Save the Earth: Ban NASCAR
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
NEXTEL Cup cars get 2 to 5 miles per gallon, and with leaded gas.
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David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.
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May 29, 2007
The Intelligent Design Biotech Corporation: Start-up Clip
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Where we're big time primed to speak for and as God....
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 7:30 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2007
Happy Birthday Star Wars: A collection of literary humour (some science-y)
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
I just realized that I've written a few science-y piece with an inherent Star Wars hook to it. As well, it seems to be something that comes up at McSweeney's and other similar humour sites. Anyway, here is a collection...
Posted by David Ng at 12:37 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 24, 2007
From Ants and Heptachlor to Mercury and Global Warming, the Same Racket
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Lots of Rachel Carson links of late, and understandably so, as it would've been her 100th birthday this Sunday. Elizabeth Kolbert makes her the Talk of the Town this week....
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 6:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Things that haunt me: the music from High School Musical. (a.k.a. science angle in the musical genre)
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Last weekend, my family rented a movie called High School Musical (my kids really loved it), and I tell you, it has infiltrated our very being to the point where... hush a moment... wait...be quiet for a second... do you...
Posted by David Ng at 4:51 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 23, 2007
Pollution and Human Life in West Virginia
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Old quote: "A reality of soul starvation, of living death, that meets you every day..."
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 22, 2007
Things that are pretty: Cities and John Hartman.
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
John Hartman Since Ben put up that great post about urban planning and individualism, I thought I would just show off some of John Hartman's great artwork that explore the concept of the city. They're really very striking, and...
Posted by David Ng at 4:40 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Phallacy: A Play about Art and Science
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Does anyone else always mispell "excerpt" too? What a pain.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
E.B. White on Rachel Carson
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
On "man's carelessness, shortsightedness, and arrogance." A small topic, of course.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:04 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 2007
Individualism and Energy Over-Consumption
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Bringing Jefferson, Satellite Images, and Culture to bear on Energy Use
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:43 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm Blowing the Lid Off Time Travel Scenarios
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
A call out to the blogosphere: how come the pictures fade? Let's take the Back to the Future version: if you go back in time, then come to the present, but mess something up in the meantime, then you'll know...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:14 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Murphy's Law equation
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Ah, here it is: Mind you, if we're true to the real spirit of Murphy's Law, there's undoubtedly something wrong with this equation as well. For an explanation, check out here at the SCQ....
Posted by David Ng at 9:37 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 19, 2007
Three Song Mix
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
May 19, 2007 We Will Become Silhouettes, Postal Service, covered by the Shins (note, not the actual video) I Will Follow You into the Dark, Death Cab for Cutie Palo Alto, Radiohead...
Posted by David Ng at 12:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 18, 2007
Clean Coal
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Looks good. You'll get it GE. Just keep trying.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Haiku Phylogeny project (plus something funny)
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Just a quickie reminder that we're looking for haikus on organisms, for a phylogeny project going on at the SCQ. As well, this summer, I'm looking for a bioinformatician that knows a thing or two about tweaking something like BLAST...
Posted by David Ng at 12:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Yorker cover makes for nice slide (if you're gonna talk about progress and stuff)
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Isn't this pretty? A recent issue of the New Yorker had a marvelous cover that spread over three pages. I couldn't find the three page spread on the New Yorker site, so I thought I'd piece them together myself. Might...
Posted by David Ng at 12:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 17, 2007
World's Fair Sponsored by Hungarian Cookery -- Yum!!
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Why? ...they accept *both* Mastercard and Visa.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:52 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The cultural and environmental philosophy of your coffee cup.
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
O.K. so maybe the title is a bit on the heavy side, but I've always noticed a few interesting things regarding my coffee cup, more so now with climate change being on everyone's mindset these days. Dave's coffee cup...
Posted by David Ng at 11:33 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 16, 2007
The World's Science Fair: So what are the types of folks who play?
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
(These look like the "that's o.k. but I'll judge from way back here" type of science fair participants) In honour of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which is being blogged about at http://scienceblogs.com/intelisef, I was thinking about...
Posted by David Ng at 6:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 15, 2007
Fossil Fuels Go Down, Finally, Their Reign Over
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
The Spring Science Showdown tells it like it is. And so on and so forth.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 2007
Sean Hannity Hypocrisy -- An Earth Ball Weighs In
Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
"Why is Sean Hannity so noxious? A better question would be 'In what ways is he not?'"
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:49 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 12, 2007
Three Song Mix
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
No science. Just some songs, I'm digging right now. Available at our gift shop. May 12, 2007 Keep the Car Running, Arcade Fire The Story, Brandi Carlile Last to Know, Neil Finn...
Posted by David Ng at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 11, 2007
Science and religion: This seems like the sort of piece that might generate some discussion round these parts.
Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
The SCQ recently published an interesting piece on the topic of science and religion. It's called "Science, Religion, and the Creation of Life on Earth."...
Posted by David Ng at 3:44 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science-y children's book project. Want to play? (a.k.a. Looking for an artist).
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
So one of the things I'd like to accomplish this summer is to really get a move on on this children's book idea. This is an idea, I've had sitting around my head for a long long while. And I've...
Posted by David Ng at 2:40 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mooney Invades My House (Again)
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
The June issue Harper's features Seed's (our) own Chris Mooney. In a series of short commentaries about "Undoing Bush," Chris contributes some thoughts on science. The 11 contributors all ponder "How to repair eight years of sabotage, bungling, and neglect."...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:14 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 10, 2007
Excerpt from "Short Protocols in Molecular Biology: Mad Scientist Edition."
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Since we were discussing lab work the other day, let's look at it from another angle. How cool would it be to be able to get a "mad scientist" version of a journal or a protocol book? It might go...
Posted by David Ng at 11:16 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 9, 2007
Pushing the Right Buttons
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Title: Pushing the Right Buttons Art Director/Designer: Erika Rothenberg Country/Year: USA/1992 The political choice between feeding the hungry or military aggression is dramatized in this poster. (from The Design of Dissent, Milton Glaser & Mirko Ilic)...
Posted by David Ng at 3:24 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pro Life Ends at Birth
Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
The contrast between the yet-to-be-born and the already-born. A bumper sticker proposal.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 11:59 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 8, 2007
Hypothetical question of the day: How long do you figure your post graduate degree would've actually taken if everything you did, worked?
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Currently, I teach a graduate course in molecular techniques, but also have the privilege to generally interact with a lot of grad students from many different disciplines. Anyway, if I haven't seen anyone in a while, I usually (jokingly and...
Posted by David Ng at 11:58 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 7, 2007
Portraying the Uncertainty of Facts
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Cat and Girl offers a smashing take on facts and fiction. An excerpt from Spoiler Alert:...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 6:48 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
God = Shout in Street
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Often times the elegance of language is too overwhelming to bear; lest we reduce it.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 5:37 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
World's Fair Sponsored by Fellman, Ltd. Men's Shoes -- Go Fellman!
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
The motto "Individuality in Men's Footwear" right on mark for the Scienceblogs demographic
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:59 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 6, 2007
SHOWDOWN UPDATE: "Particle Beats General Relativity, But Questions Remain"
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
e.g., Is he a dot? Or is he a speck? How about when underwater?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 4, 2007
Go Carbon Neutral, Yeehaw!
Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Want to fight global warming without changing anything about lifestyle?...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 5:09 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's Unfortunate That Nobody Ever Talks About Darwin
Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of them
'cept these folks...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 3:14 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ways to Tell a Coral Snake From a Milk Snake
Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
Just dosing a little bit of wildife science on the blog-o-sphere.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 2:56 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
UNBELIEVABLE! Invertebrates win! Invertebrates win!
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS She shoots! She scores! O.K. folks, so this was a wierd one for sure. I'm mean seriously, on one team, you've got it stacked with 2 or 3 giant squids (the big female variety as...
Posted by David Ng at 1:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 3, 2007
Science Scouts now on FaceBook
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
I've just started playing around with facebook, and thought it would be a great way to organize the whole Science Scouts phenom (even Nature picked up on our anthem, "Increase the N"). Anyway, we've had at least 150 calls...
Posted by David Ng at 12:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 2, 2007
New Ad at The World's Fair -- Come and See It!
Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Since we scorn corporate ads, we'll do our own advertising here. Today's ad: So giddy up and head on over to Cutter Bill's. And tell 'em D and B sentcha!...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Scout anthem, INCREASE THE N, makes the pages of Nature
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
To hear the HEFE song, go here. Usual Science Scout stuff is here. Sometimes, the web and the connections it provides are so interesting......
Posted by David Ng at 2:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Speaking of simulations and projections - PART I: Real life SimCity rocks!
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Well, Ben has beaten me to the punch on showing some of the marvelous pictures presented here at Paleo Future. But I've actually been interested in these images for the past two weeks (with a nod to BoingBoing), having had...
Posted by David Ng at 1:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Future Isn't What It Used To Be
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
A series of postcards showing past visions of 2000...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:32 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 1, 2007
Showdown returns! Now with easy to navigate clickable map.
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
- CLICK HERE - Stay tuned for the final eight......
Posted by David Ng at 10:23 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
