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Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 19

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #19 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 18

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #18 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 17

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #17 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 16

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #16 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 15

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #15 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 14

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #14 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 13

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #13 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 12

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #12 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 11

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #10 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 10

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #10 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 9

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #9 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 8

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #8 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 7

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #7 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 6

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #6 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 5

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #5 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 2

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #2 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/1l. Oculus will also be…

I Get Books ..

I receive a fair number of books to review each month, so I thought I should do what several magazines and other publications do; list those books that have arrived in my mailbox so you know that this is the pool of books from which I will be reading and reviewing on my blog. I should point out that (sadly!), my book reviewing days may be ending soon because I will be relocating to Frankfurt, Germany in the next month or two. According to my experiences, postage to Germany is at least three times what it is to anywhere in the USA, and I get an impressive headache when I read electronic…

Mystery Bird: Tufted Titmouse, Parus bicolor

tags: Tufted Titmouse, Parus bicolor, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz [Mystery bird] Tufted Titmouse, Parus bicolor, photographed in Manhattan, Kansas. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow] Image: Dave Rintoul, 11 April 2009 [larger view]. Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification. Rick Wright, author of Aimophila Adventures and Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes: We find ourselves looking up at a gray bird. The tail is moderately long and somewhat disheveled; the body plumage is lax and fluffy. This one's a poser. When we can…

Birdbooker Report 79

tags: Birdbooker Report, bird books, animal books, natural history books, ecology books "How does one distinguish a truly civilized nation from an aggregation of barbarians? That is easy. A civilized country produces much good bird literature." --Edgar Kincaid The Birdbooker Report is a special weekly report of a wide variety of science, nature and behavior books that currently are, or soon will be available for purchase. This report is written by one of my Seattle birding pals and book collector, Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, and is edited by me and published here for your information and…

US citizen charged as torturer

A Boston man, the head of an elite Anti Terrorist Unit, has become the first person ever charged by the US Department of Justice with committing torture abroad. Charles "Chuckie" Taylor is being held in Miami. Surprised? Didn't think the US would move against one of its own citizens for flagrant human rights abuses and war crimes even though there has been a federal law (18 USC sections 2340A and 2441) that allows them to be charged in the US? After all, no one has ever been charged before. Of course, there are some special circumstances here. Chuckie Taylor is the son of Liberia's deposed…

Scotty, we hardly knew ye

The FDA has announced that Scott Gottlieb, their guy in charge of science, is leaving, headed back to his spiritual home, The American Enterprise Institute, denizen of right wing ideologues and other apologists for do-nothing government. As the American Enterprise Institue describe themselves: The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom--limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense--through scholarly research, open…

Handshaking and flu

We're getting down to it. What's the scientific basis for a lot of advice that's being given out as if its uncontroversial. Like washing hands. Or shaking hands is the way flu viruses are passed around. From Helen Branswell's usual superior reporting: Might we all be a little healthier this cold-and-flu season if we abandoned the handshake culture? With mounting concern about a possible influenza pandemic and growing awareness of the economic costs respiratory ailments exact through absenteeism, some people are wondering precisely that. (Branswell, Canadian Press) Makes a lot of sense. Those…

Real psychopaths and counterfeit drugs

There are some remarkably evil people in this world. They come in all kinds. Some would probably seem relatively ordinary or perhaps respectable (like some of the leaders of the US government). There's the recent example of the unlamented murderer al-Zarqawi, whose passing is a net plus for the world, although the reveling was more than a bit unseemly. And then there's these guys. Counterfeit malaria drugs are increasing in number and will continue to claim lives unless more action is taken, say researchers. The percentage of over-the-counter artesunate tablets containing no active ingredient…

The Genomic Revolution

Below, Moshe Pritsker answers our final question. Genomics is a good example of a cross-disciplinary approach that produced a landmark shift in biomedical research, drug discovery, and other life science areas. Enabling single experiments that produce amounts of data that would require thousands or millions of experiments just a few years ago led to a drastic increase in the information on biological and medical molecular-level processes. Genomics has changed the technical foundation of biomedical sciences and strongly reshaped the conceptual thinking in this field. The changes introduced…

Ecological Economics

Below, Saleem Ali answers our final question. The most productive interface between disciplines in the environmental sciences has occurred in understanding the value of ecosystem services. There has been a remarkable growth in the last five years in mainstream research within economics, physics, and ecology that shows how natural systems provide benefits that can be tangibly "valued." While some environmental ethicists, such as Mark Sagoff, have resisted the call to put numeric values on nature, there is little doubt that without having such clear numerical information, natural value will…

How rat whiskers link movement to perception

The whisking of a rat’s whisker is a classic example of “active sensing” – in other words, sensing that involves movement. Prof. Ehud Ahissar studies rat whisking in order to understand how mammals perceive through all types of active sensing; without the continuous movement of whiskers, fingertips or eyes, our perception of our surroundings would be lacking. (If you don’t believe us, try feeling the texture of your shirt or desktop without moving your fingers. You can’t stop your eyes – as you read this, your eyes are actually moving back and forth in tiny movements.) In the latest research…

Best Science Books 2012: Schaumberg Township District Library

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists are here. This post includes the following: Township District Library Best Science Books of 2012. The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds by Zickefoose, Julie Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Cahalan, Susannah An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding…

Best Science Books 2012: Teaching Biology

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists are here. This post includes the following: Teaching Biology: Top Books of 2012: Historical Geology. The Goldilocks Planet: The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate by Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams What is Life?: How Chemistry becomes Biology by Addy Pross Secret Chambers…

Best Science Books 2012: The New Scientist

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists are here. This post includes the following: . Connectome: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are by, Sebastian Seung Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos by Caleb Scharf Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks Immortality: The…

An Open Access thought experiment

Imagine a scenario where suddenly over night all toll access publishing suddenly converts to Open Access. You go to bed and your average academic library spends millions of dollars on serials. You wake up, and the subscription bill is zero. Now, that doesn't mean that suddenly scholarly publishing doesn't cost anything to support. It just means that the money to support that publishing is coming from somewhere other than library budgets. I would generally assume that an entirely open access publishing ecosystem would be significantly less expensive overall than the current mixed publishing…

Best Science Books 2011: Powell's Books

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2011 lists are here. This post includes the following: Powell's Books Staff Top 5s of 2011. The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer Physics of the Future: How Science…

Best Science Books 2011: The Independent

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2011 lists are here. This post includes the following: The Independent Books of the Year: Science, History. The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen The Magic of Reality: How we know…

Best Science Books 2011: Russell Blackford, Stumbling Virtue, Men's Journal, Houston Chronicle

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2011 lists are here. This post includes the following: Russell Blackford The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Stumbling Virtue Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea…

Best Science Books 2011: Publishers Weekly, Council on Foreign Relations, St. Louis Today, Barnes & Noble

Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2011 lists are here. This post includes the following: Publishers Weekly Best Books 2011 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick Council on Foreign Relations: Michael Levi Holiday Reading The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World…

Best Science Books 2011: The Economist

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2011 lists are here. This post includes the following: The Economist Books of the Year. The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for…

Best Science Books 2011: The Washington Post

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2011 lists are here. This post includes the following: Washington Post Top 10, 50 Best Non-Fiction Books, Great photobooks of 2011. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard In the Plex: How Google…

Best Science Books 2011: The Financial Times

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2011 lists are here. This post includes the following: The Financial Times. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward Glaeser Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson DarkMarket: CyberThieves, CyberCops…

Best Science Books 2011: The Globe and Mail 100

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2011 lists are here. This post includes the following: The Globe 100. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet by Tim Flannery The…

An Interview with Carl Zimmer of The Loom

This time around, we're talking to Carl Zimmer of The Loom. What's your name? Carl Zimmer What do you do when you're not blogging? Write magazine articles, books, and various other pieces of dead-tree media. Or investigate anthills with my daughters. What is your blog called? The Loom What's up with that name? It's one of my favorite passages from one of my favorite books, Moby Dick. The cabin-boy Pip has fallen into the ocean and sees more than he can handle: "...among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of…

Hope for Stroke, Anti-anxiety Genes, and a Unique Environmental Record

Three news items were posted on our site today. The first is on two papers by a group in Spain. Normally we don't publicize papers that are not written by Institute scientists, but these are a special case. They appear to have clinched the claims of a Weizmann scientist that one can treat stroke and head trauma without trying to get drugs into the brain. The treatment would consist of upping the levels of a naturally-occurring enzyme in the blood; one of these papers showed that levels of this enzyme in the blood tests of stroke patients were the best predictor of their chances of recovery.…

Oops

Wouldn't it be great if everyone was as good at admitting their mistakes? Abstract: Peer-reviewed journals are a pillar of modern science. Their aim is to achieve highest scientific standards by carrying out a rigorous peer review that is, as a minimum requirement, supposed to be able to identify fundamental methodological errors or false claims. Unfortunately, as many climate researchers and engaged observers of the climate change debate pointed out in various internet discussion fora, the paper by Spencer and Braswell [1] that was recently published in Remote Sensing is most likely…

The (not-so) Great Beeville Science Fair Hoax

There's a small community of bloggers and activists who spent the weekend scratching their collective heads in hopes of figuring out what was behind a story that came out of a little place called Beeville, Texas. Last week word came from a local paper than a fourth-grader had won a "National Science Fair" prize by "Disproving Global Warming." The story immediately drew skeptical analysis, as there hasn't been a "National Science Fair" for some time. More curious was the notion that a fourth-grader could manage to do what thousands of climatologists who make their living trying to find holes…

X-STEM School PHS Presents: Super Science Saturday!

By: Nancy Trang  USA Science & Engineering Festival X-STEM Coordinator Snow may have kept many people at home on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014 but not the young aspiring scientists from USA Science & Engineering Festival X-STEM School  Patriot High School (PHS) in Nokesville, Virginia.  The PHS Science National Honor Society (SNHS) organized a free science education event, called Super Science Saturday, for 2nd-7th graders from around the community. The event which took place at the Bull Run Regional Library, was organized by the members of the SNHS to educate kids about science and to…

The ScienceBlogs Guide to Holiday Shopping for Scientists

If your loved ones are at a loss this holiday season as to what shiny objects might most set your cardiac muscle aflutter, quick! You're running out of time. But you are not alone! It's tougher to shop for science nerds than might be imagined. After all, a Sagan lover is not a Kevin J. Anderson lover is not an Arthur C. Clarke lover, and you really have to be careful even with generic gifts - you wouldn't want to send a fruit basket to a psychologist, would you? And of course, as geeky as some of us truly are, nobody really needs a periodic table shower curtain or a cheeky mug. We like…

Kavli Video Contest Top 10 Finalist--Where is Your Science Lab?

Anthony Livingston Entry: Why Science is Cool- Where is Your Science Lab? What is your age? 17 Where do you go to school? High Tech High North County, San Marcos, CA What do you plan to study in college? Neuro Science and Political Science What is your favorite subject? It is a tie between Biology and US History! Can you tell us what inspired you to make this video? Many students are intimidated by science because they think it is too hard or that they will never use it. My goal was to show people we are all scientists and that science is part of everyday living. Understanding science helps…

Shoutout: The Planetary Society Blog

Thanks to Planetary Society Blog for helping us get the word out about the Festival. The Planetary Society Blog By Emily Lakdawalla USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. Oct. 4, 2010 | 11:42 PDT | 18:42 UTC We need your help. Please donate to support our blog, website, and podcast. RSS 2.0 News Feed Weblog Archive by Charlene Anderson Come to the Party! On the National Mall, Washington, D.C. October 23 & 24 Have you made your plans yet to celebrate science, embrace engineering, and party, party, party at the USA Science & Engineering Festival on the National Mall…

Shout out to PLTW for eblast!

Thanks to Project Lead the Way for this great eblast covering the USA Science and Engineering Festival! Thanks for getting the word out. Project Lead The Way, the nation's leading provider of STEM education, is partnering with the USA Science and Engineering Festival to celebrate innovation in Washington, D.C. on October 23 and 24. The festival seeks to re-invigorate the interest of America's youth in STEM education by producing and presenting a compelling, exciting, educational and entertaining science gathering for students. In addition to the two days of exhibits and events in our…

Did 12 year olds make my iPhone?

Last night we went to see "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" by Mike Daisey. Two hours vanished as we sat riveted and listened to interspersed stories of Apple and Shenzhen. Mike spoke of Apple and computers as a lover, familiar with the details, and knowledgeable in the special language of geeks and engineers. He was hysterically funny. And we all understood. After all, the night at the play was organized as a spring celebration by the Washington Technology Industry Association, a group intimately familiar with the ways of tech. From the music preceeding the show, to Mike's…

On committing an unnatural act

A friend of mine; serial entrepreneur, and former president of Genetic Systems; Joe Ashley, told me once that starting a business is an unnatural act. Now that I've done it, I agree. Even with my multiple back-up plans, possible grants, and part-time activities, my stomach still hurts and my mind is racing. My new company has "spun out" of another. Spinning out of control until you fall down from exhaustion. It's a great metaphor all right. Sure, there's excitement and adventure. I love my new shiny business cards and my new shiny web site! It's fun to do things that I like and would…

The "-ism" frame

In response to wonderful fisking by Ed of a really silly Creationist screed, Archy comments on the use of the terms "Darwinist" by Creationists, as a marketing tool to paint biologists as dogmatic, while at the same time avoding the term "creationist" in order to paint themselves as scientific: Their use of the terms "Darwinism" and "Darwinist" aren't the result sheer ignorance; it's a carefully thought out propaganda strategy. An "-ism" implies an ideology or a dogma. It moves evolution out of science and into the land of politics or religion: though which is based on faith or blind…