clock | November 3, 2007Yup, Chris Surridge, Managing Editor of PLoS ONE (and the author of the legendary comment) swung by the Chapel Hill office last night. Since my initial stint was in the San Francisco office, and Chris is working in the Cambridge UK office, this was the first time we met in person. Much fun was had by all. The pictorial story under the fold:
After I picked Chris up from the airport and let him drop his stuff off at myplace, we went to my office in the wonderful La Vita Dolce, where Chris went wild with the camera taking pictures of me sitting at my table pretending to work:
Then we…
clock | November 3, 2007There are 77 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 113 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we'll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Antony Williams is the Director of ChemZoo Inc, which runs ChemSpider which is an Open Access online database of chemical…
clock | November 2, 2007There are 78 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 113 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we'll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Janet D. Stemwedel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. Her blog is Adventures in Ethics and…
clock | November 1, 2007An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
clock | November 1, 2007This is the 4000th post on this blog. I wish they were all long, smart and thoughtful like this one....
clock | November 1, 2007The fifth Science Festival is going on right now in Genoa, Italy. It is a longish affair, from 25th October till 6th November, so if you just happen to be in the area you can still make it. They have hundredr of events, e.g., exhibitions, workshops, performances and shows, all related to science in some way and targeted at a broad audience, from children to senior scientists.
I wish I could attend the session on Rhythms of Life as well as the one on Where is Science Dissemination Going?:
Nowadays, almost 2/3 of press agency releases on scientific topics are based on news given by press…
clock | November 1, 2007
Click to enlarge. Seen on the John Edwards campaign page (got it in one of their e-mails asking for money). Scary, isn't it? Effective framing?
clock | November 1, 2007Scientiae #13 is up on Green Gabbro
I and the Bird #61: As seen on TV! - is up on The Drinking Bird
Circus of the Spineless #26: Like Being Home Again For the First Time - is up on The Other 95%
Let's Play Nurse at Change of Shift at Nurse Ratched's Place
November issue of the Festival of the Trees is up on Windywillow in two parts: Part I - Trees of Halloween and Part II - Trees and Fruit of Autumn.
Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival is up on the Health Wisdom Blog
Bio::Blogs #16 - Halloween edition - is up on Freelancing science
Carnival of Space #27 is up on Universe Today
November issue of the…
clock | November 1, 2007There are 79 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 112 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we'll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Emile Petrone is a young entrepreneur who designed and runs one of the first science-specific online social networks - Knowble.net…
clock | November 1, 2007I know, I know, technically he was an ape. But the word "monkey" is so much more funny!
Thanks to my high-school friend who found me on Facebook and posted this on my Fun Wall.
clock | October 31, 2007These last couple of days were very exciting here at PLoS. After months of preparation and hard work, PLoS presents the latest addition to its collection of top-notch scientific journals. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases went live yesterday at 6:42pm EDT. This journal will be
...the first open-access journal devoted to the world's most neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), such as elephantiasis, river blindness, leprosy, hookworm, schistosomiasis, and African sleeping sickness. The journal publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research on all scientific, medical, and public-health aspects…
clock | October 31, 2007WaterBlog: ask an aquatic biologist...
I Love Science, Really
What an untenured college professor shouldn't be doing...
Marcus' World
Before
Health Care Renewal
GoozNews
clock | October 31, 2007There are 80 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 112 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we'll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Enoch Choi, M.D. is a Partner in Urgent Care at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He blogs on Doctor Geek, M.D. and Medmusings.…
clock | October 30, 2007Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that's not the reason we're doing it.
- Richard Feynman
clock | October 30, 2007Fossilized Spider, 50 Million Years Old, Clear As Life:
A 50-million-year-old fossilised spider has been brought back to life in stunning 3D by a scientist at The University of Manchester.
Fossilized Body Imprints Of Amphibians Found In 330 Million-year-old Rocks:
Unprecedented fossilized body imprints of amphibians have been discovered in 330 million-year-old rocks from Pennsylvania. The imprints show the unmistakably webbed feet and bodies of three previously unknown, foot-long salamander-like critters that lived 100 million years before the first dinosaurs.
Volcanic Eruptions, Not Meteor,…