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June 15, 2006
Hello, those of you from boingboing.net. Please take a moment to peruse the site. In a nutshell, this is a site that is all about looking at things from both the humanist and scientific perspectives. The World's Fair is run by two science academics, who write things for McSweeney's and the like.…
June 15, 2006
This is what happens when an individual is comfortable with the sciences...
Einstein's EEG
The World's Fair, in collaboration, with the Science Creative Quarterly is pleased to participate in The ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose raise-money-to-help-science-classrooms-a-thon!. In our case, donations $10…
June 14, 2006
Oh dear, there is certainly a lot of discussion over Ann Coulter's new book - in particular, her breathtaking views on evolutionary theory.
Hmmm, when I wrote Chapter Titles From My Creationist Textbook, I had no idea that it already existed or was perhaps in the process of being written, since…
June 14, 2006
Because I am lucky enough to be in a position where my living is not dependant on writing, I've always taken the attitude of aiming high since the worst that can happen is that you get rejected from a place where you figured you would have been rejected anyway.
Using that kind of perspective, you…
June 13, 2006
Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Dennis, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harvey, Irene, Jose, Katrina, Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Phillippe, Rita, Stan, Tammy, Vince, Wilma, Alpha, Beta, Delta, Epsilon, Gamma, Zeta...
Not exactly the makings of another Children's Alphabet Picture Book. Rather, these are names of the…
June 13, 2006
Last semester I was fortunate enough to be involved with a UBC project (called Terry) that looks at global issues from a multidisciplinary angle. One of the things in my charge was arranging a kind of high profile speaker series, with an emphasis on bringing out individuals who are not only doing…
June 12, 2006
I thought it would be kind of interesting to try and showcase a few links from the types of journals and publications that take less than academic stabs at science writing. It's the sort of stuff that interests me to no end, because if you read through "Public Understanding of Science" type…
June 12, 2006
"Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why?"
Well, being a molecular biologist with a pretty tight feed into the proteomics and genomics arena, my alternate career would whimsically (and in…
June 12, 2006
continued from part II | from the beginning
DN: ... or how's about Jake and Elwood? (maybe, we should get Fedoras after all). You know, we do both dabble in the science writing game.
BRC: This is true, though there you go bringing this back to a relevant center, keeping this sensical/as opposed…
June 10, 2006
continued from part I
BRC: I saw a guy wearing a fedora the other day. I think he was serious. Anyway, I'm a conflicted soul always, almost by design, I'm starting to think. But not in a bad way. Which means with the whole "hats" thing, I too am involved in an array of topics. My degree is…
June 9, 2006
DN: Hey, my name is Dave Ng.
BRC: I'm Benjamin Cohen. Dave, what's your story? You're Canadian right? So that's this whole other thing, I take it.
DN: Yes, I am Canadian, living in Vancouver actually and based at the University of British Columbia. I was born in England though, which you can…
June 7, 2006
(via Edward R. Tufte's "Envisioning Information")
June 6, 2006
Here is a selection of my writings on-line, many but not all of which are about science, technology, and nature - Ben
B.R. Cohen's Days at the Museum, a short series of dispatches from the Smithsonian.
B.R. Cohen's Annals of Science, a series of short stories about science and history and…
June 5, 2006
Here is a selection of some of the writing I've done - Dave.
"True Encounters in my Research Career", The Walrus, September 2007 (with Chris Hutsul). (commented upon at The World's Fair)
"The Reason Is Math Bush Edit", Science Creative Quarterly, September 5, 2007
"Analyses of the Six Degrees of…