Announcements
oracknows | July 12, 2007Here's the reason why:
Actor and voice artiste Peter Tuddenham has died at the age of 88 after a short illness.
His vocal talents were used in Doctor Who for The Ark in Space, The Masque of Mandragora and Time and the Rani, but he will also be well-known to cult TV fans for providing the voices of Zen, Orac and Slave in Blake's 7, which was created by Terry Nation.
In addition, Tuddenham was in the Kaldor City audio spin-offs Occam's Razor and Death's Head, which were Doctor Who/Blake's 7 crossovers produced by Magic Bullet.
Tuddenham's voice of Orac was perfect for the character. Combining…
thusspakezuska | July 9, 2007Ah, one last announcement for the day. We have a new blogger in Scienceblogs-land.
Moheb Costandi joined us July 1 and is blogging at Neurophilosophy. And apparently he has 5 different nifty rotating banners on his blog header.
Ah, if only I had one ounce of creativity, and/or knew how to use the appropriate software, I could create a banner for my blog that would be more exciting than spare black printing on a white background.
Which begs the question: what would a TSZ banner look like? Are you familiar with the look of the blog at the old site? I really miss those calm green leafy…
thusspakezuska | July 9, 2007I think this is the last announcement for the day.
Do yinz know about Seed magazine? No? You're not reading it?
Well, if you subscribe right now you get a totally cool Scienceblogs mug for FREE!
If you're seeing a similar banner at the top of the page, it's clickable and you can go subscribe right now if you so choose. (The banner at the top of the page, not this one in the post.)
Seed Media Group is the entity we Sciencebloggers affectionately refer to as our benevolent overlords.
So anyway, the free mug only costs you $14.95, and you'll also get six issues of Seed. That's if you…
thusspakezuska | July 9, 2007Perhaps you've noticed something new on the sidebar at right...
ScienceBlogs is conducting its first-ever reader survey. One lucky respondent will win an iPod nano. But the real winner will be, well, ScienceBlogs, since we're going to use what we learn to make the site better.
Or so I was told. But no, the real winner will still be you, since Scienceblogs will be improved for you!
Take a few moments, if you feel motivated, to do the survey. Oh, come on; how many of those silly web surveys have you spent time filling out to find out which science fiction author you are or what your chances…
thusspakezuska | July 9, 2007Bora at A Blog Around the Clock managed to land an interview with presidential candidate Senator John Edwards! You can read it over at his pad here. Eight questions on the senator's views on science and science policy issues - nice work, Bora!
oracknows | July 5, 2007As hard as it is to believe, it's that time again, time for a bracing dose of reality in response to the rampant credulity that permeates the blogosphere. I apologize for my announcement being later than usual; I was in the O.R. all day and only this evending did I have an opportunity to do my usual plug. So here it is now, the 64th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle presented to you at the Skeptical Alchemist. It's good to know that our intrepid skeptics are muscling in on woo territory.
Next up is Dr. Steve Novella at Neurologica. And, as always, if you're interested in tryng your hand at…
oracknows | July 1, 2007Speaking of skepticism and critical thinking, recall that I mentioned earlier today that I had been interviewed for The Skeptics' Guide for the Universe. Despite branching out into a different medium, rest assured that I haven't forgotten about my primary responsibility, blogging. Nor have I forgotten that the latest edition of the blog carnival that's been entrusted to me, The Skeptics' Circle, is fast approaching. In fact, it's less than four days away and due to land on Thursday, July 5!
That means that you--yes, you! (if you're a blogger, that is)--have only three days to submit your best…
oracknows | July 1, 2007For your Sunday afternoon edification, the latest version of Pediatrics Grand Rounds has been posted over at Breath Spa for Kids.
In addition, Change of Shift, the blog carnival for nursing-related blogs, has also been posted at NursingLink.
Enjoy!
nisbetmc_2 | June 28, 2007Over at the immensely popular environmental site TreeHugger.com, Chris discusses Storm World, his new book on the science and politics of hurricanes, as well as the reaction to the Nisbet & Mooney article at Science and our Speaking Science 2.0 tour.
nisbetmc_2 | June 26, 2007
On June 4, more than 120 people turned out for the Nisbet & Mooney Speaking Science 2.0 talk at the New York Academy of Sciences. The talk is now part of their online content, including an E-briefing summary along with the powerpoint slides synchronized with audio of our presentation. With this tool you can listen to the entire talk or scroll through the labeled sections and slides based on topic.
NYAS has allowed free access to this member content by way of the following link from our respective Web sites.
oracknows | June 21, 2007Here, on this summer solstice, a traditional time of great importance for woo, I bet you need a shot of skepticism, don't you? Fortunately, mcsquared over at Relatively Science has your back with the 63 Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle. As he puts it: ..."if you are in the Northern hemisphere this will be the longest edition of the skeptics' circle and conversely if you are in the Southern hemisphere it will be the shortest." Longest or shortest, it's yet another collection of the best skeptical blogging of the last fortnight. (OK, I know it's not as pithy an introduction as you're used to,…
oracknows | June 19, 2007Lest I forget my medblogging duties, let me just post a brief plug for this week's edition of Grand Rounds, hosted this time by Code Blog: Tales of a Nurse.
I'm such an idiot; I forgot to submit some of my work to the carnival!
oracknows | June 17, 2007The latest Pediatric Grand Rounds has been posted over at Med Journal Watch. There's lots of good stuff, including some posts about the Autism Omnibus trial.
oracknows | June 15, 2007Here we go again. Time really flies when you're having fun, and the Skeptics' Circle is no exception. Hard as it is to believe after the last outstanding entry, there's less than a week before the blogosphere is (hopefully) graced with another session of skepticism and critical thinking, just the antidote for all the rampant credulity out there. This time around, the host will be mcsquared at Relatively Science.. It just so happens that mcsquared resides in New Zealand; so the bulk of Skeptics' Circle fans really will have to think "relatively" and remember that the time in New Zealand is 15…
nisbetmc_2 | June 13, 2007In our last major talk of the summer here in DC, on Tues. June 19 we will be delivering our Speaking Science 2.0 presentation at the Center for American Progress. Breakfast is served at 830am. The talk and discussion follows from 10 to 1130am. The Center has all the details here.
CAP senior fellow and former assistant Energy secretary Joseph Romm will be hosting the event. He's the author of the terrific new book Hell and High Water: Global Warming-The Solution and the Politics and also contributes the popular Climate Progress blog.
As was the case earlier this month at the New York…
oracknows | June 7, 2007It's that time again, time for a respite from the annoying credulity that permeates the blogosphere. Indeed, that credulity has even invaded Respectful Insolence in the form of two--count 'em, two!--homeopaths invading an old throwaway post about homeopathy and a woo-meister in my recent chelation post. I need a nice bracing shot of skepticism. On first blush, this Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle looks as though it might be suspect:
Welcome, friends! Welcome to our series of exhibits that reveals the truths that THEY don't want you to hear about!
Uh-oh. Fortunately, it's just the tease for…
sporte | June 3, 2007Nodal point is hosting the eleventh issue of Bio::blogs with two special editions. The first special edition, at Bioinformatics Zen covers tips and tricks for bioinformatics. The second special edition is on personalized medicine and can be downloaded from here.
Eye on DNA is hosting Gene Genie, a collection of posts about genetics and genes.
And, wait, wait, there's more! The Daily Transcript has a virtual garden carnival, it's the Mendel's Garden #15 Summer Reading Edition.
With all that good stuff to read, how can you possibly go out in the sun?
cmooney_2 | May 30, 2007It's official: The "Speaking Science 2.0" talk is now viewable in its entirety on YouTube:
The presentation above is the one given by Matt and myself at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences a few weeks back. Unfortunately, you can't see the PowerPoint slides; you can only see us talking. So not everything will make absolutely perfect sense, especially in my parts of the talk, because I don't always describe in words what I'm showing on the screen.
Still, this is a far fuller explication of our ideas than exists anywhere else; and I flatter myself in thinking…
retrospectacle | May 29, 2007 If you are in the vicinity of Illinois, I've got a cool event to pass on: a fundraising dinner to help benefit Dr. Irene Pepperberg's work on intelligence and communication in Grey parrots. Go see Dr. Pepperberg talk about her research or participate in a meet-and-greet. Proceeds go to the Alex Foundation, and all details can be found at either this flyer or on the foundation's website.
Dr. Pepperberg gave a symposia talk at the University of Michigan last month and I really enjoyed hearing her speak, I encourage you all to go to the event (hey, its for a good cause!).
oracknows | May 27, 2007I've been a bit remiss in my blog carnival plugging; so here's my chance to make up for it. Here are some carnivals worth checking out:
Carnival of Bad History #14: The Backlog Edition (The name speaks for itself.)
Carnivalesque #27 (Ancient, medieval and early modern history.)
Tangled Bank #80 (Science.)
The Creation Museum (The blogosphere's skeptical response to Ken Ham's creationism museum, which recently opened. Unfortunately, I forgot about this, and didn't write up something suitably snarky myself, but fortunately plenty of other bloggers did. Alas, the message will be lost on the…