October 28, 2008
If you are coming to ScienceOnline09, it's time for you to reserve a hotel room, find a room-mate if you want, and organize your travel - do all of that here.
If you'll be in town on Thursday evening, please sign up for the Early Bird Dinner so we can figure out the numbers and reserve the…
October 28, 2008
Web journals 'narrowing study' by Linda Nordling:
Online publishing has sparked an explosion in the number of places where academics can showcase their work. Today, no field of study is too obscure to have its own dedicated title. But have platforms such as the Journal of Happiness Studies or…
October 28, 2008
MetaCarnival #1: a conversation across the blogosphere - now up on SharpBrains
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 6 are now up on Emergiblog
October 28, 2008
'Voter-Verifiable' Voting System Ensures Accuracy And Privacy:
Approximately two-thirds of Americans voting in the November Presidential election will cast their votes on paper ballots. How can voters be assured their votes are counted and kept private?
Victorian Manchester Home To First Youth…
October 27, 2008
In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
- Louise Bogan
October 27, 2008
PLoS Biology at 5: The Future Is Open Access:
On the 13th of October in 2003, with the first issue of PLoS Biology, the Public Library of Science realized its transformation from a grassroots organization of scientists to a publisher. Our fledgling website received over a million hits within its…
October 27, 2008
Just got this e-mail earlier today:
This Wednesday, October 29th, please join Barack Obama in Raleigh, where he will talk about his vision for creating the kind of change we need.
Early Vote for Change Rally
with Barack Obama
Halifax Mall
Government Complex
300 North Salisbury Street
Raleigh, NC…
October 27, 2008
ScienceWoman gives us a heads-up on a new and interesting organization - UnderTheMicroscope.com:
The Feminist Press with IBM have just launched UnderTheMicroscope.com, a new site to involve young women in science and to encourage them to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.…
October 27, 2008
There are 13 new articles published Friday night and 10 new articles tonight in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:…
October 27, 2008
Here is the third interview in the series on Miss Baker's Biology class blog - William's interview with Clinton Colmenares.
Previously in this series:
ScienceOnline09 - an interview with...me!
ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Eric Roston
October 27, 2008
Encephalon #57 is up on Mind Hacks
Replace Michele Bachmann Blog Carnival #5 is up on Almost Diamonds
Carnival of the Green # 151 is up on DESIGN 21
October 27, 2008
GOODVOTE.ORG gives advice and collects media coverage of potential voter suppression:
GOODVOTE.ORG is a group of volunteers from the technology community and blogosphere who simply want the will of the voters to be reflected in the result of the 2008 election. Our only purpose is to make sure that…
October 27, 2008
Acupuncture Used For Animal Ailments:
Needles are often equated with pain and discomfort; however, for a horse named Gypsy the tiny sharp objects brought about much needed relief as Dr. Mark Crisman, a professor in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences in the Virginia-Maryland Regional…
October 27, 2008
Most sessions (see the Program) at ScienceOnline09 are supposed to be highly interactive - in the spirit of an Unconference, based on the idea that:
The sum of the expertise of the people in the audience is greater than the sum of expertise of the people on stage.
But, there will be a few…
October 27, 2008
The next in the series of interviews by Miss Baker's high school biology class is the interview by Jordan with Eric Roston. Read the interview here.
October 27, 2008
Tamara Fletcher is currently studying science communication at the University of Queensland. As part of her course she is conducting a research project under the supervision of Dr Joan Leach from the School of English, Media Studies and Art History and she needs your help:
The form of the project…
October 27, 2008
Just five days left to go in our DonorsChoose drive! We are ending on Friday! And my chellenges are going really slow....
Seed will match some of your donations. Seed Overlords are also pitching in some cool prizes for people who donate to any of the SciBlings DonorsChoose challenges, including…
October 27, 2008
Mouse Embryo Growing - The funniest videos are a click away
October 26, 2008
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
October 26, 2008
From here:
October 26, 2008
Note to GOP - ACORN Was Defrauded and You Know It:
1. The GOP during the 70's, 80's and 90's employed a number of methods to register voters to insure the people they were registering were indeed Republican.
One method was to go through a neighborhood and register everyone who wasn't registered.…
October 26, 2008
One of the education sessions at ScienceOnline09 will be the middle/high school perspective (or: "how the Facebook generation does it"?) session that will be led by Miss Baker and eight of her high-school biology class students.
One of these students - Brandon - recently interviewed me via e-mail…
October 26, 2008
Obviously a careful anti-insurgent action, not likely an invasion of Syria.
People online think of it as a possible October Surprise. But I think that that at this point, no matter what the GOP tries to do will be only seen as a gimmick to help McCain. Any attempt at an October Surprise by them…
October 26, 2008
The latest press release from ComScore - Huffington Post and Politico Lead Wave of Explosive Growth at Independent Political Blogs and News Sites this Election Season - has all sorts of interesting statistics about relative traffic, etc., of the top independent (i.e., unaffiliated with MSM)…
October 26, 2008
As a follow-up to the yesterday's press release, Dr. Manzoor Bhat and Joseph Piven, M.D., researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who use the Drosophila model system to study neurexin and its implications in the development of autism, have now released the video response -…
October 26, 2008
Protein Compass Guides Amoebas Toward Their Prey:
Amoebas glide toward their prey with the help of a protein switch that controls a molecular compass, biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered. Their finding, recently detailed in the journal Current Biology, is important…
