August 28, 2009
There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
- Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx, 1890 - 1977
August 28, 2009
A signed print of this!!!!
See, I heard it here first!
And here is the official announcement with the details of the contest.
August 28, 2009
My regular readers probably remember that I blogged from the XXVI International Association of Science Parks World Conference on Science & Technology Parks in Raleigh, back in June of this year.
I spent the day today at the headquarters of the Research Triangle Park, participating in a workshop…
August 28, 2009
From the Overlords comes this message that you, the readers, should take a look at and provide us, in the comments, with feedback:
In the next three to four weeks, we'll be creating and unveiling a user registration program ... This will allow users to sign in, create a profile, track discussions…
August 28, 2009
There are 30 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…
August 28, 2009
Four Stone Hearth #74 is up on Natures/Cultures
The 118 Skeptics' Circle is up on The evolving mind
The 124th edition of the Carnival of the Godless is up on Radical Atheist
Friday Ark #257 is up on Modulator
August 27, 2009
There is only one way ... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie, 1888 - 1955
August 27, 2009
The first in a series by @RichardWiseman:
During the Edinburgh Festival I will invite some of my favourite magicians, skeptics, psychologists and comedians to join me for afternoon tea. Over a plentiful supply of cakes, pastries and sandwiches we will chat about this and that, and occasionally the…
August 27, 2009
So, let's see what's new in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS ONE this week. 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 (…
August 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 Danielle Lee from the Urban…
August 27, 2009
My new t-shirt arrived:
From Zazzle.
August 26, 2009
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
- Alan Stewart Paton, 1903 - 1988
August 26, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 300 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…
August 26, 2009
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…
August 26, 2009
Robert Scoble interviews science blogger and author Jennifer Ouellette about the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a "recent initiative by the National Academy of Sciences, was set up to build a new kind of social network of scientists and movie directors." Worth a watch:
August 26, 2009
From NESCent:
> "Re: Design" - This is a dramatization of the scientific correspondence between Charles Darwin and botanist Asa Gray, and is a product of the Darwin Correspondence Project. NESCent is co-sponsoring this theatrical production with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, WUNC-TV and…
August 25, 2009
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
- Raymond Chandler, 1888 - 1959
August 25, 2009
Wow - I had no idea this existed:
Until Graham Steel visited the Cambridge office and posted about his experience. Instead of trusting Google Maps (which always gets me lost in Durham, NC) I relied on the experience of a Cambridge cab driver when I visited last year.
August 25, 2009
There are 33 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…
August 25, 2009
And Google celebrates:
August 25, 2009
In the first anthology, Open Laboratory 2006, we included a poem by MissPrism, Waterbear Down. In 2007 collection, Much Ado About...The Brain? by Digital Cuttlefish made the cut. In the 2008 edition, the winning poem was The Evolutionary Biology Valentine's Day Poem, also by Digital Cuttlefish.
So…
August 25, 2009
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 49, Old School Style, are up on The Examining Room of Dr. Charles
Carnival of Space #117 is up on Simostronomy
Carnival of the Green #194 is up on Recycle Your Day
August 24, 2009
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make is so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
- C. A. R. Hoare
August 24, 2009
There are many interesting articles published in PLoS ONE, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 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…
August 23, 2009
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
- Bliss Carman, 1861 - 1929
August 23, 2009
Does your iPhone have a tape measure? Eh? How can you beat that?
Hat-tip: Science Lush
August 23, 2009
L. David Mech is a famous wolf researcher (and a blogger about his research). If you have heard of a concept of "alpha-male" it is because of ideas from an old book of his, about social structure of wolf societies.
However, most of the early research on wolves was done on artificially built groups…
August 23, 2009
I am proud to live in Chapel Hill, the home of UNC and it's campus newspaper The Daily Tar Heel. As soon as they got elected to their new editorial and managerial positions a couple of months ago, Sara Gregory, Emily Stephenson, Andrew Dunn and the rest of the crew opened up new channels of…
August 23, 2009
We are off to a good start.
We now have a Twitter account I started last night (yes, that is a Saturday night) and already at 35 followers (also follow the #scio10 hashtag).
Our FriendFeed room has 30 subscribers.
On our Facebook Event page, 96 people indicated they are 'Attending' and 174 are…
August 22, 2009
What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
- Raymond Chandler
