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

- 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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Smithsonian's 145 Days Without Lost Time Accident Put In Peril (Days at the Museum #2)

Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of them

I've been careful...knowing the ins and outs of proper archival research, knowing not to drop stacks of books on concrete floors in the basement of tax-payer funded buildings. But at what cost?

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July 23, 2009

Mass Destruction: the environmental effects of mining

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

New book details the open-pit hard rock mining, its role in electrifying America, and its devastating environmental consequences.

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July 16, 2009

Luther Vandross and the French Rural Landscape (Days at the Museum #1)

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

Q: Is nature where we live and work or where we don't? (A: both) Q: Does Luther Vandross have anything to do with it? (A: not entirely) Q: Is Ronzoni Macaroni all that? (A: debatable)

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July 14, 2009

How Dirt Became Scientific: Book Cover Edition

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

Alas, I have a book cover to share for Notes from the Ground! I'm pleased with it. I was even brought to use an exclamation point just there. It happens, I know it, it happens, people judge these things by...

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July 3, 2009

What is a transmon qubit?

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Science Scout Twitter Feed Somebody recently tweeted the term "transmon qubit" to the Science Scout twitter account, and (for the life of me) I cannot wrap my head around what it is exactly (other than a piece of delicious...

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July 2, 2009

Gladwell Calls Out Insipid Digital Utopian

Category: The STS Compages

Basing utopian visions or economic predictions or public policies on an impoverished view of technology will always be wrong. Gladwell notes this about Chris Anderson's "Free."

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July 1, 2009