SCQ Journal Club: Part IV
Category: The Website Building
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- David Ng is Director of the AMBL at the University of British Columbia - fancy speak for a science teacher.
- Benjamin Cohen teaches at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009). His interest is in those places where science, art, and environmental studies come together.
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- The Challenge of Eating Sustainably: College Edition
- If scientists were to write the music reviews (Vampire Weekend case study)
- Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak
- Arithmetic saves the day: Solar cells still an option.
- I've lost my brain (no seriously, I dropped it somewhere at the University of British Columbia). Can you help me find it?
- Master Skeleton Articulator: How cool would that be on a business card?
- Art and Science: It's awkward sometimes.
- What Philip Graham Knows: An American in Portugal
- How a conference managed to get over 250 attendees make Chewbacca sounds at once (plus a Chewbacca cognition poll)
- The difference between how we see things when we're home and when we're away: an aloof problem of knowledge (Days at the Museum #4)
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Cannonball Series
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STUDENTS ROCK!
"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt
Puzzle Fantastica 1 | 2 | 3
Batman as scientist
SCIENCE SHOWDOWN!
Science songs 1 | 2
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"Little Charlie Darwin, God Bless Him": plus a blurb or so on biography
Category: The Book Building
I just posted an entry on Darwin's status as a scientist, and wanted to tag on this brief run-down on some biography. (Although I'll say right off that I'm *not* a historical Darwin scholar, and a lot of brilliant people...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 7:45 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Darwin has nothing to do with science....There's not a shred of evidence that Darwin was a scientist."
Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of them
While driving back home yesterday and dreaming of that Saturday afternoon sweet spot of a nap time, I heard the above comment from one of the people interviewed on a story on Weekend America. A Kansan contributor to the program,...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:53 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2006
Mountaintop [Coal] Removal, Part II: Is a stream without fish still a stream?
Category: Mountaintop Coal Removal
[When we last left our dueling bloggers, they were reading Erik Reece's Death of a Mountain. And now, part 2, as continued from the first part of the conversation, wherein -- beyond the Reece article -- the bloggers made mention...
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Friday List Bonanza: Science, Engineering, and Dr. Phil
Category: The Website Building
How about a sampling of the lists over at McSweeney's, the perfect Friday activity. Here are a bunch that are either science-related, engineering-related, invention-related, or plain unrelated. I'd be interested in any kind of ranking people have, the bests of...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
SCQ Journal Club: Part III
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July 27, 2006
SCQ Journal Club: Part II
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July 26, 2006
RoundUp Ready Round-up is Ready: (a) Atrazine and (b) Big Organic
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Environmental Science/Studies in Review, Volume 1 Here is a rundown of some recent pieces of note w/r/t environment, science, and technology -- specifically, a few on atrazine and hermaphroditic friogs, and then a few on Big Organic (farming and planting...
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SCQ Journal Club: Part I
Category: The Website Building
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July 25, 2006
A Worthy Cause Indeed: Journal Club and Looking Out For The Duck
Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of them
Well, I'm on vacation as of today and thought now was as good a time as any to show off my primary online love affair. That is, the Science Creative Quarterly of which I am the editor. For the next...
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