clock | February 23, 2008...doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 23, 2008Reed and I met this morning and shipped off the authors' copies of the OpenLab 2007 to the international addresses, then packaged and addressed the US ones which I will send out on Monday.
We already got our first submission for the Open Laboratory 2008. You can get started, too - the submission form is here.
clock | February 23, 2008Mico Tatalovic of Blue Sci, the Cambridge's popular science magazine, interviewed me back in April 2007 and wrote an article on science blogging based on that interview. It came out in the Issue #9 as a PDF in October, and is finally found online on Blue Sci.
clock | February 23, 2008Last night we went to Raleigh Memorial Auditorium and saw the opening ("student") night of "Annie Get Your Gun", starring Larry Gatlin, who is apparently some big name in country music, and Raleigh-born Lauren Kennedy who we last saw as Lady Of The Lake in Spamalot when we went to NYC two years ago (btw, Spamalot is coming to Raleigh in April, but the Lady will be played by someone else).
It was fun (a couple of minor glitches that they skillfully masked or played for laughs, the biggest being when Larry forgot his line in one of the songs and Lauren saved him by singing them for him without…
clock | February 23, 2008Ryan Somma is a software developer from coastal North Carolina who blogs on Ideonexus. It's all a blur now, but I think the Science Blogging Conference last month was his second.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your scientific background? What is your Real Life job?
Scientific Background? (Looking around nervously.) Why do you wanna know? Ummm... My father was head of the Microbiology Department at ODU, and my mother teaches Nursing there. I rebelled against them by majoring in English and…
clock | February 22, 2008The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 22, 2008Chez describes how and why CNN fired him for blogging and then piles on!
Spread the word. The old media needs to learn to respect the people formerly known as audience.
clock | February 22, 2008This blog has just been notified that a bank in Sierra Leone has...nope, no millions of dollars in spam-money. Something much better - Maryannaville gave us the Excellent Blogger Award! Thank you!
Recepients of this award can proudly place this image on their side-bars:
And now, I need to pick ten recipients. Ten!? Per minute? Yikes - this is hard. Let's just assume that all of my SciBlings are Excellent by definition and take a look at some good ones outside of The Borg:
Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets
The Beagle Project Blog
Sandwalk
The INFO Project Blog
The Inverse Square…
clock | February 22, 2008John Dupuis has been writing Confessions of a Science Librarian since the time blogging software was really physically soft, being made of clay and shaped like a tablet. We finally got to meet face-to-face at the Science Blogging Conference last month - a meeting long overdue until then.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. This is going to be an interesting reversal - it is usually you who gets to ask the questions in blog interviews. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your background?
Yes, it is a bit of a reversal. But I'm not crazy…
clock | February 22, 2008I and the Bird #69 is up on Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Change of Shift Volume Two, Number Seventeen, Murphy's Law is up on Crzegrl.net
Friday Ark #179 is up on Modulator
clock | February 22, 2008I was lucky to be in the car at the right time this morning to catch a story about Mastodons in Manhattan: A Botanical Puzzle, i.e., why honey locust trees in NYCity have long thorns - an interesting story (click on the link and click on "Listen Now") which, among others, features our blog-friend Carl Buell.
clock | February 21, 2008The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 21, 2008Lawrence Lessig is running for Congress and blogging about it. It would be sooooo nice to have him elected. Join the Facebook group and donate.
clock | February 21, 2008Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards
March 27-28, 2008
Chapel Hill, NC
Discovering scholarly information and data is essential for research and use of the content that the information community is producing and making available. The development of knowledge bases, web systems, repositories, and other sources for this information brings the need for effective discovery -- search-driven discovery and network (or browse) driven discovery -- tools to the forefront. With new tools and systems emerging, however, are standards keeping pace with the next generation of tools?
Richard…
clock | February 21, 2008Wow! Al Upton teaches kids aged 8 and 9 and he is teaching them how to run their own blogs. Each young blogger also gets an adult mentor and you can sign up to be a mentor if you want. Sue Waters, who provides some good tips on classroom blogging, provides more detail about Upton's work and points to two of his good posts: Class blogs - management, moderation and protection and Class blogs - personalise your blog, a sequence of settings, which are full of good information and advice for any age students.
clock | February 21, 2008Wow! Al Upton teaches kids aged 8 and 9 and he is teaching them how to run their own blogs. Each young blogger also gets an adult mentor and you can sign up to be a mentor if you want. Sue Waters, who provides some good tips on classroom blogging, provides more detail about Upton's work and points to two of his good posts: Class blogs - management, moderation and protection and Class blogs - personalise your blog, a sequence of settings, which are full of good information and advice for any age students.
clock | February 21, 2008Seminar on Secular Parenting Coming to Raleigh, March 15
Presented by Dale McGowan
Editor/co-author, Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
* How does moral development really work?
* My mother-in-law wants our kids baptized. How can I respond without causing a rift?
* How can I ease my son's fears about death without pretending there's an afterlife?
* How can kids learn about religion without being indoctrinated into religion?
Over nine million parents in the U.S. are raising children without religion. The Parenting Beyond Belief seminar, a…
clock | February 21, 2008Internets are interesting places. One finds all sorts of strange things people post on there. But I hope that Abel's vasectomy liveblogging will make many more men realize that the operation is quick, easy and painless. Perhaps more guys will elect to do it due to reading this post.
clock | February 21, 2008Saving The Rainforest With ... Toys?:
Villagers in tiny communities including Guayabo, Sawacito and Mahor, in the rainforest of northeastern Honduras, used to take part in the rampant illegal trade in mahogany, but recently they have formed a cooperative and learned to harvest the prized wood in sustainable ways. Now, they mostly use trees that have fallen naturally or harvest them in a sustainable way from around the fringes of the nearby Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, and remove planks from the forest, first on their backs, then on muleback to avoid the disruption caused by heavy machinery…
clock | February 21, 2008Greensboro is the only North Carolina town on the 'Popular Science' list of the America's 50 Greenest Cities. We still have a lot of work ahead of us until we catch up with the West Coast.
(Hat-tip)