carnivals
clock | October 10, 2006Fourth Stone Hearth is a brand new blog carnival which promises to be really interesting (at least to me and a few other souls). Check out the homepage and contribute if this is your blogging expertise.
clock | October 10, 2006Grand Rounds 3.3 are up on Unbounded Medicine.
The 41st Carnival of Homeschooing is up on Nerd Family.
BTW, this is my 1000th post on this blog!
clock | October 9, 2006The brand new edition of Encephalon is up on Cognitive Daily. Could you be accepted to attend Encephalon University?
clock | October 8, 2006Tarheel Tavern #85 is up on Another Blue Puzzle Piece. I am such an idiot - I forgot to send anything this week!
clock | October 7, 2006Pediatric Grand Rounds, Volume One, Edition Thirteen, is up on Kim's Emergiblog.
pharyngula | October 6, 2006Here are a few carnival announcements, but mainly what I've got is announcements of impending carnivals—there's going to be a bunch coming out next week, I guess.
Friday Ark #107
Carnival of Education #87
Carnival of the Liberals wants your links! Deadline is next Tuesday.
Tangled Bank needs more links! Deadline is next Tuesday.
Skeptics' Circle seeks submissions! Deadline is early next Wednesday.
Discuss the imminent dissolution of the blogosphere into collections of links linking to other collections of links, which will lead either to irrelevance and destruction, or reach a…
clock | October 3, 2006The 87th edition of The Carnival of Education - A World-Wide Carnival - is up on The Current Events in Education. It is a lesson in geography.
The 40th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on HomeSchoolBuzz. It is a lesson in history.
Oh, and in case you missed it, the 13th Teaching Carnival is right here.
clock | October 3, 2006Grand Rounds are up on RDoctor.
History Carnival XL is up on Old is the New New.
clock | October 1, 2006Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the Teaching Carnival where we discuss all things academic, from teaching to college life, from HigherEd policy to graduate school research. Last time, I separated the Two Cultures in a way. This time I want to keep them mixed - both sides of campus often deal with the same issues anyway. There are tons of links, so let's start right away...
SATs and getting into college
Chad Orzel of Uncertain Principles commented on the top SAT essays published by the NYTimes. He argued that writing a decent essay in 25 minutes with a prompt not known in advance is…
pharyngula | October 1, 2006A couple of science carnivals will liven up your Sunday evening:
Bio::Blogs #4
The Synapse 1(8)
clock | October 1, 2006The Synapse #8 is up on Mind Hacks.
Carnival of the Godless #50 is up on Salto Sobrius.
purepedantry | October 1, 2006The Synapse #8 has been capably posted at Mind Hacks. Thanks guys. Haven't figured out where the next Synapse will be. If you would like to host email me. I will let you know when I know.
clock | September 30, 2006I will be posting the Teaching Carnival tonight.
Delicious tags look OK, but Technorati looks awful and I know it does not pick tagged posts with any predictability. So, if you want to make sure your post is included, you can still e-mail me the Permalink at: Coturnix AT gmail DOT com by 5pm Eastern today.
clock | September 30, 2006
Wow, it's been a while since I last hosted the Tar Heel Tavern. This will be the first time since Erin took over the reins of this carnival and the first time since I moved my blog here to Seed's ScienceBlogs (please look around and check out my SciBlings while you are here). In the meantime, Erin has performed a nice makeover of the carnival's homepage and archives so go take a look.
I am happy to see a number of great entries this week. Still, I added a couple of "Editor's Choices" at the end. Let's start...
For the geeks out there, Melissa of Mel's Kitchen has discovered a cookbook…
purepedantry | September 29, 2006The Synapse #8 is being hosted at Mind Hacks on Sunday. Make sure to get your submissions in before Saturday night so that they have time to read them. Details here.
pharyngula | September 29, 2006We've harvested a fine collection of links this week:
Circus of the Spineless #25 (there's a tattoo parlor I want to visit!)
I and the Bird #33
Carnival of Education #86
Skeptics' Circle #44
Friday Ark #106
Carnival of the Liberals #22
Comment on whatever you will!
clock | September 28, 2006The third edition of Panta Rei, the physics blog carnival focusing on heat and flow, is up on Nonoscience.