26 PM • 8 Comments •
Just sit right down with Zuska for awhile and get in touch with your Inner Pissed Off Woman.
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Posted on June 23, 2008 7:37 PM • 14 Comments •
I will admit that rap music has more than once caused me to mutter "These kids today! Their music is just noise! When I was young, our music had a melody!" Or something like that. You know, the stuff mom...
Posted on June 18, 2008 11:13 PM • 9 Comments •
Some time ago I posted info about the Seed lab photo contest. The deadline is long since past, but in the comments on my post I offered to post lab photos that you submitted but that didn't get selected. Barn...
Posted on June 16, 2008 2:44 PM • 2 Comments •
This is a bit of a late announcement, but I thought some of you might like to play. See full announcement here. For the next issue, Seed editors want to see the typical or not-so-typical places where Scienceblogs readers do...
Posted on May 11, 2008 7:01 PM • 2 Comments •
So much for the slow, steady progress over time theory.
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Posted on March 7, 2008 5:09 PM • 6 Comments •
Bora has posted an interview with me at A Blog Around the Clock. See here for all the interviews in the series. He keeps adding new ones so check back now and then. Via the Chronicle news blog, I found...
Posted on March 6, 2008 3:03 PM • 2 Comments •
it is indeed refreshing to read about a positive workplace transformation for a change!
Posted on February 29, 2008 11:55 PM • 3 Comments •
There's been some quite lively blogging recently over at Abel Pharmboy's pad. Of particular note was the live-blogged vasectomy: Anyway, as a medical blogger, I will try to liveblog the process from my Palm Treo 700p at the Hospital-That-Tobacco-Built. While...
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Posted on February 29, 2008 11:53 PM • 7 Comments •
Yes, February 17-23 is this year's National Engineering Week! I'm a little late to the party, I know...I've been a little preoccupied. But today is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day! There are events going on all over the U.S....
Posted on February 21, 2008 3:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Just yesterday I posted information about a new resource on recruiting women and girls into information technology. Ironically, the same day American Public Media ran this story about Jean Bartik, one of the original "computers". Yesterday in San Francisco, Apple...
Posted on January 17, 2008 4:48 PM • 2 Comments •
Something a little lighter after all that Watson-puke of recent days... ...The World's Fair's exceptional "I rank number one on google!" meme!!!! I'd like to suggest a meme, where the premise is that you will attempt to find 5 statements,...
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Posted on November 1, 2007 7:00 PM • 7 Comments •
Dave Munger at Cognitive Daily introduced today a new set of icons that will help readers identify blogging on peer-reviewed research. You can find the full announcement below the fold, including info on where to find the icons, how to...
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Posted on October 29, 2007 12:38 PM • 0 Comments •
Didn't you get something like this from your parents when you were younger? "You kids don't know how easy you have it. When I was young, I had to walk to school! In the snow! Uphill! Both ways!" Well, a...
Posted on October 24, 2007 9:19 PM • 5 Comments •
Go forth and photograph, and send us the fruit of your digital labors!
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Posted on October 18, 2007 6:35 PM • 0 Comments •
The best high-carb food in Slavic cooking is the potato pierogie.
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Posted on October 17, 2007 7:55 PM • 7 Comments •
By way of the Chronicle News Blog...researchers are using a brain-computer interface to allow physically-impaired people move an avatar around in Second Life. The system consists of a headpiece equipped with electrodes that monitor activity in three areas of the...
Posted on October 16, 2007 1:46 PM • 0 Comments •
By now you've no doubt heard that Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I must confess that this announcement gives me no small degree of schadenfreude when I think...
Posted on October 12, 2007 1:19 PM • 0 Comments •
From the Chronicle News Blog... ...it will be 25 years ago tomorrow that Mr. Fahlman, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, invented the digital smiley face. After a colleague joked about a contaminated elevator on an electronic...
Posted on September 19, 2007 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
Posting will be sparse to non-existent over the next week, as it has been the past few days. This is because I'm hanging with Mom for a week or so. Actually, I'm hanging with my mom and my sister at...
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Posted on September 16, 2007 11:26 PM • 5 Comments •
I found the link to this video over at She's Such a Geek! - thanks, Charlie! Listen to one female geek's response to reading the book. I particular loved her saying that the "she" in "She's Such a Geek!" should...
Posted on September 11, 2007 2:30 PM • 1 Comments •
Call me cynical, but I'm just thinking that an arrangement which saves companies the expense of having to actually "hire researchers to meet all [their] rapidly evolving scientific needs" cannot possibly be in the best long-term interests of the scientists themselves.
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Posted on September 6, 2007 2:55 PM • 5 Comments •
Here's the problem: I've got migraines. So I take topamax. Topamax helps decrease the occurrence of daily headache and decrease the frequency of migraine. But topamax has side effects. A really bad one is cognitive confusion. This manifests itself in...
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Posted on September 3, 2007 3:55 PM • 13 Comments •
The song asks those Bible questions we've all been wondering about, and goes on to talk about evolution.
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Posted on July 23, 2007 10:14 PM • 2 Comments •
The drama and pathos makes me nearly weep that I do not regularly wear white men's shirts
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Posted on July 20, 2007 1:03 PM • 8 Comments •
...young girls especially want to know the ways in which a scientist or engineer has a "normal" life...
Posted on July 19, 2007 3:41 PM • 4 Comments •
Now why didn't I order a copy from some nefarious online site?????
Posted on July 18, 2007 11:50 PM • 6 Comments •
It's tax deductible!
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Posted on June 27, 2007 4:33 PM • 0 Comments •
It's how she commutes from her home to her office!
Posted on June 21, 2007 5:35 PM • 1 Comments •
>"Physicists talk in metaphor all the time,"
Posted on June 21, 2007 5:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Let's hope Google always and only decides to use its power for good...
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Posted on June 20, 2007 7:58 PM • 1 Comments •
once I'd made this comparison, I could get no further with
Cosmic Jackpot
Posted on May 22, 2007 12:28 PM • 11 Comments •
Maybe Gracie could sit Cathy down for a chat...
Posted on May 14, 2007 5:22 PM • 0 Comments •
Who would have thought Acid would kick Ethanol's ass?
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Posted on March 20, 2007 8:44 PM • 1 Comments •
I missed posting on this the day it went up because of my stupid health issues, but the first Scientiae carnival is up thanks to Skookumchick over at Rants of a Feminist Engineer! Go forth and read! Also note that...
Posted on March 2, 2007 7:39 PM • 0 Comments •
Thanks to Skookumchick, there's a new blog carnival in town called Scientiae! This is a blog carnival that compiles posts written about the broad topic of "women in STEM," (STEM=science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and may include posts: stories about...
Posted on February 26, 2007 3:07 PM • 0 Comments •
There's a new feed available on Science Blogs, and it's called ScienceBlogs Select. Basically, what you get if you subscribe to this feed is the very best of all of Science Blogs. Each of us flags two or three posts...
Posted on February 22, 2007 7:01 PM • 1 Comments •
the new handheld Unwanted Male Attention Repellent of choice is a cell phone!
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Posted on February 22, 2007 5:35 PM • 5 Comments •
I wish I had a circuit-board corset like Ellen Spertus.
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Posted on February 15, 2007 7:16 PM • 8 Comments •
It's not yet clear how "Above Average Physique" is to be determined
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Posted on February 15, 2007 1:17 PM • 0 Comments •
I saw a commercial on t.v. the other night for something called the "Gender Knee" so I looked for it on the web and voila! The First and Only Knee Replacement Shaped to Fit a Woman's Anatomy...
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Posted on February 10, 2007 7:49 PM • 6 Comments •
I like to scan the New Scholarly Books section of the Chronicle of Higher Education; every so often, something interesting in History of Science or Women's Studies pops up. Recently I saw a little blurb under history of science that...
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Posted on February 6, 2007 2:16 PM • 0 Comments •
Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
