clock | November 16, 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.
Stacy Baker has changed schools since last year, but she's coming back nonetheless, again with eight of her students. As you may remember, her session on the use of the Web in middle/high science classroom from the perspective of the Facebook generation was the Big Hit of ScienceOnline09. Miss Baker has developed a classroom website and blog, she tweets and also…
clock | November 15, 2009Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
- Ansel Adams
clock | November 15, 2009A reader sent me this picture, asking for an ID - it was taken in upstate New York:
clock | November 15, 2009
If you go either to the page that lists all the Friday morning Workshops or the main Saturday/Sunday Program page you will see that each session has a title, names (and links to homepages) of moderators and a brief description.
Now, you can also see that at the end of each description there is a link that says "Discuss here". If you click on any of those links, you will be transported to the individual wiki page of that particular session/demo/workshop.
Moderators have been asked to use those individual pages. They may expand the description so it's longer. They may put their notes there.…
clock | November 15, 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 14, 2009I sometimes think Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the common people.
- Archbishop of Canterbury
clock | November 14, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 10:15 - 11:20am:
A. Demos
- FieldTripEarth - Mark MacAllister and Russ Williams
Description: Field Trip Earth (FTE) is the conservation education website operated by the North Carolina Zoological Society. FTE works closely with field-based wildlife researchers and provides their "raw materials"--field journals, photos, datasets, GIS maps, and so on--to K-12 teachers and students. The website is in use by classrooms in all 50 US states and 140 countries world-wide, and was…
clock | November 13, 2009Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
- Antoinette Bosco
clock | November 13, 2009Carnival of the Blue #30 is up on OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE!
I and the Bird #113 is up on The Modern Naturalist
Friday Ark #269 is up on Modulator
Circus of the Spineless #44 is up on Marmorkrebs
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 7 are up on Crzegrl, flight nurse
Carnival of the Green #202 is up on Pure Natural Diva
clock | November 13, 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.
Antony Williams is the Vice President of Strategic Development for ChemSpider at Royal Society of Chemistry. He lives in Raleigh, NC, blogs on ChemSpider blog and tweets. At the conference, Antony will be quite busy - he will co-moderate the session "Citizen Science and Students", give two Ignite talks ""Crowdsourced Chemistry - Why Online Chemistry Data Needs Your…
clock | November 13, 2009There are 17 new articles published yesterday and 24 new articles today in PLoS ONE. 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:
Norwegian Physicians' Knowledge of and Opinions about Evidence-Based Medicine: Cross-Sectional Study:
Objective
To answer five research questions: Do Norwegian…
clock | November 12, 2009The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
clock | November 12, 2009From Sigma Xi and SCONC:
American Scientist Pizza Lunch convenes again at noon, Tuesday, Nov. 24 at Sigma Xi's headquarters in Research Triangle Park.
The speaker will be Alex Huang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State University. Prof. Huang is directly engaged with trying to reduce this country's dependence on carbon-emitting fossil fuels. He directs a national research center working on a redesign of the nation's power grid to better integrate alternative energy sources and new storage methods.
American Scientist Pizza Lunch is free and open to science…
clock | November 12, 2009
Reminder: Deadline is November 30th at midnight EST!
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 440 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are 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):
10 days of science: Astronomical art: Representing Planet Earth
2020 Science: Hooked on science - ten things that inspired me to…
clock | November 12, 2009
A record number of bloggers from scienceblogs.com are coming to the meeting - I have already introduced a bunch of them. Here are a few more, and that's still not all of them.
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.
Sandra Porter is a microbiologist and molecular biologist. She produces educational materials and bioinformatics tools at Digital World Biology, she blogs and tweets. At the conference, Sandy…
clock | November 11, 2009I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.
- Anthony Robbins
clock | November 11, 2009
Continuing with the introductions... I got some nice positive feedback about this series - makes it easier for people to get to know everyone little by little instead of digging through the entire list of everyone who's registered for the conference all at once.
Rebecca Skloot is an accomplished science writer, currently excited about the publication of her first book (to universal accolades) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. She is a SciBling, blogging here on Culture Dish and can be found on Twitter. The Keynote Speaker at last year's conference, this time Rebecca will lead three…
clock | November 11, 2009There are 23 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:
Biomechanics of Running Indicates Endothermy in Bipedal Dinosaurs:
One of the great unresolved controversies in paleobiology is whether extinct dinosaurs were endothermic, ectothermic, or some combination…
clock | November 10, 2009Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo