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June 16, 2008
Hard to believe it's already been two weeks, but the Microcosm edition of the ScienceBlogs Book Club has come to an end. Please stay tuned in this spot for news about future installments of the Club. If you have any comments or suggestions about what you'd like to see in the future, or how we can…
June 11, 2008
What's New on ScienceBlogs.de, June 5-11
It's hot outside. You look like you could use four cool stories that made headlines this week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Europe-wide Nuclear Alarm
Last Wednesday evening we had to spend some hours knowing that a nuclear radiation alert…
June 4, 2008
It's back! Here are the stories that were moving and shaking this week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
From a Science Museum Basement
What do you know about Germany? We wear lederhosen and dirndls, we drink lots of beer...and we have the Deutsches Museum! At the moment huge efforts…
June 1, 2008
Hello, and welcome to the ScienceBlogs Book Club. This is a ScienceBlogs special feature: an online, round-table discussion of Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, by Carl Zimmer. Carl will be joined on the blog by three expert guests—Jessica Snyder Sachs, John Dennehy, and PZ Myers.…
May 21, 2008
These are the stories that were moving and shaking this week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Biodiversity Issues
Thousands of experts on biodiversity from 191 countries are spending May 19-30 in Bonn, Germany, at the ninth meeting of the signatories to the Convention on Biological…
May 14, 2008
Germany had bank holidays this week, but the bloggers at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de, still had time to write about these stories:
Germany: How Green?
Germany is often seen as an environmental pioneer. Tell a German about the American trend of going shopping with a re-usable bag…
May 7, 2008
It's the pithiest headlines of the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de!
Friedrich Schiller's Skull Still at Large
A two-year investigation to determine which of two skulls belonged to the celebrated German poet Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) has found that neither is a match.…
April 30, 2008
These top stories rounded out the month of April at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de. This will also be the last installment of the weekly update prepared and translated by ScienceBlogs.de assistant Anwen Roberts. She'll be greatly missed. Look for a slightly different format and feel…
April 23, 2008
Spring has sprung, and so have these stories on our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Nobelist Eric Kandel: "Psychoanalysis needs to move on."
Scienceblogs.de Managing Editor Beatrice Lugger and Klaus Korak from JoVe.com spoke to Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel in Frankfurt. Psychology today…
April 16, 2008
A forgotten Soviet spaceship finds a permanent home in a German museum, Researchblogging.org opens a European branch, portraits of Nobel Laureates come to ScienceBlogs.de, and a blogger reasons about the causes for soaring global food prices. It's this week's top stories from our partner site,…
April 10, 2008
What's buzzing this week in science and science-blog news in Europe? Wonder no more: it's this week's top stories from our partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Bovine New World?
A team of scientists from Newcastle, England has succeeded in creating hybrid embryos from bovine ova and human nuclei from…
April 1, 2008
It's this week's top stories from our partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
German Communications Prof Observes U.S. Elections
Miriam Meckel, Professor for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, is touring the States on an Eisenhower Fellowship and sharing her…
March 26, 2008
These stories made headlines during the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de.
GM Potato Goes to German Bundestag
Tobias Meier, who has posted before at his blog WeiterGen about his concerns regarding the EU procedures for authorizing genetically modified food, is amused to find…
March 19, 2008
Affirmative action for women professors, inaccurate science at the movies, education and privilege, and a YouTube vid not for the weak of stomach: it's this week's postcard from Europe.
Women-Only Science
The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research is opting for more female scientists.…
March 12, 2008
A climate change-denying conference in New York, a new government council to review stem cell regulations in Germany, and a couple of spectacular, science-y visuals: These are the stories driving conversation this week at our partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Climate Change Denial
Last week's "…
March 5, 2008
Last week, it was a dramatically exploding turbine at a wind-power farm in Denmark. Here's what's driving the conversation this week at our partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Genetically Modified Food
Europeans are famous for their reluctance to accept genetically modified crops and foodstuffs. But…
February 27, 2008
As Christian Reinboth reports on ScienceBlogs.de, at his energy blog Frischer Wind ("Brisk Wind"), unusually high winds in Denmark on Monday tore the rotor from a turbine on a wind-power farm in Hornslet. The turbine failed spectacularly, exploding mid-spin and scattering parts across the landscape…
February 1, 2008
If you've been following along with ScienceBlogs news, you might already know that we've teamed up with the German media company Hubert Burda Media to bring you ScienceBlogs' first sister site, ScienceBlogs.de.
From January 20-22, Hubert Burda Media held its annual, forward-thinking Digital, Life…
December 19, 2007
It's been a little over a week since ScienceBlogs launched a beta version of its first daughter site, in German.
Today, we present what we hope will be the first of many informal updates on what's buzzing among the 13 German-language blogs at ScienceBlogs.de. (Unless noted, links will take you to…
December 10, 2007
December 10 is a big day for ScienceBlogs. Today, Hubert Burda Media, one of the largest media companies in Europe, and our partner in Germany, launches a beta version of ScienceBlogs.de, a German-language website that brings the ScienceBlogs idea and spirit to Europe.
I've had the pleasure these…
October 26, 2007
We're proud of our new channel homepages, and delighted that they give us a chance to feature cool science photos—so delighted that we thought the cropped versions on the channel pages might not be enough. Here are the glorious full versions of this week's channel photos.
Have a photo you'd like to…
October 15, 2007
Have a look at the left-hand column of the ScienceBlogs homepage. You may notice that the list of channels there has changed. You may also notice that the home pages for the individual channels have been redesigned, with more color and new features. (Check out the new Life Science homepage, here.)…
October 11, 2007
This is just what it looks like: an open thread for you to discuss the 2007 Nobels. Say anything, or take one of these as a starting place.
A Good Year for Europe
A commenter at Terra Sigillata said:
This year's Nobels (so far) have a distinctly European flavour.
I don't think any of the winners…
October 9, 2007
Other ScienceBloggers have beaten 3.14 to the punch this time, but if you haven't already, stop by and give our newest blogger, Brian Switek of Laelaps, a gander!
September 25, 2007
Put your hands together and give a warm (ahem) welcome to A Few Things Ill Considered, the climate blog of Coby Beck. Before coming to ScienceBlogs, Coby had been blogging for almost two years here; he also writes as Grist.org's blog, The Gristmill, and is the author of the famed document "How to…
September 17, 2007
Earlier today, a friend sent me a link to this old-ish post from the excellent history/art/cultural curiosity blog Paleo-Future. It's a document written by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr., for Ladies' Home Journal in 1900. It is entitled "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years."
I couldn't resist…
September 12, 2007
I'm a couple days late on this—PZ, as usual, was quicker on the draw—but the always-prescient Doonesbury name-checked DonorsChoose on September 9.
Long-time ScienceBlogs readers might remember that around this time last year, the bloggers organized a funding drive through DonorsChoose that netted…
August 30, 2007
"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds," says artist Theo Jansen. For over 14 years, Jansen has been engaged in the production of animari, or beach animals—massive kinetic sculptures constructed of light materials. After a firm push to begin, the wind takes over, and the…
August 23, 2007
Flattering news from elsewhere on the web: The New York Times has just launched a beta version of My Times, a personalizable homepage feature that allows users to mix their favorite Times content with widgetized utilities and news and entertainment items from around the internet.
One of the…
August 21, 2007
After Google Mars, perhaps this was inevitable: Google Moon celebrates the anniversary of the first manned moon landing by presenting a swath of the lunar surface, mapped in the familiar Google style, with red flags marking the locations of six Apollo landing sites.
The project, explains Google…