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kcollins | October 17, 2010Today the White House will have their own Science Fair that will kick off the final week of the USA Science and Engineering Festival.
Read about it here.
Event Will Highlight Winners of National Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Competitions
WASHINGTON, DC -- On Monday, October 18th, President Obama will host the White House Science Fair celebrating the winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions. The President will view exhibits of these students' work, ranging from breakthrough basic research to new inventions, followed by…
gregladen | October 17, 2010A mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) killed a human (Homo sapiens) in Washington. The human hiker was gored in the leg on Klahhane Ridge in Olympic National Park. The goat, previously identified as an aggressive wild animal, was summarily executed by park rangers. Previously, rangers had tried to put the goat off humans by throwing bean bags and rocks at it.
There are about 300 299 mountain goats in Olympic National Park.
source
gregladen | October 17, 2010This is astonishing. An organization called "Project Prevention" led by a person by the name of Barbara Harris is offering money, which she openly admits to be bribes, to UK addicts who will submit to sterilization.
This comes after some 3,500 Americans were previously paid to not have children. The BBC report is here.
Founder Barbara Harris' bio from the Project Prevention web site:
Director and Founder- Barbara Harris: Former foster parent, PTA member, founded interracial organization in 1992, actively recruits foster parents, adoptive parent, author of assembly Bill 2614 CA, speaker…
gregladen | October 17, 2010The podcast of Desiree Schell's interviews with me (recorded) and Cordelia Fine (author of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference) ... is now available here.
Check it out!
tlambert | October 17, 2010Jennifer Marohasy, who inspired LOLdenialists, will be on Q&A tonight. You can use the link to post a question for her.
Hat tip: James Haughton.
kcollins | October 15, 2010We have until Midnight...Help us bring 4000 students to the EXPO! All it takes is a simple reTweet!!
Log into your twitter account and then follow this link and reTweet it!!
http://twitter.com/#!/ConstellationEG/status/27030744674
Simple!
We have until midnight to get 300 more reTweets. @ConstellationEG will donate $10 for every RTup to 10K and the Festival will match every $10. If we raise $20,000, 4000 students will be able to come to the Expo through bus grants! Help us share the Expo with everyone and show kids how cool science can be.
(P.S. you can RT more than 1x, it just can't be…
gregladen | October 15, 2010We speak with academic psychologist Dr. Cordelia Fine. Her new book, Delusions Of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, challenges the assumption that gender roles are wired into our brains, and shows us how ubiquitous cultural stereotypes are mistaken for actual fact.
and
On "Everything You Know is Sort Of Wrong," Greg Laden asks if modern hobbies are an evolutionary consequence of prehistoric gender roles.
Details here
mspringer | October 15, 2010Generally speaking, if you play a movie backwards everything that happens is still physically possible. If I throw you a baseball and you catch it, reversing the video is just the equally plausible situation of you throwing the baseball followed by my catching it. If entropy is changing in the video - e.g., breaking an egg - the time-reversed video will not be especially likely. But it doesn't break the laws of physics.
This is called time-reversal symmetry (sometimes T-symmetry for short). If you're looking at planets orbiting in uniform circular motion about the sun, you know from your…
cwilcox | October 14, 2010So, I may be mostly a lab grunt. But where I work there are all kinds of cool things going on. Like the group that's studying this gorgeous beauty:
kcollins | October 14, 2010Help us bring 4000 students to the EXPO! Please follow this link and RT it!!
http://twitter.com/#!/ConstellationEG/status/27030744674
We are not even 50% of the way! We need 500+ RTs before Friday. 500 RTs = 4000 students come to the Expo through bus grants. Help us share the Expo with everyone and show kids how cool science can be.
kcollins | October 13, 2010Help us bring 4000 students to the EXPO! Please follow this link and RT it!!
http://twitter.com/#!/ConstellationEG/status/27030744674
We are not even 50% of the way! We need 500+ RTs before Friday. 500 RTs = 4000 students come to the Expo through bus grants. Help us share the Expo with everyone and show kids how cool science can be.
(P.S. you can RT more than 1x, it just can't be automated)
dolittle | October 13, 2010Who doesn't love horses? I was just reading a fascinating archived press release from The American Physiological Society about these icons of all western movies.
Researchers John Hermanson, Norm Ducharme and Jonathan Cheetham (Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine), John Bertram (University of Calgary, College of Medicine), and Michael Butcher (Youngstown State University, Department of Biological Sciences) examined the coordination of movement and breathing in horses (equine). These systems are reported to work in a concerted effort to allow horses to walk, trot, gallop and run…
gregladen | October 13, 2010This video shows how to dress for South Pole weather conditions during the winter (down to -100ºF). Filmed in the library of the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station during winter 2010.
hat tip: Elle
gregladen | October 13, 2010This should come as a surprise to no one. Byron Williams, known as the "Highway Shooter" for his 12 minutres shootout with CHIPS officers earlier this year, described the connection between Glenn Beck and his activities to a John Hamilton of Media Matters.
... Williams details what he saw as an elaborate global conspiracy [and points to] specific broadcasts of Beck's show for information on the conspiracy he describes. ... Beck's show provided "information on the conspiracy theory that drove him over the edge: an intricate plot involving Barack Obama, philanthropist George Soros, a…
gregladen | October 12, 2010
Here is an article on the original study form Sociological Inquiry, which I've not read and about which I have no comment other than that it is cool if it annoyed Fox New.