Farmers Do Social Networking Too: New Models in Sustainable Agriculture
Do you eat food? If so, this might be of interest to you.Posted on June 4, 2008 1:25 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.
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Albert Einstein kept it real.Posted on May 23, 2008 1:30 PM • 1 Comments •
Women Aren't Interested in Engineering, They Just Aren't
"In the long run men hit only what they aim at." H.D. Thoreau, Walden This post's title is the poorly reasoned conclusion to a poorly reported and poorly conducted study. I couldn't tell if it was simply bad reporting at...Posted on May 20, 2008 1:25 PM • 11 Comments •
The Future of Objectivity
A conference in Toronto explores the prospects of forging a new and tenable epistemology.Posted on May 15, 2008 9:50 AM • 0 Comments •
Science podcasts heard 12 million times daily
Some nanotechnology, some environmentalism, a lot of links.Posted on May 9, 2008 10:00 AM • 0 Comments •
The Apartment of the Future
A competing version of the apt. of the future, this one from 1884.Posted on March 3, 2008 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Perfection, Symmetry, and Chaos in Science and History
Solzhenitsyn and Borges as bookends; in between, order and randomnessPosted on February 26, 2008 8:15 AM • 0 Comments •
Synthetica: A New Continent of Plastics
Where Rayon is a plastic island off the Cellulose coast, with a glittering night life.Posted on January 18, 2008 8:12 AM • 3 Comments •
Three Looks at the Torture Conversation (and a nod to atheism)
Waterboarding. This is the topic for debate in our modern world. We go on and on about progress in civilization, yet we're talking about torture. Here are three recent views on the subject: This Modern World, The Onion, and Doonesbury....Posted on December 6, 2007 1:00 PM • 1 Comments •
What's New in the Social Studies of Science?
Deadly dingoes, climate modeling, biotech trials, gender and engineering, ecology of knowledge, and the lay-expert divide.Posted on July 5, 2007 1:47 PM • 0 Comments •
The Cartography of Sweet Tea
Holy cow, what a fascinating site! It maps the availability of Sweet Tea at the McDonalds' of Virginia, and shades and bounds and draws the surely-soon-to-be-infamous "Sweet Tea Line." Yellow dots have Sweet Tea, black dots don't....Posted on June 14, 2007 1:27 PM • 4 Comments •
What We Waste: A View of E-Trash
Of >20 million tons of e-waste generated globally; most goes to developing world.Posted on June 12, 2007 2:19 PM • 0 Comments •
What We Waste: A View of Consumption
A series of images to help visualize consumption (every 5 seconds, every 5 minutes, every day)Posted on June 6, 2007 1:14 PM • 4 Comments •
Portraying the Uncertainty of Facts
Cat and Girl offers a smashing take on facts and fiction. An excerpt from Spoiler Alert:...Posted on May 7, 2007 6:48 PM • 1 Comments •
It's Unfortunate That Nobody Ever Talks About Darwin
'cept these folks...Posted on May 4, 2007 3:14 PM • 0 Comments •
Teaching After April 16th
Link to a wiki site at Virginia Tech meant to help teaching about and after April 16th.Posted on April 23, 2007 10:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Flowercasting
How do horticulturists know when the cherry blossoms will bloom? An educated guess.Posted on March 28, 2007 10:22 AM • 2 Comments •
Iraq Dispatch
Former speech writer is deployed to Iraq. Read his reflections here.Posted on March 27, 2007 12:34 PM • 0 Comments •
Ethanol Hype: "Corn Can't Solve Our Problem"
More destruction of ecosystems for new farmland and increases in CO2...?Posted on March 26, 2007 1:36 PM • 4 Comments •
RadioLab: Experiments in Science Communication
"On RadioLab, science bumps into culture... information sounds like music."Posted on March 21, 2007 4:17 PM • 0 Comments •
Prometheus: Science Policy Blog
Seeking to promote "science in service to society," blogging about daily news and commentary on science policy issues.Posted on March 21, 2007 3:38 PM • 0 Comments •
Announcing The Morning News's 2007 Tournament of Books
A book tournament, in its 3rd year, and a good one at that. Size up the field here.Posted on February 20, 2007 11:32 AM • 0 Comments •
Get Your Galileo Jollies Here
Galileo, Jesuits, Maffeo Barberini, Spanish anti-papal cabals, and weather commentary all in one.Posted on February 17, 2007 1:39 PM • 0 Comments •
When Talking About Science is Dangerous
Frustrated with Mooney and Sokal, what can science studiers do?Posted on February 9, 2007 2:49 PM • 13 Comments •
Solar Bikinis: The Classic Male Designing Mind?
Cool your beer, charge your iPod, and wear your bikiniPosted on December 20, 2006 1:51 PM • 2 Comments •
Climate Science Theater (Art! Science! Carbon Emissions!)
The Silencer (being performed in Blacksburg, VA, on November 1, 2, and 3, ahead of its London opening in 2007) is a play about Global Warming and Climate Science. How about that, a play about global warming and climate science....Posted on October 31, 2006 10:39 AM • 0 Comments •
DaVinci, a Cockroach, and some Computer Generated Graphics Walk into a Bar...
For reasons of postal error, I now receive Science every week. Every. Single. Week. Who knew? I have a hard enough time keeping up with the New Yorker's weekly pattern, and now this. These people, you people, just keep doing...Posted on October 1, 2006 9:38 AM • 1 Comments •
Global Warming and Nuclear Power: It's Wrong
Global warming is bad; so is deteriorating environmental health. Forsaking the latter by introducing nuclear power in efforts to counteract the former is irresponsible.Posted on September 15, 2006 10:00 AM • 12 Comments •
I've eaten food, hell yeah. And some of it's good too.
But most of it isn't. You've eatin it, this food they speak of, good or bad or middling. I bet. No no, think again. I'm sure of it. I think later today I'll do it again. Mmmm, foody. I'll be...Posted on September 8, 2006 9:55 AM • 3 Comments •
Ars Medica: a spiffy medical arts humanities journal. You'd like it.
It's all that. Ars Medica, or The Ars, as British hipsters call it, is a fascinating "literary journal that explores the interface between the arts and healing, and examines what makes medicine an art." It's run out of Toronto, begun...Posted on August 25, 2006 12:35 PM • 1 Comments •
The Simpsons and Astronomy and Faith and More, Sure, and More
If Duffless gave us Skinner's perception of the pursuit of science -- "Every good scientist is half B. F. Skinner and half P. T. Barnum"-- then Bart's Comet gives us his perception of amateur astronomy. Plus, it's got a few...Posted on August 15, 2006 9:48 AM • 0 Comments •
Wearing Science, the W.F.'s Fabulous Entry
Scienceblogs, as is widely known, is devoted mostly to fashion and men's neckwear. This makes sense: the most pressing concerns in the scientific and technological landscape have, for many years, been dominated by practitioner questions about what to wear, how...Posted on August 10, 2006 7:58 PM • 2 Comments •
Cabinets of Curiosity
Herein is a first take on a few cabinets of curiosity for the digital age. They are websites that represent curious collections of non-traditional knowledge, wonder-filled artifacts, and the like. They're not actually just "for the digital age," since, as with the MJT, they are physical too.Posted on August 8, 2006 10:20 AM • 4 Comments •
"Darwin has nothing to do with science....There's not a shred of evidence that Darwin was a scientist."
While driving back home yesterday and dreaming of that Saturday afternoon sweet spot of a nap time, I heard the above comment from one of the people interviewed on a story on Weekend America. A Kansan contributor to the program,...Posted on July 30, 2006 1:53 PM • 11 Comments •
Mountaintop [Coal] Removal, Part II: Is a stream without fish still a stream?
[When we last left our dueling bloggers, they were reading Erik Reece's Death of a Mountain. And now, part 2, as continued from the first part of the conversation, wherein -- beyond the Reece article -- the bloggers made mention...Posted on July 28, 2006 9:45 AM • 0 Comments •
Friday List Bonanza: Science, Engineering, and Dr. Phil
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...Posted on July 28, 2006 9:20 AM • 0 Comments •
A Worthy Cause Indeed: Journal Club and Looking Out For The Duck
Well, I'm on vacation as of today and thought now was as good a time as any to show off my primary online love affair. That is, the Science Creative Quarterly of which I am the editor. For the next...Posted on July 25, 2006 8:09 AM • 0 Comments •
Examples of important persons dissing other important persons
Last semester I was fortunate enough to be involved with a UBC project (called Terry) that looks at global issues from a multidisciplinary angle. One of the things in my charge was arranging a kind of high profile speaker series,...Posted on June 13, 2006 9:58 AM • 1 Comments •
Procastination Science Reading (June 12/2006)
I thought it would be kind of interesting to try and showcase a few links from the types of journals and publications that take less than academic stabs at science writing. It's the sort of stuff that interests me to...Posted on June 12, 2006 12:58 PM • 3 Comments •
