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My Death as Envisioned by Edward Gorey

Thanks to my blog sibling, Orac, I now know how I will die; What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die? You will be sucked dry by a leech. I'd stay away from swimming holes, and stick to good old cement. Even if it does hurt like hell when your toe scrapes the bottom.Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code And I thought I was going to be run over by a speeding bus. ... . tags: online quiz, Edward Gorey

National Academies to Host Seminar on Science Communication

Readers in the DC area will definitely want to check out the upcoming event on June 23 at the National Academies. Details are posted below. I hope to be able to attend and to report back on some collected remarks. It will be interesting to compare the thoughts of the assembled practitioners with the conclusions from the article we published last week at Nature Biotechnology, which synthesized relevant research in the fields of science communication, ethics, and policy and highlighted eight key recommendations. The National Academies Presents: An Educational Event on Science Communication The…

EMBL Online Symposium: No travel costs! Attend for free!

The EMBL graduate students have organized an ingenious conference titled: Life Sciences - Shaping the Future. Learn about Omics and Systems Biology from speakers like Leroy Hood, Stuart Kim, and Ronald Krause (and more). Explore options for career development, and learn how you can join the Web 2.0 science revolution in the session on scientific communication. The conference will take place Dec. 4th-8th, 2006. Don't worry if you don't have a plane ticket or a place to stay, you're virtually there. How? It's all on-line. Some of you might be wondering how a virtual conference works. 1…

Online campaigning - corporate style

It's not just McCain who does not understand the Internet, it's his operatives as well: Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web -- and you could win valuable prizes! That, in essence, is the McCain campaign's pitch to supporters to join its new online effort, one that combines the features of "AstroTurf" campaigning with the sort of customer-loyalty programs offered by airlines, hotel chains, restaurants and the occasional daily newspaper. On McCain's Web site, visitors are invited to "Spread the Word" about the presumptive Republican nominee by sending campaign-supplied…

Brian Russell is now a Social Software and Multimedia Consultant for Hire

And it is hard to find anyone better than Brian: I am now available for hire to consult on the creation, care, and feeding of online communities. Plus I can create audio and video for the web. To get an idea of my professional experience you can check out my resume here and my portfolio here. ------------------------- I'm interested in working for non-profits, businesses, and progressive political campaigns. I can help you make your own media and demonstrate how it will strengthen your mission and benefit your organization financially. But most important is communicating with customers,…

A miscellany of epistemes

Some more or less random links that I am grouping under the epistemology of philosophy of science. For those who have not reached Level 9 or higher in the Illuminati, "epistemology" has nothing to do with getting drunk, but with how knowledge is acquired (episteme means "understanding, skill or knowledge of some field"). First, Medlar Comfits has a nice essay on what science is compared to the sort of "believe authority" view of creationists. Also, this is a really nice blog I hadn't previously seen, with for instance articles on the use of English to communicate by ESL writers. Well…

Around the Web: Students & eTextbooks, PLoS Open Access Collection, A vision for scholarly publishing and more

College students will stick to paper books Open Access Collection (PLoS) A Vision for the Future of Scholarly Publishing How to Become A Social Media Influencer: Ten Small Steps The Declining Value of Subscription-based Abstracting and Indexing Services in the New Knowledge Dissemination Era Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online Attempt to replicate "arsenic life" experiment fails A Most Optimistic Unconference: Publishers, Libraries, and Independent Bookstores at Digital Book World 2012 Publishing's Ecosystem on the Brink: The Backstory Saint Zuck Is uncivil behaviour hijacking…

Student guest post: Chirp, Chirp, Sneeze!

Student guest post by Julia Wiederholt I don’t think there is a single person that can claim to have never had the joyous experience (sarcasm intended) of suffering from the influenza.  We all recognize the common symptoms that accompany this infectious little virus taking up residence in our bodies: the chills accompanying a fever, the total body ache, the nausea, and overall feeling of malaise.  Typically this virus comes and goes within a week without serious side effects.  When novel strains of the influenza pop up however, there can be more serious complications as your body lacks a…

Use Your Opposable Thumb to Make A Difference: Vote!

How can you resist doing as the Bard of the Internetz asks? She should be first on any list -- GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist! Let no one's vote be lost or miss'd -- GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist! Let one and all her cause assist -- Come join with me; I must insist! Just move your fingers, hands, and wrist -- GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist! Come raise your voice and clench your fist -- GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist! Come march, or strut, or do the twist -- GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist! Her cause is just; you can't resist; Don't let her lose, or I'll be pissed! (I'll stop for now -- you've got the…

Evolution: Education and Outreach dedicates issue to Genie Scott

The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach (volume 3, number 2) is in honor of -- if a few months in advance of -- the sixty-fifth birthday of NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott. Edited by NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch (who contributed "Three wishes for Genie" by way of introduction), it contains essays by Nicholas J. Matzke, Robert T. Pennock, Barbara Forrest, Raymond Arthur Eve with Susan Carol Losh and Brandon Nzekwe, Lawrence M. Krauss, Robert M. Hazen, Kevin Padian, Jay D. Wexler, Kenneth R. Miller, Brian Alters, and Carl Zimmer. Plus there's a biographical…

How online dating will make slaves of us all

This is aimed as a companion piece to my article published in the Times Eureka magazine on the mathematics of matchmaking. There isn't room in a serious newspaper for flights of sci-fi fantasy, but the technology I saw while researching that article left my head reeling with the possibilities that lay ahead. To recap: most matchmaking engines online work on a system of collaborative filtering. By studying how you behave, they create a personality profile and compare this to other users on the site. When they find someone who acts in a similar way to you, they use this person's activity to…

Just who are you, anyway? Personas.

I don't often point people to online game-like interactive thingies, but this one has my endorsement. Give yourself a few minutes to watch the process. It can be gruesome: Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, recently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. Click here to get started. If it is…

How to get scientists to adopt web 2.0 technologies - Obligatory Reading of the Day

Eva Amsen: How to get scientists to adopt web 2.0 technologies: Many, if not most, scientists are not in the habit of putting things online. The ones that are might be tempted by the concept of sharing the papers they read, letting everyone look at their lab notebook, joining a forum or writing a blog. If you're reading this in your RSS feed or clicked through from FriendFeed, you're probably one of those people. But think about your friends and colleagues who only turn on their computer for work and e-mail. They're not going to tag their favourite papers or discuss the process of research…

The SSA needs YOU

Our trip to the Creation "Museum" was sponsored and organized by the Secular Student Alliance, a wonderful organization that helps build and support freethought on college campuses all across the country. The meeting this past weekend, for instance, was for training student representatives in how to grow and maintain their campus groups. I have good news and bad news, though. Here's the good news, and it is exceptional, wonderful, excellent news: secular student groups are booming, popping up all over the place, and there's no end in sight. Look how SSA has grown: The bad news, though, is a…

Want to boycott stuff? There's an app for that.

Vote with your wallet. Tired of the Koch Brothers ruining everything for everybody? Prefer to buy products from companies that contribute to Sandy relief? Do you just want to know which major megacorporation produced the item you are considering putting in your shopping cart? Wouldn't it be nice to have an app that allowed you to scan the product's bar codes and quickly determine which evile empire you are supporting, or avoiding supporting, with your purchasing decision. Well, there is, and it is called Buycott. Click here to see iOS version From the app developers: How Buycott works -…

United Against the Axe

House Republicans are pushing a bill that would cut funding for the National Institutes of Health by $1.6 billion, over five percent. Isis the Scientist issues a call to action, saying "Whether you are a scientist, a student, or a member of the public interested in the future of science, I join with Dr. Talman in asking you to call your Congressional Representatives and ask them to oppose HR1." DrugMonkey offers a cheat sheet full of facts, figures, and talking points so we can know what we're talking about when we contact our representatives. Orac calls the savings "minimal and symbolic…

Write some letters to save the Tripoli six.

As Revere notes, the trial of the Tripoli six is scheduled to resume on October 31. This means the time for serious action is now. As Mike Dunford points out, If you want to do something more than just get mad, if you want to try to change things, you will need to do more than read blog articles and post comments. You need to write people. You need to call people. You need to send faxes and emails. Honest to goodness, a letter on paper, in an envelope, addressed and stamped to get to its destination, is going to signal that this really matters to you in a way that emails will not -- because…

Awards for Environmental Reporting Announced

The Metcalfe Institute at the University of Rhode Island has announced its 2008 Grantham Prize winners for environmental reporting. The series "Choking on Growth" by The NY Times on China and its problems with environmental sustainability takes first prize. Details below the fold. For DC readers, they are holding a very interesting panel event and reception at the Newseum on Monday, Sept. 8 that is well worth attending. Details also below the fold. Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography Narragansett, Rhode Island…

Science Cafe Raleigh - Our bodies: the Final Frontier

From the NC Museum of Natural Sciences: OUR BODIES: The Final Frontier Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 6:30-8:30 pm with discussion beginning at 7:00 followed by Q&A Location: Tir Na Nog 218 South Blount Street, Raleigh, 833-7795 We have come to think of the world as known. It isn't. Even basic parts of our own bodies remain totally unexplored. For example, have you ever stopped to wonder why you are naked? Aside from naked mole rats, we are among the only land mammals to be essentially devoid of hair. Why? Join us for a discussion about the human body and its adaptations…

The World Science podcast/forum: May Berenbaum - DDT vs. Malaria: The Lesser of Two Evils?

The World is a radio show co-produced by WGBH Boston, Public Radio International and BBC. You can probably hear it on your local NPR station - if not, you can find all the shows recorded on the website. You may remember that I went to Boston a few months ago, as a part of a team of people helping the show do something special: use the NSF grant they recently received to expand their science coverage and, in collaboration with Sigma Xi and NOVA, tie their radio science coverage to their online offerings. The result is The World: Science website, a series of weekly science podcasts with Elsa…

The Evilest Spam EVAH!

I received the most bizarre spam email. It claims to be from the company that makes Guinness: Guinness Online Lottery. Diageo Ireland P.O. Box 1759, Killorglin, Co. Kerry Ireland www.guinness.com THE GUINNESS COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded draws held by Guinness Company. Your E-mail was among the 5 Lucky winners who won £2,500,000.00 GBP (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand, British Pound Sterling's) each in the Guinness Company online Lottery. This draw is being organized to enhance awareness and publicity of the…

Darwin's diary images online

Courtesy of the inimitable Jason Grossman, who passes such things along to me, comes this announcement from the even more inimitable John van Whye who is responsible for the Darwin online project: Friends of Mr Darwin may be interested to learn that images of his diary or 'Journal' (DAR158) now join the online transcription (provided by the Correspondence Project). The transcription and new images can be seen here. I am of course aghast that Dr van Whye failed to note that Darwin died with a doctorate honoris causa, and hence should be called Dr Darwin, even at the risk of confusing him…

Newsflash! Mercola bemoans ignorance of Americans! Offers to help for only $25/month!

I'm off to the west coast (of Michigan) for a few days, and if I don't blog, I shall die...or something. So I have a few posts from my old blog to share with you. This is rich. This is really rich. Mercola is speaking out against the one thing that keeps him in business: the scientific illiteracy and credulity of Americans. He bemoans ignorance that leads to beliefs such as "the Sun revolves around the Earth", or the bird flu panic. Then, presumably with a straight face, he invites you to join his "inner circle", further perpetuating ignorance, and relieving you of the inconvenience carrying…

Science's online education prize

Science has an award for online education resources (cutely named "SPORE"), and they want nominations by June 30. Here are their criteria: Rules of Eligibility for SPORE-2009: * The project must focus on science education. * The resources described must be freely available on the Internet. * The project can be targeted to students or teachers at the precollege or college level, or it can serve the informal education needs of the general public. * The Internet resources must be in English or include an English translation. * Nominations are welcome from all sources. Both…

Global Hunger Games

Hunger Games - World Food Programme. Hunger Games portrays a grim future in which the "bottom 99%" must ration their food to reduce the chance that their children will be sent as "tributes" to compete in a game to the death. But - What if, together, we can identify thousands of new paths out of poverty around the world in just 48 hours? Imagine thousands of Katniss Everdeen-inspired avatars battling hunger - for real. {Today} the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) will join forces with people across the globe and ask them to help solve global poverty through…

Feederwatch: A course in art focusing on birds

Here is the website, here is the Facebook page, and here is the writeup: Feeder Sketch is an 8 week free one line casual course. You can come and go as you please. No requirements, and any level of participation is welcome (from just seeing what it is, to drawing 2 times a week for and hour). Join us if you are just learning to draw or are an illustration superstar. A novice birder - or someone who can identify a bird by just a few little chirps. Everyone is welcome! If you just want a weekly reminder about the group, you can hit maybe here, and stay updated. Who are "we"? We are staff and…

Around the Web: Disruption, disruption, disruption and more disruption

Silicon Valley goes to school – notes on Californian capitalism and the ‘disruption’ of public education The End of Higher Education’s Golden Age The Death Of Expertise Closing Time for the Open Internet Tech Workers, Political Speech and Economic Threat Does Ikea Hold The Secret To The Future Of College? Let’s Be Real: Online Harassment Isn’t ‘Virtual’ For Women Can Pearson Solve the Rubric’s Cube? Who Takes MOOCs? For online higher education, the devil is in the data Making It: Pick up a spot welder and join the revolution Higher Education Is Now Ground Zero For Disruption Stupid Simple…

Some AAAS links

Links in this post are those that pertain to me or the session I was in - I will link to some others later (and I already did on Twitter): Columbia Journalism Review: Online and Overseas: Less hand-wringing over state of science journalism Physicsworld.com: Researchers! Join the Twitterati! Or perish! Thoughts From Kansas: AAAS Day 3: Social media in science Scientificblogging.com: Science Journalists Have Met The Enemy, And They Are Bloggers UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering: Interesting session at AAAS john hawks weblog: AAAS A Blog Around The Clock: AAAS 2010 meeting - the Press…

Around the Web: The end of academic library circulation, Teens & Twitter and more

The End of Academic Library Circulation? Print on the Margins: Circulation Trends in Major Research Libraries Teens join Twitter to escape parents on Facebook: survey Teens slowly migrating to Twitter Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition Is Facebook Really a Good Business? Who Does Google Think You Are? A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age Social Media and Privacy The (Not So) Inevitable Future of Digital Textbooks Social Anxiety (ups and downs of post-pub online peer review) 5 Foundational Principles for Course Design The nine golden rules of…

World AIDS Day and Techie Tuesday in RTP

TECHIE TUESDAY "Celebration of Life" Research Triangle Global Health Excellence & World AIDS Day Date: December 1, 2009 Time: 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm Location: RTP Headquarters - 12 Davis Drive Catering By: Nantucket Café & Neomonde Did you know the Triangle region is a center of excellence in global health? Help celebrate World AIDS Day and find out how RTP companies and stakeholders are making an impact on HIV/AIDS and other important global health concerns. Global health organizations in the Park are helping people live longer, more productive lives by working to address HIV/AIDS and…

AU Students Debate the Internet's Impact on Society, Part B

This fall in the sophomore-level course I teach on "Communication and Society," we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter the nature of community, civic engagement, and social relationships. For college students who grew up online, it's easy to take for granted the virtual society we live in, seldom pausing to consider how it might be different from more traditional forms of community life. Therefore, one of the goals of the course was to encourage students to think systematically and rigorously about the many changes…

Join Us in a National Grassroots Movement to Enhance Science Education Through Outreach Satellite Networks

As a founder and organizer of the upcoming inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival, I'm in frequent contact with a wide range of teachers, students, innovators, community leaders, entrepreneurs and decision makers in science and technology across the country. One thing that I continue to learn from these experiences: There is a growing need out there, even a grassroots desire, among average Americans to understand and connect in meaningful ways with the vast array of science and technology impacting their lives today -- provided that this information is presented to them through…

BEYOND THE BUZZ: Understanding Science Blogs and Their Impact; Panel Discussion Sponsored by DC Science Writers

For readers in the Beltway, I will be presenting at this upcoming panel on blogging sponsored by the DC Science Writers Association. It's free if you don't plan to partake in the food and beverages before hand. Here's the scoop on what I will be discussing, followed by details on the full event: Science Blogs: The Intersection with Science, the Media, and the Public Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Communication American University How does blog reading connect to traditional and online news use? Do political and science blogs reach new and diverse audiences, or only…

Where are the Trapped Miners??: Urgent Need for Tracking System

Join an on-line chat at 1:00 pm today (8/16) on technology to locate trapped miners. On day 11, the rescue efforts continue for the six trapped miners at a Utah coal mine.  A third borehole (2") punctured the mine workings yesterday afternoon to allow a camera to be lowered into the mine to scan for any sign of the miners.  With each borehole drilled and each camera-search, the questions being repeated across the nation are "where are the miners?" and "why don't we know more precisely where they are in the mine?"  After the Sago disaster, family members, worker advocates and coal…

Image and Meaning

If I was not already scheduled to appear on a panel in Wisconsin at the same time, I would have loved to go to this: The fourth Image and Meaning workshop, IM2.4, part of the Envisioning Science Program at Harvard's IIC will be held Oct. 25 and 26, 2007, Thursday and Friday, at the Hilles library on the Harvard campus. Application deadline is September 17, 2007 Scientists, graphic designers, writers, animators and others are invited to join us and LEARN FROM EACH OTHER while exploring solutions to problems in the visual expression of concepts and data in science and engineering. This will…

I got the poison?

While I'm back on the subject of autism, I thought I'd post this video that Kevin Leitch created while I was on vacation and posted to YouTube. Let's just say that it takes a rather dim view of autism "advocates," particularly the autism=mercury poisoning crowd. I particularly love the picture of J. B. Handley that Kev found. It's also amusing to note that J. B. made an appearance in the comments of Kev's post, and he was not pleased. Also, if you're wondering what the whole "Illuminati" thing is about, Kev explains here. Not to be outdone, Autism Diva produced her own contribution (below…

Lecture on Emerging Media & Science at Mt. Sinai

If you are in the NY area, you might want to consider coming to this talk that is being organized by Kate. The title is "DISCUSSION ON THE ROLES OF EMERGING MEDIA OUTLETS IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE." It is taking place tomorrow (Thursday) at 7 pm in the Mt. Sinai East Building Seminar Room. (The East Building is located at 1425 Madison Ave. @ 98th St.) The discussion features among other fellow ScienceBlogger Carl Zimmer, of the NYTimes. Kate and I will also be there, and SEED is sponsoring. So come on by. More information below the fold. UPDATE by Kate: Yes, folks, Jake Young will…

"The Tripoli Six" campaign

The science blogosphere is responding magnificently to the dire circumstances of six medical colleagues, on trial for their lives in a courtroom in Tripoli, Libya. Declan Butler, Nature's senior correspondent who wrote the story in the world's premier science journal this week, is collecting the blogosphere links and stories over at the science social bookmarking site, Connotea. In less than 24 hours since we began to rally our colleagues in the blogosphere there have been more than 30, many right here in the Science Blogs stable, but also in some of the highest traffic blogs on the net:…

PLoS One and Why I Believe In Open Access

I am very excited that the new year brings an exciting opportunity for me. I was solicited, and I accepted an Academic Editor position with the open-access journal PLoS One. PLoS one invited me to join to increase the presence of ecological and marine biological studies at the journal. Many of you may have noticed my hints in the last month. For those of you who don't know, or have a skewed view, here is what the open-access concept represents. Publications are full text, peer-reviewed articles, that occur online and can be accessed at no charge to the user. Note that these are permanent…

Got a study? Want to be in a study? This is the place.

More and more studies are online these days, which means that researchers can find a whole new array of participants for their studies, and anyone who's interested can become a real part of cutting-edge research. But how can researchers find interested research subjects -- and how can people who want to participate find the studies that are interesting to them? We think we might be able to help. If you're conducting an online psychology study, or really any study that can be conducted remotely, just put all the vital details in a comment below. Your study will appear in the "recent comments"…

Cool linky stuff for science undergrads (15): What it's like to understand advanced mathematics, How to write your first math paper and more

I have a son who will be finishing up his undergrad in physics this coming school year with an eye towards possible graduate work in math. As you can imagine, I occasionally see a link or two on the web that I think he might particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps a) this kind of post might be more efficient and b) other undergrad students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog. What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? How to Write Your First Paper How to write proofs: a quick…

Ethics in the Science Classroom

From NWABR: Would you like to integrate ethics into your science classroom, but aren't sure which topics to address or teaching methods to use? Do you feel that ethics is important to include in science education, but feel uncomfortable with your own lack of background knowledge? Have you observed how students' motivation to learn content increases when science is discussed within its social and ethical context? Come to the Ethics in the Science Classroom workshop and learn more! Who is this for? Secondary Science Teachers Program dates: July 16-20, 2007 (participants may arrive July 15…

Cooling the Planet with Geoengineering

At World Science - listen to the podcast and join the online discussion: Our guest in this Science Forum is economist Scott Barrett of Columbia University's Earth Institute. Chat with Barrett about the science and politics of geoengineering, the emerging field of science aimed at cooling the planet. Barrett is an expert on international environmental agreements. He is currently studying the politics and economics of geoengineering. He says countries are more likely to geoengineer climate than reduce their carbon emissions. Read his paper on The Incredible Economics of Geoengineering. Barrett…

Arkansans…are you aware of the shame brought on your state?

These are the words of Clint McCance, a school board member in the Midland school district of Arkansas. He was a little bit annoyed that people in his school were wearing purple in remembrance of students who had been bullied into suicide. Being a fag doesn't give you the right to ruin the rest of our lives. If you get easily offended by being called a fag then don't tell anyone you are a fag. Keep that shit to yourself. It pisses me off though that we make a special purple fag day for them. I like that fags cant procreate. I also enjoy the fact that they often give each other aids and die.…

Shelley in Newsweek

Newsweek has a story online today about a passage, in a book published by Wiley, that was recently discovered to have been plagiarized (D'oh!) from Wikipedia. Fellow ScienceBlogger Shelley of Retrospectacle gets a mention, though, for her run-in with Wiley earlier this year over her inclusion of a few figures from a Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture article in a blog post... a post that just so happened to be slightly critical of the article's press release. From Newsweek: In an ironic wrinkle, this isn't Wiley's first embarrassing encounter with new media. In April, Shelley…

Senate to Vote on Mandatory Public Access to NIH Research Results

Via A Blog Around the Clock comes news that the Senate will be voting on mandatory public access to NIH research later this month (on September 28, apparently). Such a bill has already passed the House (in July 2007). The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is urging citizens to contact their Senators in support of this legislation. Check out the site for more information and for Senator contact information. The Alliance for Taxpayer Access offers these talking points: American taxpayers are entitled to open access on the Internet to the peer-reviewed scientific articles on research funded by…

Electronic Jihad 2.0

11/11 is to be the new 9/11, according to the jihad-watchers at href="http://www.debka.com/" rel="tag">DEBKAfile.   href="http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4723">DEBKAfile Exclusive: Al Qaeda declares Cyber Jihad on the West October 30, 2007, 9:23 AM (GMT+02:00) In a special Internet announcement in Arabic, picked up DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources, Osama bin Laden's followers announced Monday, Oct. 29, the launching of Electronic Jihad. On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda's electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites. On…

Harvard Panel with Andrew Revkin on "Climate Scientists, Skeptics, & the Media"

For readers at Harvard, I will be participating in a panel discussion at the Kennedy School of Government on Thurs. Feb. 4 from noon to 2pm. Details are below and at this link. The big draw, of course, will be fellow panelist Andrew Revkin, making one of his first public appearances since taking a buyout from his full time position at the New York Times. February 4, 2010 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm Contact Name: Christine Russell Cristine_Russell@hks.harvard.edu Harvard Kennedy School Nye B/C, Taubman Building, 5th Floor 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA "The Public Divide Over Climate Change: Scientists…

Announcing: ScienceBlogs and National Geographic

Dear Readers, It is our great pleasure to bring you news of an exciting new partnership, starting today, between ScienceBlogs and National Geographic. ScienceBlogs and National Geographic have at their cores the same ultimate mission: to cultivate widespread interest in science and the natural world. Starting today, we will work together to advance this common mission through new content, applications, and initiatives. We will bring acclaimed voices from National Geographic into our rich discussion on ScienceBlogs, and National Geographic will invite their worldwide audience to join the…

From pandemic flu to Wal-Mart, brought to you without comment

Dr. John Agwunobe is the federal official in charge of the US Public Health SErvie Commission Corps and of coordinating the nation's response to pandemic influenza. At least he will be until the end of this month. Announcement from Department of Health and Human Services: For Immediate Release Contact: HHS Press Office August 7, 2007 202/690-6343 STATEMENT FROM HHS SECRETARY MIKE LEAVITT ON THE RESIGNATION OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH DR. JOHN…