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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…

Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE)

To encourage innovation and excellence in education, Science magazine has established a prize for online resources in education. The SPORE prize will recognize outstanding projects from all regions of the world that bring freely available online resources to bear on science education. Winning projects should reinforce one or more of the four strands of science learning recommended by the National Academies and be consistent with the science education standards published by the National Academies and the AAAS. Read more about SPORE rules and where to send your entries.

Nerdy Gift Ideas Part 2: Nerdette Gifts

Got a lovely nerdette in your life and desperately trying to sweep her off her feet this holiday season? I've got a few ideas that might bail you out... If you can't think of a better way to show her how you light up when you see her? How about a T-Shirt! Well, this one, anyway. These shirts show a set of hearts that, when separated, are only half-lit. But magically, or, you know, scientifically, when the two are brought together the hearts on the shirt - like your own - light up! Of course, nerdettes are still women, and there's a gift all women love: Jewelry. But if you're going to buy…

DEBATING THE INTERNET AND COMMUNITY, PART B: American University Students Examine 'Virtual' Society

This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on "Communication and Society," we spent several weeks examining the many ways that Americans are using the Internet to alter the nature of community, civic engagement, and social relationships. For many college students, having grown 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. One of the goals of the course was to encourage students to think systematically and rigorously about the many changes introduced by…

The interesting experiment is already getting interesting

Speaking of the untrustworthiness of corporate drones, the decision by Blizzard to end online anonymity is already having consequences. Protests have gotten so hot that they are banning complainers and shutting down threads, and people are unsubscribing from the game in protest (impossible to tell if there are enough numbers there to make a dent in their obscene profits, though). There have already been instances of people revealing their own names, only to have a horde of prickly adolescent gamers descend in force on their facebook pages and email, and doing the unimaginative trick of…

Whitey Bulger Caught, and the Trivers Willard Hypothesis

Apropos this, a timely repost: This may or may not be a recent photograph of fugitive Whitey (James) Bulger of Boston's Winter Hill Gang. Most of you won't know who Whitey Bulger is. He is actually on the FBI's ten most wanted list. He may have been spotted in Italy last Spring, and the FBI is just now asking for assistance from anyone who knows where he might be. (That's not gonna work.) Whitey was top dog in Boston's Winter Hill gang. His brother was a Senator for the Commwealth of Massachusetts, and served as Senate President for several years. It is said that Whitey was an FBI…

Gas Tax: My Two Cents

href="http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2006/10/raise_the_gas_tax.php">Jonah and href="http://scienceblogs.com/nosenada/2006/10/if_we_did_raise_the_gas_tax_wh.php">Kevin have already chipping in on this topic.  Bob Lutz, the VP of General Motors, turned a few heads.  Not with an eye-catching new auto design, but with a comment in the Wall Street Journal: "I'd say the best thing the (U.S.) government can do is to raise the gas tax by 10 or 15 cents a year until it reaches European levels," Mr. Lutz said, during an impromptu interview just before GM Europe's media event last Thursday.…

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…

Look into the eyes of the PGP-10

Emily Singer has a fantastic article in MIT's Technology Review reviewing the current state of play in human genomics. A curious highlight for me was this panel of mug-shots from the PGP-10, the 10 high-profile volunteers currently having their genomes sequenced as part of the Personal Genome Project: Top row from left: Misha Angrist, Keith Batchelder, George Church, Esther Dyson, Rosalynn Gill. Bottom row from left: John Halamka, Stanley Lapidus, Kirk Maxey, Steven Pinker, James Sherley. Links for each participant are to their profile on the PGP website, which includes information on…

Is Lynda Resnick's Admiration Good or Bad for Fareed Zakaria?

Earnest reporting or catty criticism? Fareed Zakaria, according to the Times, is on the short list of Lynda Resnick's dinner parties, along with "Queen Noor of Jordan, George Soros, the financier, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California." Is the Times' Christine Haughney critiquing Zakaria or not? Resnick is well known for being a marketing personality, one that makes broad, unsubstantiated health claims about "POM," her silly juice that you should not waste your money on. Nor should you ever buy anything from her former business, the Franklin Mint, or Fiji, her overpriced…

Beer Run

I drank the last of the Dogfish Head Raison d'Etre last night (I don't go through beer very quickly these days), which means the fridge is nearly empty, and it's time for a beer run. Which, of course, is a great excuse for a filler-iffic audience participation question: What sort of beer should I buy? Not that you could tell from my behavior last weekend, but I'm not a big fan of pilsner or light lagers-- if I'm only having a few, I prefer a heartier, darker beer. Belgian beers and IPA's are great. Fruit flavors are right out. So what should I get?

Blogging the book.

Thanks to Coturnix from a Blog Around the Clock: Yes! It is finally here! What you have all been waiting for, impatiently, for three weeks! The Science Blogging Anthology is now for sale. Go to Lulu.com by clicking here (or click on the picture of the book to your right) and place your order! You can choose to buy a PDF to download (but do you really want to print out 336 pages!?) or order the book with its pretty cover - it takes only a couple of days to arrive at your doorstep. I've ordered it? Have YOU!?

Science blogging anthology

Bora of A Blog Around the Clock is the hardest working man in science blogging. He put together a Science Blogging Conference that I'll be sorry to miss, he posts a bajillion times a day, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the blogosphere, and organized and produced the first annual Science Blogging Anthology. The Open Laboratory was undoubtedly a labor of love, pulling together 50 of the best blog posts from 2006. It includes one post by yours truly, but you already know how I write. You should buy it to learn about the rest of what's out there, and to support one of the blogosphere's…

A pipe dream of proper priorities

This is an education plan I could get behind. One additional requirement, besides diverting reasonable amounts of money into education: demand improvements in quality. Not this misbegotten accountability of No Child Left Behind, but shakeups in how school boards manage budgets; remove the elected officials from the business of dictating pedagogy and content, and let the qualified professionals design curricula that actually works. I listened to the video and just felt a sense of dread at the thought of the Texas Board of Education suddenly flush with new money and deciding to buy Bibles for…

John Lynch is or was a terrorist

I was on the TSA’s no-fly list up until six months back. Apparently "John Lynch" was a suspected terrorist - if so, he probably was in the Irish Republican Army in the 1980’s and thus receiving funding from a good number of patriotic Americans on the east coast during that time. It meant I could not check-in online or for that matter using the computer terminals at the airport. Instead I had to get in line and wait while the attendant phoned some unknown entity who - often after ten minutes - decided that I was fit to fly the friendly skies. No doubt you all felt safer because of it. There…

Battle of the Opens

I'm committed to a lot of different kinds of "open." This means that I can and do engage in tremendous acts of hair-splitting and pilpul with regard to them. "Gratis" versus "libre" open access? Free-speech versus free-beer software code? I'm your librarian; let's sit down and have that discussion. Unfortunately, out there in the wild I find a tremendous amount of misunderstanding about various flavors of open, sometimes coming from otherwise perfectly respectable communications outlets. (Pro tip: If you're not completely sure you understand, please find someone to ask. A librarian is a good…

Harry Potter Personality Quiz

I have been preoccupied with other things recently, so I did not post an online quiz over the weekend, as I usually do. I hope that you can forgive me, especially since I found this quiz that you might enjoy. Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc. But if I change the answer to question 15, I end up being .. Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc. Who did you end up as? And were you one answer away from being someone else amongst the Harry Potter crew? tags: Harry Potter, online quiz, personality

What City Are You?

This is another in a long line of on-line quiz silliness. You Are New York Cosmopolitan and sophisticated, you enjoy the newest in food, art, and culture. You also appreciate a good amount of grit - and very little shocks you. You're competitive, driven, and very likely to succeed. (GrrlScientist note: um, yeah, whatever you say) Famous people from New York: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tupac Shakur, Woody Allen What American City Are You? What other possibilities are there? So far, I found Austin, Boston, and Miami. Oh, and Los Angeles. tags: online quiz