February 2, 2010
With Bex Walton moving on to another job, it is now my duty to take over posting about media coverage over on everyONE blog, as well as to pick a cool image of the week. So I started this week with Weekly PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up and Worth a Thousand Words. Take a look. Am I doing it right?
February 2, 2010
Jeff Polish's students at Cary Academy.
February 2, 2010
I wrote 134 posts in January. Unsurprisingly, a lot of that had to do with ScienceOnline (but there was other fun stuff as well, including some cool videos, images, etc.).
I went to see a talk about Ecology, conservation, and restoration of oyster reefs in North Carolina and wrote a post about it.…
February 2, 2010
Scientia Pro Publica Blog Carnival #20 is up on Kind of Curious
Circus of the Spineless #47 is up on Beetles In The Bush
Festival of the Trees #44 is up on Treeblog
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 19 are up on Musings of a Distractible Mind
February 2, 2010
Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is marketing, and much more. We will discuss the many ways that podcasting…
February 2, 2010
Just checking in on a few of the new PLoS titles.... 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…
February 1, 2010
I think that's why music is very very powerful. It helps people through the difficult times.
- Celine Dion
February 1, 2010
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences invite you to a SHARK FRENZY!
"Big, Fast and Bulletproof: What One Biologist Has Learned From 300 Million Years Of Shark Evolution"**
Free lecture by shark expert and "Finding Nemo" technical…
February 1, 2010
Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is marketing, and much more. We will discuss the many ways that podcasting…
February 1, 2010
There are 21 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…
January 31, 2010
Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other but by how many times you reach each other.
- Cathy Morancy
January 31, 2010
...has just been announced. To see who won, you will have to click on this link right here ;-)
January 31, 2010
Podcasting in science - Deepak Singh and Kirsten 'Dr.Kiki' Sanford
Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is…
January 31, 2010
I am collecting all the blog and media coverage on this wiki page, but redundancy is always a good idea in the digital realm, so the links are also now posted here, under the fold:
Update: the wiki page has reached its limit of number of links per page, so I am only updating this post from now on…
January 30, 2010
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
- Charles F. Kettering
January 29, 2010
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Bertrand Russell
January 29, 2010
If there were ever a place that came close to the magical world of Pandora in James Cameron's new film Avatar, it would probably be the Amazon. There may not be butterflies that look like flying squid, but in the Amazon can you eat giant worms and lemon flavored ants for dinner in a forest that is…
January 29, 2010
The wisest line? At 0:56: "we want to hear what is actually happening, not what people are saying about it". That is the problem with journalism (all media, not just TV) in a nutshell: the #1 reason journalists are very low in the polls of trustworthiness in comparison with many other professions…
January 29, 2010
This week on PRI/BBC World Science:
This month, the movie Creation opened in theaters across the United States.
The film chronicles the life and work of Charles Darwin.
The movie is directed by Jon Amiel. Paul Bettany stars as Darwin. Jennfer Connelly plays Darwin's wife, Emma.
Creation is based…
January 29, 2010
These are totally cool!
See the Stephaniegeology etsy store for more. What she did is get some actual fossils from Doug Grove (husband of Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove), make molds out of these fossils and then make jewelry from those molds. Fascinating!
January 29, 2010
I had a good fortune to hear Dr. Lefkowitz speak once. Great guy. From the press release:
The prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category goes this year to Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes…
January 29, 2010
Friday morning, let's see what is new in various PLoS titles. 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…
January 28, 2010
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
- Carol Burnett
January 28, 2010
On Tuesday I went to the monthly pizza lunch at Sigma Xi, featuring a guest lecture by Dr. David B. Eggleston, Professor of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science at North Carolina State University and the Director of Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST).
I posted a brief summary of the…
January 28, 2010
The 129th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle is up on SkeptVet
Four Stone Hearth #85 is up on A Very Remote Period Indeed
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 18 are up on Emergiblog
January 28, 2010
There are 26 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…
January 27, 2010
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
January 27, 2010
Tonight at 9:30pm, I will be the online guest of the Math 2.0 community, invited by Maria Droujkova, to talk about the organizational aspects of ScienceOnline2010 as they are interested in organizing something similar for the online math community.
We'll do the webinar on Elluminate, so if you…
January 27, 2010
You are a young journo. You get an assignment. You don't know where to start. But you follow and are followed by a bunch of scientists and science journalists you just met at ScienceOnline2010. So you tweet.....and within minutes your story takes off:
cassierodenberg: Starting to work on a lede…
