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kcollins | October 20, 2010NASA will be at the Festival and at the Lockheed Martin Stage there will be panel discussions with astronauts.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is joining more than 500 science organizations in Washington this weekend to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers during the first national science and engineering festival to be held in the nation's capital.
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The USA Science & Engineering Festival, which began Oct. 10 with activities…
cwilcox | October 20, 2010This is a repost, leading up to another post in the Evolution series. Watching Speciation Occur is the second in my Evolution series which started with The Curious Case of Dogs
We saw that the littlest differences can lead to dramatic variations when we looked at the wide variety in dogs. But despite their differences, all breeds of dogs are still the same species as each other and their ancestor. How do species split? What causes speciation? And what evidence do we have that speciation has ever occurred?
Critics of evolution often fall back on the maxim that no one has ever seen one species…
kcollins | October 20, 2010Find the full schedule of NIH events here But can't miss some special stage shows like the director of NIH, Dr. Francis Collins performing!
This weekend, October 23 and 24, NIH will bring our science to the people at the inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival ExpoExternal Web Site Policy in Washington, D.C. From 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., 1,500 interactive exhibits and 75 stage shows will be held across four downtown DC locations on and near the National Mall. Details on the festival websiteExternal Web Site Policy, including a mapExternal Web Site Policy.
Here's the lowdown on all of…
gregladen | October 20, 2010The NCSE will be representing the good fight at the Evolution at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington DC this weekend.
NCSE will be participating in the Science Expo of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, October 23 and 24, 2010, on the National Mall in Washington DC. The culmination of a two-week celebration of science and engineering, the Science Expo is a giant science party on America's front lawn, aimed at inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers. All events are free and open to the general public.
So come and explore the world of science…
kcollins | October 20, 2010APA Exhibit at USA Science Expo
The American Psychological Association will have an exhibit at the USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Saturday, October 23, and Sunday, October 24. Titled Let's Use Our Heads to Save the Environment, the exhibit will highlight the role of psychological science in reducing energy use, pollution, and climate change.
ANS to Participate in USA Science & Engineering Festival
The American Nuclear Society (ANS) will be participating on Saturday and Sunday, October 23-24, at the grand finale Expo of the USA…
mspringer | October 20, 2010You're taking your morning shower and a thought occurs to you. "In classical electrodynamics, an accelerating charge radiates. In general relativity, acceleration is equivalent to a gravitational field. Therefore a stationary charge should radiate simply by virtue of being in a gravitational field. What's up with that?"
You wonder about what the radiated power would be for a given gravitational field. You figure maybe you could use the Larmor formula with the Stefan-Boltzmann law to estimate the equivalent thermal radiation but you don't remember either one of those equations exactly and you'…
gregladen | October 20, 2010This is why we know civilization is about to collapse. This man speaks the truth, and he is probably the only one up there speaking the truth, but he is considered to be the comic relief.
kcollins | October 19, 2010In case you were wondering about wireless coverage during the Festival, there will be hotspots on the mall!
DC-Net will provide free Wi-Fi Internet access for the first ever USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo on the National Mall and Freedom Plaza on October 23 and 24.
Hotspot coverage will be available on the National Mall, between the Capitol rotunda and 7th Street, NW and Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, between 13th and 14th Streets over the course of the event.
The hotspots support 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi standards. People with laptops, smart phones and other wireless-enabled…
gregladen | October 19, 2010Tom Bosley, the actor who played Howard Cunningham on "Happy Days" has died at age 83. Interestingly, Barbara Billingsley had died just three days before. There is no meaning to this, but there is metaphor galore.
cwilcox | October 19, 2010I'm going to be coming out with a new post in my Evolution series later this week, but in the meantime, for those of you haven't seen them, I'm reposting my first two Evolution posts, beginning with the one that started the series: The Curious Case of Dogs.
Man's best friend is much more than a household companion - for centuries, artificial selection in dogs has made them prime examples of the possibilities of evolution. A century and a half ago, Charles Darwin recognized how the incredibly diverse dogs supported his revolutionary theory in his famous book On The Origin Of Species. At the…
gregladen | October 19, 2010There is a stoning planned for the near future. Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of shying away from criticizing this barbaric practice to avoid offending anyone's sensibilities, there was instead a public outrage about it?
illconsidered | October 19, 2010Readers here are probably already familiar with the Wegman report "strange scholarship" scandal but if not read up on it a bit at Eli Rabbet's place. The mess goes much deeper, but the relevant aspect is an ongoing plagarism investigation into Wegman by George Mason University. The GMU investigation was pushed forward by a formal complaint by Raymond Bradely because passages from his text, Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, were copied and placed verbatim, uncited and without quotation marks into Wegman's report.
Now, to the subject of this post. I don't recall…
gregladen | October 19, 2010is a web carnival devoted to beetles, their biology and evolution. The current issue is at Beetles in the Bush. Go check it out!
gregladen | October 18, 2010A colleague at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Studies at Loma Linda has asked me to pass this on to you:
IMPORTANT SURVEY ON ATTITUDES TOWARD THE ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION - Your help is needed! The Loma Linda University Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Studies is conducting a groundbreaking survey on attitudes toward the environment and conservation, particularly of those who love plants and animals. The results from this study, to be published in a professional journal, will contribute to our understanding of the role of plants and animals in society. Participants…
gregladen | October 18, 2010We have been watching the Atlantic but ignoring the rest of the tropical storm world, mainly because that (the Pacific storms) is not an area of interest or experience for me. But you should know about this:
The strongest cyclone in years to buffet the Philippines knocked out communications and power as residents took shelter Monday, while flooding in Vietnam swept away a bus and 20 of its passengers, including a girl pulled from her mother's grasp by the raging waters.
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cwilcox | October 17, 2010On November 7th, National Geographic Channel airs the first of a seven-hour spectacle called Great Migrations. The series takes us on the paths of the world's most epic wanderers, from the small and delicate butterflies which travel thousands of miles from Mexico to Canada and back again to the yearly gauntlet of the massive herds of Africa. Here's the trailer:
Having gotten a sneak peak at the upcoming series, I can say with 100% certainty that has outdone my highest expectations, and, I believe, will be seen as one of the best nature mini-series of the year. In the new tradition of…