amillikan | October 23, 2008H3y sC13Nc3bl092 r34D3R2, 4Nd W3LC0m3 70 73h w33KLy 73CHN0l09Y cH4nn3l UPD473!
That means, "Hey ScienceBlogs readers, and welcome to the weekly Technology Channel update!" in 1337. I'm Arikia Millikan, and I'll be your host.
Technology channel photo. A dramatic shot of a keyboard. From Flickr, by Martin Kingsley
This week, we've read some insightful commentary on issues ranging from blogger ethics to the space program. Remember, the bloggers self-submit their posts to the channels they choose. As a result, we experience a variety of posts every week that perhaps can serve as a reminder…
amillikan | October 21, 2008I'm going to try something a bit different with the weekly updates, so consider this the pilot episode. Since I read the majority of the blog posts pretty much every day, I want to use these updates to deliver a compact shot of information from the most important and interesting posts. I'll discuss what's most popular, but I will also try to point out some exceptional posts form lesser-known bloggers. Please use the comment boards and let me know what you like, what you don't like, questions, comments--anything at all!
Brain & Behavior channel photo. Psychologists at work. From Flickr…
vhughes | October 20, 2008As you've undoubtedly noticed by now, we've reached more than 1,000,000 comments on our network! W00t!
To celebrate, from September 14-29, our bloggers are setting up parties all over the U.S. and abroad. Click on the map below to see if there's a party near you.
Below the fold is the complete list of where the parties are happening, arranged by date. Check back often for links to party photos and film footage! (**Last update: 10/20**)
Tuesday, September 16:
Join Abbie Smith in Oklahoma City, OK. (See Abbie's photos!)
Wednesday, September 17:
Tim Lambert and Dan MacArthur in Sydney,…
amillikan | October 17, 2008Next up—the full-sized pictures featured this week on the Politics and Medicine & Health channels and some note-worthy posts.
Politics. Sarah Palin using technology. From Flickr, by asecondhandconjecture
Here we have Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin seated at a flight simulator. Palin also demonstrated her technological skills when she used eBay to put her luxury jet up for sale for $2.7 million. The jet reportedly sold for $2.1 million. Palin also supports using the Internet to promote transparency in government, although when hackers recently exposed Palin's personal email…
amillikan | October 16, 2008In this entry, you will find: The large versions of the Environment, Humanities & Social Science, and Education and Careers channel photos and the best posts of the week.
Environment. From Flickr, by KhayaL
The eagle soars high in a cloudless blue sky. Earlier this week, Darren Naish from Tetrapod Zoology posted "When eagles go bad, all over again," a delightful and informative piece about how eagles are vicious and predatory creatures that kill large mammals—even humans occasionally (according to eyewitnesses). I think they are adorable despite.
Some Environment posts we really dug…
amillikan | October 13, 2008Getting back in the swing of things with Channel posts, what's inside: The large versions of the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week.
Life Science. This cuttlefish was thrilled to celebrate International Cephalopod Appreciation Day on October 8. From Flickr, by Pear Biter
It always amazes me when creatures such as these are captured on camera. This one looks rather curious.
Physical Science. A long-exposure photo of momentum in action. From Flickr, by velo steve
When I first looked at this picture I thought there…
ksharpe | October 10, 2008This brings us to the end of our ScienceBlogs Book Club discussion of Autism's False Prophets.
Thanks to everyone for their participation.
The next Book Club discussion will start in mid-November, and we'll announce the title as soon as we can.
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ksharpe | September 30, 2008Hello. Thanks for stopping by the ScienceBlogs Book Club. It's my pleasure to introduce our next title, and the panelists who will be discussing it with you.
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, by Dr. Paul Offit, describes how the belief that vaccines might cause autism arose and gained popularity during the early years of this decade. The book discusses the scientists, politicians, and parent groups that helped fuel the fears that vaccines, or a mercury-containing preservative in them, accounted for a sharp rise in autism cases worldwide, and the…
ksharpe | September 26, 2008A few of you commented recently that you'd received your free copy of Autism's False Prophets, but hadn't gotten an email from us yet. Excuse us! An email went out this morning, to everyone who signed up. If you were expecting one but didn't get it, check your junk-mail filter. It might have gotten trapped.
One more email, with some thoughts and questions about the book to jump-start the discussion, will go out before the club begins, probably on Monday evening.
If you'd like to sign up for the mailing list and haven't already, you can do so here.
Thanks, everybody.
ksharpe | September 16, 2008Hello everyone,
The ScienceBlogs Book Club is back!
From October 1 through October 10, we'll be discussing Autism's False Prophets, by Dr. Paul Offit.
Dr. Offit will be joined on the blog by a panel of experts, and we're inviting all of you to join in by reading the book at home, and contributing your thoughts, questions, and comments in the 'comments' section of the posts. Our panelists will be reading them and responding.
More good news: Columbia University Press is giving away 50 copies of Autism's False Prophets free to ScienceBlogs Book Club readers.
To get yours, submit your name here…
vhughes | September 16, 2008Well, we've done it. Just over one year has passed since we hit 500,000 comments, and now, September 16, 2008, at 8:32 a.m. Eastern Time, we've reached 1,000,000. Hooray!
Check out the ScienceBlogs homepage throughout the day; we'll be rotating some of what we thought were the best of the million.
If you're near a major city (or even a not-so-major city), you may be able to check out of the 15 reader parties that various ScienceBloggers are throwing throughout the world. See the line-up here.
If you leave a comment before September 30, don't forget to enter in the ScienceBlogs comment…
vhughes | September 3, 2008As everybody's talking about, the snazzy new version of ResearchBlogging.org launched on Tuesday. Powered by Seed Media Group Technology, ResearchBlogging now has a host of new features, including multi-language capability, subject-specific RSS feeds, and profiles of registered users.
ResearchBlogging was the brain child of Dave Munger, a writer, a science educator, and half of the genius behind our most popular psychology blog, Cognitive Daily. (That's Dave at right, hiking in Pasayten Wilderness in Washington State, the largest wilderness area in the lower 48 states.)
We sat down with…
ksharpe | July 23, 2008This post isn't going to appear weekly anymore—instead, we'll be posting news from ScienceBlogs.de to Page 3.14 irregularly, as it breaks—but we're going out with a bang: these four superlative stories that made headlines this week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de.
STOP: This Conference is Closed To Journalists
The well known stem cell researcher Hans Schöller suddenly stopped his lecture at an international conference in Berlin last week, because of journalists who joined the conference.
He was furious because of a recently published report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung…
ksharpe | July 21, 2008The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Interviewed here is Nobelist Theodor Hänsch, winner of the 2005 Prize in Physics.
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The previous videos in the series include interviews with Nobelists Douglas Osheroff, Riccardo Giacconi, Brian Josephson, Johann Deisenhofer, Hartmut Michel, and Peter Grünberg.
vhughes | July 18, 2008I'm blogging live from a very hot Austin, Texas, at the Netroots Nation conference!
Officially, Netroots Nation (formerly YearlyKos) "amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate."
They're certainly right about that free exchange of ideas—I've eaten free pastries from an Oregonian who's running for Senate (thanks, Jeff Merkley!), chatted with a physicist who used to work with Carl Sagan (and yes, the legendary astronomer was apparently just as charismatic…
ksharpe | July 18, 2008The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Interviewed here is Nobelist Peter Grünberg, winner of the 2007 Prize in Physics.
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THE 2008 MEETINGS OF NOBEL LAUREATES IN LINDAU
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ksharpe | July 17, 2008Check out the top stories of the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Homeopathy and Mystical Methods
Germany now has its first professor for homeopathy at the Berlin Charité, and the savants argue about the consequences of such an enthronement. Christian argues:
"In principle I would hope the new professorship could help to identify ineffective alternative healing methods and, if so, to inform the public about the sense and nonsense of certain methods."
At the same time, Ulrich Berger describes a miraculous machine that dries damp basements without electricity and energy…
ksharpe | July 14, 2008The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Interviewed here is Nobelist Hartmut Michel, who shared with Johann Deisenhofer the 1988 Prize in Chemistry.
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THE 2008 MEETINGS OF NOBEL LAUREATES IN LINDAU
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The previous videos in the series include interviews with Nobelists Douglas Osheroff, Riccardo Giacconi, Brian Josephson, and Johann Deisenhofer.
ksharpe | July 11, 2008The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we'll be archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Here, Nobelist Johann Deisenhofer (Chemistry, 1988) discusses the work that led to his prize: the discovery of the 3-D structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.
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THE 2008 MEETINGS OF NOBEL LAUREATES IN LINDAU
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The previous videos in the series include interviews with Nobelists Douglas Osheroff, Riccardo Giacconi, and Brian Josephson.
ksharpe | July 10, 2008The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. On camera here: Jack Steinberger, winner of the Prize in Physics, 1988.
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THE 2008 MEETINGS OF NOBEL LAUREATES IN LINDAU
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The previous videos in the series include interviews with Nobelists Douglas Osheroff, Riccardo Giacconi, and Brian Josephson.