clock | January 31, 2010Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other but by how many times you reach each other.
- Cathy Morancy
clock | January 31, 2010...has just been announced. To see who won, you will have to click on this link right here ;-)
clock | January 31, 2010
Podcasting in science - Deepak Singh and Kirsten 'Dr.Kiki' Sanford
Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is marketing, and much more. We will discuss the many ways that podcasting technology and techniques can be used to help you reach your communication goals.
Watch all six video parts of the recording of this session:
Podcasting in Science, Part 1
Podcasting in Science, Part 2
Podcasting in Science, Part 3…
clock | January 31, 2010
I am collecting all the blog and media coverage on this wiki page, but redundancy is always a good idea in the digital realm, so the links are also now posted here, under the fold:
Update: the wiki page has reached its limit of number of links per page, so I am only updating this post from now on, adding freshest posts I can find on top. Please let me know if I missed yours.
Also, read the interviews with ScienceOnline2010 participants
Circle of Complexity: Importance of meatspace - session at Science Online 2010
Adventures in Ethics and Science: #scio10 aftermath: Continuing thoughts on…
clock | January 30, 2010You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
- Charles F. Kettering
clock | January 29, 2010If there were ever a place that came close to the magical world of Pandora in James Cameron's new film Avatar, it would probably be the Amazon. There may not be butterflies that look like flying squid, but in the Amazon can you eat giant worms and lemon flavored ants for dinner in a forest that is home to both the jaguar and the pink dolphin. Reporter Melaina Spitzer joined a group of indigenous leaders from the Amazon in Ecuador's capital Quito, to see Avatar on the big screen in 3D.
I heard the story on PRI's The World this afternoon. Glad to see there is also a video. Interesting....
clock | January 29, 2010
The wisest line? At 0:56: "we want to hear what is actually happening, not what people are saying about it". That is the problem with journalism (all media, not just TV) in a nutshell: the #1 reason journalists are very low in the polls of trustworthiness in comparison with many other professions. Safety in quoting, instead of telling it as it is and assigning Truth-values to statements. That is post-modernism: to hell with the facts, what is important is what random people feel about the facts and say about them. The video is funny because it is so true.
Hat-tip: Grrrlscientist
And here is…
clock | January 29, 2010This week on PRI/BBC World Science:
This month, the movie Creation opened in theaters across the United States.
The film chronicles the life and work of Charles Darwin.
The movie is directed by Jon Amiel. Paul Bettany stars as Darwin. Jennfer Connelly plays Darwin's wife, Emma.
Creation is based on a biography written by Charles Darwin's great great grandson, Randal Keynes.
Keynes is a conservation biologist who lives in London.
The World's science correspondent, Rhitu Chatterjee, spoke with Keynes about his famous ancestor and the experience of seeing his book turned into a movie.
Listen to…
clock | January 29, 2010These are totally cool!
See the Stephaniegeology etsy store for more. What she did is get some actual fossils from Doug Grove (husband of Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove), make molds out of these fossils and then make jewelry from those molds. Fascinating!
clock | January 29, 2010I had a good fortune to hear Dr. Lefkowitz speak once. Great guy. From the press release:
The prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category goes this year to Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Duke University Medical Center.
This is only the second year the award has been given.
Dr. Lefkowitz's research has affected millions of cardiac and other patients worldwide. Lefkowitz proved the existence of, isolated, characterized and still studies G-protein-…
clock | January 29, 2010Friday morning, let's see what is new in various PLoS titles. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Live Coverage of Scientific Conferences Using Web Technologies:
Conferences are important hubs of scientific communication, facilitating networking in ways that traditional methods of remote…
clock | January 28, 2010Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
- Carol Burnett
clock | January 28, 2010On Tuesday I went to the monthly pizza lunch at Sigma Xi, featuring a guest lecture by Dr. David B. Eggleston, Professor of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science at North Carolina State University and the Director of Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST).
I posted a brief summary of the talk on the Science In The Triangle blog.
clock | January 28, 2010The 129th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle is up on SkeptVet
Four Stone Hearth #85 is up on A Very Remote Period Indeed
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 18 are up on Emergiblog
clock | January 28, 2010There are 26 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Development and Field Evaluation of a Synthetic Mosquito Lure That Is More Attractive than Humans:
Disease transmitting mosquitoes locate humans and other blood hosts by identifying their characteristic…
clock | January 27, 2010Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
clock | January 27, 2010Tonight at 9:30pm, I will be the online guest of the Math 2.0 community, invited by Maria Droujkova, to talk about the organizational aspects of ScienceOnline2010 as they are interested in organizing something similar for the online math community.
We'll do the webinar on Elluminate, so if you have not used it before you need to try to log in a few minutes ahead to go through all the hoops, downloads, etc. We'll be in this room - just click on the link and follow the directions. Make sure your volume is up.
clock | January 27, 2010You are a young journo. You get an assignment. You don't know where to start. But you follow and are followed by a bunch of scientists and science journalists you just met at ScienceOnline2010. So you tweet.....and within minutes your story takes off:
cassierodenberg: Starting to work on a lede graph for a story on plant-based medicines. Wish I could float off to a picturesque field right about now.
BoraZ: @cassierodenberg you may want to interview @abelpharmboy for that - he's the expert!
cassierodenberg: Twitter first: Updated status, then emailed by @abelpharmboy, scientist willing to lend…