clock | February 10, 2008Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 10, 2008As I promised the other day, I went to Carrboro Century Center this afternoon (right after meeting with Anton around the corner) to see the Island Projects designed by the Chapel Hill High School students of Rob Greenberg.
I did not see all of them - they were doing this in "shifts" throughout the afternoon and I could only stay for an hour - but I saw several of the projects and talked to a number of students (and to Rob himself). I have to say I was really, truly impressed with their work, as well as with their enthusiasm as they explained the details of their projects to me and other…
clock | February 10, 2008Mythbusting Canadian Health Care -- Part I by Sara Robinson.
Constitutional Originalism, Natural Law, and The Ninth Amendment by PhysioProf.
clock | February 10, 2008Of course! Anton and I met earlier today and started planning the third Science Blogging Conference. We analyzed the responses we got so far from you, in person, by e-mail, on your blogs, on the interviews and via the feedback form (if you have not done it yet, please give us your feedback here, it's not too late) and made the first steps to make the next meeting even better.
So, watch this space! There will be news revealed, one item at a time, over the next few days and weeks. First, in a couple of days, we will announce the date and the venue for the third meeting. The other news…
clock | February 10, 2008Dyre Portents
A natural history of Runswick Bay
Northstate Science
Ancient World Bloggers Group
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Biology (Magrin 07)
Extreme Biology
clock | February 10, 2008Patricia B. Campbell, PhD is a tireless fighter for science education and for gender equality in science. She runs the FairerScience website and the FairerScience blog. At the Science Blogging Conference three weeks ago, Pat was on the panel on Gender and Race in Science: online and offline.
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 background? What is your Real Life job?
Hmmm who am I? Good question--well professionally I was a college professor of Research Measurement and Statistics at Georgia…
clock | February 10, 2008If you read my blog you must be aware how enchanted I am with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Unfortunately, at the last moment something came up, so the delegation of two teachers and six students could not make it to the Conference three weeks ago. I intend to go and visit there some time soon and I hope they can make it to the Conference next year.
But in the meantime, they need something that WE can help with - some lab coats. They have placed a proposal on DonorsChoose (read it carefully to understand why they need these) and I hope you feel generous today and help them get funded. I…
clock | February 9, 2008Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 9, 2008Birds, Bats And Insects Hold Secrets For Aerospace Engineers:
Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency. University of Michigan engineers are studying these animals as a step toward designing flapping-wing planes with wingspans smaller than a deck of playing cards.
Intersex Fish Linked To Population And Agriculture In Potomac River Watershed:
For several years, scientists have been working to determine why so many male smallmouth bass in the Potomac River basin have immature female egg cells in their testes - a form of intersex. They…
clock | February 9, 2008Obligatory Readings of the Day: Jennifer Ouelette and Chris Clarke explain everything you need to know.
clock | February 9, 2008Karen is excited this morning, reading the enormous Guardian edition full of good Darwiny goodness, chockful of articles by Dawkins and many others, as well as extracts from Darwin's works.
The only part I find a little too narrow is The best Darwinian sites on the web which mentions only a small handfull of such sites, e.g., Darwin Online, Darwin Correspondence Project, Darwin Day Celebration, AboutDarwin.com and Darwin Today (the last one yet to launch next month). I know, I know, these are the biggest and bestest, but there are so many others that I feel are snubbed by being left out -…
clock | February 9, 2008Vedran Vucic (voo-tcheech) is a Linux afficionado in Serbia. He and his organization have gone all around Serbia, wired up the schools, taught the teachers and students how to use Linux, taught the teachers and students how to use various online educational resources ranging from blogs to ATutor, etc. Vedran also gives technical support to about 30 Serbian bloggers whose work he also aggregates. He is now putting a lot of energy into persuading scientists, especially the young, not-yet-entrenched ones, to go online and to promote Open Access. It is an uphill battle, but he is persistent!…
clock | February 9, 2008Washington Post has an article on how to plant your own floral clock, just like the one built by Linnaeus.
clock | February 9, 2008Go say Hello to Alice Pawley, the new co-blogger on On Being a Scientist and a Woman. Post a comment on her inaugural post.
clock | February 9, 2008Linnaeus' Legacy #4: Darwin Month Extravaganza! is up on The Other 95%
Friday Ark #177 is up on Modulator
International Carnival of Pozitivities 2.9. is up on NotPerfectAtAll
clock | February 8, 2008I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 8, 2008I mentioned before that Carrboro Citizen is my favourite newspaper, the only one I read in hardcopy. Perhaps I like it because it is hyperlocal. Perhaps that is why I have this mindset that those who live in Carrboro already read it and those who don't will have no interest. So, I rarely blog about their articles. But sometimes something jumps at me as worthy of mention as interesting to anyone anywhere. This week's edition has one such article - School project an atypical lesson in problem solving - which describes a science project led by Chapel Hill High School Earth and environmental…
clock | February 8, 2008Many important research findings never make it into the actual practice when it comes to reproductive health services. Rose of The INFO Project Blog has posted an interesting and good survey which needs to be spread around the blogosphere more in order to get a bigger number of responses:
To improve service delivery and policies, research should be put into practice. However, some important research findings that could improve reproductive health services have not been incorporated widely into policies and programs.
For example, the World Health Organization advises that family planning…
clock | February 8, 2008Hemai Parthasarathy spent about five years as an editor at Nature before joining PLoS where she was the Managing Editor of PLoS Biology from its very beginning, through about five years of it until just a few months ago. When I got the job with PLoS and spent my first month in San Francisco, Hemai was my tutor in a sense, teaching me the lore of the inner sanctum of the publishing world - how it works, who is who, why Open Access, and other useful stuff. So she was a natural choice for me to invite to lead a session on Open Science: how the Web is changing the way science is done, written…
clock | February 8, 2008On top of screencasts, podcasts and PPT files that are already available, you can now also read the full transcript of the session on Public Scientific Data from the Science Blogging Conference. And much more here....