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Just caught this at Boingboing: Here you have history professor, Dr. Alan Charles Kors, attempting to encapsulate the entirety of human history in a 60 second lecture. The transcript goes: * First, tribes: tough life. * The defaults beyond...
Posted on December 6, 2007 3:21 PM • 3 Comments •
So why enter one in particular. The SCQ makes a case for their iPod and truth experiment giveaway. It starts: It seems obvious to most people that iPods are a ubiquitous part of culture. But for folks like myself who...
Posted on November 16, 2007 1:13 PM • 0 Comments •
So, I just went to a Science Journalism conference recently. And one of the sessions, in particular, that resulted in a heated argument, was whether the internet and the whole Web2.0 was a good thing. Particularly from the angle...
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Posted on November 13, 2007 11:54 AM • 20 Comments •
Another goofy web experiment at the Science Creative Quarterly....
Posted on November 2, 2007 12:25 PM • 0 Comments •
A London Museum on the fine line between intellectualism and elitism...
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Posted on March 5, 2007 1:24 PM • 2 Comments •
Well, looky here now... With the strength of the Science Scout initiative behind it, our little Truth experiment has finally hit front page google real estate. That's right, people, we're hovering at a pretty nice ranking. What ranking is that...
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Posted on March 1, 2007 12:17 AM • 1 Comments •
The SCQ is pleased to announce the launching of the Order Of The Science Scouts Of Exemplary Repute And Above Average Physique - being an initiative aimed squarely at promoting informal networking amongst science communicators, and the sharing of...
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Posted on February 12, 2007 7:40 AM • 3 Comments •
It's interesting to me that in this little truth game we have going, it seems that most of the activity generated happened around the single statement concerning Wilco. Now that we've come up with a statement that seems to reflect...
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Posted on February 3, 2007 12:55 PM • 7 Comments •
So, looks like the truth experiment is holding it's own at #19 (we were at #18 yesterday). This despite a whole series of strange happenings that seem to converge around what we're trying to do here....
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Posted on January 31, 2007 10:10 AM • 8 Comments •
O.K. people - it's got legs, this thing called the truth. Look at the trend so far: The day after this thing was started, we were at a rank of #310. Then 307 the next day, and then the site...
Posted on January 25, 2007 3:43 PM • 1 Comments •
So, it's come to this, in the latest version of the truth: Wilco is good, sometimes exceptional, but often inconsequential. You can see the editing process here. Also, does google censor things like attempts at google bombing, or is there...
Posted on January 23, 2007 11:58 AM • 4 Comments •
Well, this is curious. Looks like the truth has had has had been shut down. This is odd, since I don't think we're there yet for traffic, and besides, the SCQ can handle enormous amounts of traffic. I wonder if...
Posted on January 20, 2007 12:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Who says, society can't influence the definition of the truth? (Well, in the Web2.0 context anyway). Apparently, it already has. (Origin of this experiment here)...
Posted on January 19, 2007 3:26 PM • 0 Comments •
<a href="http://scq.ubc.ca/?p=677">truth</a> Use this code as often as you can. A while back, I wrote a post asking ScienceBloggers what they thought were successful tactics in the game of initiating forms of viral marketing. The question was primarily posed to...
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Posted on January 19, 2007 9:32 AM • 62 Comments •
I've been conferring with the Uncyclopedia recently. Legitimate knowledge, all, it being on the web. What is it? "The Uncyclopedia is the greatest achievement of mankind at the height of his splendor." Here's what I found, a propos to Scienceblogs:...
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Posted on November 28, 2006 12:00 PM • 2 Comments •
Ah, if only the science of the google search engine was a little less elusive. But check this out. I was google mining for info on our new intern, and noticed that if you're on google.ca (googling in Canada), and...
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Posted on October 19, 2006 8:08 AM • 0 Comments •
The big surprise? He's a Popperian. Crap, no. That's not a surprise.
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Posted on July 31, 2006 8:21 AM • 2 Comments •
How about a sampling of the lists over at McSweeney's, the perfect Friday activity. Here are a bunch that are either science-related, engineering-related, invention-related, or plain unrelated. I'd be interested in any kind of ranking people have, the bests of...
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Posted on July 26, 2006 8:36 AM • 0 Comments •
So, Ben and I were discussing yesterday the depressing reality of our readership numbers, in that we think our unpaid interns are clearly not performing up to par with this blogging thing. In truth, we are so very very close...
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Posted on July 5, 2006 12:25 PM • 12 Comments •
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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