November 16, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Stacy Baker has changed schools since last year, but she's coming…
November 15, 2009
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
- Ansel Adams
November 15, 2009
A reader sent me this picture, asking for an ID - it was taken in upstate New York:
November 15, 2009
By Brian Malow:
November 15, 2009
If you go either to the page that lists all the Friday morning Workshops or the main Saturday/Sunday Program page you will see that each session has a title, names (and links to homepages) of moderators and a brief description.
Now, you can also see that at the end of each description there is a…
November 15, 2009
Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST!
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original…
November 14, 2009
I sometimes think Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the common people.
- Archbishop of Canterbury
November 14, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 10:15 - 11:20am:
A. Demos
- FieldTripEarth - Mark MacAllister and Russ Williams
Description: Field Trip Earth (FTE) is the conservation education website operated by the North…
November 13, 2009
Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
- Antoinette Bosco
November 13, 2009
Carnival of the Blue #30 is up on OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE!
I and the Bird #113 is up on The Modern Naturalist
Friday Ark #269 is up on Modulator
Circus of the Spineless #44 is up on Marmorkrebs
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 7 are up on Crzegrl, flight nurse
Carnival of the Green #202 is up on Pure…
November 13, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Antony Williams is the Vice President of Strategic Development for…
November 13, 2009
There are 17 new articles published yesterday and 24 new articles today in PLoS ONE. 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,…
November 12, 2009
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
November 12, 2009
From Sigma Xi and SCONC:
American Scientist Pizza Lunch convenes again at noon, Tuesday, Nov. 24 at Sigma Xi's headquarters in Research Triangle Park.
The speaker will be Alex Huang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State University. Prof. Huang is directly engaged with…
November 12, 2009
Reminder: Deadline is November 30th at midnight EST!
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 440 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com.…
November 12, 2009
A record number of bloggers from scienceblogs.com are coming to the meeting - I have already introduced a bunch of them. Here are a few more, and that's still not all of them.
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this…
November 11, 2009
I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.
- Anthony Robbins
November 11, 2009
Continuing with the introductions... I got some nice positive feedback about this series - makes it easier for people to get to know everyone little by little instead of digging through the entire list of everyone who's registered for the conference all at once.
Rebecca Skloot is an accomplished…
November 11, 2009
There are 23 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…
November 10, 2009
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
November 10, 2009
Next Monday at NESCent:
When: Monday November 16, 2009, 10-11:30am
Where: NESCent, 2024 W. Main St., Durham, NC 27705, Erwin Mill Bldg, Suite A103
Directions: http://www.nescent.org/about/directions.php
What do public policy and economics have to do with evolutionary theory? A lot, say participants…
November 10, 2009
Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Busting Marine Myths:…
November 10, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 470 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
November 10, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Jonathan Eisen is a Professor at UC Davis, Academic Editor in Chief…
November 10, 2009
Let's take a look at recent papers in PLoS ONE and other PLoS journals. 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…
November 9, 2009
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.
- Anselm Feuerbach
November 9, 2009
Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Oceanophilia: The…
November 9, 2009
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Christian Casper to answer a…
November 9, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Arikia Millikan is the fomer scienceblogs.com Overlord, a very tech…
November 8, 2009
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
- Ansel Adams
