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June 28, 2007
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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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
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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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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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
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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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
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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Category: Author Meets Bloggers
Prof. Cyrus Mody discusses nanotech origins, futures, and sidelines. Oh, and Lost.
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June 21, 2007
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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