ksharpe | July 9, 2008Feast your eyes on the top stories of the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Wrapping Up Lindau
Last Friday the Nobel Laureates Meeting at Lindau finished with a nice trip to the Isle of Mainau and a lovely farewell ceremony. Beatrice shows us many images of that beautiful day. During the trip we became eye-witness to a new kind of speed dating, which we'll call Nobeldating! These dates lasted during the whole meeting: Different groups of young researchers and somewhere in the center a Nobel laureate. (See the picture of Nobelist Douglas Osheroff, surrounded by young…
ksharpe | July 9, 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. On camera here: Brian D. Josephson, winner of the Prize in Physics, 1973.
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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 and Riccardo Giacconi.
ksharpe | July 5, 2008The ScienceBlogs.de team interviews Nobel Prize winner Riccardo Giacconi (Physics, 2002) at the Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau, Germany, held June 29 through July 4th. In it, Giacconi discusses the discovery of a new class of objects, X-ray stars.
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THE 2008 MEETINGS OF NOBEL LAUREATES IN LINDAU
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The previous video in the series, an interview with Nobelist Douglas Osheroff, can be found here.
ksharpe | July 3, 2008From June 29th through July 4th, 25 Nobel laureates and over 550 young scientists from all over the world are gathering in Lindau, Germany, at the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. This year's meeting is dedicated to physics.
Beatrice Lugger, managing editor of ScienceBlogs.de, is in Lindau and will be sending her impressions of the meeting daily through July 4.
ScienceBlogs.de is also running a German-language blog covering the meetings. We are airing short videos in English, of Nobelists at Lindau on the ScienceBlogs homepage, and archiving them at Page 3.14. Here are the first, second…
ksharpe | July 3, 2008The ScienceBlogs.de team caught up with Nobel Prize winner Douglas Osheroff (physics, 1996) in Lindau. In the video, he talks about the discovery superfluidity in helium-3—the work that led to his Nobel honor.
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ksharpe | July 2, 2008From June 29th through July 4th, 25 Nobel laureates and over 550 young scientists from all over the world are gathering in Lindau, Germany, at the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. This year's meeting is dedicated to physics.
Beatrice Lugger, managing editor of ScienceBlogs.de, is in Lindau and will be sending her impressions of the meeting daily through July 4.
ScienceBlogs.de is also running a German-language blog covering the meetings. We will be airing short videos in English, of Nobelists at Lindau on the ScienceBlogs homepage, and archiving them at Page 3.14. Here are the first,…
ksharpe | July 1, 2008From June 29th through July 4th, 25 Nobel laureates and over 550 young scientists from all over the world are gathering in Lindau, Germany, at the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. This year's meeting is dedicated to physics.
Beatrice Lugger, managing editor of ScienceBlogs.de, is in Lindau and will be sending her impressions of the meeting daily through July 4.
ScienceBlogs.de is also undertaking a German-language blog covering the meetings, here. Additionally, keep an eye out for short video interviews, in English, of Nobelists at Lindau on the ScienceBlogs homepage. Here are the…
ksharpe | June 30, 2008It's the second daily dispatch from the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings by Beatrice Lugger, Managing Editor of ScienceBlogs.de.
Previous entry here.
International Dialogue
They come from all over the world to join this meeting and to communicate with each other. And what happens? They stare at their computers, read emails and Skype. But good luck—some of them are still used to the usual way of communication.
How Long Nobel Laureates Live
Lots of the young researchers are interested in this question (I've learned the youngest is only 21 years old). Ivar Giaever revealed one of the…
ksharpe | June 29, 2008From June 29th through July 4th, 25 Nobel laureates and over 550 young scientists from all over the world are gathering in Lindau, Germany, at the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. This year's meeting is dedicated to physics.
Beatrice Lugger, managing editor of ScienceBlogs.de, is in Lindau and will be sending her impressions of the meeting daily through July 4.
ScienceBlogs.de is also undertaking a German-language blog covering the meetings, here. Additionally, keep an eye out for short video interviews, in English, of Nobelists at Lindau on the ScienceBlogs homepage. Here's the first…
ksharpe | June 25, 2008These are the stories that defined the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
European Soccer Games
Not surprisingly, the 2008 European Football Championship is still topic number one in Europe. The ScienceBloggers are always on the lookout for new scientific studies about soccer. For instance, Frank Abel writes about finding that the temperature has a decisive influence on who will win a game. This is the result of an analysis of external factors such as wind, rain and temperatures. He writes, "the German national team needs to play around 73 Fahrenheit and weak winds for…
ksharpe | June 19, 2008Check out the top stories of the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
First Meeting of German ScienceBloggers
Last Friday the German ScienceBloggers met in Munich in real life. Until the meeting, most of us only knew each other via blog, e-mail or phone. So we enjoyed this opportunity for a personal exchange and we collected lots of very good ideas.
The top statement of the day was: "My boss knows I am a blogger."
If you would like to see what we look like and what we experienced, Beatrice (of Neurons) has posted two articles with many pictures of ourselves and impressions…
vhughes | June 17, 2008ScienceBlogs is, without question, the largest online conversation about science. We have 71 blogs, almost 70,000 posts and 850,000 comments. How does one reader keep up?!
One of the easiest ways is to subscribe to the ScienceBlogs Weekly Recap, a fun email newsletter that summarizes the previous week's happenings.
Find out more ways to read—with and without RSS feeds—below the fold.
If RSS feeds aren't your thing, then I'd suggest starting on the ScienceBlogs homepage and checking out: the Buzz (the topic that's featured at the very top of the page); and a bit further down the page, the "…
ksharpe | June 16, 2008Hard to believe it's already been two weeks, but the Microcosm edition of the ScienceBlogs Book Club has come to an end. Please stay tuned in this spot for news about future installments of the Club. If you have any comments or suggestions about what you'd like to see in the future, or how we can make the Club better, please leave them in the comments below, or drop us an email. We'd love to hear from you.
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vhughes | June 16, 2008Last week, a bunch of sciblings wrote about a study from Purdue psychologists suggesting that high consumption of artificial sweeteners is linked to obesity. In the study—published in Behavioral Neuroscience in February—rats fed a sugar substitute gained significantly more weight than those fed regular glucose.
Not gonna lie: As someone who consumes those sweet yellow packets in high numbers, I was somewhat alarmed by these results. (Not that I've decreased my intake since, of course.)
Are y'all as addicted as I am?
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ksharpe | June 11, 2008What's New on ScienceBlogs.de, June 5-11
It's hot outside. You look like you could use four cool stories that made headlines this week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Europe-wide Nuclear Alarm
Last Wednesday evening we had to spend some hours knowing that a nuclear radiation alert had been issued throughout Europe. That long Wednesday evening we had to remain calm as we waited for some more detailed information. Christian of Frischer Wind and Beatrice of Neurons
reported all night until the cause of the alarm, a nuclear power plant in Krsko, Slovenia, was finally shut down. The…
vhughes | June 9, 2008Last week, the ScienceBloggers wrote about a new study in Nature in which scientists tracked the cellphone habits of 100,000 Europeans and found that people rarely strayed from familiar locations—their homes and workplaces.
It made me wonder....Are our readers homebodies, too?
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ksharpe | June 4, 2008It's back! Here are the stories that were moving and shaking this week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
From a Science Museum Basement
What do you know about Germany? We wear lederhosen and dirndls, we drink lots of beer...and we have the Deutsches Museum! At the moment huge efforts are going on to modernize it. Which makes it all the more interesting to take a look in the basement, where past exhibits and miscellaneous collections are kept. Jürgen Scriba, a photographer and science writer, invites us to share some of his views and impressions of the Deutsches Museum.
New…
vhughes | June 2, 2008Everybody loves those Mac commercials...you know, with Mac and PC anthropomorphized? (Greg Laden's got a few spoofs with Ms. Linux, too.)
Many of the ScienceBloggers swear by Macs and the Mac OX operating system. Others say that they have to use Windows for a lot of specialized lab software. I thought it'd be an interesting poll for a larger audience, as I'm sure many of you are working in labs much of the time.
So, which operating system do you use the most often?
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ksharpe | June 1, 2008Hello, and welcome to the ScienceBlogs Book Club. This is a ScienceBlogs special feature: an online, round-table discussion of Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, by Carl Zimmer. Carl will be joined on the blog by three expert guests—Jessica Snyder Sachs, John Dennehy, and PZ Myers.
Microcosm reveals how a common bacterium, most often associated in this country with outbreaks of foodborne illness, has been a scientific workhorse for decades, quietly starring in some of the last century's most spectacular achievements in biology: the discovery of genes, the understanding of…
vhughes | May 26, 2008After a 10-month, 420-million-mile journey, NASA's Phoenix probe touched down on Mars' northern Arctic Circle at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time Sunday, becoming the first to ever successfully reach a polar region of the Red Planet. And boy are the ScienceBloggers excited!
For the next three months, Phoenix will dig into the soil to find out if its composition is--or was ever--suitable for life.
Humans have wondered about finding life "out there" for millennia. What do you think--is it possible?
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