clock | November 24, 2009All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
- Arthur Christopher Benson
clock | November 24, 2009Last couple of weeks months were awfully busy, on many fronts, not least finalizing the ScienceOnline2010 program, herding cats almost 100 moderators/presenters to do various stuff (e.g., respond to my e-mails) in a timely manner, and making sure that registration goes smoothly. This is also the time of year when activation energy for doing anything except going to bed to hide under the covers is very high for people suffering from SAD. Thus, you did not see many 'original' posts here lately, I know.
But, it's not that I have been totally idle. Apart from teaching my BIO101 lab again, I also…
clock | November 24, 2009
Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST!
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
Make sure that the submitted posts are possible (and relatively easy) to convert into print. Posts that rely too much on video, audio, color photographs, copyrighted images, or multitudes of links just won't do.
10 days of science: Astronomical…
clock | November 24, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
D.N.Lee is working on her PhD in Animal Behavior, Mammalogy, and Ecology at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. She writes for the St.Louis Examiner, blogs on Urban Science Adventures and tweets. At the conference, Danielle will co-moderate the session Casting a wider net: Promoting gender and ethnic diversity in STEM.
Jacqueline Floyd is a geophysicist, now…
clock | November 24, 2009There are 39 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:
Alien Invasive Slider Turtle in Unpredicted Habitat: A Matter of Niche Shift or of Predictors Studied?:
Species Distribution Models (SDMs) aim on the characterization of a species' ecological niche and…
clock | November 23, 2009Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
- Arthur C. Clarke
clock | November 23, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Victoria Stodden is a Postdoctoral Associate in Law and Kauffman Fellow in Law and Innovation at Yale Law School, a fellow with the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School and a Fellow at Science Commons. She blogs and tweets. At the Conference, Victoria will lead the session on Legal Aspects of publishing, sharing and blogging…
clock | November 23, 2009There are 22 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:
Limits of Principal Components Analysis for Producing a Common Trait Space: Implications for Inferring Selection, Contingency, and Chance in Evolution:
Comparing patterns of divergence among separate…
clock | November 22, 2009Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
- Arthur C. Benson
clock | November 22, 2009Diversity in Science Carnival #4 - Increasing Diversity among the college ranks - is up on Urban Science Adventures! ©. This carnival is a preparation for the ScienceOnline2010 session Casting a wider net: Promoting gender and ethnic diversity in STEM.
clock | November 21, 2009Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
- Art Buchwald
clock | November 21, 2009Listen to Nature EdCast podcast about No Small Matter and Picturing to Learn:
In today's podcast Ilona interviews Felice Frankel, a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard and a Research Scientist at MIT. Felice is a photographer who is keenly interested in visual communication of complex concepts. To that end, she has written three books about the subject. Felice's recent effort to bring visual representation of science concepts into education culminated in the NSF-funded Picturing to Learn project. Her most recent book, No Small Matter, written with George Whitesides, illustrates nanoscience…
clock | November 21, 2009
The second annual National Day of Listening - celebrated on Friday, November 27, 2009 - is just around the corner! With your help, we hope to make the National Day of Listening an ongoing holiday tradition, when all Americans set aside time on the day after Thanksgiving to honor a friend, loved one, or member of their community by interviewing them about their lives and preserving that interview for generations to come.
We'd like to ask you to take part in this year's National Day of Listening by conducting an interview with someone you know and blogging about the experience. Here are some…
clock | November 21, 2009
Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST!
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
Make sure that the submitted posts are possible (and relatively easy) to convert into print. Posts that rely too much on video, audio, color photographs, copyrighted images, or multitudes of links just won't do (I won't even include them here -…
clock | November 21, 2009The Giant's Shoulders #17 - Darwin Sesquicentennial Edition - is up on The Primate Diaries
clock | November 21, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 11:30am - 12:35pm:
A. Legal Aspects of publishing, sharing and blogging science - Victoria Stodden
Description: Not giving legal advice, but discussion of CC-licences, copyright, Fair Use, libel laws, etc. Discuss here.
B. Shakespeare wasn't a semantic web guy - Jonathan Rees
Description: That which we call a rose, by any other name, wouldn't be identified by a computer as a rose. This talk will go through the Shared Name initiative which promotes community-wide use of…
clock | November 20, 2009I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
- Arsenio Hall