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- David Ng is Director of the AMBL at the University of British Columbia - fancy speak for a science teacher.

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- 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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June 28, 2007

Mysteryopolis: Much more visually impressive puzzle fantastica thing going on.

I've been thinking a little about having another go at a Puzzle Fantastica, what with the first being kind of cool, and the second solved much too quickly. Along those lines (and because the previous post has that marvelous cover...

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New Yorker highlights: great cover and stuff about a monkey and a giraffe

Category: About writing generally

Isn't this a great cover? It's called "Bright Idea" and was done by Bob Staake....

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June 27, 2007

Cheney's "Humpty-Dumpty World": Not Just After Human Foes, He's Undermining the Environment All the While

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

When your grandchildren ask the inevitable question -- "Was Dick Cheney real?" -- you would do well to pull out this week's four-part series in The Washington Post to verify that he truly existed. Today's feature, the fourth part, addresses...

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Things that are pretty: London's Natural History Museum

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

(Image by The Norweigian) Chalk it up to a life size model of the blue whale. Yup, I can say with certainty that the reason I got into science, biology, all of the things that have led to my...

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Is Biotech Like Nanotech? Is Kansas Flat? And Other Queries (Part III)

Category: Author Meets Bloggers

Analogies are a lot of work and landscape is not just a metaphor. Our final installment of C.M.M. Mody and Nanotechnology.

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June 26, 2007

RNA: the new Paris Hilton.

Category: Nature, as in parts, bits, molecular and stuff

Well, who would have thought? RNA makes the cover of the Economist. Mind you, I don't think its importance is that surprising to folks already in the field, since RNA has always garnered a certain amount of respect as a...

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Beyond Toxicology: Nanotechnology, Ethics, and Known Unknowns (Part II)

Category: Author Meets Bloggers

Part II of our conversation with Cyrus Mody, Ph.D., about nanotechnology and society. Part I is here. Part III is here. For all installments of this Authors-meet-Bloggers series, see our archive....

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June 25, 2007

The Biodiversity + Pokemon-ish Project: It's a go.

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

Don't you think it's twisted that so many kids know what this creature is, but so few can go about naming the birds in their backyard? - - - Well, I had briefly talked about this before, more as...

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Nanotechnology: Where Did It Come From? What Is It For?

Category: Author Meets Bloggers

Prof. Cyrus Mody discusses nanotech origins, futures, and sidelines. Oh, and Lost.

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June 21, 2007

George Lucas applies for our internship position.

Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff

So here's a thought experiment. Part of the challenge of scientific literacy is finding the audience, or maybe better to say, to create the audience. In particular, the attracting the audience that doesn't normally read things like ScienceBlogs, or...

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