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voltagegate | July 9, 2007It's been six months or so since the last time, when I reviewed some enlightenment science history, and the time for Tangled Banking has come again.
I'm thinking Greek or Roman history this time around. I'll theme, you meme. Send your best to me: thevoltagegate [at] gmail.com.
clock | July 8, 2007What happens when you invite a bunch of high school students and a bunch of college students to do research over the summer in a bunch of biology labs AND you help them blog about the experience? You get amazing stories and great insights collected at Howard Hughes Precollege Program Summer 2007 and Student Research at Duke. Spend some time on both sites and look around. It is really amazing and eye-opening.
clock | July 8, 2007Unfortunately, I will still be out of town for this, but if you are in the area on July 12th, you should go to Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh (it is in Ridgewood Shopping Center, 3522 Wade Ave.) at 7pm and meet my SciBling Chris Mooney. He is touring the country reading from his new book Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming (website).
Last year, when he was touring with the "Republican War On Science" we had a grand time at his reading/signing and afterwards we, of course, had Miller Lite (at least he had, I chose something a little more beer-like). So, mark…
neurophilosophy | July 8, 2007 The first person to be banned from commenting on this blog is Thought Provoker, aka Quantum Quack, for his trolling (that is, "making comments intended only to disrupt a thread and incite flames and confusion") and insipidity.
I will use the spam filter to prevent trolling, insipidity, stupidity, morphing, slagging, spamming, sockpuppetry and...ahem...wanking on this blog. (See Pharyngula's killfile dungeon for a definition of all these terms.) And I will be quite ruthless - Thought Provoker was given one warning about leaving irrelevant comments, but he persisted.
neurophilosophy | July 7, 2007The editors of ScienceBlogs are conducting a reader survey. They'll use the feedback to make ScienceBlogs network even better, and one lucky respondent will win an iPod Nano.
neurophilosophy | July 6, 2007The blogroll toward the bottom of the sidebar on the left displays 15 random links from the list below.
10,000 Birds
3 Quarks Daily
Abu Aardvark
Acephalous
Ad Hominin
Advances in the History of Psychology
All in the Mind
Anna's Bones
The Annotated Budak
Bad Astronomy
Bad Science
Bering in Mind
The Beautiful Brain
BibliOdyssey
The Big Picture
Bioethics.net
Biology in Science Fiction
Bjorn Brembs
BLDGBLOG
A Blog Around the Clock
Blue Ridge Blog
Body in mind
Bogbumper
Botany Photo of the Day
BPS Research Digest
Brain Ethics
Brain Hammer
Brains
Brain Windows…
aardvarchaeology | July 4, 2007Gone mountain hiking with this babe I met at a party eight years ago. The Tangled Bank blog carnival will be one day late.
clock | July 3, 2007Quixote (who some of you may know from Acid Test) has joined the growing stable of brilliant bloggers at Shakesville - check out the introductiory post.
neurophilosophy | July 3, 2007
Here's my Technorati Profile, which I need to link to in order to "claim" my blog on that site, and above is part of a screenshot showing some of the stats for my old blog.
clock | July 2, 2007Yes, Shakesville is online again, but the new dedicated server (that will repel the future Denials of Service) costs money. You can help it survive with a couple of bucks every now and then.
clock | July 2, 2007The Seed Overlords have put up a survey for our blog readers. You can go here or just click on the green box on the right side-bar and tell them all how you use the site, what you like and dislike, etc., so the improvements can be made in the future.
Do we really need more sly sex on our blogs?
clock | July 2, 2007Encephalon #26 is up on Neurophilosophy.
Wait! What's that URL?
Yes, MC is our new SciBling!
He is officially moving (i.e., will be featured on the front page) tomorrow, but he is already all set up with some beautiful banners. So, go say Hello and if by some cosmic mistake you have not been reading his blog before, check his archives on the old address.
clock | July 2, 2007Books: "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge.
It's 2025 - What happened to science, politics and journalism? Well, you know I'd be intrigued. After all, a person whose taste in science fiction I trust (my brother) told me to read this and particularly to read it just before my interview with PLoS. So, of course I did (I know, it's been two months, I am slow, but I get there in the end).
'Rainbows End' is a novel-length expansion of the short story "Fast Times at Fairmont High" which he finished in August 2001 and first published in "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge". The novel was written…
neurophilosophy | July 1, 2007The first thing you'll notice upon your arrival here - apart from the annoying frog that periodically leaps across the top of the page - is one of the gorgeous header images.
There are five customized headers in all; one is randomly selected each time the page is reloaded. The images beautifully illustrate my interests in the history of neuroscience as well as in the latest developments in the field. One of them even has my name on it. Can you find it?
Continue reading for more information about the header images and the two lovely ladies who so kindly created them for me.
The grey-…
neurophilosophy | July 1, 2007Welcome to Neurophilosophy at ScienceBlogs!
I've been working behind the scenes for about a week, trying to get to grips with using Movable Type. Now I've got the hang of my new blogging platform, and have configured the blog the way I want it - although I'll be making minor modifications and adding various bits and pieces - I'm ready to go. Many thanks to all those who helped me out while I was setting up, especially Chris, Jake and Sandra.
If you've come from my old blog, you can expect more of the same. If you're a new reader, that means regular updates on new neuroscience research and…
aardvarchaeology | June 30, 2007Time to get those ace blog entries written!
On Wednesday we have a Four Stone Hearth at Clioaudio (submit archaeology and anthropology entries here). 4SH also has open hosting slots from September onward.
On Thursday there's a Tangled Bank here at Aard (submit life-sciences entries here).
ASAP there will be a one-off carnival here at Aard about Your Nearest Archaeological Site (more info here).
clock | June 29, 2007Not that it costs anything to have one...
Yet, the Konsortium of science libraries in Serbia is seriously contemplating shutting down their KOBSON blog, an invaluable tool in science communication in the region.
Danica, who the regular readers of this blog are quite familiar with as she is the Number One Champion for Open Science and Web 2.0 science in Serbia, has put a lot of effort into building the online infrastructure for Serbian scientific communication, including the KOBSON blog and the KOBSON wiki, as well as teaching and preaching to the local scientific community about the…
clock | June 29, 2007July 1st through July 4th. Here are the detailed instructions how to participate.