Summer Color
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
For the new year, in the winter's gray, here are three pictures of summer color past....
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 2:00 PM • 0 Comments •
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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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And the answer is...
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Posted by David Ng at 12:41 PM • 2 Comments •
December 22, 2008
Announcing the 28th Annual World's Fair Award Winner
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Each year The World's Fair bestows its top honor at the end of December, or early January. This honor has come to be renowned not just in the blogosphere (see this write-up from Time), not just on the internet (see...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 3:00 PM • 4 Comments •
December 17, 2008
"When Britney Spears Comes to My Lab"
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Although I'm starting to suspect the Talk of the Town will not be noting our stunning performance, and Publisher's Weekly made not give us a starred review, I will still admit that Dave and I gave the best performance --the...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 12:00 PM • 2 Comments •
December 16, 2008
Mowing Down the Mountains
Category: Mountaintop Coal Removal
Alright, Nicky's telling me some people had trouble accessing the Washington Post graphic I linked to in yesterday's MTR post. So here it is, reprinted below in full. This shows how a mountain--called "overburden" if you want to mow it...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:00 PM • 1 Comments •
December 15, 2008
Simpsonian Science
Category: The Website Building
Science on the Simpsons could be next year's TV on the Radio. Stay tuned.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:00 PM • 3 Comments •
Scientists are better than other people: yes or no?
Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
My question is about the moral equivalence of the scientist. Are scientists morally superior to non-scientists?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 11:00 AM • 6 Comments •
Bush, Mountaintops, and the Midnight Rule Name Game
Category: Mountaintop Coal Removal
A parting shot by Bush offers another gut punch to the ecosystems of Appalachia.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:30 AM • 0 Comments •
December 4, 2008
Bake for a Change 2008: Game on!
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Or can I just call it BFAC2008? Anyway, for those of you who have an annual tradition of putting together a gingerbread house, why not do it this year with a sustainability twist? That's right! Bake for a Change is...
Posted by David Ng at 9:35 AM • 0 Comments •
Science Scouts in New York?
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Being in New York and all this weekend... I'm curious to see if there are any New Yorkers keen on a Science Scout get together (maybe even use this as a potential start to another local group similar to the...
Posted by David Ng at 9:08 AM • 1 Comments •
Hamburgers, Pizza, Pancakes, Doughnuts...Historicized
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
It is no grand observation to see that food studies, food politics, food culture (and even food landscapes, it would appear) feed a growing body of literature in the academy and at your local big box bookstore. (Who will be...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 1 Comments •
December 1, 2008
Foodscapes (Landscape and Modernity: Series 5)
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Here's something tasty. Or odd. You decide. Fruit Balloons, by C. Warner From the Telegraph (as found through Arts and Letters Daily), comes a unique series by London-based photographer Carl Warner. It says there he "makes foodscapes: landscapes made of...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments •
