February 15, 2010
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
February 15, 2010
In San Diego this week. Check it out. I'll be there - see my session. If you will be there, let me know. Let's have coffee or lunch, etc. My session is on 21st in the morning, and there is a lot of social stuff I agreed to on the 19th in the afternoon and evening, and of course I want to see a lot…
February 15, 2010
Michael Specter starts.
February 15, 2010
There are 17 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. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
February 14, 2010
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow
February 14, 2010
A few days ago, I asked what it takes for a young person to start and, more importantly, continue for a longer term, to write a science blog. The comment thread on that post is quite enlightening, I have to say - check it out.
What is more important - that post started a chain-reaction on Twitter…
February 14, 2010
For a very long time, I have argued that many scientists are excellent communicators.
I have seen a number of scientists talk over the years and the experience has been mostly very positive. Even if I limit myself only to what I saw over the last couple of months, every single scientist lecture…
February 14, 2010
Awesome TEDx presentation, via Dave Ng:
February 14, 2010
Welcomes and introductions by me and Anton
February 13, 2010
Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it. You simply give to others a bit of yourself, a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of…
February 13, 2010
Last night, braving horrible traffic on the way there, and snow on the way back, I made my way to the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences for the Darwin Day shark lecture co-organized by NESCent and the sneak preview of the Megalodon exhibit which officially opens today.
I have to say that the trip…
February 13, 2010
Raffle of the 'Denialism' book and Welcome note by Rick Weddle, CEO of RTP
February 12, 2010
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill
February 12, 2010
A new forum at World Science is up. As always, listen to the podcast first, then ask questions in the forum:
This week, India rejected what would have been the country's first a genetically modified food crop, a transgenic eggplant.
The company that developed it, an Indian subsidiary of Monsanto,…
February 12, 2010
This afternoon, I'll be driving down to Raleigh to the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences for the special Darwin Day event organized in collaboration with the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.
The evening will start with the sneak-peak pre-opening of the Megalodon exhibit which opens to the…
February 12, 2010
Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything
Saturday, January 16 at 10:15 - 11:20am
E. Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything - Pal MD and Val Jones.
Description: We all know that there are potential pitfalls to having…
February 12, 2010
Lots of interesting papers got published in various PLoS titles this week. These are my choices - papers I find personally most interesting (as well as most bloggable). As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now…
February 11, 2010
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
- Charles F. Kettering
February 11, 2010
Guy in a Faraday Suite getting hit by 500,000 volts ... lightning shooting out of his fingertips.
Via Frank Swain and Johannes Wiebus
February 11, 2010
Mason Posner is a professor of Biology at Ashland University in Ohio. He also blogs on A Fish Eye View (though I notice he did not update it in a while). About a year ago, and inspired by some discussions emanating from ScienceOnline'09, he decided to try using blogs in his teaching. He did it last…
February 11, 2010
Aves 3D is a 'three dimensional database of avian skeletal morphology' and it is awesome!
This is an NSF-funded project led by Leon Claessens, Scott Edwards and Abby Drake. What they are doing is making surface scans of various bones of different bird species and placing the 3D scans on the website…
February 11, 2010
Four Stone Hearth # 86 - Amazing stories edition - is up on Testimony of the spade
The 130th Skeptics Circle is up on The Lay Scientist
February 11, 2010
Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything
Saturday, January 16 at 10:15 - 11:20am
E. Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything - Pal MD and Val Jones.
Description: We all know that there are potential pitfalls to having…
February 11, 2010
There are 22 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. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
February 10, 2010
"He had delusions of adequacy"
- Walter Kerr
February 10, 2010
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I…
February 10, 2010
Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything
Saturday, January 16 at 10:15 - 11:20am
E. Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything - Pal MD and Val Jones.
Description: We all know that there are potential pitfalls to having…
February 10, 2010
There are 18 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. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
