What do you see?
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Or rather, what word do you see first? Ready? Give your answer below......
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- David Ng is Director of the AMBL at the University of British Columbia - fancy speak for a science teacher. Follow Dave on twitter @dnghub.
- Vince LiCata is a faculty member in Biological Sciences and Chemistry at Louisiana State University (LSU). His laboratory studies protein-ligand interactions, protein folding, and biothermodynamics. He also writes plays that have been produced in a number of different US cities, and, oddly enough, in Thailand.
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"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt
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Batman as scientist
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November 30, 2009
Local Foodies meet the NRA in "The Urban Deerslayer"
Category: Industrial Agriculture
If you hunt a meal right beyond your backyard, well, that's the fewest Food Miles you're going to find. If you're not a hunter, well, someone ought to teach you.
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November 29, 2009
That's disappointing. A song that embodies inclusion gets edited.
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
So, the other day on television, I caught a rather nice rendition of Lennon's "Imagine." It was during an episode of Glee, which is newish show that has a lot of musical theatre elements (it's a favourite of my wife's)....
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November 27, 2009
Reindeer... Poo... Paper... (you heard it right)
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
Just saw this at Inkling. Looks like there is a Welsh company that has taken to making paper out of feces. Their primary brand is Sheep Poo Paper and I think the logo alone is worth a visit. Click here...
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Ideas for new Science Scout badges?
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
Nov 27, 2009 Dear lovers of science, badges, and various degrees of alcohol consumption Today, I'll be scanning the comments at the Facebook group to create a few more Science Scout badges to put up sometime tomorrow, but if you've...
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November 26, 2009
Star Wars: Botany edition
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
All I can say is, is that this is brilliant... And there's much more here from Christopher Niemann from the NYT Abstract City Blog. (via Magpie&Whiskeyjack)...
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November 25, 2009
Biodiversity and literature: Why is it a "parliament of owls" and other such collective nouns?
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
I was listen to the radio as we were coming to the lab this morning, and one of the things that caught my ear was a quick mention of collective nouns. Now these are instances where there is a special...
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November 24, 2009
Twitter: as in actual science jargon (something to do with marmosets and shrews)
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Twitter: (technically) contains several short duration notes, ranging from 6 kHz up to 26 kHz and of relative low amplitude. How's that for science jargon.
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New Art Gallery Opens inside Engineering School
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Creativity, imagination, and innovation are descriptors of an artistic worldview and an engineering one. Both fundamentally deal with imagining and representing the world in new ways; both are about the combination of hands, minds, and materials. Ergo, here is an art gallery in an engineering school.
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November 23, 2009
"Global Warming is not real because weather patterns have stabilized in the last 10 years!" Why statements like this need a little context.
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Anthropogenic Climate Change Denial (Face Palm). Some science 101 on the matter.
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