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A personal heroine: Henriette Davidson Avram

This is my blog post for Ada Lovelace Day, on which we celebrate technical achievement by women. I'm writing it the day before, and setting it to post at midnight. I hope someone is writing a biography of Henriette Avram. I will be first in line to buy it. I desperately want to know how she did what she did. Her achievement is generally, and appropriately, recognized as a technical one: designer and implementer of the MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) format still in use in hundreds of thousands of libraries worldwide. If that had been all: dayenu, it would have been enough. For all its…

I'll try that Nunavut Merlot, please...

This week's 'Ask A ScienceBlogger' focuses on reports such as those in National Geographic and DailyKos that global warming is having, and will progressively have great influence, on wine grape-growing. The idea is that grapes grown for premium wine production are much more sensitive to climate than table grapes or many other agricultural products, making them an excellent living laboratory 'canary in a coalmine." A very appropriate question this week as we launched our feature, The Friday Fermentable, last week. This issue has been bandied the wine industry over the last several years but…

A shift in focus

I've altered the tagline on this blog slightly, to reflect where it seems to be going. (I am not in control here; I am merely the author-function! Sorry, sorry, lit-crit joke.) At the same time, I've been thinking a lot about library collections, what's in them and how it gets there. (I'm teaching a graduate course in collection development at the moment, which has of course bent my thoughts in that direction.) Here's where I'm sitting, and my commenters (who are smarter than I am) are welcome to challenge me. When collection development came into its own in academic libraries, forty years or…

Water, Security, and Conflict: Violence over Water in 2015

Since its founding in 1987, the Pacific Institute has worked to understand the links between water resources, environmental issues, and international security and conflict. This has included early analytical assessments (such as a 1987 Ambio paper  and this one from the journal Climatic Change) of the risks between climate change and security through changes in access to Arctic resources, food production, and water resources, as well as the ongoing Water Conflict Chronology – an on-line database, mapping system, and timeline of all known water-related conflicts. In 2014, an analysis of the…

Naptime! Read this and have a coronary ... or take a nap. It's your decision.

Kuroda Seiki, "A Nap," 1894. from Kuroda Memorial Hall online I love midday naps, and before I had kids and all time evaporated, I used to take 2 or 3 a week: Kick back the recliner, shut 'em for 20-30 minutes, and wake up a new man. Worked for Churchill during the war, so why not for me? Like a run or a good night's sleep, it was an investment of time that made me both happier and more productive. Yet, stupidly, few of us take them these days. Why not? We can't afford the time. Or so we think. The study below suggests that perhaps you may well get the time back, in spades, by living…

Sperm: As Strong As Ever?

Source. Sperm counts declining due to environment and chemical hazards is, seemingly, commonplace knowledge. But a startling study just published in the journal Epidemiology debunks the concept. Highlighted in The Science Times of The New York Times {June 7 edition}: But now 15 years of data from 18-year-old Danish men taking their military physicals show no decline in sperm counts, after all. The idea that sperm counts were plummeting began with an alarming paper published in 1992 by a group of Danish researchers. Sperm counts, they reported, declined by 50 percent worldwide from 1938 to…

The Poetry of Science IV

Manot Cave cranium With a skull and Keats, there was little choice but to write about the new online items in rhyme. So with apologies to Shakespeare, Keats and the scientists, as well as the people at SpaceIL, here are today's grab bag of poems. As usual, follow the links.       On a Lone Cranium Alas poor Yorick – We can only know Where you lived all those eons ago Walking, did you take those others in stride; Human, yet strange, as they strode alongside? Did your children wander forth, Searching for a greener North? Can your skull, a bit of bone, Tell us where our seeds were sown?   To…

Around the Web: Libraries as humane workplaces, Getting your EDU boss to tweet, Digital zombie scholars and more

10 Reasons Why Your (EDU) Boss Should Tweet The digital scholar - which way to go? Facebook is scaring me #ArsenicLife Goes Longform, And History Gets Squished Science Online: London 2011 - Keynote, Michael Nielsen - Video & Storify Op-Ed: Stop Feeding Facebook, It's Time for Moderation Bibliographies (CS scholars should post copies of articles on their websites) Reading, Risk, and Reality: College Students and Reading for Pleasure Access to scientific publications should be a fundamental right Honor Your Campus Library Academic Publishing and Zombies Who killed videogames?…

New program for middle and high school students encourages STEM participation

In the increasingly competitive and admissions-driven world of high school, learning doesn't always come cheap. SAT-prep programs and college admissions counselors charge a pretty penny for the advantages they (claim to) bestow upon anxious juniors and seniors, and even younger students, including those in middle school, are feeling the pressure. But what about families who can't afford exclusive prep courses? Enter USAGraduate.com, a interactive online competition free to students in grades 6-12 that aims to engage students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects. The…

Today is the LAST day to submit your entry for the Jingle Contest!

Today is the day! It's the last day jingles uploaded!! Next week will be the "American Idol" of the USA Science and Engineering Festival when our finalists will go to a public VOTE to help us decide on the best jingle!! Yes...YOU dear readers will get to help decide on the USA Science and Engineering Festival's jingle. So...here are some details: Prize for the winning Jingle: $500 (and knowing that your Jingle will be heard and sung by hundreds of thousands of science enthusiasts across the country) Submission Deadline: April 30, 2010-->THIS FRIDAY! How to submit your jingle to the USA…

Jingle Contest Ends TOMORROW!

Tomorrow is the last day to get your jingles put together and uploaded. Next week will be the "American Idol" of the USA Science and Engineering Festival when our finalists will go to a public VOTE to help us decide on the best jingle!! Yes...YOU dear readers will get to help decide on the USA Science and Engineering Festival's jingle. So...here are some details: Prize for the winning Jingle: $500 (and knowing that your Jingle will be heard and sung by hundreds of thousands of science enthusiasts across the country) Submission Deadline: April 30, 2010-->THIS FRIDAY! How to submit your…

Jingle contest ends THIS FRIDAY!

Just a few more days to get your jingles put together and uploaded. Next week will be the "American Idol" of the USA Science and Engineering Festival when our finalists will go to a public VOTE to help us decide on the best jingle!! Yes...YOU dear readers will get to help decide on the USA Science and Engineering Festival's jingle. So...here are some details: Prize for the winning Jingle: $500 (and knowing that your Jingle will be heard and sung by hundreds of thousands of science enthusiasts across the country) Submission Deadline: April 30, 2010-->THIS FRIDAY! How to submit your jingle…

Jingle Festival Deadline: THIS FRIDAY!!

Just four more days to get your jingles put together and uploaded. Next week will be the "American Idol" of the USA Science and Engineering Festival when our finalists will go to a public VOTE to help us decide on the best jingle!! Yes...YOU dear readers will get to help decide on the USA Science and Engineering Festival's jingle. So...here are some details: Prize for the winning Jingle: $500 (and knowing that your Jingle will be heard and sung by hundreds of thousands of science enthusiasts across the country) Submission Deadline: April 30, 2010-->THIS FRIDAY! How to submit your jingle…

DNA Day is on the way!

The American Society for Human Genetics is sponsoring the second annual DNA Day Essay contest. If you are a high school teacher here's your chance to combine an interesting assignment along with a contest. This year's essay questions are: If you could be a human genetics researcher, what would you study and why? In what ways will knowledge of genetics and genomics make changes to health and health care in the US possible? The rules are here at GenEdNet.org I also have an animated tutorial at Geospiza Education that might be of some help. The tutorial is titled Allelic Variants of…

Admirable....not necessarily accurate...regarding science...in a movie!?

That is what the SEED overlords are asking this week: What movie do you think does something admirable (though not necessarily accurate) regarding science? Bonus points for answering whether the chosen movie is any good generally. Jeff Goldblum comes to mind.... But no, the most admirable thing a movie can do about science is make it look cool to kids. Many kids' movies (and TV shows) are doing a pretty good job at turning science-geeks into superheroes. My all-time-favourite is Jimmy Neutron. Why? Jimmy is not just an inventor and engineer (like Dexter, for instance) but a real scientist…

Craig McClain talk at Sigma Xi

Although I've known Craig McClain for a few years now, both online and offline, I only had some vague ideas about what kind of research he is doing. I knew it has something to do with the Deep Sea and with the evolution of body size, but I did not know the details. So, when the opportunity arose to hear him give a talk summarizing his work, I jumped to it and went to see him on Tuesday at Sigma Xi as a part of their pizza lunch series. First I have to say that Craig is a great speaker (if you are looking for one for a seminar series, this is useful information for you) - it was fun and very…

ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants

As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what. Jonathan Eisen is a Professor at UC Davis, Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology, author of the Evolution textbook, a blogger and a twitterer. At the conference, Jonathan will lead the session "Open Access Publishing and Freeing the Scientific Literature (or Why Freedom is about more than just not paying for things)". Russ Williams is the Executive Director of the…

Heat wave!

The temperatures are soaring out here in Morris, Minnesota, rising to a balmy -9°F/-23°C today, after a miserable week in which both our cars show signs of failure (one is still dead in the driveway) and we discovered the limitations of our house heating systems and insulation — once Spring arrives, some lucky contractor in our neighborhood is going to pocket a bunch of our money to fix this place up. But today…woo hoo, gang, let's get out on the deck and barbecue. Or not. Now I'm wishing I could have made it to the Science Online '09 conference, in tropical North Carolina. Unfortunately,…

Compare and Contrast, Part 6

Compare this.... ....to this: Now go back to all of these Compare&Contrast videos. I have paired them, IMHO, in a reasonable way. But what I did is not watch them, but LISTEN to them instead. So, if you have time and inclination, do the same: start the video and minimize the page and listen instead of watching. When watching, a lot of things are distractions and everyone looks better. But when I just listened, the Republicans sounded much weaker. McCain's voice is shaky and betrays his age. Palin sounded like one of those 'mean girls' in high school running for class president…

Debate! Open Access for the Public

Go to Mimi's place and state your position: For a long time, if you wanted to read up on science news or get background information for research, you had to hope that the media got it right, have a subscription to a few journals ( there are thousands though, so you are missing out), or be lucky enough to work at an institute/organization that gives you access to journals online and has a few (hundred) bound copies. Before legislation was passed to make NIH funded research available to the public after a year, no one really knew what was going on in the world of research and development. This…

A 40-hour workweek?

In academia? See what they say: Mad Hatter EcoGeoFemme ScienceGirl Jennie Mad Hatter again DrugMonkey Laurie Granieri ScienceWoman Telecommuting has its perks. But working only 40 hours is not one of them. Especially in my case in which the line between work, blogging, schmoozing and fun is blurry. Is posting this weekend post to be considered work (building and keeping my own community that, tomorrow, will click on a link to PLoS) or pleasure (doing what I always did - reading interesting stuff online and sharing with my readers)? Both? Who's to tell? I have fun doing it. But I have…

I forgot all about Molly!

Here it is, mid-August, and I just let it slide…I noticed the nagging comments back when I was away, but then let them slide until I suddenly remembered today that there was some administrative chore I'd been neglecting. It is now corrected, and the latest Molly Awards for June are now online. My apologies. There were two winners this month. The first is Jadehawk, and it's about time. You guys have been throwing votes her way for so long, and at last they reached critical mass. The second winner is a bit troubling. You voted for a fundamentalist Christian on my blog, and I almost decided to…

The SSA needs YOU

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

Friday Fun: Students Blame Innovative Incentive Program for Tricking Them into Learning

What can I say, The Cronk is my new Internet crush. I think I might be stalking them. But in a good way. In any case, check this out: Students Blame Innovative Incentive Program for Tricking Them into Learning Psychology professor Edgar Stevens is a popular topic of conversation at Farmington College today as he has become the center of an unusual campus debate. Stevens, a recent recipient of the Farmington Innovative Teaching Citation, inspired heated conversation at the recent Student Government Association (SGA) meeting as a result of an assignment in his second-tier psychology course.…

Anthro Blog Carnival

The forty-fourth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Greg Laden's blog. Archaeology and anthropology, and all about luta livre! Luta livre is a broad term referring to wrestling in Portuguese. In Brazil, it may also refer to a martial art that resembles catch wrestling. With the introduction of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where Brazilian fighter Royce Gracie dominated the field with apparent ease, many English language martial arts publications rushed to find and translate older Brazilian articles regarding the history of Gracie jiu-jitsu. It was common knowledge that the…

Transitional Fossil Evidence Challenge

My friend Wesley Elsberry has updated the Transitional Fossil Evidence Challenge (TFEC) and posted it on his blog. The TFEC has a long history in online discussions of evolution and creationism, particularly in the talk.origins newsgroup, but as far as I know this is the first time it has been extended to the blogosphere. It was developed many years ago in response to the constant claim that there are no transitional fossil sequences in the world. This claim is mindlessly repeated by creationists, virtually none of whom have ever examined a fossil in their lives. In order to credibly make…

Another Positive Review of the BMHB!

That's the Big Monty Hall Book for those unfamiliar with the local slang. The review appeared in the May issue of The American Statistician, not freely available online, alas. The author was Michael Sherman of Texas A & M University. Here's the opening: Jason Rosenhouse states on the last page of his book that he encountered much “incredulity” at writing a “whole book” on the “Monty Hall problem.” I confess that I was one of the incredulous upon picking up this book. After reading it, however, I have quite a different view. And just what is this new view of which he speaks?…

links for 2008-07-10

In Grad Admissions, Where Is Class? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs "A study just published in PS: Political Science and Politics suggests that in graduate departments, class may be nowhere to be found in admissions decisions." (tags: academia class-war social-science humanities science) Dennis Overbye -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The New York Times -- Reader Questions and Answers - Question - NYTimes.com Q&A with one of the best in the business. (tags: science journalism) Uncool, man. Just uncool. at Tobias Buckell Online "I've since learned…

links for 2008-04-25

Princeton scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter "Writing in the April 24 issue of Nature, the scientists report that they have recorded [the quantum Hall effect] in a bulk crystal of bismuth-antimony without any external magnetic field being present." (tags: physics experiment materials news science) 'Buckypaper' stretches in a strange way - physicsworld.com "[R]esearchers in the US have discovered that some types of buckypaper -- sheets made of woven carbon nanotubes -- increase in width when they are stretched" (tags: physics materials science experiment news) immlass:…

links for 2008-03-01

slacktivist: More on subsidiarity "[W]here it exists here in America, inefficient Big Government tends to be the direct and predictable result of anti-regulation, anti-government laissez-faire and libertarian-ish ideologies" (tags: economics politics US society) Second Law of Thermodynamics with Discrete Quantum Feedback Control You still can't win, but you can do a little better than with a classical heat engine. (tags: physics quantum energy science articles) Control of Interaction-Induced Dephasing of Bloch Oscillations They manage to maintain quantum oscillations in a BEC in an…

The blogging hiatus is close to an end. Really.

I'm forever apologizing for the lack of blog activity.  Sorry.  I know. I owe my vast and loyal readership (Hi Mom!) an explantion.  Behind the scenes here at Myrmecos Industries we are 90% done with a significant overhaul of the ant photo collection.  Essentially, the content of myrmecos.net is moving to the galleries at www.alexanderwild.com, with a significant restructuring of the latter to accomodate an orders-of-magnitude increase in imagery. The process involves a lot of time-intensive tasks like captioning and keywording, as well as retouching older photos and adding in completely…

National Academies Wants Your Input on Science Outreach

The National Academies is doing some preliminary pilot research on a new communication initiative. As part of that process, they want to find out what science blogs readers think are the most important and pressing issues in science. Below is a description and a link to an online survey that they would like readers to take a few minutes to complete. What topics in science, engineering, and medicine matter most to you? The National Academies are interested in developing useful and engaging print and web-based educational materials on the topics that you'd like to learn more about. They…

You copy, you paste, you email (and you may win money to buy books)

At my school, I happen to be involved in a project with a writing contest that has a general public category. Basically, we don't have many entries in this category and there's, like, three bookstore giftcards at stake here ($50, $100, and $350 - all usable online)! This is Canadian dollars, I'll admit, but if you've got a post you've written in the last year or so, that you think fits, then do send it on (basically critieria is very broad - something globally relevant, any genre of writing works - previously published ok). If it makes it easier, you can even leave your URL in this thread…

A mild rant for the evening

So let me see if I’ve got this straight ... There are a bunch of people that think that typing ".com" instead of ".k12.az.us" is a potential error that students looking for their school district on their home computer could make, and as such, the owner of the .com site should shutdown. Let’s imagine we live in a completely hypothetical universe that students go to their school district website and that parents don’t monitor Junior’s internet usage. lesd.com is a high level domain name purchased by its owner in March 2002. It also happens to be a pornographic site. There is no evidence that…

SICB Blogging Workshop

As PZ notes, some of us ScienceBloggers will be at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting which occurs this time around in Phoenix. PZ, GrrlScientist and I will be the talking heads at the Media Worskshop on Thursday January 4th: Media Workshop: Hey, Wanna Read My Blog? Blogs are online "diaries" that are growing in popularity. Popular political and social commentary blogs are making the news, but is there more out there than chatty gossip and collections of links? How about some science? Can this trendy technology be useful for scientists? Come to the Media…

More exciting comparative physiology sessions at EB 2012!

In looking through the online program for this years' EB, I came across additional comparative physiology seminars that I am very much looking forward to attending (to see the prior list of must-see seminars, click here): Monday April 23rd: 8:00am-10:00am: "Hypoxia Inducible Factors in Health and Disease," chaired by B. Rees, CG Wilson, and M Watanabe. 10:30-12:30: "Sodium and water homeostasis: Genetic and comparative models," chaired by T Pannabecker and K Hyndman. 12:45-3:15pm: Don't forget to attend the Scholander poster session to meet the future scientists in comparative physiology…

Newspapers and me

I and the wife were having coffee on Saturday. For the past two weekends I have been buying the weekend newspaper and not reading it. Ramya mentioned this and reminded me not to bother this time. Like most men above the age of thirty, I like news - a lot. But newspapers do not seem to cut it for me. I reasoned thus: Those who are on the internet have a lot of news sources and are used to hearing different viewpoints. In fact, the variety of views is the norm. I can always click around and find what many folks think of a certain event. Consider, religion. I hear Dawkins and then I also hear E…

Very cool poll at slashdot

Slashdot's poll of the moment is just fantastic, combining psychology and reasoning in a very cool way. Here's the question: # How Many People Will Select The Same Option As You? 0% 1-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-99% 100% Just CowboyNeal [this is the traditional joke Slashdot poll answer] At first pass, you might figure that there are 6 possible responses, so if people respond randomly then about 16 percent will choose each answer, so the correct response would be 1-25 percent. But of course, if everyone used that same logic, then many more than 25 percent of respondents would choose that…

The students have been slacking!

But then, so have we all. I hit my developmental biology students with the first evil exam of the term last week (I give them a couple of broad questions where we don't have all the answers, and send them off to write a longish essay on their own time. It's definitely the kind of test where regurgitation doesn't work at all). Then also the last few days have been our Fall Break, a short interval with no classes which were added to allow the faculty a chance to catch up on their work and sleep, but which I squandered by gallivanting off to London where I got almost no sleep. But they've got…

A Bird's Eye View of Written in Stone

For months now I have been hammering away at individual chapters of my first book, Written in Stone, but this weekend I finally put all the individual parts together into one document. I still have a lot of editing to do, but it still feels good to move past the stage of large-scale construction and get down to fine tuning. With the greater body of work properly arranged I could hardly resist creating a Wordle cloud for the book. For those unfamiliar with Wordle, it is an online program that will scan through a body of text and pick out the most frequently used words and display them in a…

Seed Cover Story; NPR Podcast; Minnesota Smackdown

While Sheril continues to blog up a storm, I merely have a few updates between my various plane flights....the latest of which, today, takes me to Minnesota for the big debate (tomorrow night) between Mooney-Nisbet and Laden-Myers. More on that when I get a second, but first, some updates: The latest issue of Seed is out, and I have the cover story. While you can't read the piece online, here's the gist: It's a manifesto for why the next president of the United States, whoever it is, had better get science. I'm hoping this cover story will prompt a lot of discussion, and this won't be the…

Philosophy of Flirting

No, seriously. The paper in which Carrie Jenkins presents a conceptual analysis of flirting is here (via Online Papers in Philosophy). An except: What is it to flirt? Do you have to intend to flirt with someone in order to count as doing so? Can such things as dressing a certain way count as flirting? Can one flirt with an AI character? With one's own long-term partner? With an idea? The question of whether or not an act of flirtation has taken place is often highly significant in our practical decision-making. For example, one may want to know whether or not one's partner has been flirting…

Science Blogging 2008 London Conference

The folks at Nature Network have organized the Science Blogging 2008 Conference, which will take place on Saturday, August 30th at the Royal Institution in London. The programme for the event was put online earlier today. I'll be moderating this discussion between Anna Kushnir, Jenny Rohn and Grrl Scientist: Mistrust of scientists is common, and misinterpretation of scientific results rampant. Science blogs can serve as a bridge between scientists and the general public. Blogs build a community of scientists in which they can discuss the peculiarities of their jobs, their work, and their…

Department of poetic justice.

Grades are due this Friday. Last Friday, the grader assigned to one of my courses was supposed to get me the grades for the online reading discussions that he was weeks behind on grading. He didn't. Nor has he responded to the emails I've sent him since then inquiring as to when he will give me these grades. Nor has he been answering his cell phone, on whose voicemail I have been leaving increasingly frantic messages. There is a real possibility that I will have to do this grading that the "grader" has already been paid for (since he is "salaried" this term -- as my grader). This could well…

Intertubes Will Clog in Two Years

AT&T is making the claim that the Internet will reach its full capacity limit by 2010. ... Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned that the current systems that constitute the Internet will not be able to cope with the increasing amounts of video and user-generated content being uploaded. "The surge in online content is at the center of the most dramatic changes affecting the Internet today," he said. "In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today." That's scary. The obvious solution is to find…

Another day at the office for Iain Murray

Brad Delong: And Iain Murray makes me sorry I named John Derbyshire the Stupidest Man Alive: The Corner on National Review Online: A meteorite hit a remote area of northern Norway yesterday. The explosive force of the impact was equivalent to that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. I wonder if they'll try to blame this on global warming? Jonathan Chait: Over at the Corner, Iain Murray is assuring readers that An Inconvenient Truth is really very dull. Oh, I'm sure it is--that's why Murray, a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is spearheading a massive p.r. blitz to…

The Australian's War on Science 70: We know where you live

I have an article in The Conversation on the misrepresentation of the science on sea level in news stories in The Australian: In August The Australian had a story by Ean Higgins on Tim Flannery's waterfront home. Higgins' message was the fact that Flannery had a house near the water showed he was insincere in his warnings about sea level rise. The article also suggested Flannery had frightened the elderly into selling their seaside homes to him. But the Hawkesbury River where Flannery's home stands has steeply rising banks. Waterfront homes there are several metres above sea level and are…

Old-school tech meets cutting-edge science

Tonight, Colorado Public Radio is hosting a program about emergence: What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies, all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. How? That's our question this hour. We gaze down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, even our very brains. Featured are: author Steven Johnson, mathematician Steve Strogatz and neurologists Oliver Sacks and Christof Koch. The program begins tonight at 9pm (MST) on KCFR. In case you aren't local, you can listen online through…

Google Health: the Facebook of medical records?

John Halamka reports that Google Health has quietly launched an application for secure sharing of your online medical records: The Google solution, introduced without fanfare, solves many confidentiality issues by putting the patient in control of medical record sharing. Call it "Facebook for Healthcare". You invite those who you believe should see your medical information and you can disinvite them at anytime. Halamka, as one of the first 10 participants of the audacious Personal Genome Project, knows more than a little about sharing health data: he's agreed to publish both his medical…

Exponential Collective Intelligence?

Anyone who has thought about teaching and learning amidst the explosive growth of emedia and online social networking should take a look at this video by Prof. Michael Wesch at Kansas State University. It is an exciting and challenging time to be an educator. I believe that the web can be a two-headed beast that we must nurture and manage with care. It can provide a wealth of useful information as well as a vast wasteland. There is a long path beginning with data and information that can lead to knowledge and wisdom. It is our job to guide those who want to learn through this often…