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Join America's Youth As They Tackle Top Environmental Issues

On Wednesday, October 6, 2010, the third annual 4-H National Youth Science Day, will bring together hundreds of thousands of youth around the nation to complete a single science experiment. This year, the National Science Experiment, 4-H2O, focuses on water quality and climate change - two critical issues facing our global community today. In anticipation of 4-H National Youth Science Day, you can now pre-order a 4-H2O experiment kit with all the necessary materials to complete the first two tiers of the experiment! Kit includes enough materials for 15 youth and one facilitator to…

CALL FOR MEDIA: First Annual Science Fest On The Mall Hosts Video Contest

Shout out to Digital Capital Week for getting the word out about the USA Science and Engineering Festival. From Digital Capital Week This year is becoming a year of firsts for technology, media and science in the Nation's Capital. Much like DCWeek's inaugural convention for techies & creatives, for the first time this October, over 400 of the nation's leading science, engineering and academic organizations will descend on the National Mall to present the First Annual USA Science & Engineering Festival. Amongst the numerous hands-on science exhibits, workshops, and performances The…

Using a rainbow to show how proteins fold

Pull a spaghetti noodle out of a box of pasta and take a look. It's long and stiff. Try to bend it and it breaks. But fresh pasta is pliable. It can fold just like cooked noodles. When students first look at an amino acid sequence, a long string of confusing letters, they often think those letters are part of a chain like an uncooked spaghetti noodle. Stiff and unbending, with one end far from the other. Molecular modeling apps let us demonstrate that proteins are a bit more like fresh pasta. If we apply rainbow colors (Red Orange Yellow Blue Indigo Violet) to a protein chain, we can see…

The division on Proposition 8

California's Proposition 8 is a ballot measure that aims to ban same-sex marriage — it is a regressive proposal that aims to strip equality from a minority population. It is revealing to see who is supporting each side of the contest. The organizations trying to oppose Proposition 8 include Apple Computer, Sergey Brin of Google, the California Teachers Association, and the state Democratic party — anyone supportive of civil rights, progressive causes, or (to be honest) finding a profit in not discriminating against well-educated people in a technological workforce for irrelevant reasons, like…

Impostor Science in Open-Access Journals

As anti-vaccinationists, global-warming denialists, and young-earth creationists know, it’s not too hard to fool the public with bogus science. But a new exercise by John Bohannon of Science suggests it’s not too hard too fool professionals either. Bohannon used a computer program to generate unique iterations of a purposely flawed paper, playing Mad Libs with the formula “Molecule X from lichen species Y inhibits the growth of cancer cell Z.” He sent his fake papers to 304 open-access journals, and it was accepted by more than half. Some of these journals are admittedly sketchy, but others…

New Avenues to Knowledge

Science publishing is at a crossroads. On We Beasties, Kevin Bonham says that early scientists "communicated amongst themselves in person or in letters or in books. They shared discoveries freely and it was possible for an individual human to be aware of almost the entire sum of human knowledge." As the pace of discovery accelerated, scientific journals became instrumental in recording and disseminating knowledge. But today, while earnest researchers must "publish or perish," and millions of students stand to benefit from open access, publishers themselves are focused on turning a profit…

Reassessing Chronic Illness

On The Pump Handle, Liz Borkowski surveys a new report on chronic illness released by the Institute of Medicine. Borkowski writes, "diabetes and heart disease are what leap to my mind—in part because they're so tied to the lifestyle factors of smoking, inadequate exercise, and poor nutrition, and in part because they cost our health system so much money." But other physical (and mental) afflictions beleaguer tens of millions of Americans (116 million of which, for example, suffer from chronic pain). In total, the IoM report "highlights nine 'clinical clusters' that together 'encompass and…

Animal and Human Rights

Earlier this week on Adventures in Ethics and Science, Dr. Free-Ride reported that a UCLA researcher faces renewed harassment from animal rights activists for talking about his work. Dr. Dario Ringach and his family have been the subject of invasive physical and personal attacks, and Dr. Free-Ride too has now been targeted by the "militant" animal rights group Negotiation is Over. Scicurious on Neurotopia decries these threatening tactics, writing "we shouldn't have to do our work in fear of threats, intimidation, and severe bodily harm." On Good Math, Bad Math Mark Chu-Carroll adds "animal…

Opening up new VISTAs

I received a mysterious file last week, via e-mail from one of my students. According the e-mail, the file contained the answers to an assignment. I downloaded the file and double-clicked it. Nada. I did notice that the file had an unusual extension. Most Word documents have ".doc" at the end. This one had ".docx" I thought that must be a mistake, so I tried other options for opening it with Microsoft WORD, even editing the extension to change it to ".doc" No. That didn't work. Then, I tried TextEdit, all I saw were strange characters. I did a few other things, but all I could see was…

In the movies: fighting flies and lobbing lobsters

I read about this in Science and immediately had to check it out. Instant gratification on the internet is such a wonderful thing! The Ed Kravitz lab has made movies of fights and even put them on the web for your viewing pleasure. You can see the following fly fights that might suit your fancy: Fighting flies Male Drosophila melanogaster aggression (with music) Female Drosophila melanogaster aggression page Or if you prefer battling sea life, you can watch the lobsters duke it out. Now I know why the lobsters in the grocery store tank always have rubber bands around their claws.…

Both ends of the rifle

Anniversaries may be artificial milestones marking a distance on a road from the past, but they also remind us of where we are now: enmired in the fifth year of a hideous and vicious war, a war whose disastrous consequences were foreseen by many but disregarded by a compliant press and credulous public. No one -- no politician or citizen -- should be able to say they were deceived. They allowed themselves to be deceived. Almost a quarter of the US Senate voted against the use of force resolution, without benefit of hindsight. Many of you understood, too. We started it, anyway. We should end…

News inertia?

Crawford Kilian at the H5N1 blog makes the pertinent observation that the reports of suspected human bird flu in Vietnam have gone into a kind of limbo. He refers to it as "information inertia" because the same reports of the four suspect cases (and possibly two more) have been co-circulating for days with a single Agence France Presse report that further testing on four of the cases are negative. Both reports appear essentially unchanged on successive dates. Crawford speculates it may be related to short staffing over the holidays failing to catch up with the latest news the cases are not…

Downtime

Pharyngula will be going silent this afternoon. Do not panic, do not call 911, do not convert to Catholicism in a desperate search for succor. The Seed overlords are implementing a much-needed upgrade to the software that drives this place, so some of the functions will be turned off this afternoon, like posting and commenting, while a team of code dwarves move in and bang up the joint. It's a big upgrade, so you're likely to be locked out until sometime on Saturday. Be strong. What will you get out of this? At first, not much. Everything will look and act exactly the same to the reader after…

Anyone knows car engines around here?

OK, my car won't start. Here is the information that may be relevant: - It is a 2000 Ford Winstar minivan. - It never happened before - not even close. - It is used every day. - On most days it covers only a couple of miles. Once or twice a week, it may go to Raleigh (28 miles one way) or to my school (16 miles one way). - It appears to have plenty of electricity, oil and gas. - When the key is turned, all the lights come on, radio comes on etc. - Nothing in the engine appears to move when the key is turned - I cannot see any movement or light anywhere. - When the key is turned it makes a…

DonorsChoose - double your impact!

You heard of HP, didn't you? It's a person (or company, perhaps Hewlett Packard for all I know) who donated to every single challenge on Social Media Challenge Giving Pages on DonorsChoose! And now I hear that HP wants to give even more - but there is a method to that madness: you have to donate first! More anyone raises by Sunday, more that person's Challenge gets from HP: HP has been tracking the competition closely and has already made a $50 contribution to your page, as a result of all of your hard work. The good news? HP wants to make yet another contribution to your Giving Page. The…

Tweetlinks, 10-12-09

Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time: In which I have seen the future of science, and it is male - first issue of Eureka extremely male and even sexist!? Sell the Vatican, Feed the World - Sarah Silverman's ambitious plan for feeding the world (video). "Krugman on "destructive power of bad ideas" and how falling dollar can help economic recovery:" Misguided Monetary Mentalities The podcast of the This American Life healthcare Explainer is now up: More Is Less - Gavin Yamey of PLoS has a 2sec appearance. Google Wave: A Complete Guide Announcing the…

It just gets better and better

The skirmish over Christmas in Washington state just gets funnier every day. Now someone wants to put up a Festivus pole in the capitol. That's hilarious enough, but it gets better. The Westboro Baptist Church has demanded to be allowed to put up a sign that says, "Santa Claus will take you to Hell". I never thought I'd laugh at Fred Phelps and his gang of hateful loonies, but there you go. We aren't done yet! Bill Donohue of the Catholic League has to butt in and bray, too. Gov. Gregoire is responsible for this mess. Having first acceded to the requests of atheists to attack Christmas, she…

So what's the Big Deal about torture? (***sarcasm warning added)

What's the big deal about putting a few bad guys into "stressful" positions (assuming you know for sure they really are bad guys)? You call that torture? Waterboarding maybe is torture (we aren't sure about that yet; requires some study***), but stressful positions and a love tap or two? Give me a break: Source: Waiting for the Guards, Amnesty International So what's the big deal? This was straight out of the CIA interrogation manual. No pretense we don't do it. This video is also not play acting: In order to make the film, the directors put the actor into a stress position for six hours…

I can still be surprised

Aren't letters to the editor fun? They publish some of the craziest stuff. One of the many problems with Darwin's theory of evolution pertaining to mankind is that neither Charles Darwin nor his worshippers take into account extra-terrestrial life. It's pretty hard for someone to draw conclusions on mankind when Darwin had never seen nor heard of UFOs. That's kind of like teaching math but not understanding trigonometry. Most of us in the Niagara Region live on a lake bed (Lake Iroquois). The Indians cannot be blamed for having an effect on this major geographical landscape change anymore…

My Picks From ScienceDaily

Voracious Grasshoppers Puzzle Texas Entomologists: They're not afraid of heights, they're voracious, and Dr. Spencer Behmer wants to know if you've seen them hanging out in oak trees or on your house. They're post oak grasshoppers, and Behmer, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station entomologist, wants to research their life cycle and behavior. If you haven't heard of them, don't feel alone. Until recently, most Texans hadn't. "I didn't see them for the first 25 years of my career," said Dr. John Jackman, Texas Cooperative Extension entomologist. "I would have told you there weren't any…

NC Blogging: No Blogger MeetUp today

Apparently, neither Anton nor Brian nor me can make it to the Chapel Hill/Carrboro meetup tonight - watch BlogTogether for announcements for the replacement date. Also, get your graphic design juices flowing and submit your suggestion for the BlogTogether logo - there is a cool prize to be won. Finally, next edition of the Tar Heel Tavern will be hosted by Scrutiny Hooligans, so send your entries promptly: The Tarheel Tavern's 107th incarnation comes to life this weekend at Scrutiny Hooligans dressed in calculus, symbolism, and accounting. In the year 107 c.e. that Titus died. Titus was a…

Will 'Beagle' sail for the Darwin BiCentennial?

Darwin Day - his 198th birthday - is coming up soon, on February 12th. Are you planning on writing a post on that day? Last year I put together a linkfest of all the notable blogospheric contributions for the Darwin Day. Although the number of science blogs has increased greatly since then, I intend to make this year's linkfest as well. I'll use Technorati and Google Blogsearch to find the posts, but you can make it easier for me by e-mailing me the URL. Don't forget that two years from now - the 200th birthday - there will be many celebrations around the world. There will be conferences…

Texas creationists sink to a new low

It's getting hot and nasty in the battle over the Texas science standards. Donna Garner, one of the members of the forces of darkness, has distributed a letter in which she claims that the atheists are winning Texas (I wish!), and that those of us who are working to teach evolution must be opposed more fiercely. And, of course, any accusation levied against scientists is perfectly fair. The kicker in her letter is a bit of slander: Jeffrey Dahmer, one of America's most infamous serial killers who cannibalized more than 17 boys before being captured, gave an [sic]Â last interview with Dateline…

Viagra - The Future

Shamelessly stolen from Cyberspace Rendezvous: In pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also call Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen. The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.…

The Grant is finished!

The Grant (here, here, here) is finally done and going in Fed Ex tomorrow morning. It's been a long haul and we will undoubtedly be sending in preliminary results or new publications between now and the end of September, since the review isn't until November. That's right. I've been working on it for a year and now we won't find out anything until next December. The current funding period goes until a year from now. We've proposed to do a lot of complicated science over 5 years, which always makes me think of the saying that there is only 2 things that can go wrong when you submit a grant.…

John Snow

Yesterday I gave a nod to an important epidemiologist, the late Alice Stewart. I'm old enough to have known her, but not old enough to know the most famous epidemiologist of all -- indeed sometimes called the "Father of Epidemiology" -- Dr. John Snow. Snow is also claimed as the "Father of Anesthesiology" because he administered chloroform to Queen Victoria during the births of her second and third children, thus popularizing the practice in the mid 19th century. Neither epidemiologists nor anesthesiologists seem to be aware that their dad had two families, but that's another issue. The…

Radio reminder

Today is the day of the GLBT Pride Parade in the Twin Cities, so naturally today's Atheists Talk radio is all about the fight against discrimination and for equal rights for all. Tune in at 9am! If you're godless, there's nothing to prevent you from supporting civil rights for everyone without regard for their sexual orientation. That doesn't seem to be the case if you're Catholic, however. The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has told a liberal Roman Catholic church in Minneapolis that it can't hold its annual gay pride prayer service because the event goes against the teachings of…

Easter brings out the insipid

Take, for instance, Richard Harries: This Easter, as usual, the Christian church will proclaim its central theme that, in Jesus, God shares our human anguish to the full and, through the resurrection, gives us hope that in the end all evil, including death, will be left behind. This God calls us to let the divine purpose of compassion work in and through us, to do what Jewish tradition calls repairing the world. It is the most sublime story of God ever told, the most deeply moving account of what it is for God to be God. No one doubts that there are real difficulties in believing it, but for…

Spring is Bustin' Out All Over Here!

Well, first there's the baby goats. Last Friday, we collected our foster goat, Tayish. He belongs to a friend from our synagogue who won him in a raffle, believe it or not. He's a 10 week old wether, and the kids have made a pet of him. Here's Simon holding him: Then, on Sunday, Bast gave us our first birth and our first doe of the season, Calliope. It was nice for Bast that she just had the one little one - last year in her first season she had triplets! Each season's babies name choices have a "theme" - this year is Greek mythology. Calliope was a (probably hopeless) expression of…

The Issue is Equality - But Not Necessarily the Way You Think

From the current issue of _American Educator_, fascinating research on Equality issues by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (PDF alert!) that shows that greater economic and social equality don't make things better just for the bottom: It may seem obvious that problems associated with relative deprivation should be more common in more unequal societies. However, if you ask people why greater equality reduces these problems, the most common assumption is that greater equality helps those at the bottom. the truth is that the vast majority of the population is harmed by greater inequality.…

Preventing Late Blight in Tomatoes and Potatoes

Early signs of tomato late blight have been found already in Maryland, and realistically, we can expect to see it again this year. Last year for American gardeners in the east, tomato blight was a disaster. Moreover, for those of us who produce our own calorie crops, the blight on potatoes was at least as serious as the loss of salsa. What can you do to make sure it doesn't happen again? The first is obviously make sure you remove all potatoes that may have sprouted again. The second is to plant resistant cultivars - in tomatoes there's some evidence that Stupice, Juliet and Matt's Wild…

Too Pretty to Write...

I've been sadly slack on content the last few days, but well, it is spring and I'm busy. And tired at the end of the day. And Stoneleigh of The Automatic Earth was visiting. And well...hey, it is 66 degrees, sunny and beautiful. I'm in the middle of a piece answering a reader's question about why even economists should be concerned about peak energy but it lost to the sunshine. The problem is that the computer is in the house, and I don't go there this time of year if I can avoid it ;-). On the other hand, what I do have, for the first time in a long while, is a working (until one of the…

Friday Fun: Werewolves & Wikipedia

No, I don't mean the werewolf entry in Wikipedia, I mean the use of Wikipedia by werewolves. You see, I recently received a review copy of The Werewolf's Guide to Life: A Manual for the Newly Bitten by Ritch Duncan, Bob Powers and Emily Flake. As you can imagine, it an imaginary non-fiction book helping new werewolves to cope with their newly transformed lives -- it talks about work, romance and all the rest. I'm not quite finished it yet, but it's very amusing and definitely worth a look if you like that kind of thing. What struck me, though, is something from the entry on figuring out when…

Veteran-Care and Product-Safety Reporting Win Pulitzers

The winners of the 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday, and reporting on veteransâ care and on drug and product safety scored top honors in the journalism category: The Public Service prize went âto the Washington Post for the work of Dana Priest, Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials.â The Postâs Walter Reed and Beyond website includes the original stories and slideshows, as well as reporting on the federal response. The…

Occupational Health News Roundup

Weâve written before (here, here, and here) about National Guard troops exposed to an orange, sand-like dust at the Qarmat Ali water plant near Basra, Iraq. Soldiers complained of health problems, including burning eyes, nosebleeds, and rashes. They were told that the orange dust was just a mild irritant â but it turned out to be the carcinogen sodium dichromate. The plant was shut down in 2003. Now, the Indianapolis Star reports that 16 Indiana Guardsmen have filed a federal lawsuit accusing KBR, the company in charge of rebuilding the plant, of concealing the risk that the troops faced. In…

Friday Blog Roundup

Once again, bloggers turn their keyboards to the economic crisis: Merrill Goozner at GoozNewsÂ explores how the stock market's collapse may affect health-insurance premiums. Chris Mooney at Science Progress looks at the grim prospects for increased science funding. Kate Sheppard at Gristmill brings us an interview with Van Jones, who explains how the recommendations in his new bestselling book, The Green Collar Economy, hold up in the current financial climate. Joseph Romm at Gristmill argues that the mainstream media is overblowing the problems that green energy faces. Elsewhere: Maggie…

The world's most boring creationist

Wow. This guy is like Ben Stein on quaaludes — and just as wrong, wrong, wrong. The opening premise for his slo-mo diatribe is ridiculous: True science only reports observable facts, rather than interpretations and assumptions. Then he goes on with a tedious litany of examples: you are allowed to say that Archaeopteryx is a fossil of a winged animal, but you can't say it's transitional or intermediate characters, you can say Tiktaalik is a fossil of a skull and some limb bones, but you can't say it represents an intermediate between fish and amphibians, yadda yadda yadda. Unbelievable. First…

Looking for Qualitative Researcher for New Project

by Susan F. Wood, PhDÂ We are excited to be starting up a new research project here at the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy: Scientists in Government:Â An Examination of theirÂ Rights and Responsibilities inÂ Civil Society. Â The goal of this initiative is to provoke and shape the public discussion about the rights and responsibilities of government scientists, as part of the larger effort to ensure that government uses the best science to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of Americans.Â We are looking for a research associate/qualitative researcher who will lead…

Great Insight into the Randtards in the New Yorker

Check out this week's New Yorker for a well-put insight into the Rand-infected mind. Nick Paumgarten writes about John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods and his attitudes towards unions: ...His [Mackey's] disdain for contemporary unionism is ideological, as well as self-serving. Like many who have come before, he says that it was only when he started a business--when he had to meet payroll and deal with government red tape--that his political and economic views, fed on readings of Friedman, Rand, and the Austrians, veered to the right. But there is also a psychological dimension. It derives in…

Creationism---GOPs arugmentum ad populum

(HT to Nisbet...really) With the "choice" of Governor Palin as the vice presidential candidate, the GOP must now face up to questions about the teaching of creation myths is public school science classes. The new talking point? "It's a local issue." Science is local? Lucky for the GOP, Governor Pawlenty wasn't chosen for veep, given his responses to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press. Pawlenty apparently missed the whole Dover thing, wherein ID was shown to be Creationism, and Creationism was found to be "teaching religion" and not appropriate for public school science classes. Pawlenty brought…

Weirdest Headline Ever

Archbishop apologizes for giving Communion to Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence And what a great article too! PZ would love this group. On Oct. 7, Archbishop George Niederauer delivered the Eucharist to members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - an activist group whose motto is "go forth and sin some more" - prompting cries of outrage from conservatives across the country and Catholics in San Francisco. ... The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, founded in San Francisco in 1979, are known for their white face paint, outrageous costumes, theatrics and support of the gay community. They…

Religion vs. public health redux

I mentioned previously a clash between religion and public health, where a Liberian immigrant was jailed for importing bushmeat. She argued that infringing upon her religious freedom in this manner was unconstitutional; authorities argued that she couldn't put others at risk because of her religious beliefs. Another clash where religious beliefs are at odds with public health is simmering in the U.K.; more after the jump. Women training in several hospitals in England have raised objections to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their…

Be a scientific consultant for the Clergy Letter Project!

By now, regular readers will probably be familiar with The Clergy Letter Project spearheaded by Michael Zimmerman. Formulated in part to respond to the framing of the evolution controversy as a battle between science and religion, the letter now boasts more than 10,700 signatures from clergy, and have sponsored Evolution Sunday events for the past 2 years. Well, Zimmerman has a new project now: Our latest initiative is to create a list of scientists around the world who are willing to answer scientific questions posed by clergy who are supportive of modern science in general and evolution…

Hunger Awareness Day: June 5th

Today is the sixth annual Hunger Awareness Day, sponsored by America's Second Harvest. All too often we think of hunger as something affecting other countries (which of course it does) and focus more on obesity than hunger in America, but we have a serious problem with it here in the United States as well. Some of the numbers: â¢ The A2H (America's Second Harvest) system served an estimated 24 to 27 million unduplicated people annually, with a midpoint of 25.3 million. This includes 22 to 25 million pantry users, 1.2 to 1.4 million kitchen users, and 0.8 million shelter users. â¢…

Barry Commoner Responds to Attacks on Rachel Carson

As Dick Clapp wrote earlier this month, Rachel Carsonâs critics have used the 100th anniversary of her birth as an occasion to attack the influential environmental author. In the New York Times, columnist John Tierney (sub only) called Carsonâs classic work Silent Spring âa hodgepodge of science and junk science.â Barry Commoner, himself an author of landmark books on ecology, wrote a response to the Times, and has given us permission to post it here. -Liz Borkowski To the Editor: John Tierneyâs rehash (Science Times, June 5, 2007) of the long discredited arguments against the 1972 law…

Friday Blog Roundup

If you've got a long weekend coming up, what better way to spend it than by reading the best science blog posts? Coturnix of A Blog Around the Clock has links to the 50Â postsÂ chosen forÂ the Science Blogging Anthology. Elsewhere in the blogosphereÂ ... Cervantes at Stayin' Alive and Janet D. Stemwedel at Adventures in Ethics and Science respond to the report on bias in industry-financed beverage studies. Eesha Pandit at RH Reality Check reports on UNICEF'sÂ "The State of the World's Children 2007," which found that bringing an end to gender discrimination would benefit women and children…

"Random quotes"--SB game of the week

Since I've been tied to the computer this weekend, might as well take a break and do something a bit more entertaining than revising papers and books and preparing for the impending start of classes. Janet passed around the random quotations meme: scrolling through here and picking the first 5 that reflect who you are or what you believe. Mine after the jump. "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." --Benjamin Franklin "The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.…

Little changes-->big differences redux

Recall a few weeks ago, when I was discussing how a change in regulation in a single gene in Streptococcus pyogenes led to a huge change in phenotype? (I know you do--you probably have it memorized.) A new study shows a similar phenomenon's occurred during human evolution, and probably is the cause of much of the differences between humans and apes: Scientists have known for three decades that humans and chimpanzees share 99 percent of the same genes, but they have been at a loss to explain what causes the two to be so obviously different physically, behaviorally and mentally. Now a…

Koufax awards--voting open

I'm late. Wampum's opened voting for the 2005 Koufax awards. Aetiology is up for best new blog and best series (more on that after the break). Panda's Thumb is up for best blog community, and many other Sciencebloggers are up in various categories. Hope you've been checking them out over the past several weeks as Wampum relseased the nominations, so now's your chance--go vote! [Edited to add: Janet has a good list of science bloggers nominated, here.] Wampum has up nominations for best series. Aetiology's on there for the series I wrote on pandemic influenza. Their link actually goes…

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