February 5, 2011
I got an email the other day announcing the 2011 Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference. It'll be held from June 6 to 8, 2011, at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador.
The conference page is here and the call for papers is here.
The call for papers…
February 4, 2011
Out of Context Science is the latest and greatest amusing shiny shiny new thing on the sciencey web these days.
Basically, the idea is to take a line or short quote out of context from a larger piece -- a paper or blog post, say -- and see how ridiculous such a thing can be.
Here's a few:
One: We…
February 3, 2011
YASBC. But this time an engineering blog community. This is a fantastic new development if you ask me, especially in a blogging environment domininated by science blogs. Time to let the engineers into the clubhouse, even if that means that we'll have to start serving massive quantities of various…
February 2, 2011
Every year for the last few years I've collected lists of notable science books from various media sources. I certainly continued this tradition for books published in 2010! I can tell it's a very popular service from the hit stats I see for the blog and from the number of keyword searches on "…
January 31, 2011
The women science bloggers conversation is getting so long and elongated, I thought it would be interesting and, I hope, useful to put all the posts in rough chronological order. By rough I mean that I haven't attempted to order the posts within each day of publication. Perhaps I'll take another…
January 30, 2011
I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I'll mostly be doing the posts one or two per weekend and I'll…
January 29, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
Packing for Mars: The…
January 28, 2011
Er, right, I think I'm going to have to tread carefully on this one. *looks over shoulder*
Polls prior to the event showed that only 1.7 percent of DelMonte students knew that Marsh Chaumbers was the CEO of Chaumbers Linoleum Solutions and a generous donor to the College. Following the quarterly…
January 28, 2011
Since the Perils of blogging as a woman under a real name panel at ScienceOnline 2011 there's been quite a bit of commentary floating around the science blogosphere about how women are represented within that community.
A kind of introduction:
The perils women sciencebloggers face are not that…
January 27, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean
Eaarth: Making a Life…
January 26, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
What's Mine Is Yours…
January 25, 2011
I'm always very happy to see a librarian blogger embedded in a science blogging network. It's very important to get the library message out beyond just the library echo chamber and to the faculty, students and researchers who are out patron community.
So I was very pleased to see Elizabeth Brown's…
January 24, 2011
A few days ago I posted some thoughts on the programming of the recent ScienceOnline 2011 conference and yesterday I posted some thoughts about the more social and fun aspects of the event.
In this post I like to look forward to next year's conference and start thinking about some of the sessions…
January 24, 2011
The Chicago Way: A respected style manual advises scholars against open access
To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test
Tenure and all that
Arsenic, cold fusion and the legitimacy of online critique
Teen's Bubble Ball game tops iTunes free app chart (used library book to learn programming)…
January 23, 2011
A few days ago I posted some thoughts on the programming of the recent ScienceOnline 2011 conference. In this post I like to do some quick takes on some of the more pleasurable aspects of the conference.
Some random observations:
Amazing organization. What more can be said about Bora Zivkovic…
January 23, 2011
I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I'll mostly be doing the posts one or two per weekend and I'll…
January 22, 2011
Growing Concern Over Digital Thesis Deposit
An Open, Digital Professoriat
10 New Business Models in 2010 -- A Primer on Innovation
Could chess-boxing defuse aggression in Arizona and beyond?
What shops have to do when their products go digital
A manifesto for the simple scribe - my 25 commandments…
January 21, 2011
Two recent developments that I think are connected in a strange way.
Starbucks just came out with a new drink size, the Trenta, where the volume of coffee is bigger than the human stomach. Wow, that's a lot of caffeine.
In the same vein, there a company out there that's come up with a 12 oz "…
January 21, 2011
Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
USA Today
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Chicago Sun-Times
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The Hive…
January 20, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History by Kalee Thompson
Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... Via Its Most Dangerous…
January 19, 2011
Yeah, I'm talking about you, #scio11. The conference that still has significant twitter traffic three days after it's over. I've been to conferences that don't have that kind of traffic while they're happening. In fact, that would be pretty well every other conference.
Every edition of…
January 16, 2011
I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I'll mostly be doing the posts one or two per weekend and I'll…
January 14, 2011
As you read this, I'm on a plane winging my way to the ScienceOnline 2011 conference. It's a great learning, sharing and networking opportunity for anyone interested in the way science happens online. It's highlight of the conference year for me.
It's also a serious hoot. A blast, a party, off…
January 13, 2011
Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Australian
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Independent
Bad Ideas?: An arresting history of our inventions: How Our Finest Inventions Nearly Finished Us Off by Robert M. L. Winston
Seeing…
January 13, 2011
Yes, ScienceOnline 2011 is coming up next week already! My how time flies.
Just as I did last year and in the tradition of Bora's introductions of the various attendees for the upcoming ScienceOnline 2011 conference, I thought I'd once again list all the library people that are attending.
I'm…
January 12, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Present At The Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider by Amir Aczel
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on…
January 12, 2011
First of all, let me make this perfectly clear: Scott Rosenberg's Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters is a seriously terrific book. If you're a blogger, if you're interested in the phenomenon of blogging or even if you're just interested in where the media…
January 11, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying…
January 10, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds,…
January 10, 2011
Research intelligence - Rip it up and start again
David Thornburg on Open-Source Textbooks
"Beginnings Are Always Messy": Thoughts on Transliteracy and Inquiry from a Learning Advocate
Student Blogging about Physics
Follow-up: Transliteracy, Theory, and Scholarly Language
Lib-Value Website Now…
