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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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July 31, 2008

Water water everywhere. Great children's book image on the subject of water.

Category: Books that are just good - literature in general

This is great. And this is also an image that seems appropriate when choosing to speak about water as a resource generally - it might, for instance, be a good prelude to discussions like this....

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July 30, 2008

Just want to throw this out there: An unconference on Science Communication (actually, a Jamboree for the Science Scouts?)

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Would appreciate it if you could pass this on somehow? Thoughts?...

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An open letter to 0.7%

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

This got published a while back in the Walrus, but I just noticed that it's also now freely available online. 0.7%, in case, you're not aware is the hallmark figure suggested by Pearson as a target for foreign aid...

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The "speaking publicly" list formulized (plus a bit with some clown humour)

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

The response for the "Things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly" post was awesome, and so, I've tried to formalize the suggestions into a fairly definitive list. The ones that didn't make it tended to be more debatable,...

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July 29, 2008

Science. Technology. Nature. Lawn.

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

With no more crabgrass killer, lawns do it all. Plus Robert Frost.

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One culture, two culture, three culture, four

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

The problem of the 13 culture divide.

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July 28, 2008

Hopefully, the start of a definitive list of things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly.

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

As plans for our student speaker conference are ramping up, we've been talking about ways to recruit excellent speakers to the project (this is where we're trying to host a university centric TED talks sort of thing). One idea,...

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July 24, 2008

Eight Ways to Kill Someone By Using an iPod Nano...

Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of them

8. Hide the Nano in a bowl of lutefisk; take it to Norsefest Lutefisk Eating Competition in Madison, Minnesota.

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July 23, 2008

The iPhone: A User's Guide

Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles

"Using the iPhone to solve disputes between Moqtada al-Sadr and certain Sunni elements within Iraq without causing an escalation of hostilities"

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Happy 500 (or so) days for the Science Scouts - a little get together this coming Friday for all you Vancouverites reading Scienceblogs.

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

Just a quick note. Although it's been a while, a few of us are meeting for drinks on Friday night (July 25th) at The Revel Room in Gastown, Vancouver (8pm on). It just so happens that it's about the...

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