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Launching Weather Balloons in 45-mile-per-hour Winds

Brookhaven Lab atmospheric scientist Ernie Lewis with a mini "weather" balloon aboard the Horizon   This guest post was written by Ernie Lewis, an atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven Lab, who is leading a year-long climate study aboard two Horizon Lines cargo ships, the Spirit and Reliance. He recently returned from a preliminary "cruise" from L.A. to Hawaii and back aimed at assessing conditions for deploying instruments aboard the ships during the actual study, dubbed MAGIC, which will run from October 2012 through September 2013. Hawaii was wonderful, even though I only had a short…

Does technology make you happy?

Still in Italy. Here is a post from last year that was a follow-up to the entry that was reposted yesterday. Lets think about technology for a moment. Here I am typing on this laptop. Ideas flow (misspelled and grammatically incorrect) from my brain to my fingers to the keyboard ... over a wireless network ... into the vast ethereal space (known as the internet) ... to your home/workplace/café. So what good is any of it? You exclaim ... that's preposterous. Technology is good. You would then continue ... All these gadgets and gizmos, they're good on many fronts. They make us live longer,…

Report Suspicious Behavior

A black four door older model caddy in need of some body work and a new muffler turned into our street. The car drove quickly but furtively, the driver seeming to not quite know where she wanted to go, to the end of the faux cul-du-sac off of which each development's street radiated. A sharp left turn brought the vehicle next to a large storm sewer inlet, and out of the car flew a suspicious black thing with wires. The car roared off, too quickly to get the plate but not too quickly to be able to describe it and its occupants. An electronic, repetitive, alarm-like noise emanated from the…

Matt McIntosh is too kind to Colby Cosh

Here is Colby Cosh's response to the UN foundation's appeal to buy insecticide-treated nets to fight malaria: Africans aren't helpless animals--they know what works against malaria. Unfortunately, what works against malaria is DDT. But any country that proposes a program of household DDT application faces starvation at the hands of European bureaucrats and consumers. The nets are an unnecessarily expensive and epidemiologically phony sauve-qui-peut measure, a work-around for what could be described as the greatest ongoing mass murder ever perpetrated. Reilly's appeal (or Ted Turner's…

Reges, Vitis vinifera!

O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" "Grape seeds may help attack colon tumors" A new study shows that feeding colorectal cancer-stricken mice with grape seed extract (that's right - grape seeds, not a bottle of the good stuff from the back of the wine cellar, so don't get any ideas) shrank their tumors by an average of 44%. This will undoubtedly lead to banner headlines in the murine press, but can these results be…

What Ten C-17 Cargo Planes the Military Doesn't Want Would Buy Us

If those who are upset about runaway government spending were serious, they would look at defense spending, which has increased in nominal terms by 75% percent. Consider what even a small level of war department waste would buy for us: With a price tag now approaching $330 million per plane and a total program cost of well over $65 billion, the C-17, produced by weapons-maker Boeing, has miraculously evaded every attempt to squash it. In fact, Congress even included $2.5 billion in the 2010 budget for ten C-17s that the Pentagon hadn't requested. Keep in mind that $2.5 billion is a lot of…

Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: in God they trusted

Maybe it says "In God We Trust" on our currency, but it's a financially risky strategy, as the "Christian-centered" Georgia-based Integrity Bank discovered as it came apart at the seams last week: The Alpharetta-based bank, which opened its doors in 2000 with a Christian-centered philosophy, is the 10th U.S. bank to fail this year and the second Georgia institution to fail in the past 12 months. As ranked by its total assets of $1.1 billion, Integrity becomes the third-largest bank failure in Georgia history. [snip] Integrity is the second financial services firm with a Christian-centered…

The Poor Stay in the Houses, the Rich Walk Away

I've been meaning to write something about this New York Times article that suggests that affluent homeowners are strategically defaulting more than middle class and poor ones, but Mike the Mad Biologist said it better. While I realize regulation has become a four-letter word, regulation does force the regulated to act in certain ways that they would otherwise not. To the extent we want an ethical economic system, it needs to be structured and enforced in order to remove incentives and advantages for unethical (or 'athetical') behavior. But I realize that would be like totally Hitler What I…

Bikinis make macho men stupid

Lingerie makes hagglers happy-go-lucky Quoth the Nature summary: It seems that the more macho a man is -- at least according to his hormones -- the more the sight of an attractive woman will affect his judgement. Researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium asked men to play an ultimatum game, in which they split a certain amount of money between them. High-testosterone men drove the hardest bargain -- unless they had previously viewed pictures of bikini-clad models, in which case they were more likely to accept a poorer deal. Okay, so it didn't exactly make them "stupid," as the title…

Job Ad From Hell

When confronted with job ads like this, is it any wonder that people give up on their job searches? Highly competitive postdoctoral position available in the Department of Evolutionary Biology at [name elided]. Applicant must hold a PhD in molecular biology or evolutionary biology with a cumulative grad and undergrad GPA of 4.0. Graduates of MIT or Stanford preferred. Minimum ten years' postdoc experience required, the candidate must also possess an IQ of 160, perfect spelling and grammar, and be prepared to write a 150-page "demo" grant application describing why you want to work for us.…

Congress on Food Stamps

tags: hunger, poverty, food stamps Apparently, our congresscritters are having difficulty feeding themselves on what the average person gets for food stamps. Basically, food stamp benefits provide 26 million Americans with roughly $1 per meal, or $3 for an entire day's worth of food. Food stamps is the major anti-hunger program in this country designed to help people get enough food to eat. To learn first-hand how difficult it is to live on food stamps, several legislators are participating in "the Food Stamp Challenge" where they attempt to feed themselves on just $3 per day for one week. "…

Stone the crows

Well, the riots. And whilst Harry Hutton, as usual, talks a great deal of sense, the sense of surprise remains. The beak makes some good early points; initial reports were very vague; but it now looks like only the police fired. Which really doesn't help. Part of the recent phone hacking stuff has been yet more erosion of trust in the police. Mind you, according to wiki, the family were implausibly pretending that Duggan was unarmed, which didn't help either. And also, contrary to early impressions I'd got, I can see no evidence that the police ever claimed he shot at them. Time will tell…

Poll: How has the Swine Flu affected you?

Last week, I wrote a little article trying to get people to calm down about the swine flu. Yes, it will get you sick, yes, it's contagious, and yes, if you get it you should seek medical attention. But as of today, the CDC has only three cases of swine flu in my state, and only one swine flu-related fatality in the US. In other words, the swine flu hasn't affected me or anyone that I know. Until, that is, I went to the hardware store this weekend. I've just moved into a house, and it needs a lot of work. And by that, I mean there are rooms that are unfit for a human presence just yet. So,…

Meet the Pip

As of 4:35 this morning, Chateau Steelypips has a new member (though not yet resident, for a couple more days): This photo, with the traditional sky-bison for scale is our new baby boy, David Nepveu Orzel, henceforth to be referred to on the blog as "The Pip." Because "SteelyKid and The Pip" sounds like a crime-fighting duo to be reckoned with, it fits with the old domain-name scheme, and it's obviously a nickname, unlike the two other contenders, both of which were based on real-ish names suggested by SteelyKid ("Porter," short for "Transporter," which was SteelyKid's first suggestion of a…

Faith-Based Cactus Care

Some time around the turn of the millennium a friend gave me a cactus. It's been sitting happily in its pot ever since, proliferating into a cluster of green phalli until it was clearly too big for the pot. Yesterday I relented and transplanted it to a larger one. This involved a few arcane steps to make sure it would continue to thrive, steps I will describe in the following. The thing to note here is that I didn't know what I was doing. I have no cactus expertise, instead making it all up as I went along. Watch closely -- and kids, do try this at home. Getting the cactus out of the pot…

Climate Declaration

Via Planet3.0 I see there is a declaration of the need, and competitive advantage it would bring, for action on climate change signed by a not insignificant number of major (non-fossil fuel) corporations.  As Michael Tobis points out, it is, rather strangely, presented as an image only. So my contribution is running it through an OCR tool, formatting and presenting it below:   Tackling climate change is one of America's greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century (and it's simply the right thing to do) What made America great was taking a stand. Doing the things that are hard. And…

Nickel and Dimed

This is somewhat belated, as it's no longer active, but I had a bunch of other things to do last week, and never got around to posting about Blog My Wage: HOPE asked Houston City Council member Peter Brown to spend a week living on the wage of a city worker. Council Member Brown took the challenge and lived -- and blogged -- on the wage of city employee Belinda Rodriguez, who has just $23.03 a day to buy food, gas and clothing for herself and her three children. Better late than never, though. It's a brief but fascinating look at what being poor is like. I've been fortunate enough in my life…

Scott Pilgrim

So, I blew off stuff I should've been doing, and went to see a matinee of the Scott Pilgrim movie this morning (it's very much not Kate's sort of thing, and I would feel guilty ditching her with SteelyKid to see it during the evening or on a weekend). Actually, first I went to Borders for half an hour to read the last volume of the comic, so I could compare the two endings-- I should probably buy these, because I really like the story, but I balk at shelling out that much money for something that I can read in half an hour in a bookstore. I liked it a lot, but then, I'm a sucker for this sort…

Wanted: The Hoosiers of Science

I've been revising a chapter on collaboration in science for the book-in-progress, making an analogy to team sports. And it occurred to me as I was trying to find a way to procrastinate, that while science is a highly collaborative endeavor, most of the popular stories that get told about science are not. There's no Hoosiers of science out there. Now, admittedly, the sample of great pop-culture stories about science period is pretty small. But what does exist mostly concerns individual struggles-- the lone genius who can revolutionize science by just thinking about it in isolation, but who…

What killed Steve Jobs?

You've probably heard the story going around that Steve Jobs' death was avoidable, if only he hadn't been so gullible as to steep himself in quack medicine. It turns out, though, that the story is a lot more complicated than that: David Gorski has written the best summary I've seen so far. In short (because it is Gorski, after all, so it's exhaustively long), there was an element of woo in Jobs' early response. After his pancreatic cancer was first diagnosed, he delayed surgery for 9 months to try out some improbably dietary approaches. It was a massive operation that was strongly recommended…

Looking for a little ELISA help

Question for the lab geeks out there regarding general methods for antibody detection of specific analytes in cells, serum, and urine. Do you have a favorite book, chapter, or any other reading material that you would use to guide students through designing and validating their own ELISA for a serum or urine protein? If you have any lecture slides you use and could share, I'd be happy to credit you. Some famous guy(s) gave me his H1N1 slides last year and helped me look like a genius. I know that it takes a mighty, mighty fine antibody to do this relative to one for an immunoblot or even…

"Green Shoots" in Graphs

Courtesy of Chart of the Day... href="http://www.chartoftheday.com/20090522.htm?T"> Click on the graphs to see the Chart of the Day explanations for the data. The top chart shows the aggregate earnings, over time, of the companies in the S&P 500 Index.  The second chart shows the ratio between the aggreagte price of the stock, and the earnings of the companies. Oversimplified view: A low price-to-earnings ratio means that you are not paying much, to get a share of a company that is earning a lot.  A high P:E ratio means that you are paying a lot for companies that aren't…

Bisphenol-A: The One Act Play

A new off-off-off Broadway production is in the works. It has: Drama! Intrigue! Denialists Exposed! It's Bisphenol-A: The One Act Play. Read on to find out about Endocrine Disruptors! See how the tobacco interest is related to the recent Bisphenol controversies! Hear about Nalgene and the National Toxicology Program report and industry spokespeople! Revel in the claims of lobbyists! Look in on the outcomes of an entire regime of consumer products and late-modern chemical production! All at the Science Creative Quarterly today and, soon, in limited production at community theaters near…

Fad diets and cave men

Crooked Timber has a great post on using what you think ancestral man ate to argue for various types of fad diets: There seems to be about as much theorising relative to evidence in the discussion of what cavemen ate and did, as the ev psych crowd try to get away with about their family and political arrangements. Obviously, the suggestion that cavemen "didn't eat carbohydrates" can't be meant literally -- we would never have survived if this had been true. They ate fruit, seeds, roots and all sorts. I suspect that what's meant here is that cavemen didn't eat much starch because they hadn't…

OT: On repairing an iphone cracked screen

The other day when I had to be at a stupid training session off site very early in the morning, I stepped on my iphone in the dark. It apparently slid out of my purse. Sigh. It turned on, but the glass was shattered on the front. So I looked around and you could get the screen and the digitizer with a couple of tools for about $25.  I carefully watched a bunch of YouTube videos and decided to give it a try. After all, pieces of glass were falling out and it didn't seem like a good idea to get many of these in my ear. I sat down last Saturday morning to fix it. The videos I watched showed…

Best Colleges Rankings: Best for Who?

It's that special time of year when involved parents everywhere rush out to buy the essentials: calculators, notebooks and the latest issue of US News and World Report. America's Best Colleges 2008 hit newsstands on Monday and no surprise...Princeton, Harvard, and Yale lead the pack with the usual suspects following suit. For about two decades, the magazine's been ranking schools based on criteria like graduation rates, SAT scores, and alumni gifts to determine which institutions deserve the top spots. To me, these rankings always seemed somewhat arbitrary considering they take a one-size-…

Hershey: the Borg of chocolate

Sadly, Hershey has announced the immediate closing of the small Berkeley factory that, since 2001, has been the flagship of Scharffen Berger chocolate. Scharffen Berger's dark chocolates were a favorite among Bay Area residents years before it was sold to Hershey in 2005; the cozy Berkeley factory used to be open for tours and chocolate tastings (followed by obligatory hot cocoa at the cafe next door). I have many fond memories of Scharffen Berger chocolate, so this news is depressing. To add insult to injury, Hershey is also closing the factory of Joseph Schmidt in San Francisco - a company…

If you can't get rid of garbage, worship it

Every time you use a plastic bag at the grocery store or buy another bottle of water you are contributing to the deluge of one-use, throw-away plastic products that pile up in our landfills or float out to sea. One group in Baton Rouge is trying to raise consciousness with Sacred Waste, a performance art piece that illustrates the problem. This performance art show is a unique blend of art and science – it conveys some of its information in some unusual and compelling ways: the costumes, the set, and all the props are made of discarded plastic – each costume is made of 100-300 plastic bags,…

Variations on a Theme of Smoking

Ever wonder what goes through the mind of someone smoking their first cigarette? I've often wondered what first-time smokers think of as they light up: "I'm so excited." "This tastes weird." "I hope I'm doing it right." "Finally I fit in." "Better not mess with me anymore." "This is relaxing me." "It's so cool!" "Dear (insert name here - Mom, Dad, Teacher, Police Officer, etc.): Go F*** Yourself!" I wish I knew, and not just out of a morbid interest in consumers who willingly buy a highly addicting product designed to slowly ruin their bodies, if not take their life. I can't imagine that…

Smithsonian picks a new boss

G. Wayne Clough, president of Georgia Tech, was tapped to run the Smithsonian Institution. As we've reported, he steps into a deeply troubled organization. His predecessor allowed infrastructure to crumble, appropriated museum artifacts for personal use in his offices, and focused more on cozying up to corporate sponsors than on the scientific and educational mission of the Smithsonian. In many ways, Clough seems well-suited to restoring faith in the Smithsonian. He comes with an academic background, which means he will understand the needs of his staff, and appreciate the balance between…

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Jelka Crnobrnja

Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and…

On Chores

Chores sounds like such a dreary word, and until I moved to a farm, I would never have believed that I'd have anything positive to say about it. As a kid, I did chores around the house, and while I may have groused less about the dishes and cleaning gutters as an adult, I certainly didn't (and don't) love the jobs. But on a farm, chores are something else - they are bookends to each day, a formal structure like the forms of a sonnet or musical scales that shape the day. They can be speeded up, slowed down, slightly elided and occasionally contracted out, but for the most part, they are…

The fate of the Affordable Care Act

Recent news has highlighted just how important and popular the Affordable Care Act has been, but its fate under a Trump administration and Republican Congress is uncertain. Congressional Republicans have voted repeatedly to repeal the ACA, but now that they actually have a shot at doing that, journalists and commentators are focusing on how hard it will be to preserve the provisions voters like and politicians vow to keep – let alone the gains in insurance coverage and financial stability. Between the law’s passage in 2010 and early 2016, an estimated 20 million people gained health insurance…

A Special Midweek Recipe: Ad-Libbed Cranberry Chutney

It's not saturday, but I've got a recipe that I needed to write down before I forget it, so you're getting an extra bonus. I usually make a simple cranberry relish for thanksgiving. But it needs to be made a couple of days in advance. This year, I completely forgot about the cranberries until this morning. So I figured I needed to do something else. A good chutney sounded nice. I went hunting online, but couldn't find anything that sounded good, so I went ahead and ad-libbed. And the results were amazing - this is definitely the new cranberry tradition in the Chu-Carroll household. Sweet,…

Does he also sacrifice goats to the voodoo, just to be sure?

Governor Charlie Crist of Florida has been sending prayers off to Israel every year…and now he wants to claim responsibility for averting hurricanes. Isn't that just so sweet? Now you can let Florida know what you think of their governor in an extremely objective and scientifically valid online poll. Gov. Crist said he's had prayer notes placed in the Western Wall in Jerusalem each year and no major storms have hit Florida. Another good reason not to vote for him! 53% It is good to know that we have a leader that believes in the power of prayer. 32% Don't knock it. Whatever works! 10%…

Around the Web: Principles of computational science, The state of open source and more

(Some) Principles of Computational Science The State of Open Source US Trade Wholesale Electronic Book Sales Strata Gems: Five data blogs you should read Science Bloggers: Diversifying the news The Four Sons of digital curation Lots of Markets, Lots of Business Models Copyright and Open Access for Academic Works Do You Want Fries with That Degree? The Future Is Not a Zero-Sum Game Does a PhD Student Need a Publication Strategy? A Curricular Innovation, Examined and A Curricular Innovation, Examined (Part 2) and A Curricular Innovation, Examined (Part 3) (commercial online course) "It's Not…

College Presidents should blog

Brian says that College Leaders should blog, commenting on this NYT article. Sure, there are pros and cons, a steep learning curve and the potentially huge benefits along with the risk. But in the 21st century, it just has to be done. A leader who does not embrace online technology to foster a two-way communication is irrelevant and will go the way of the dinosaurs. A leader who does will evolve wings and learn to fly, adapted to the new environment. Brian offers to help any University President set up a blog and get started, gratis. Take him up on his offer if you are a Top Dog at your…

Science News in Brief

* Best way to build children's brains: play with them Love beats trendy toys, classes or music as brain food for preschoolers, a report says. * Radioactive scorpion venom deemed safe cancer treatment: Scientists are exploring an unusual new treatment for an aggressive brain cancer. * Human-dolphin partnership inspires gov't protection: The government of Myanmar has moved to safeguard a dolphin-fisherman collaboration. * The science of sniping on eBay: A despised practice of placing last-second bids is actually the best strategy in online auctions, according to scientists. * Startling variety…

Tales for the pharyngulators

Way back in early January, I suggested that we vote for one of the Countess's horror stories in an online contest. You will be pleased to hear that she won "Best Short Horror Story"! You may recall that I also suggested that she reward Pharyngula's participation with a little story of our own, so now her horror story begins — she'll need to write something for the vicious, bloodthirsty, brutally critical audience here. There's no hurry, of course, but I'll let you all know when she comes through for us. Maybe it will be something with a beautiful princess, and a pony, and cephalopods, and…

Science Online London 2010: YES! I'll Be There!

You might not be aware of this, but there will be a Science Online London 2010! It is being scheduled as I write and will be held at the British Library on 3-4 September 2010, and YES! I will be there! (I am so excited!) As a blog reader, you are eagerly invited to suggestion session topics on the SciOnlineLondon wiki. Who knows? Maybe I'll be so lucky as to be asked to speak! (Yes, I would love that!) Here's a topic that was suggested by my featherless slave: why SHOULD science blog writers be provided access to embargoed materials -- just like [OMG!!] FUR REALZ journalists! (Especially when…

Science Online London 2009 - now in Second Life

Science Online London is next week. I really wanted to go this year, but hard choices had to be made....eh, well. For those of you who, like me, cannot be there in person, there are plenty of ways to follow the meeting virtually. Follow @soloconf and the #solo09 hashtag on Twitter. Join the FriendFeed room. Check out the Facebook page. And of course there will be a lot of blogging, including in the Forums at Nature Network. And for those of you who have computers with enough power and good graphics cards, another option is to follow the conference in Second Life - check that link to see how.

Science Blogging Conference - Teaching Science: using online tools in the science classroom

If you look at the Program page on the wiki for the Science Blogging Conference, you will see, for the Saturday program, there are 12 excellent sessions, a panel and a talk. Each has a discussion page which you should edit to add your own thoughts, ideas and questions. One of the sessions I expect to have a big draw, particularly with so many science teachers at the conference, is the session on Teaching Science: using online tools in the science classroom, led by a real pro on the topic - David Warlick. David already has an ongoing discussion of the session on his own blog where you are…

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,…

Today's carnivals

Carnival of Space #30 is up on Bad Astronomy Blog The 79th Edition of Carnival of the Godless is up on Sexy Secularist! Friday Ark #166 is up on Modulator Grand Rounds 4.10 are up on Prudence, M.D. Carnival of the Green #105 is up on Great Green Goods Carnival of Homeschooling - Centennial Edition - is up on Mom is Teaching Finally, after a long break, I will host a carnival again. The Encephelon #37 will be right here on December 3rd. Email your posts to encephalon{dot}host{at}gmail{dot}com or directly to me at coturnix AT gmail DOT com, or submit using the blogcarnival online form.

I and the Bird #17 Available

Hey everyone, I and the Bird, issue #17, is hosted by Wild Bird on the Fly. In honor of this issue of the I and the Bird carnival, Amy presents the first annual bird festival, an online celebration of good food and wild birds, including a wonderful poster designed by Amy especially for this occasion (above). The carnival links to 25 or so essays, including one written by me. If you love birds, please consider writing and publishing an essay about them on your blog and sending the link to the next I and the Bird host, Rob, before 28 February. The next issue will be published on 2 March at…

Witch Harry Potter Character Are You?

tags: Harry Potter, online quiz This is a silly quiz, but hey, there's worse out there, as I am sure you will remind me. Here are my results; Witch Harry Potter character are you?created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Hermione Granger "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!" Albus Dumbledore 100% Rubeus Hagrid 100% Hermione Granger 100% Minerva McGonagall 83% Sirius Black 67% Ginny Weasley 67% Harry Potter 67% Fred and George Weasley…

How Sarcastic Are You?

A couple days ago, one of my doctors told me that "if you could bottle your sarcasm and sell it, you'd be a rich woman." So of course, I had to take this online quiz to see how it measures up against medical opinion. I'll let you peek below the fold for my results, and I hope that you share your results with me, too. You're Totally Sarcastic You sarcastic? Never! You're as sweet as a baby bunny. Seriously, though, you have a sharp tongue - and you aren't afraid to use it. And if people are too wimpy to deal with your attitutde, then too bad. So sad. How Sarcastic Are You?

KITP: low dimensional quantum systems

the other, other program running in parallel with the clusters09 program at KITP is "Low Dimensional Electron Systems", which seems intensely worried about the supply of pencils, or some such - at least graphene seems to be their buzzword du jour. They, also, are having lots of talks, most all of which are also online video and podcast. Monday they had their "Director's Seminar", to explain what the big deal is to the rest of us, and themselves: Sankar Das Sarma "Low Dimensional Electron Systems: A Landscape of Graphene, Quantum Hall Effects, MOSFET, Luttinger Liquid, and Beyond" most…

Blogger Gets Top Job Offer As Comment

My dear SciBling and fellow big-nose European, Bora/Coturnix, has a wonderful story to tell! After seeing an interesting job ad (regarding a position as on-line community manager for the Open Access journal publishing house Public Library of Science) he blogged about it and said he'd really like the job. In a matter of hours, a PLoS editor commented on Bora's blog and asked if the blog entry should be considered as a formal job application -- and Bora got the job! I gather what did it was a combination of his excellent blogging and the way he interacts with his many readers in the comments…

Scott Lohman Interviews Edwina Rogers

Almost a year ago, Edwina Rogers took over as the executive director of the Secular Coalition for America. It's been an ambitious, busy year for the Secular Coalition. This Sunday, Rogers joins us to talk with Scott Lohman about what they've accomplished and where they're going in the next year. They'll also discuss the formation of the Minnesota chapter of the Secular Coalition. Listen to AM 950 KTNF on Sunday at 9 a.m. Central to hear Atheists Talk, produced by Minnesota Atheists. Stream live online. Call in to the studio: 952-946-6205, or send an e-mail to radio@mnatheists.org during the…