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Quorum Sensing and the Blogosphere as a Superorganism

A microbiological metaphor for the blogosphere (from November 27, 2005): Heh! I always wanted to write this post. Being lazy is actually good sometimes. Just wait long enough and, lo and behold, someone else will write your post! Saves you time and energy. Daniel Conover, whom I had great pleasure to meet in person at the ConvergeSouth conference, wrote a very thought-provoking post: Bacteria, blogs, holographic consciousness and The Singularity. There is a lot of biology there, but that is just a pretext for trying to understand what the Internet, and blogs in particular, are growing up to…

What Food Stamp Cuts Mean: The Picture Book Edition

The Washington Independent ran pictures taken by Joel Berg, the executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, showing what a week's worth of food stamps will buy you: Remember this amount of food includes supplemental funding from the ARRA. Here's what one week looks like when you get rid off the supplemental funding: Here's what will be lost: First, I'm not seeing a whole lot of caviar or filet mignon here. Second, how the hell is a child supposed to learn on a diet like this? (I bet teachers unions are behind this somehow...).

Scilla siberica

Spring is coming slowly, but it's finally coming. These squills have been awakened by heat radiating from our house, but still they reach for the sun. In other news, Discover Magazine continues to buy over top Sb bloggers, and I have finally learned the story behind the state of Oklahoma's weird panhandled outline. Briefly put, it ended up that way because the state of Texas allowed slavery but the Union allowed it only south of a certain line. And so when Texas joined the Union, it ceded a ribbon of land that was north of the slavery line.

Lowe's or Home Depot?

If you're considering purchasing some supplies for home repair from one of the mega-chains, you might want to consider their advertising policies. Archy makes a good case that you should shop at Lowe's—they don't support barking mad reactionary freaks. Of course, it's a bit irrelevant to me, since I don't have either one near me. Instead, we've got four or five small locally owned hardware stores. Their owners might be sympathetic to Bill O'Reilly, but they don't have enough money to buy air time on his show.

I approve this purchase

The Talk Origins Archive Foundation is bidding to buy the movie Expelled from its bankrupt owner. They're looking for donations to use in bidding in the auction (note: donations will be used for this purpose, but they obviously can't guarantee they'll win; if they don't, the money will be used to support the foundation in other ways). I think it would be wonderful and ironic if the most heavily promoted creationist propaganda film of the decade and its unused footage became the property of a science education organization, so help them out if you can.

Cat loses weight on underwater treadmill!!

You have to see this to believe it. This video from CNN shows how a 31-pound cat is losing weight by walking on an underwater treadmill. I wonder how they were able to get this cat to even stay in the water. I think my cat would lose more weight in the process of fighting to stay out of the water. I would also have to buy A LOT of bandaids before attempting it. In fact, I am pretty sure the cat in this YouTube video "saying no" to a bath is a close relative of my cat:

State of the Wild

550 cites will have populations of more than 1 million by 2015. 58% of the known human pathogens are zoonotic - they can jump between humans and animals. 371 people have been diagnosed with avian influenza as of March 2008, including 235 deaths. 5,000 western lowland gorillas have died from Ebola virus over the past several year. Visit Wildlife Conservation Society's State of the Wild website (or buy the book) to learn more about the state of the wild. You can also watch video presentations of the recent event in New York City.

Electric Wave Park

A new blog I discovered, and seem strangely drawn to, is Information Junk, the findings of a San Franciscan librarian. Via IJ, I see that PG&E has agreed to buy power from a "wave park". No it's not a water park with lots of tourists creating energy through unspeakable means. Rather it's eight buoys bobbing in the water 2 1/2 miles offshore of Northern California, each buoy generating electricity as it rises and falls with the waves. The array, schedule for completion in 2012, will produce enough wattage to light 1,500 hundreds homes or 5 during Christmas.

Around the Web: On women science bloggers

Since the Perils of blogging as a woman under a real name panel at ScienceOnline 2011 there's been quite a bit of commentary floating around the science blogosphere about how women are represented within that community. A kind of introduction: The perils women sciencebloggers face are not that different than those we face in the real world... though the exposure of the internet can occasionally make it less safe. And the risks that women avoid out in the world, are not unlike those we avoid in the blogosphere. That was one of many important conclusions made in the panel Sheril Kirshenbaum,…

Education and Outreach at ScienceOnline2010

Every year, we pay special attention to sessions that explore the use of the Web in science education. This year is no different - there are several sessions to choose from: Citizen Science and Students - Sandra Porter, Tara Richerson (science_goddess), and Antony Williams Description: Students are a great resource for projects that require large numbers of volunteers. We will discuss examples of projects that combine student learning with authentic research and the power of blogs to connect students with projects. Discuss here. Science Education: Adults - Darlene Cavalier Description: "…

Education and Outreach at ScienceOnline2010

I Hate the Great Firewall

Here's just short note to tell you, Dear Reader, that the Great Firewall of China is fucking annoying. I am unable to access Twitter, Facebook, any Blogspot blog and often most of Google's services including Gmail. Meanwhile, the Chinese populace is so closely keyed in to what's happening in the West that girls in remote Qingtian are wearing exactly the same ultrashort denim shorts as their contemporaries in Stockholm this spring. But I guess the Great Firewall is intended to keep domestic dissidents from reaching an audience as much as or more than to keep the Chinese from learning about the…

Not Exactly Rocket Science on Amazon!!

My book's listed on Amazon! Now, because it's published print-on-demand, I think that Amazon will continue to list it as "Out of stock" until it gets about 5 or so orders in. When they have proof that people will actually buy it, they'll actually keep some copies in stock. Sooo... If you're interested in the book and don't mind about when you get it, please order a copy from Amazon. If you want a copy before Christmas, I'd recommend ordering from Lulu (and before 12 December). If you've already ordered a copy of the book and read it, I'd be grateful for any reviews on Amazon that you…

Holy crap: Trust

One of the many reasons why I love being a science blogger, is it lets normal people peek into the lives of scientists and our culture. I joked at a recent OKC Atheists meeting that no one would ever make a reality TV show about my lab work-- while it is conceptually awesome, its just not fun to sit and watch (someone needs to do a montage of a Western Blot to the 'Rocky' theme). But I can do little blog posts about the scientific culture, like this one. If there is one word I would use to summarize being a scientist, its 'trust'. Yes, we are highly critical of one anothers work. But we…

Links for 2012-03-21

Drug smuggler? Victim of scholar envy? UNC prof in Argentine jail - Crime/Safety - NewsObserver.com A 68-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill physics professor with three degrees from Oxford University is being held in an Argentine prison on charges of trying to smuggle two kilograms of cocaine. Paul H. Frampton, who holds the title Louis D. Rubin Jr. Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, said in a telephone interview that he was arrested Jan. 23 at the airport in Buenos Aires after the drugs were found in his checked luggage en route to Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Frampton said he…

The Queen Surveys the Scene

"What the hell is this?" "We're remodeling the garage into a family room." "Oooh! That's a good idea!" "Thanks. We're so glad you approve." "So, where are you going to put the bunny hutch?" "I beg your pardon?" "For me to keep my bunnies in!" "You don't have any bunnies." "Not yet, I don't, but now that we'll have room, you can buy me some. I can play with them in here, or out in my yard..." "Ah, no. I don't think so. We won't be buying you any bunnies." "Then why did you buy the bunny hutch?" "The what?" "The hutch. The thing with the hard mattress surrounded by bars, upstairs. It's for…

The futility of being Cheri Yecke

Yecke, Minnesota's former odious education commissioner, is now campaigning to be odious education commissioner for the state of Florida. Her history in our fair state is now a bit of a stain on her reputations, so she hired a company called "reputationdefender" to sanitize the internet for her. This company googles up people who have said unkind things about their clients and sends out email threats to them, telling them to take it down. Their first target: gentle Wesley Elsberry. What's particularly weird about this is that the post in question is simply a collection of news clippings with…

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…

This Should Be the Progressive Economic Argument: It's the Employment Deficit, Stupid

Mind you, I'm not talking about 'framing', but simply the justification for the policy (I'll the propaganda for another time). I'm encouraged that Matthew Yglesias, who writes for the Center for American Progress, a progressive outfit, has stumbled into modern monetary theory (italics mine): Does anyone seriously deny that there's something these people could be doing that would be more useful than being unemployed? Now ask yourself this. Suppose you had more money. Would you buy more goods and services? I would. And if more people were buying more goods and services, then wouldn't firms…

are we kidding ourselves

Julianne gets an invitation I too got the invite, to the 11th Birmingham-Nottingham Extragalactic Workshop - 1st Announcement on "Semi-analytic models - are we kidding ourselves?" Great title. Great topic. Nice lineup. A workshop I'd truly like to be at. But I won't 'cause it conflicts with other obligations. On a different note, driving through small town America this weekend, I saw a billboard ad for a new sub-urban McMansionish development. The ad offered people a one year "mortgage holiday" if they'd buy and move in - the glimpse from the highway did not tell me if this was a genuine "…

Notable Women in the Physical Sciences

Did you ever hear the expression, "You're a real card!" Well, if you are a notable woman in the physical sciences, you just might be a card! My sister has a project, and Amanda and my niece Koren and some others are involved, that puts notable women in the physical sciences on cards, with a bit of biographical information. The idea is to underscore women in STEM while at the same time getting cards! The long term model is to sell the cards to interested buyers, such as YOU, and use the net thusly obtained to get decks into classrooms. So, here's what you need to do. Click here, and buy…

More on arsenic anticancer drugs

Nearly two months ago, we spoke here of the surprising use of arsenic trioxide (Trisenox) in treating various cancers. Trisenox, approved in the US in 2000 for treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), is also being investigated for other hematologic malignancies. Now, the 23 Jul issue of Business Week reports on a company making second-generation arsenicals that are believed to have less toxicity since the arsenic is linked to organic functional groups: But the arsenic that Ziopharm uses in its Darinaparsin (ZIO-101) is organic, which reduces most toxic side effects, [Ziopharm CEO Dr…

bioephemera's 2008 Classroom of Curiosity Challenge!

Today is the first day of the annual DonorsChoose Blogger challenge! As you may know, DonorsChoose is a website devoted to funding lessons dreamed up by creative (but underfunded) teachers. Everyone knows that teachers routinely spend their own time and money to create inspiring experiences for their students - and that those teachers don't get paid nearly enough to give their classes everything they need. That's why i'm asking you, readers and friends, to help fund the bioephemera Classroom of Curiosity Challenge. Inspired by the Cabinet of Curiosities theme, the requests in my challenge…

Tina Rosenberg misleads again

Tina Rosenberg has an extremely misleading article in the New York Times touting DDT as a magic bullet against malaria. The give away in such articles is the way the author never mentions resistance to DDT. Here's the only mention of resistance: Throughout Africa, until recently, countries were using chloroquine to cure malaria, a medicine that cost pennies, and so could be bought by rural families. But mosquitoes had become resistant to it. This isn't even correct. The malaria parasite, not mosquitoes, has become resistant to chloroquine. Rosenberg's failure to mention resistance is…

Friday Flotsam: All quiet in North Korea, what to watch for at Katla and the Kilauea lava lake

Quick hits to wrap up the week: Looking into a skylight at Kilauea. Image taken July 8, 2010, courtesy of HVO/USGS. Following up some news about Changbaishan/Changbai caldera in North Korea, Yang Qingfu, director of earthquake and volcano analysis and forecast center with the seismology bureau of northeast China's Jilin Province, says that the volcano appears to be quiet and that there are no signs of an impending eruption - at least not in the next dozen years. The bigger news (in my mind) is that China will be installing full monitoring (gravity, deformation, electromagnetics, fluid…

End World Hunger Vocabulary Quiz

tags: vocabulary, United Nations, free rice, online quiz This linked online vocabulary game has an interesting premise; for every correct answer you provide, twenty grains of rice will be donated to the United Nations to end world hunger (they increased their reward from ten grains of rice). This game was invented by a man who was trying to help his son improve his vocabulary in preparation for the SATs. How many grains of rice did you donate?

National Conference on Science and Technology in Out of School Time

Registration now open for the first National Conference on Science and Technology in Out of School Time - Chicago, September 17-19, 2008: Join us at the first National Conference on Science in Out of School Time, September 17-19, 2008. Registration is now open at www.scienceafterschoolconference.org The conference is being organized by Project Exploration and the Coalition for Science After School; it's designed for program leaders, researchers, funders and policy makers. We're putting a particular emphasis on equity and access issues. Conference features include: - A special welcome…

Left vs. Right online

There has been a lot of chatter on the interwebs (for years, but again now) about the differences between the ways the political Left and Right use the Internet and blogs: GOP losing the new-media war: .......The right is engaged in the business of opining while the left features sites that offer a more reportorial model. At first glance, these divergent approaches might not seem consequential. But as the 2008 campaign progresses, it's becoming increasingly clear that the absence of any websites on the right devoted to reporting -- as opposed to just commenting on the news -- is proving…

On women science bloggers, in chronological order #scio11

The women science bloggers conversation is getting so long and elongated, I thought it would be interesting and, I hope, useful to put all the posts in rough chronological order. By rough I mean that I haven't attempted to order the posts within each day of publication. Perhaps I'll take another pass at the list later on for that. The original list of posts is here. 2011.01.18. Woman science bloggers discuss pros and cons of online exposure 2011.01.22.Science Online 2011: Even when we want something, we need to hide it. 2011.01.22. Women science bloggers: Some thoughts (er, sorry, felt I…

The future of Higher Education and stuff

Notice how much I like the word "stuff". It really is a very useful word. I wonder if I did a wordle for this whole blog, would "stuff" be the biggest? Anyway, I have been thinking about this popular Chronicle of Higher Education article Will Higher Education be the Next Bubble to Burst?. The basic argument the article makes is that higher education (especially private schools) are too expensive. It also talks about online universities such as Phoenix online and how they are becoming more popular. In all this "bursting bubble" discussion, there is an extremely important question: What is…

The Hazards of Hyperlinks

It's hard to imagine that fifteen years ago scientists were forced to read old science papers on actual paper, as they paged through bound volumes of past journals. How quaint! How inefficient! (All that wasted shelf space...) How scholarly, in an old-school kind of way! It's so much easier to just rely on Google Scholar or Pubmed, especially when ensconced in a university with electronic subscriptions to everything. But what's lost when information goes online? Sure, it becomes easier to find stuff, but have our searches become too narrow? A recent paper in Science looked at this very…

Sex-ed in the real world: Do intentions affect actions in the heat of the moment?

Notwithstanding the cute pictures from yesterday's post, Jim is now nearly seventeen years old. He's taller than me, has a beard, and is much less interested in having his photo taken, so I don't have any recent pictures. He also plays a mean bass guitar, and he's in a band, which means -- you guessed it -- girls have started taking an interest in him. Of course we've explained to him the basics of sex, including contraception and preventing sexually transmitted diseases, but we always wonder whether we've done enough. If you're a parent (or a son or daughter) who's had one of these…

Very cool - American Physical Society offers free access to public libraries

This APS rocks! Here's the press release from PAMnet: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APS ONLINE JOURNALS AVAILABLE FREE IN U.S. PUBLIC LIBRARIES Ridge, NY, 28 July 2010: The American Physical Society (APS) announces a new public access initiative that will give readers and researchers in public libraries in the United States full use of all online APS journals, from the most recent articles back to the first issue in 1893, a collection including over 400,000 scientific research papers. APS will provide this access at no cost to participating public libraries, as a contribution to public engagement…

The Online News Association meeting - vote for my panel

The Online News Association organizes a meeting every year (and gives Online Journalism Awards there). The next one will be in October 28-30, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The program is formed by the online news community submitting proposals, then everyone else voting the proposals up or down. I guess that the organizers also have some say in it (especially if the voting produces a horrible gender imbalance - easy to happen with so many proposals put forward by men). The proposals are now all up online and ready for your votes - you need to register (they have to avoid spammers, robots,…

Does Pinkification Fool Anybody?

Over at Faraday's Cage, Cherish is thinking about gender color codes: I know I may be in the minority here, but let's look at it this way: if someone might consider getting a microscope or telescope for a girl because it's pink rather than a traditional "girl toy" (read: BARBIE) in the absence of a pink microscope or telescope, hasn't something good been done? How much of the "pinkification" is as a result of adult notions of what a girl versus boy can do? And if a microscope is colored pink (or a baseball mitt or whatever else) means that the adults around that girl will be willing to…

McCain Admits He Doesn't Know How to Use the Web or Email

John McCain, in an interview with the NY Times, admitted that he does not know how to use the Web or even email. McCain, who will turn 73 in August, is well behind trends among other Americans his age. Pew reports in its latest survey that more than 30% of Americans age 65 and older are online and this figure is likely to be over 50% among college educated seniors. (For example, my 91 year old Grandfather owns a computer, sends me email, and reads my blog.) Should we care that McCain lacks even a basic familiarity with the online world? Consider that a President McCain would probably be the…

Sollum on Internet Gambling Ban

Jacob Sollum has an excellent article at Reason about Rep. Goodlatte's misguided and authoritarian bill to ban internet gambling. That bill passed the House recently, but has not come up in the Senate. Sollum points out the many ways in which Goodlatte's arguments for the bill are incoherent and hypocritical. For instance, he complains about internet gaming companies being offshore and unregulated while passing a law that insures that very result: "These offshore, fly-by-night Internet gambling operators," Goodlatte complains, "are unlicensed, untaxed and unregulated and are sucking billions…

Two Exhibits Worth Seeing

One is in Boston, the other in D.C. In Boston, the Boston Public Library has an amazing collection of travel posters from the 1920s to the 1950s. Here's one: If you can't visit it, there's an online gallery. In D.C., the Smithsonian Natural History Museum has an exhibit about how the Natural History Museum has changed over the last 100 years. The exhibits have changed a little since these days: If you can't visit, there's a pretty cool interactive before-and-after online feature too.

ScienceOnline'09 - some more individual session pages

The registration is almost full! And the Program is shaping up quite nicely. Check out these sessions today: How to become a (paid) science journalist: advice for bloggers Gene Wiki and BioGPS: Web Tools for Annotation and Understanding of Gene Function Gender in science -- online and offline Rhetoric of science: print vs. web Open Notebook Science - how to do it right (if you should do it at all) Online science for the kids (and parents) Blogging adventure: how to post from strange locations

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…

Science In Different Voices

One of the things that's been rattling around in my head since ScienceOnline back in January is the need for a greater diversity of voices in science communication generally. I don't mean diversity in the sense of racial and gender make-up of the people doing the communication, though that would be nice, I mean a greater diversity in the way people talk about science. This started bugging me in the panel that led to the "Journosplain" image that I'm somewhat unfairly tagging as the "featured image" for this post (grabbed from here)-- somewhat, because it's not really Carl Zimmer's fault. But…

iPhone, youPhone, he/she/itPhone, wePhone, youPhone, theyPhone...

For a blogger - by definition on the cutting edge of technology - I am quite a Luddite. Perhaps that is too strong a term and I should rather call myself a "patient techno-skeptic". I watch the development of new technologies with interest, but I almost never get any kind of visceral excitement "I Have To Have This! Now!" There is always a lot of experimenting going on and the Darwinian forces of the market ruthlessly destroy almost every new gizmo and gadget within a year or two. After a while, the dust settles, and one particular system or gadget becomes the universal standard - it…

Salvaging My Garden

Yesterday afternoon we put our work aside and drove down into the Schoharie Valley, at least as far as we could go. We wanted to check on friends in the area, and we had called down to Schoharie Valley Farms to see how they were doing and also ask about the status of the flowers I had ordered for a bar mitzvah this weekend. Despite the fact that just about everything else they had was destroyed, the flowers were unscathed. Moreover, they told us that since no one in the town had power, lights or time to preserve, we could come down and buy anything they had to preserve. So down we went,…

Why I Won't Do the Food Stamp Challenge

In the last few years, a number of political leaders have tried to live on a food stamps budget. Among others Newark Mayor and political heir-apparent Cory Booker and current and former governors of Colorado and Oregon. Some have done so to draw attention to the limitations of food stamps, others with the intent of proving that their benefit is sufficient. A number of writers have done so too, as have celebrity chefs and others. A number of people have asked me to do it as well, and I've always refused. This isn't because I don't think I can - it is because frankly, I know for a fact that…

Technology News

Shouldda kept the guy with the hooker..... New New York Governor David Paterson will likely sign a bill now working its way through the final legislative steps that will add a sales tax to items purchases on the internet by New Yorkers. The controversial bill ends what for many New Yorkers had been tax-free online shopping, and experts predict that other states could follow suit with similar provisions. Consumers are required to report purchases they make online from out-of-state companies on their tax returns and remit a use tax, but many people are either unaware of that obligation or…

How's This for Threatening Abuse of Power?

The Washington Nationals are the talk of baseball this year, having returned baseball to the nation's capital and put aside the losing ways they had as the Montreal Expos prior to this year. They're such a hot commodity that several groups are bidding to buy the team, including one group that includes billionaire Democratic Party booster George Soros. And as Roll Call magazine reports, some Republican leaders are actually threatening retaliation on Major League Baseball if they allow Soros' group to buy the team: "I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes," said Government Reform…

OEC & YEC>IDC

Young Earth Creationism is quite possibly the stupidest thought ever thunk-ed. Its not just about the earth being 6,000 years old-- It involves talking snakes and Noahs Ark and zombies and all sorts of crazy ass shit. Old Earth Creationism has all of the crazy ass shit, minus the 6,000 year old Earth. YEC and OEC are fantastically stupid ideas. But they are still 'better' than Intelligent Design Creationists. Why? They try to perform science. Sure its border-line retarded, but at least they are trying. I was perusing my blog-fodder folder last night and found a nice entry at Middle-Aged-…

How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update

Various and sundry updates regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, now available wherever books are sold: Well, ok, that last sentence is a slight exaggeration. I spent a little while punching ZIP codes of places I've lived into the Barnes and Noble page, and couldn't find any stores that have copies in stock. Grumble, mutter, grump. Borders on the other hand, has sporadic availability. At least one copy has been sold in-store at the Clifton Park Borders, because a friend bought one there last week (the web page now lists it as "Out of Stock" for that store, so maybe they only had the…

Neuromarketing Research: Wine and Price

Several days ago, I saw href="http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/editor/2008/01/expensive-wine.html">an article about some research on the relationship between the price of wine, the subjective experience of taste, and the effect of wine on brain function as assessed by title="Wikipedia: Functional magnetic resonance imaging" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMRI" rel="tag">fMRI. The research is part of the growing body of work that pertains to the study of neural effects of marketing: href="www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/etc/neuro.html" rel…

Danica Needs a New Job!

Graduate 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…

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