clock | March 8, 2008Today is PZ Myers' 51st birthday.
We've done it last year and the year before. As I did last time, I will collect a linkfest of all the posts - especially those that use the LOLCats generator (Greg has collected some pictures if you want to use them).
First out of the starting gate:
Greg Laden: Happy Birthday PZ Myers!
Maryannaville: There's a Page looking for a Mr PZ Myers located in the lobby
Tangled Up in Blue Guy: Happy Birthday PZ
Of Two Minds: Happy B-Day PZ!
Evolving Thoughts: So, here I am in Arizona, still
Effect Measure: Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: a PZ Myers Revelation
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clock | March 8, 2008Information Liberation By DANIEL AKST:
If your child has a life-threatening disease and you're desperate to read the latest research, you'll be dismayed to learn that you can't -- at least not without hugely expensive subscriptions to a bevy of specialized journals or access to a major research library. Your dismay might turn to anger when you realize that you paid for this research.
Read the whole thing....
clock | March 8, 2008[rant]So, if you organize a study-group online instead of in meat-space, the old fogies who still remember dinosaurs go all berserk. A student is threatened by expulsion for organizing a Facebook group for studying chemistry. Moreover, as each student got different questions, nobody did the work for others, they only exchanged tips and strategies. See the responses:
The Star:
Yet students argue Facebook groups are simply the new study hall for the wired generation.
Yes, they are.
Greg:
How much of this is a matter of administrative fear of the internet?
100%.
Larry:
Today, that sense of "…
clock | March 8, 2008In academia? See what they say:
Mad Hatter
EcoGeoFemme
ScienceGirl
Jennie
Mad Hatter again
DrugMonkey
Laurie Granieri
ScienceWoman
Telecommuting has its perks. But working only 40 hours is not one of them. Especially in my case in which the line between work, blogging, schmoozing and fun is blurry. Is posting this weekend post to be considered work (building and keeping my own community that, tomorrow, will click on a link to PLoS) or pleasure (doing what I always did - reading interesting stuff online and sharing with my readers)? Both? Who's to tell? I have fun doing it. But I have…
clock | March 8, 2008Carrboro's Creative Coworking in the works:
Freelance web designer Brian Russell's vision to create a shared workplace for freelancers and other creative types is moving toward a concrete Carrboro reality.
The idea to open what he called a shared office space with a coffee shop atmosphere was first mentioned publicly nearly a year ago. Russell said James Harris, director of economic and community development in Carrboro, encouraged him to make it happen.
The concept lies somewhere between a wireless-equipped coffee shop and the generic, cubicle-clad office. Russell said the need for this type…
clock | March 8, 2008The Repubs are stoking fear and violence as that is the only thing left for them on which to campaign. Thus, we need to keep the Dems in the news and campaigning (and thus media forgetting McCain) and the people excited about them and constantly hearing liberal frames for at least a couple of more months:
Of course, the goal of the Republican Party is to win the election and that is the purpose of launching their violent rhetoric: to frame the election in such a way that defeats the Democratic candidate. The stakes however, are much greater than just who wins or loses the White House. If…
clock | March 8, 2008DrugMonkey, Nick, Afarensis, Chad and John explain it better, but in short, each SciBling needs to pick two regular readers who will, over a longish period of time in the future, tag (in delicious, with a special tag) three site-wide scienceblogs.com posts of their interest. These posts will be included into a special reader-generated feed to which you can subscribe, and it will be visible on the front page. I am not sure, but I think the final list will be secret and I do not know for how long it will be valid, i.e., at what time intervals we need to pick new two people (every six months,…
clock | March 7, 2008Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of "all the little emptiness of love."
- Ellen Glasgow
clock | March 7, 2008Antarctic Fish Species Adopts Winter Survival Strategy Similar To Hibernation:
Scientists have discovered an Antarctic fish species that adopts a winter survival strategy similar to hibernation. Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of Birmingham reveal, for the first time, that the Antarctic 'cod' Notothenia coriiceps effectively 'puts itself on ice' to survive the long Antarctic winter.
Mysterious Eel Fishery Decline Blamed On Changing Ocean Conditions:
American eels are fast disappearing from restaurant menus as stocks have declined sharply across the North…
clock | March 7, 2008Modern Mechanix
Prelinger Library Blog
Almost Diamonds
When do you think you'll be done?
The Happy Scientist
A Mad Tea-Party
Mother of All Scientists
A Lady Scientist
(Non) Scientific Observations from a female scientist
clock | March 7, 2008News from SCONC:
On Thursday, March 27 at 4 p.m., the Zoology Department at NCSU will host a seminar from Patricia Brennan of Yale University entitled "The Biology of Avian Genitalia: Form and Function." Brennan's work on the genital anatomy of waterfowl has revealed the existence of a "sexual arms race" between males and females. Unlike 97 percent of bird species, male waterfowl have a phallus, and it can range "from a half-inch to more than 15 inches long." The seminar will be held in 101 David Clark Labs. Refreshments will be served in the lobby at 3:45.
Related:
Friday Weird Sex Blogging…
clock | March 7, 2008Linnaeus' Legacy #5 is up on Catalogue of Organisms
Carnival of the Blue #10 is up on Switchboard
Carnival of Space #44 is up on Bad Astronomy
Friday Ark #181 is up on Modulator
clock | March 6, 2008You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
- Ellen Metcalf