clock | November 13, 2007The Lord Geekington
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clock | November 13, 2007As always on Monday nights, there are new articles published in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine. My picks:
Professional Uncertainty and Disempowerment Responding to Ethnic Diversity in Health Care: A Qualitative Study
In a qualitative study published this week in PLoS Medicine, Joe Kai and colleagues have identified opportunities to empower health professionals to respond more effectively to challenges in their work with patients from diverse ethnic communities. A related perspective showcases the challenges that physicians face in providing culturally appropriate care.
Omnidirectional…
clock | November 13, 2007Join us at the brand new Wine Authorities tomorrow night at 6pm for our special Durham Blogger MeetUp:
The shop has a cool Enomatic machine with which you serve yourself a taste or glass of wine, and a nice big table around which to sit. Teetotalers can grab a coffee or tea next door at Sips.
clock | November 13, 2007My friend, Greensboro blogger Jay Ovittore is running for Congress. He started the campaign blog and the website will be up soon. He is trying to unseat Howard Coble. The Press Conference will be on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 12:00pm - 12:30pm on the Governmental Plaza/Phill G. MacDonald Plaza in Greensboro, NC, so if you can, please come to support the start of his campaign.
Jay's run was first scooped by the Greensboro News & Record back on November 6th.
clock | November 13, 2007I am not much of a TV watcher, but tonight at 8pm EST, I'll be tuning in to my local PBS station to see Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial. If you were too busy or bored to read all the media and blog coverage of the Dover trial, this is your opportunity to catch up in one easy bite - the buzz is that the movie is excellent.
clock | November 13, 2007There are 68 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 125 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.
Boris Hartl is the Web Content Specialist at NC Biotechnology Center
Lucy Ringland is the Technical Editor/Application Analyst at…
clock | November 12, 2007Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought!
- Stephen King
clock | November 12, 2007This is such a cool and novel idea - to let the public have a say in what gets patented and what not!
Check out the Peer-To-Patent homepage, download and read this paper by Beth Noveck (another SciFoo camper) which explains the process and sign up to participate.
clock | November 12, 2007I just noticed there are six ads on the PLoS Jobs page. I thought that my vast blog readership (sic!) may include people suited for and interested in such jobs. Perhaps you would like to work as a Web Producer, or Javascript Developer, or Senior Java Programmer, for instance?
You get to live in the Bay Area where everyone is on Facebook (is that good or bad?) and never have to wear a tie to work (or whatever is the formal equivalent for female employees). And everyone there, regardless of the actual job, is a big proponent of Open Access and loves working for a forward-looking, cutting-…
clock | November 12, 2007If you look over to you right (you may have to refresh your page or click on internal links and thus raise my pageviews to see it) you will see an ad on the right side-bar that takes you to PLoS ONE. The first 50 readers of scienceblogs who click on that ad and complete registration will receive a Free PLoS ONE T-shirt. And then, once registered, use that registration to rate, annotate and comment on articles there.
If you looked around Scienceblogs.com over the last couple of days (I think it is gone now), you could also see the ad for Colbert Report on the top of the page. So, with some…
clock | November 12, 2007There are 69 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 123 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.
Kristin Jenkins is the Education and Outreach Program Manager at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, or NESCent, a really…
clock | November 11, 2007Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it
- Mark Twain
clock | November 11, 2007Now that the DonorsChoose drive is officially over, and the prizes have been distributed, I can now place a link to my CafePress store on my sidebar (see right under the PayPal and Amazon.com buttons).
So, if you are thinking about cool presents for whichever holiday you may be celebrating in the near future, consider the beautiful 'A Blog Around The Clock' banner on a t-shirt or a coffee mug or a wall clock. Heck, if you really insist on having one on a thong, e-mail me and I can see what I can do about it....
clock | November 11, 2007
After many, many months of drought, the Tar Heel Tavern is back, covering the drought and the water issues, both in NC and globally, on Mistersugar.
clock | November 11, 2007OK, back home and rested - it's time for a pictorial report, in two parts. This one is social, the other part will be about the conference itself. All of it under the fold...
Day 1
On Thursday morning I got up early, took the kids to school, loaded my luggage and got started for the airport. As my car was on empty I had to stop at the nearest gas station to fill up and, who stops behind me and start pumping gas? John Edwards. In jeans. Elizabeth was in the car. He recognized me and said Hello. I said Hello. A regular guy, in a regular car, wearing regular clothes, doing something we…
clock | November 11, 2007What with all the traveling, I am behind with all the PLoS-related news. So, let me put it all together in one post here.
In the Media
There is a very nice article in New York Times about the launch of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and a nice article about Open Access in The Journal Times (hat-tip: Jonathan).
Also see commentary from the blogosphere: Introduction at The Modest Proposal blog and The End of Advertising as we know it on Elearnspace.
PLoS ONE
Last week, when I made my picks, I forgot to point out a very interesting paper from the Ross lab: Molecular Variation at a Candidate…
clock | November 11, 2007I don't think I ever refused a meme, even if I have done it already, especially if a lot of time passed, or one can provide new answers every time. But this one is tough, as I would barely change anything from the last time I did it. But, since it is so old, I'll copy it here again and make a few little changes to it:
4 jobs you've had:
1. Horse trainer and riding instructor, Assistant to the Handicapper and Racing Secretary, as well as the Finish-line judge at the Belgrade Racecourse
2. Translator of Disney comic-strips from English to Serbian
3. Biology teacher at various levels to…
clock | November 11, 2007The Boneyard # 9 is up on Catalogue of Organisms
Skeptics' Circle #73 is up on Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science
November issue of the International Carnival of Pozitivities is up on Slimconomy
The 28th Carnival of Space is up on The Planetary Society Blog
Friday Ark #164 is up on Modulator
The 47th Carnival of Feminists is up on Ornamenting Away
Carnival of the Godless #79 is up on Aardvarchaeology
The 144th edition of The Carnival Of Education is up on Rightwing Nation
clock | November 11, 2007There are 70 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 123 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.
Kaitlin Thaney works for and blogs for Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons. We first met at Scifoo, and just the other…
clock | November 10, 2007Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.
- Jan King