clock | June 6, 2007The Carnival Of Education #122 is up on Educaton Wonks.
Carnival of Homeschooling #75 is up on HomeSchoolBuzz.
clock | June 5, 2007Dr. Snedley, the Mr.Hyde to Dr.Biobrain's Dr.Jeckyll (confused yet?) has taken over the blog and compiled the latest Carnival of the Liberals accompanied by his right-wing snark!
clock | June 5, 2007As explained by Jean-Claude Bradley in this excellent interview: The Pursuit of Automation: Open Notebook Science:
The difference between Bradley's idea and traditional open source projects is the clutter, i.e., all of the data collected from research. In a journal article, what the reader receives is a set of findings, published after peer review, along with the conclusions and basic data used to reach them. Bradley's project allows the reader to see the process unfold, from hypothesis to conclusion, with all data, experiments and notes that are collected along the way. This inclusiveness…
clock | June 5, 2007And they also make themselves look silly in the process. This time, it is the dinosaurs of journalism, putting out all the old anti-Web canards. Perhaps we should compile an Index of Old-Journalist Claims similar to the Index of Creationist Claims (on TalkOrigins.org). Two examples this week:
First, (via Ed Cone) Jay Rosen rips into this article by Neil Henry:
My impression: we're at the twilight of the curmudgeon class in newsrooms and J-schools. (Though they can still do a lot of damage.) You know they're giving up when they no longer bother to inform themselves about what they…
clock | June 5, 2007Social Science and Humanities bloggers have been doing it for quite a while, but natural scientists have largely been very reluctant to do this. Now, with approval of his PI, Attila Csordas will start posting parts of his Dissertation on his blog. Stem cell research - mmmm, nice! Sure, the actual data may never appear there, but this is a big move forward anyway.
Most useful is the view of Nature that he reprints on his blog on what actually constitutes 'previously published' work, i.e., what not to do if you want to have the paper published in their journal. I'd really like to see…
clock | June 5, 2007Duetting Birds With Rhythm Present A Greater Threat:
Birds that sing duets with incredible rhythmic precision present a greater threat to other members of their species than those that whistle a sloppier tune, according to a study of Australian magpie-larks reported in the June 5th issue of Current Biology, published by Cell Press.
Going Fishing? Only Some Catch And Release Methods Let The Fish Live:
NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) fisheries scientists are investigating ways to boost the survival rates of several more species of fish caught and then released by anglers. Some…
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clock | June 4, 2007Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle
clock | June 4, 2007Renegade Evolution has collected the links for yesterday's Blogging For Sex Education day.
clock | June 4, 2007Tanja was lucky last night. She and her husband were filming bats out in Arizona. At one moment she picked up her cheap camera and aimed it at the sky at just the right moment to catch this picture of a kestrel (Falco sparverius) catching a Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) - due to size, under the fold:
clock | June 4, 2007Graduate of the University of Belgrade (Serbia), City University (UK) and UNC-Chapel Hill (USA), with a Masters from University of Belgrade, Danica Radovanovic is currently in Belgrade without a job and she is looking for one either in Serbia, in Western/Northern Europe or in the USA.
Danica is the tireless Serbian pioneer in all things online: blogging, open source, Linux, science blogging, open science, social networking software, online publishing, eZine editing, etc. She is the force behind putting Serbian science online and making it open. She has done research on Internet use in…
clock | June 3, 2007The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
- Marya Mannes
clock | June 3, 2007Just to show how seriously FoxNews is taken as a 'mainstream' media channel, only three Democratic candidates will appear in their 'debate': Biden, Kucinich and Gravel for 90 minutes of comedy certain to be funnier than anything Saturday Night Live produced in the past five years.
But there is a real debate tonight, at 7pm EDT on CNN which will showcase all the candidates. I guess that Wolf Blitzer will put on his most serious face when asking questions thick with right-wing frames. It will be interesting to watch.
Boston Globe has already published the 'secret' talking points for Obama…