July 27, 2008
Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Marina Schinz
July 27, 2008
Welcome to the seventh edition of Berry Go Round, the carnival about all things botanical.
The previous edition was last month at Seeds Aside and the 8th issue will be at the end of August on Not Exactly Rocket Science.
The tradition for this carnival is to make it colorful (well, the plants are…
July 27, 2008
Literacy debate: Online, r u really reading?:
As teenagers' scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading -- diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that…
July 27, 2008
(Via, on FriendFeed)
July 27, 2008
Scoble: The blog editing system in action (also check out the discussion on FriendFeed):
Journalists who fight this system (and readers who don't check out the comments) are missing the point. This is a participatory media, not a one-way one, and, while it has a different editing system (the…
July 27, 2008
Diversity In Primary Schools Promotes Harmony, Study Finds:
For the first time, children as young as 5 have been shown to understand issues regarding integration and separation. The research confirms that the ethnic composition of primary schools has a direct impact on children's attitudes towards…
July 27, 2008
Watch it here:
The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #053 - Open Science:
This show is all about the intersection of Technology and Human desire. This year Dave and I have been focusing on 'deepening connections' with those we subscribe to via RSS. Having a chat on a podcast is a remarkable way of…
July 27, 2008
The second edition of The Giant's Shoulders, carnival of history of science, will be hosted by The Lay Scientist on August 15th. Check out the first edition to see what it is all about, then submit your stuff. If you appeared in a previous edition, you need to write something new, but if this will…
July 26, 2008
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
- Jennifer Unlimited
July 26, 2008
I had to cancel my trip to Toronto in September so, after the SciBling meetup I have nowhere to travel all the way until ConvergeSouth in October, which will be fun (this year co-organized with BlogHer), so I hope you consider showing up if you can.
July 26, 2008
Newspaper misspells its own name in the front-page header:
Hat-tip: Sue
July 26, 2008
Serbia: New Instructions and Law Regulations on Online Privacy:
On July 21, RATEL, Serbia's Republican Agency for Telecommunications, posted a Document of Instructions for Technical Requirements for Subsystems, Devices, Hardware and Installation of Internet Networks on their official web site. This…
July 26, 2008
Chad: Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
Tom: What Does the Public Really Need To Know?: Science/Math edition.
Chad: The Innumeracy of Intellectuals
Janet: Fear and loathing in the academy.
Join in the fray....
July 26, 2008
Discussed at these sites, among others:
Chart junk-ies
When bar charts go bad
World's Most Expensive Places to Have Sex.
Catch the flaw(s).
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July 26, 2008
Pandagon is six years old today! How many is this in dog years? Congrats Amanda, Pam, Jesse and the crew!
July 26, 2008
From Jay Rosen:
Save this movie as a reference when someone asks you to define a Citizen Journalism in the future....
July 26, 2008
There has been a lot of chatter on the interwebs (for years, but again now) about the differences between the ways the political Left and Right use the Internet and blogs:
GOP losing the new-media war:
.......The right is engaged in the business of opining while the left features sites that offer a…
July 26, 2008
Here is just a brief excerpt from Why I am Not a Professor OR The Decline and Fall of the British University:
The more prosaic truth emerges when you scan the titles of these epics. First, the author rarely appears alone, sharing space with two or three others. Often the collaborators are Ph.D.…
July 26, 2008
Tangled Bank #110 is up on Pharyngula
July 25, 2008
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
- Woody Allen
July 25, 2008
I keep getting asked: why should I participate in blog carnivals?
The Wikipedia page about blog carnivals is not really accurate (it includes things that are not carnivals), and also suffers from overzealous, obsessive-compulsive, self-important administrators (who have probably never seen a…
July 25, 2008
The path forward
Maxwell's Demoness
Science Matter
The Technium
The Wobbling Mind
July 25, 2008
Isolation-by-Distance and Outbreeding Depression Are Sufficient to Drive Parapatric Speciation in the Absence of Environmental Influences:
A commonly held view in evolutionary biology is that new species form in response to environmental factors, such as habitat differences or barriers to…
July 25, 2008
Bjoern Brembs is on a roll! Check all of these out:
Incentivizing open scientific discussion:
Apart from the question of whether the perfect scientist is the one who only spends his time writing papers and doing experiments, what incentives can one think of to provide for blogging, commenting,…
July 25, 2008
PLoS Genetics is celebrating its third birthday this month! Let's see what's new this week, among else...
PLoS Genetics Turns Three: Looking Back, Looking Ahead:
PLoS Genetics is three years old this month--a milestone worth celebrating! As we do, and as we recognize all who have helped us reach…
July 25, 2008
Friday Ark #201 is up on Modulator
July 25, 2008
I have not done a Friday Weird Sex Blogging post in ages, and I won't do today either, but others did some cool blogging on various related topics: from gender disparities, to gynecological procedures, to weird animal/plant sex, so here is a little collection for this weekend:
My take on Mr.…
July 25, 2008
Next edition of Berry Go Round, the carnival about all things related to plants, will alight here at A Blog Around The Clock tomorrow (probably late afternoon), so please send your submissions tonight by midnight EDT to: Coturnix AT gmail DOT com
July 25, 2008
Now this is a title of a paper in a scientific journal that will make one's eyebrows go up: The importance of stupidity in scientific research (by Schwartz J Cell Sci.2008; 121: 1771) :
I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We
had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both…
