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razib | September 28, 2007
OK, someone got his foot run over by a car, and had to have a few toes removed. He's fine, though he'll go crazy staying in....
razib | September 17, 2007Check out The Impact of Science Blogging Survey. Below the fold is an explanation:
This survey attempts to access the opinions of bloggers, blog-readers, and non-blog folk in regards to the impact of blogs on the outside world. The authors of the survey are completing an academic manuscript on the impact of science blogging and this survey will provide invaluable data to answer the following questions:
Who reads or writes blogs?
What are the perceptions of blogging, and what are the views of those who read blogs?
How do academics and others perceive science blogging?
What, if any, influence…
razib | September 13, 2007Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology blog carnival, is over at John Hawks' place.
razib | September 10, 2007I'm sure you know about Alex passing, well, I noticed he made the front page of The New York Times website! Here's the obit & profile.
revere | September 10, 2007I try not to make mistakes on this blog but sometimes I do. When I find out about them, I correct them. But what do I know. I'm only a blogger, not a journalist. I thought you were supposed to correct your mistakes:
Almost half of the articles published by daily newspapers in the US contain one or more factual errors, and less than two per cent end up being corrected.
The findings are from a forthcoming research paper by Scott R Maier, an associate professor at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. The findings challenge how well journalism's "corrections box"…
razib | September 9, 2007Over at 2 Blowhards there's an interview with Greg Cochran. Greg is of course a "friend of the blog," and you mostly know him because of his work in the area of evolution. But he does have strong opinions on other topics, as you might have noticed if you subscribe to The American Conservative. Part II is coming up tomorrow.
razib | September 7, 2007Last year Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle was the winner of a blog scholarship. This year they've increased the top award to $10,000. Check if you qualify (hint: don't click if you don't blog or aren't enrolled as a student at a college or university).
razib | September 7, 2007David at my other blog is putting up some posts on statistics as a primer for a series on Sewall Wright's population genetic work. Check out correlation: part 1. Should be interesting nerd candy....
razib | September 5, 2007As my friend Chet Snicker would say to Larry Craig, you sir are no gentleman! Some of you know that I have recently trekked across this great nation of ours. One of the main differences between the most recent of my travels and previous peregrinations has been my relative trepidation and discomfort in public restrooms. Every time I was in a stall and a fellow citizen in distress entered to relieve themselves adjacent I could not help myself from wondering about the appearance of the infamous "wide stance." Gladly I was not faced with such a disquieting circumstance, but it is striking…
revere | September 5, 2007Yesterday we did a post on a breaking story about popcorn lung. It's not just workers. Consumers are also at risk, although how much risk is hard to say. Casual consumption of microwave popcorn using the artificial butter flavoring diacetyl is probably not very risky, but day in and day out consumption may be. You can read about one such consumer in this story in the New York Times. What you won't read about in the Times is that the story was broken by a blogger, our colleague Dr. David Michaels over at The Pump Handle. As a result of Michaels' blog post the story was picked up by major media…
razib | September 2, 2007I used the bathroom at Minneapolis International today. Nothing weird that I noticed, but perhaps I wasn't looking closely enough.