January 25, 2009
How many of you have been blogging since June 1997?
Not many, I think. But danah boyd has. And she's been studying online social networks almost as long, first starting with Friendster, then moving on to MySpace and Facebook as those appeared on the horizon and became popular.
Recently, danah…
January 25, 2009
In our heads, of course. All of our heads.
But Seed is asking, so let me elaborate briefly.
As I said before, science is not just active participation in research. Science is a mindset.
We are all born scientists, exploring the world around us and experimenting with it. When we grow up, we…
January 25, 2009
Infidelity Produces Faster Sperm, Swedish Fish Study Finds:
Until now, it has been difficult to prove that fast-swimming sperm have an advantage when it comes to fertilizing an egg. But now a research team at Uppsala University can demonstrate that unfaithful females of the cichlid fish species…
January 24, 2009
The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
- Dan Rather
January 24, 2009
Moving on with the morning, once again, I had to make a tough choice. OK, in this case, it wasn't that tough, really, as this was the session I was looking forward to all along: Science online - middle/high school perspective (or: 'how the Facebook generation does it'?) , led by Stacy Baker and…
January 24, 2009
Like everyone else, I had tough choices to make - which session to go to out of four in each time slot! Of course, I spent a year planning, and talking with moderators/panelists/presenters and building each session over time. Now I wanted to see them all. How could I afford to miss any one of…
January 24, 2009
There is one paragraph in this Forbes article about America's Most Wired Cities that I really did not like:
North Carolina suffered the biggest drop, with Raleigh declining to No. 15 from No. 3 and Charlotte dropping to No. 20 from No. 7.
That is really bad news and we need to do something about it…
January 24, 2009
In Boone, NC:
Michael Ruse will present "Darwin at Two Hundred Years Old: Does He Still Speak to Us?" Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, at 8 p.m. in Farthing Auditorium. Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University and the foremost philosophical…
January 24, 2009
Scientists Unlock Possible Aging Secret In Genetically Altered Fruit Fly:
Brown University researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that could someday help fight the aging process. The finding by Stephen Helfand and Nicola Neretti and others adds another piece to the puzzle that Helfand, a…
January 23, 2009
Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.
- Margaret B. Johnstone
January 23, 2009
Frank Swain just moved in this morning, so the boxes are still unpacked. You can see his old work on sciencepunk.com, Guardian Science Blog and Sence About Science, but from now on, he'll be writing on Science Punk, so go there and say Hello!
January 23, 2009
Carnival of Space #87 is up on The Martian Chronicles
Friday Ark #227 is up on Modulator
January 23, 2009
After the Museum tour and dropping by Radisson briefly to see who else has arrived in the meantime, I went home to see the family and walk the reconvalesecent dog for a few minutes (thus choosing to miss Friday Fermentable except for the last few minutes), then back to Sigma Xi for the WiSE…
January 23, 2009
New Sperm Shaker Set To Improve IVF Success Rates:
Scientists have developed a ground-breaking method for testing the quality of a sperm before it is used in IVF and increase the chances of conception.
Racial Bias Can Be Reduced By Teaching People To Differentiate Facial Features Better In…
January 22, 2009
Statues of marble or brass will perish; and statues made in imitation of them are not the same statues ... But print and reprint a thought a thousand times over, and that with materials of any kind ... the thought is eternally and identically the same thought in every case.
- Thomas Paine
January 22, 2009
After coffee cupping, still pretty frozen, we went back to Radisson to see who else has arrived for ScienceOnline09 in the meantime. I set up my temporary field Headquarters in the lobby (photo by Lenore):
After a quick lunch, it was time for Lab Tours (check blog posts and pictures for other…
January 22, 2009
This is the question that Seed is asking:
Restoring science to its rightful place in government and in society will be no simple task: it will demand fresh ideas, the engagement of America's scientists and engineers, the re-engagement of the public, and the collaboration of other cultural and…
January 22, 2009
From Center for Science Education:
When: Friday, January 30, 2009 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Where: LSRC B101 Love Auditorium
Description: Bruce Alberts, a prominent biochemist strongly commited to the improvement of science education, began service as Editor-in-Chief of Science in March 2008. He is a…
January 22, 2009
Every now and then I bump into a brand new science blog that immediately grabs my attention for some or other aspect of total coolness (or is it 'hotness' these days?). And then I want to promote, promote, promote until everybody and their mother reads that blog. Here is the latest brilliant…
January 22, 2009
You need this clock:
Hat-tip: Eva.
January 22, 2009
From a current freshman:
In college, one lecture class has about 250 students in it and the information goes by really fast. We would cover about 3 chapters in an hour, about three days a week. At first it took me a while to get used to the speed and the way the professors taught. In high school,…
January 22, 2009
Friday morning was really, really cold (for North Carolina), so what better way to start off ScienceOnline09 than at Counter Culture Coffee where about 25 or so participants (and several other people - this is an open event) showed up bright and early to learn about the science (and business) of…
January 22, 2009
I and the Bird #92 is up on The Marvelous in Nature
Change of Shift: Vol. 3, Number Fifteen is up on Emergiblog
January 22, 2009
Frogs Are Being Eaten To Extinction, Experts Say:
The global trade in frog legs for human consumption is threatening their extinction, according to a new study by an international team including University of Adelaide researchers.
'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human:
In a an analysis of…
January 21, 2009
You'll eventually lose someone you'll love & love someone you never thought u'd find. People are going to hate you, love you, love to hate you, and hate to love you, but the ones that mean the most will always be there.
- Sex in the City
January 21, 2009
There are 10 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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
January 21, 2009
I am still trying to recover from the previous week. It was quite busy for me, as you may have guessed. But I can start slowly posting my own hazy recollections and pictures now, I think, starting with the first day, Thursday. After meeting with Anton at Sigma Xi to unload the swag, I went over to…
January 21, 2009
Did you forget that today is the Squirrel Appreciation Day?
January 21, 2009
Rethinking The Genetic Theory Of Inheritance: Heritability May Not Be Limited To DNA:
Scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have detected evidence that DNA may not be the only carrier of heritable information; a secondary molecular mechanism called epigenetics may also…
January 20, 2009
If at times our actions seem to have made life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
