December 1, 2008
Humanity May Hold Key For Next Earth Evolution:
Human degradation of the environment has the potential to stall an ongoing process of planetary evolution, and even rewind the evolutionary clock to leave the planet habitable only by the bacteria that dominated billions of years of Earth's history,…
December 1, 2008
A live performance by Johannes Moller from a concert in the Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden, May 2005 :
December 1, 2008
MetaCarnival: Volume One, Number 2 is up on Emergiblog
November 30, 2008
Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together.
- Milton Berle
November 30, 2008
For those of you too busy to read this blog daily and who did not have time to check out each of 233 posts I published on this blog in November, here is a sampling of some of the posts you may like to check out now:
Spring Forward, Fall Back - should you watch out tomorrow morning?
Semlin…
November 30, 2008
Checking one's incoming links on Sitemeter, Technorati and Google Blogsearch is essential tool for a blogger - it allows one to notice responses to one's posts in approximately real time, so the blog-to-blog conversation can continue fluently.
But, for a couple of weeks now, Google Blogsearch has…
November 30, 2008
Martin Fenner started it all, so Martin also put together a summary of most frequent, most interesting and funniest responses. Take a look.
And here is the Worldle summary of the Question #1 and here for Question #2.
November 30, 2008
Saw the movie over the weekend. Mrs.Coturnix and Coturnietta read the first book (Coturnietta is now reading the second) so we went together.
I am a horrible movie critic - I usually kick back, munch popcorn, and enjoy every piece of crap on the screen. Heck, I love B-monster movies.
So, back to…
November 30, 2008
Science Professors Know Science, But Who Is Teaching Them How To Teach?:
U.S. science and engineering students emerge from graduate school exquisitely trained to carry out research. Yet when it comes to the other major activity they'll engage in as professors - teaching - they're usually left to…
November 30, 2008
This is what you need to do:
2008 Nominations Contact Form
In order to nominate blogs for the 2008 Edublog Awards you have to link to them first!
So, follow these two simple steps to nominate (nominations made without links or without correct submission will not be counted)
1. Write a post on your…
November 30, 2008
It's time! We are closing the submission form on December 1st at midnight Eastern time! That is just 34 hours away!
As expected, the entries have been flying in by the bushel over the past few days - it's hard to keep up with you all and add all the new entries to the list. But, keep them coming…
November 29, 2008
The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than thirty percent of the people in this world.
- Robert Orben
November 29, 2008
Miss Baker's slideshow about using blogs in the science classroom:
Using Blogs to Promote Science Literacy
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: education blogging)
November 29, 2008
Philip Johnson makes some back-of-the-envelope calculations, very conservatively assuming that all OA journals are author-pay (not true) and all author fees for publishing are born by the Universities (not true) and concludes that even with such harsh handicapping, universities that switched to OA-…
November 29, 2008
It's time! We are closing the submission form on December 1st at midnight Eastern time!
As expected, the entries have been flying in over the past few days. Keep them coming! You have only 3 or so days left to dig through your Archives for your best posts since December 20th 2007 and submit them…
November 28, 2008
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
- John le Carre
November 28, 2008
Friday Ark #219 is up on Modulator
Change of Shift Volume Three, Number Eleven is up on RehabRN
November 28, 2008
The other night, at the meeting of the Science Communicators of North Carolina, the highlight of the event was a Skype conversation with Chris Brodie who is currently in Norway on a Fulbright, trying to help the scientists and science journalists there become more effective in communicating…
November 28, 2008
Social Amoeba Seek Kin Association:
Starving "social amoebae" called Dictyostelium discoideum seek the support of "kin" when they form multi-cellular organisms made up of dead stalks and living spores, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston in a report that…
November 27, 2008
Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
- Tatyana Tolstaya
November 27, 2008
Serbian Ministry of Health, as part of their fight against AIDS, inserted a condom inside a women's magazine this month. The condom is German-made, named "Bumper-Bumper" and in a fun-looking package:
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The timing is unfortunate (I'm sure it was planned months in advance and was too…
November 27, 2008
You will have to go here to read them.
November 27, 2008
The Friday page for the ScienceOnline09 is not up to date yet, but will be soon.
What is planned?
In the morning, there will be something related to coffee - Coffee Science of sorts. Place and time TBA.
For lunches, you are free to organize yourselves by editing the Friday page.
In the afternoon…
November 27, 2008
The online drive has already produced 10 donors. Let's see if we can up that number a little....
November 27, 2008
How Did Turtles Get Their Shells? Oldest Known Turtle Fossil, 220 Million Years Old, Give Clues:
With hard bony shells to shelter and protect them, turtles are unique and have long posed a mystery to scientists who wonder how such an elegant body structure came to be. Since the age of dinosaurs,…
November 26, 2008
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
November 26, 2008
A few days ago, Peggy and Stephanie asked the blogosphere a few questions about the relationship between science and Science Fiction. They want to use the insights from the responses to run their session - Science Fiction on Science Blogs - at the ScienceOnline09 meeting in January.
They got lots…
November 26, 2008
Now I finally understand the lyrics! Joan Baez was really singing to Bob about prehistoric turtles!
