October 28, 2009
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. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
October 28, 2009
Continuing with the series of posts introducing the participants - you can see the whole list here.
A couple of dozen SciBlings will be there, but here are five I picked for today:
Janet D. Stemwedel (aka Dr. Free-Ride) is a Philosopher and a Chemist. She is a Professor of Philosophy at San Jose…
October 28, 2009
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…
October 27, 2009
Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
- Ambrose Bierce
October 27, 2009
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Defending Science Isn't…
October 27, 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 my Scibling, Blake Stacey…
October 27, 2009
Registration is now closed - we are full!! You can see the entire list of registrants if you go and click here. To sign up for the waitlist, please use this form.
So, let me continue introducing the participants, those lucky 225 who managed, in less than four days, to grab a spot on the roster.…
October 27, 2009
As of a few minutes ago, we are full! You can see the entire list of registrants if you go and click here.
As you may have noticed, we have stopped the form at 225. The remaining 25 slots will be filled by Miss Baker's students (and parent chaperones), the Big Speaker, a straggling moderator who…
October 27, 2009
There are 19 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…
October 26, 2009
Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
- Amanda Heggs, AIDS sufferer, quoted in The Guardian, June 12, 1989
October 26, 2009
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Swine flu parties: I doubt…
October 26, 2009
Now that registration for ScienceOnline2010 is open I intend to, like I did in the past years, introduce the participants to my blog readers in a series of blog posts.
Of course, you can check out the entire list for yourself (already at 201 people!) but I will try to provide a little more…
October 26, 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 Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove to…
October 26, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, Chritsopher Perrien invited Anton Zuiker and me to Duke Radio for an hour-long interview about science and medical blogging, science communication and education, about the ScienceOnline2010 conference (and the three preceding meetings in the series) and even managed to insert…
October 25, 2009
Sometimes only one person is absent and the whole world seems depopulated.
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
October 25, 2009
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Collaboration across news…
October 24, 2009
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are…
October 24, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 420 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…
October 24, 2009
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Open Source Science…
October 23, 2009
If you haven't grown up by the time you are fifty, you don't have to.
- Rick Cook
October 23, 2009
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Science as a Religion that…
October 23, 2009
The registration for the ScienceOnline2010 conference in now open!
To register, click here. Just complete the registration form and hit Enter. Registration includes a small fee that will help us make the conference as good as you expect. Thank you.
Then come back and see who has registered so…
October 23, 2009
At Duke University John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute:
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
In collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Duke's University Institutes, the FHI is pleased to present a 2-day symposium marking the 200th anniversary of…
October 23, 2009
The October winner will be announced on the 1st of November. Make sure your posts are aggregated on ResearchBlogging.org.
October 23, 2009
Friday Ark #266 is up on Modulator
October 23, 2009
From the American Museum of Natural History, if you are in New York City at the right time:
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ANNOUNCES
TRAVELING THE SILK ROAD: ANCIENT PATHWAY TO THE MODERN WORLD
November 14, 2009 - August 15, 2010
WHAT
Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern…
October 23, 2009
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…
October 22, 2009
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
- Albert Schweitzer
