vhughes | January 20, 2008
Well, folks, PZ Myers surfaced again at the NC Science Blogging Conference. I'm sure he'll try to deny that he was drinking heavily in the hotel bar when the conference was over, but Brian, Zuska, Janet, and Dave can attest that he was there.
More photographic evidence below the fold.
(BTW, Bora's listed all of the blog posts written about the conference so far. Quite the fodder.)
(That's Peter gesticulating off to the right...)
vhughes | January 19, 2008Alright, here's the money shot of ScienceBloggers (TM!) from the NC Science Blogging Conference (except Shelley, darn! she must have been over by the popsicle table):
From left to right...
Back row: Brian, Abel, James, Jennifer, Chris, Sheril, Peter, Kevin, and Bora
Middle row: Dave, Zuska, Tara, and Martin
Front row: Karen, Janet, Evil Monkey, Ginny, and Josh
vhughes | January 19, 2008"You could nuke Sweden off the planet, and Japanese archeology would not suffer." -Martin Rundkvist
I'm eating lunch now at the NC Science Blogging Conference after a great discussion, led by Martin, about blogging about the humanities and social sciences. Many topics were covered (including the difference between the definitions of "humanities" in America and Europe), but one that I thought might be especially interesting to 3.14 readers is Martin's definition of a blog carnival. (More below the fold.)
Like a traveling carnival (in, you know, real life), blog carnivals are subject-specific…
vhughes | January 19, 2008You thought PZ Myers wasn't going to the NC Science Blogging Conference? WRONG. I just spotted our favorite squid freak downing a muffin and a ginger ale!
Some onlookers commented that PZ's long, blond locks looked a lot like Shelley Batts, but I don't know...
(BTW, standing next to PZ is Tom Levenson, of Inverse Square.)
vhughes | January 19, 2008
Last night at the NC Science Blogging Conference, right before a lovely dinner of vino, mahi mahi and banana pudding, I asked a few sciblings if they'd show me their tattoos. I got one sucker, above. Guess who? Find out below the fold!
It's Evil Monkey!
I'm off now to breakfast and then a day-long line up of blogging discussions. Stay tuned for more revealing photos...
vhughes | January 18, 2008
Hello from Day 1 of the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference! I just had a late lunch at the hotel restaurant with Dave, Bora, and some other conference participants. As we were walking into the restaurant, and past a large and colorful buffet table, NC-native Dave says to me, "Yeah, people from North Carolina are really into buffets." Really?
Well, I've been looking around the web for any kind of evidence to support this hypothesis, and I can't find any. Vegas, of course, is known for buffets. But where else? Data, anyone? Where's the state-by-state buffet breakdown?
A site…
vhughes | January 17, 2008
Just one day to go before the second annual North Carolina Science Blogging Conference at Research Triangle Park! More than 200 bloggers, scientists, journalists, blogger-scientists and blogger-journalists are registered for a craaaazy line-up of discussions, lab tours, dinners, cocktails, and fun. (More details below the fold.)
My plane lands in Durham tomorrow morning, and I'll be live-blogging for Page 3.14 all weekend to let you know exactly what's buzzing at the conference.
I'm also planning to do some 3.14 *exclusive* interviews with the ScienceBloggers. Got any TUFF questions you'd…
jrice | January 14, 2008Here they are! As always, the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science. From Flickr, by ellhoisa
Physical Science: "Burning Mountain" in Namib desert. From NASA, via pingnews.com
Environment. From Flickr, by Felix Francis
Humanities & Social Science.…
jrice | January 10, 2008Feast your eyes upon the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science: Snake skin. From Flickr, by Tambako the Jaguar
Physical Science. From Flickr, by Tambako the Jaguar
Environment. From Flickr, by Tambako the Jaguar
Humanities & Social Science. From…
jrice | January 2, 2008
For this week's ScienceBlogger interview, we present the star of Greg Laden's Blog: none other than the great Greg Laden. (The girl on his shoulders is his daughter, Julia.)
What's your name?
Greg Laden
What do you do when you're not blogging?
Not blogging? Oh, that. I am a part time biological anthropologist (I work in South Africa) and a part time advisor in the University of Minnesota's Program for Individualized Learning (A BA/BS program).
More below the fold...
What is your blog called?
It is called Greg Laden's Blog.
What's up with that name?
I used to have a blog called "Evolution…
jrice | December 28, 2007
This week, ScienceBlogs gets entangled with Dave Bacon of The Quantum Pontiff as part of our ongoing ScienceBlogger interview series.
What's your name?
Dave M. Bacon. Yep, those initial spell a sound like "dumb."
What do you do when you're not blogging?
I'm a research assistant professor at the University of Washington where I study quantum computing. My main appointment is in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and I have an adjunct appointment in the Department of Physics. Also while I'm not blogging, I like to ski, hike, make wine, carve stones, and daydream.
More…
jrice | December 24, 2007
Today, as part of our ongoing ScienceBlogger interview series, we bring you a conversation with Brian Switek (aka Future Transitional Fossil) of Laelaps.
What's your name?
Brian Switek
What do you do when you're not blogging?
I work for a university-run agriculture project and I'm currently a student at Rutgers University. When I'm not running between class and work, I'm usually can be found reading or visiting local zoos and museums.
More below the fold...
What is your blog called?
Laelaps
What's up with that name?
In 1866, the vertebrate paleontologist E.D. Cope found the remains of a…
jrice | December 21, 2007Now you can put a handy ScienceBlogs Latest Posts feed on your own website or blog, thanks to a newly minted web widget! This free, constantly-updating widget will let you display up-to-the-minute scientific musings from the ScienceBlogs clan. It was designed by Tim Murtaugh, Seed's Technology Director, and it looks like this:
Visit Widgetbox to get it for yourself!
ksharpe | December 19, 2007It's been a little over a week since ScienceBlogs launched a beta version of its first daughter site, in German.
Today, we present what we hope will be the first of many informal updates on what's buzzing among the 13 German-language blogs at ScienceBlogs.de. (Unless noted, links will take you to posts in the original Deutsch.)
Thanks to German Sb editor Beatrice Lugger for her translations.
1. The UN on Forests
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali wasn't the only scientifically-interesting UN activity in the first half of December. The United Nations Forum on Forests had a…
jrice | December 18, 2007We bring you, as always, the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Life Science. From Flickr, by suneko
Physical Science: Jupiter and its moon Io. From NASA, via pingnews.com
Environment: Oil-covered ruddy duck in Oakland, CA, 11/11/07. From Flickr, via wolfpix…
jrice | December 13, 2007Here they are: the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
From Flickr, by CharlesLam
A bouncing basketball, photographed at 25 images per second. By Michael Maggs, edited by Richard Bartz. Via Wikimedia Commons
From the NOAA Photo Library, via pingnews.com
From…
vhughes | December 11, 2007On Monday, our German partner Hubert Burda Media soft-launched ScienceBlogs.de, a new ScienceBlogs site in German. In thinking about science blogs written in other languages, we thought now would be a good time for a quick reader poll.
Below we've got two questions for you, dear readers, about your language skills. It'll only take a few seconds to answer, so please do so. And if you'd like to add more thoughts about ScienceBlogs and language, please comment on the post—we'd love to hear it!
Question Number 2:
Care to explain your reasoning? Comment below!
ksharpe | December 10, 2007December 10 is a big day for ScienceBlogs. Today, Hubert Burda Media, one of the largest media companies in Europe, and our partner in Germany, launches a beta version of ScienceBlogs.de, a German-language website that brings the ScienceBlogs idea and spirit to Europe.
I've had the pleasure these past few months of working with the team behind ScienceBlogs.de, and I'm delighted to let my editorial counterpart in Germany, Beatrice Lugger, introduce ScienceBlogs.de in her own words.
Dear ScienceBlogs Community,
Just three months after ScienceBlogs.com and the German publishing company Hubert…
jrice | December 7, 2007We hereby present to you: large-scale versions of this week's channel photos.
(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)
First photo here, the rest below the fold.
Autumn maple leaf veins, with the rest of the leaf removed by a semiconductor etch. From Flickr, by jurvetson
From Wikimedia Commons, by Luc Viatour
Biofuels. From Flickr, by jurvetson
From Flickr, by…
vhughes | November 30, 2007
After a brief hiatus, Page 3.14 brings back the ScienceBlogger interviews. Now we hear from those clever, if odd, creatures of Zooillogix, Andrew and Benny Bleiman. (In the photo, Benny's on the left.)
What's your name?
Andrew and Benny Bleiman
What do you do when you're not blogging?
Andrew: We both work in software. I run marketing for a search engine company. Benny is in sales, so in his words he "closes deals and crushes beers." In my words, he makes 70 cold calls a day and has a bit of a drinking problem.
More below the fold...
What is your blog called?
Zooillogix
What's up with that…