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emjohnson | January 12, 2010 The Open Laboratory?! You're kidding? Woo hoo!!!!!!!!My post for Nature Network, Male Chauvinist Chimps or the Meat Market of Public Opinion? has been selected for this year's Open Laboratory as an example of the year's best online science writing. For those who have followed the developments of Ardipithecus ramidus, it will interest you to know that Owen Lovejoy used this study as the basis for his argument that male provisioning was responsible for the origin of bipedalism.
Many thanks to Bora and Scicurious (this year's guest editor) for selecting my piece. They should be…
aardvarchaeology | January 12, 2010The Open Laboratory is an annual anthology of blog writings on science started by Bora over at A Blog Around the Clock. I was very proud to get pieces selected for the 2006 and 2007 volumes, and then I was miffed to not make the cut for the 2008 one. But now I'm proud again, because my blog entry "Making the Archaeological Record" from February has been selected for Open Lab 2009! This year's volume is being edited by SciCurious over at Neurotopia.
clock | January 11, 2010There will be about 25 SciBlings (i.e., people who blog on scienceblogs.com) at ScienceOnline2010 later this week. And all of us have been given the keys to a brand new super-special blog - ScienceOnline 2010: The Blog! So we'll post there or cross-post both there and on our own blogs, throughout the meeting and beyond.
I already cross-posted a few (some are up, others are scheduled to show up later), so all the important information is there. But I expect a lot of my SciBlings to add their posts to this blog as well.
clock | January 11, 2010Go say Hello to Christina Agapakis, a synthetis biology blogger on Oscillator (also check out the archives of her old blog to see more what it is all about).
So, my blog is now not the only one here with a title that has something to do with oscillations....
aardvarchaeology | January 10, 2010The 84th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at the A Primate of Modern Aspect on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Modern Primate, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!
The carnival needs hosts. It's a great way to get some traffic and visibility in the anthro/archaeo bloggyspheroid. The next open slot is already on 27 January. Drop me a line!
emjohnson | January 7, 2010Click Here to Vote
Our fellow Scibling Mo at Neurophilosophy has been nominated in the science category for an award as the best producer of short real-time content on Twitter. Check him out at @mocost and make sure to vote for him at the Shorty Awards page. He's currently in ninth place and, with the combined strength of the ScienceBlogs family, we can hopefully push him up to the top slot.
emjohnson | January 1, 2010Goodbye 2009, hello 2010. It was supposed to be the year we made contact. We'll have to make do with a watered down version of healthcare reform instead. At each new year we often seek to look back in reflection and learn a few lessons as we continue our journey. We are also apt to atone. I apologize for the intermittent posting as of late. Work had piled up and it's always difficult to get things done while visiting family. I assure you that we will return to our regularly scheduled program shortly. Writing for me is more of a need than a choice, but without my loyal readers I would…
clock | December 31, 2009In December I posted only 118 times, which is a historical low for this blog. Ah, well. At least you got to see a lot of cool videos!
The best (and certainly the longest and most provocative) post of the month was What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?
Web - how it will change the Book: process, format, sales was a shorter and thought-provoking post. And so was Trust and Language. And for something longer, and even more provocative, see All Science vs. Religion Conflicts are Essentially and Primarily Political Conflicts.
I wrote a long analysis of what exactly the partnership…
laelaps | December 31, 2009With a few hours left in 2009, now seems as good a time as any to take stock of what I have accomplished during past year.
The year got off to a pretty good start. After participating in the ScienceOnline09 conference I decided to get serious about science writing, both on blogs and "dead tree media." Among my first formal efforts to be published outside the blogohedron were an article about spotted hyenas for Antennae and a review of A History of Paleontology Illustration for Palaeontologia Electronica.
What I did not expect, however, was the appearance of "Ida." I won't recapitulate the…
aardvarchaeology | December 30, 2009The eighty-third Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at the Primate Diaries. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology!
Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to the keeper of A Primate of Modern Aspect. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for hosting. The next vacant hosting slot is in less than a month, on 27 January. It's a good way to gain readers. No need to be an anthro pro.
jdupuis | December 30, 2009During my winter blogging break, I thought I'd repost of few of my "greatest hits" from my old blog, just so you all wouldn't miss me so much. This one is from September 24, 2007. This post follows up on my initial 2007 post which I reposted yesterday.
It's worth noting that the blog has evolved such that it's hardly about or for engineering or computer science students at all; it's more for the sessions I do for "science for non-science students" courses. Also, the use of Meebo has been a huge hit for me, really creating a new way for me to interact with students.
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emjohnson | December 30, 2009
Welcome to the newest installment of the four field anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth. As the carnival enters into a new decade there were many wonderful voices clamoring for attention.
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Savage Minds offers a few thoughts on the Na'vi from the James Cameron blockbuster Avatar.
USC Anthropologist Nancy Lutkehaus discusses her impressions after working as an adviser on the set of Avatar.
Sheril at The Intersection reflects on the Science of Avatar Part 1 and Part 2.
Mark at…
jdupuis | December 29, 2009During my winter blogging break, I thought I'd repost of few of my "greatest hits" from my old blog, just so you all wouldn't miss me so much. This one is from September 24, 2007. It's my initial thoughts about the blog I've been using to post my IL session notes.
It's worth noting that the blog has evolved such that it's hardly about or for engineering or computer science students at all; it's more for the sessions I do for "science for non-science students" courses. Also, the use of Meebo has been a huge hit for me, really creating a new way for me to interact with students.
I'll be re-…
aardvarchaeology | December 29, 2009I recently celebrated four years as a blogger. But disregarding what I was doing before I joined Sb, today marks Aard's third anniversary! It's one of the older active blogs on the site: of the 55 that joined at various times in 2006, less than 39 see timely updates today.
I'm still having fun and hope you are too! I recently updated the Best of Aard page for those of you who want to check out some past goodies.
aardvarchaeology | December 27, 2009The 83rd Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at the Primate Diaries on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Eric, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!
The carnival needs hosts. It's a great way to get some traffic and visibility in the anthro/archaeo bloggyspheroid. The next open slot is already on 27 January. Drop me a line!
clock | December 23, 2009It is always interesting to dig through one's blog archives and see what happened when, or get reminded of a post one forgot was ever written ;-)
So, here are some of the key posts on A Blog Around The Clock from 2009, chosen from almost 2000 posts that appeared here this year (which is MUCH less than the number of posts in 2008 - I've been slacking off!):
Science
Circadian Rhythm of Aggression in Crayfish
An Awesome Whale Tale
Do you love or hate Cilantro?
Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work?
Yes, Archaea also have circadian clocks!
Introducing…
clock | December 22, 2009If a publisher offered me a contract to write a book under a title that would be something like "Unscientific America", how would I go about it?
I would definitely be SUCH a scientist! But, being such a scientist does not mean indulging in Sesquipedalian Obscurantism. Being such a scientist means being dilligent, thorough and systematic in one's reasearch. And then being excited about presenting the findings, while being honest about the degree of confidence one can have in each piece of information.
I was not offered a book contract, and I do not have the resources and nine or twelve months…
clock | December 18, 2009Two years ago, at the 2008 Science Blogging Conference, Dave Munger introduced to the world a new concept and a new wesbite to support that concept - ResearchBlogging.org. What is that all about?
Well, as the media is cuttting science out of the newsroom and the science reporting is falling onto institutional press information officers and science bloggers, more and more people are looking for scientific information on science blogs, especially as the expertise of the blogger is likely to provide a more accurate assessment of a freshly published study than the mainstream media can usually do…
aardvarchaeology | December 16, 2009The eighty-second Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Anthropology in Practice. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology!
Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Eric at the Primate Diaries. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for hosting. The next vacant hosting slot is in less than a month, on 13 January. It's a good way to gain readers. No need to be an anthro pro.