August 21, 2008
Working to empower students nationwide to experiment with science and technology, Discovery Education and 3M are hosting the 10th annual Young Scientist Challenge (YSC). Moving closer to recognizing "America's Top Young Scientist of the Year" and "America's Top Science Teacher of the Year,"…
August 21, 2008
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) announced the winner of its 2008 "Science Idol: Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest," which draws attention to the growing problem of political interference in federal government science.
Justin Bilicki, of Brooklyn, New York has earned the title…
August 21, 2008
The Scientist just won the Azbee Award for Magazine of the Year, awarded by American Society of Business Publications Editors. Congratulations!
August 21, 2008
Sure, we've done the high-brow lectures and geek-out tours, but what really gets the old SCONC juices flowing is mingling, meeting new faces and trading some business cards.
Please join us to hob-nob (and maybe find a job) with science writers, museum people, educators and webbies who share an…
August 21, 2008
Remember when I wrote about Squishables?
They have arrived! Left to right: puppy, panda, penguin and hedgehog (guess what is whose):
August 21, 2008
This is big! A new agreement was signed between Max Planck Society and Public Library of Science in which the MPS will pay publication fees for its researchers. Mark Patterson explains:
The MPS is one of the world's leading research organizations whose researchers have an international reputation…
August 21, 2008
Carrboro Creative Coworking, a brilliant local project spearheaded by Brian Russell, is now a reality. The lease has been signed!
Carrboro Creative Coworking now has a lease for office space at 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101 in downtown Carrboro! It's 3,049 square feet and has nine small offices, two…
August 21, 2008
Tailor-made Functional Garments For Olympic Horses:
When the horses and competitors go through their paces at the Summer Olympics in Hong Kong in 2008, it will be very hot and very humid - just as it is every summer there. Three special blankets will offer the Swiss teams' tournament horses some…
August 21, 2008
Change of Shift Vol 3, Number Four is up on Emergiblog
The 138th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Janice Campbell's blog
There is a new carnival of African skeptics - Carnival of the Africans. Check it out.
August 20, 2008
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- H. Jackson Brown
August 20, 2008
There is this food meme going around everywhere, so I checked out what Chad, Archy, Mark CC and Rev. BigDumbChimp picked. I have to admit I had to use Google for a lot of these, often realizing that I have, indeed, tasted some of these but under a different name. Different people do it differently…
August 20, 2008
There are 12 new articles 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:
Seeing without Seeing? Degraded Conscious Vision in a…
August 20, 2008
As I announced this morning, there will be several guest posts here over the next several weeks. The first one, by Barn Owl of the lovely Guadalupe Storm-Petrel blog, is likely to appeal to a lot of my readers as it combines several of my own interests:
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August 20, 2008
Eva Amsen: How to get scientists to adopt web 2.0 technologies:
Many, if not most, scientists are not in the habit of putting things online. The ones that are might be tempted by the concept of sharing the papers they read, letting everyone look at their lab notebook, joining a forum or writing a…
August 20, 2008
Jeremiah Owyang: How to Successfully Moderate a Conference Panel, A Comprehensive Guide
Not all of it is applicable to an unconference like ScienceOnline'09, but lots of nuggets of wisdom in there.
August 20, 2008
Jessica reminds us that several scientists and geeks (i.e., Web designers and programmers) are running for various political offices this year. Some of them even got together on an ActBlue Geek Page.
Of them all, I particularly like the savvy campaign ways of Sean Tavis who is running for Kansas…
August 20, 2008
You all loved it when my Mom wrote two 5-part series of guest-posts. You remember the exciting reports from herpetology survey by Kevin when he was in China. My friend Heinrich wrote two guest-posts about sleep. And most recently Anne-Marie wrote a guest-post about daily rhythms in bats. As you…
August 19, 2008
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.
- Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx
August 19, 2008
Grand Rounds 4.48. are up on Six Until Me
Carnival of the Godless #98 is up on Letters from a broad...
August 19, 2008
There are 45 new articles in PLoS ONE this week. 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, including the first one which tests one of Darwin's…
August 19, 2008
Yup, I've been hearing about this Amethyst Initiative about lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 and wondered if I should blog about it from my perspective. Then I saw that Jake wrote a good post about it (and also see his older post on the topic and good comments by his readers) and decided to…
August 19, 2008
Support Beverly Purdue:
Bev and Pat McCrory will face each other tonight in the second televised debate of the general election. The debate will be broadcast live at 8pm on WTVD in the Triangle area and streamed live on ABC11.com. Tune in tonight as Bev continues to prove why she's the best…
August 19, 2008
Sweets Make Young Horses Harder To Train, Study Finds:
Young horses may be easier to train if they temporarily lay off the sweets, says a Montana State University study where two-year-olds wore pedometers, wrist watches and Ace bandages. A commercial mixture of corn, oats, barley and molasses --…
August 19, 2008
Last night I made another room in FriendFeed - PLoS ONE in the Media/Blogs. I made it primarily for my own use, linking to the media and blog coverage of PLoS ONE papers so I can have everything in one place.
But this should not stop you from using it, as well as from adding to it - if you read…
August 18, 2008
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Gustave Flaubert
August 18, 2008
Try this search but click on "Sorted by date with duplicates included":
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Hat-tip to Anonymoses (also see Kevin Z)
August 18, 2008
I was just on my way to Raleigh this morning, among other errands also heading to Quail Ridge Books to pick up a book there, when I heard Nancy Olson's interview on NPR's The State Of Things. Very nice interview with the owner of my favourite bookstore! I drove slowly in order to hear the whole…
August 18, 2008
When I got a job a year ago, I decided not to quit teaching, but just to "ease up" a little bit. So, I taught the lab (BIO102) my regular 4-5 times per year on Saturday mornings, but took a break in teaching the lectures (BIO101). I have been teaching introductory biology at NC Wesleyan College…
August 18, 2008
That is an interesting question, an answer to which was attempted in this paper:
Who blogs? Personality predictors of blogging:
The Big Five personality inventory measures personality based on five key traits: neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness […
