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gregladen | January 20, 2010Or so says the new Pray for Healing web site, formerly known as the Pray for Trig web site.
The idea is to pray for a miracle. It is not clear what miracle they are looking for, but
...[t]he miracle must be something which can turn the hardest-hearted atheist to the Lord, helping bring us as a nation and as a planet back to He who made us.
So. Something that will make PZ Myers believe in god and accept the word of Jesus into his stone cold heart, for instance.
Any suggestions?
grrlscientist | January 19, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
Have you read an especially good essay about science, nature or medicine lately? If so, why not share it with the world by submitting the URL for this essay to a blog carnival designed to share excellent writing with others? You don't need to be the author of an essay to submit it for consideration, and this is one way that blog carnivals grow in size and influence: by sharing with others.
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a traveling blog…
gregladen | January 19, 2010... from his position as Chair of the DSCC. The motto of the DSCC is "Committed to Electing a Democratic Senate." Just now, there was one ... ONE!!!!!! ... race in play. One that would be hard to lose. One that would be disastrous to lose.
Bob. Menendez. Needs. To. Resign. Now.
gregladen | January 19, 2010In a very very bad way. The FBI needs to get a grip.
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gregladen | January 19, 2010Being right or wrong, being smart or not so smart, being religious-born vs. atheist-born, skeptical or not, or recovered faithful, figuring out what to think or believe vs. receiving the way or the wisdom. . It's complicated.
Read: Core Values, Atheism and Religion, Mike's latest installment at Quiche Moraine.
cwilcox | January 19, 2010I'm writing this while on the plane, flying back from a fantastic weekend in North Carolina. Before I can even begin reflecting on the past few days, I have to thank NESCent again for their generous travel grant which allowed me to go to Science Online in the first place. Without their funding, I'd have spent the weekend laying out on a beach instead of freezing my butt off with over 200 amazing people who, thought diverse in many ways, all have one thing in common: a passion for science communication. Sure, the beach would have been a lot warmer and more relaxing, but going to Science Online…
gregladen | January 18, 2010This was a project by a high school video class. As you watch, you'll see objects doing things that they should not do as students take turns singing a Hall and Oats song while they walk/dance along the halls of their high school.
The entire thing is filmed backwards, which explains how paper air planes unfly and bubbles unblow and baloons unpop and stuff unfalls. But if you watch the lip syncing students, you'll notice that they are lip syncing correctly ... their lips are matching the words as well as lip syncing does. But how did they make this happen if they were filming backwards…
gregladen | January 18, 2010is here art Ionian Enchantment. Please have a look, there is good stuff there. Honest. No need to be skeptical about it. Just go and look!
grrlscientist | January 18, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
YAY!! Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) "The Blogodiversity Edition" was published today at Deep Thoughts and Silliness.
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a traveling blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing targeted specifically to the public that has been published in the blogosphere within the past 60 days.
Your host for the upcoming 1 February edition is John, author of Kind of Curious. To send…
gregladen | January 18, 2010I will be doing a Cafe Scientifique with the above title on Tuesday, January 19 (tomorrow as I write this) at 7:00 p.m. at the Bryant Lake Bowl. Doors open at 6. Get there early or call for reservations! The venue is small and the last CS sold out. Call 612-825-8949 for reservations (tickets are 5 - 12 bucks depending on something, not sure what).
gregladen | January 18, 2010There are a LOT of videos coming out on Science Online 10. Go to YouTube and enter Scio10 in search and you'll see them. Here are a few chosen from what is there already.
This is not comprehensive ... but will give you a flavor of the event.
Enjoy:
(Caution: The sound levels change dramatically from video to video.)
The Saturday Night Banquet. SEe all the people tweeting. By next year, I gotta get me one of those phones.
Scott Baker and Darlene Cavalier on citizen science
Dr. Kiki Sanford Intro:
Melina Interviews Artist Glendon Mellow
Here's a still picture with me in it
And go…
gregladen | January 18, 2010In reference to this
Bullet Point 1: I agree, and I wanted to do that to you but for some reason we did not hook up.
Bullet Point 2: It is good to match up the flesh to the sound, it changes everything!
Bullet Point 3: I'm sure you are right about the explosion. Brilliant, actually (imagine that said in an Oxford accent).
Bullet Point 4: I saw this as well, and some of us are now talking about a "blog book tour" idea as an example of that. I hope you are interested.
Bullet Point 5: Sorry about your brain breaking, but it will get better (imagine that in a Monty Python accent).
Bullet Point…
gregladen | January 18, 2010
Bullet point 1: I just laid down and passed out.
Bullet point 2: I stayed as far away from SciCurious as possible, for that very reason.
Bullet Point 3: I also want to bottle Damond Nollan.
Bullet Point 4: LOL. But seriously, this is a philosophy that not only applies to phones but to all technology. Keep it simple = keep it accessible (often).
Bullet Point 5: OMG, is that how we looked? That's the last time I do something with PZ Myers! : )
Bullet POint 6: ... Question 1: Yeah. But funnily enough, a "fact checker" probably always knows one when one sees one. Question 2: I don't…
cortex | January 18, 2010Time Magazine has an interesting profile of Magnus Carlsen, the youngest chess player to achieve a number one world ranking:
Genius can appear anywhere, but the origins of Carlsen's talent are particularly mysterious. He hails from Norway -- a "small, poxy chess nation with almost no history of success," as the English grand master Nigel Short sniffily describes it -- and unlike many chess prodigies who are full-time players by age 12, Carlsen stayed in school until last year. His father Henrik, a soft-spoken engineer, says he has spent more time urging his young son to complete his…
gregladen | January 18, 2010Well, I got back last night, but then I was asleep until now. So, as I have my morning cup of coffee I'm going through a couple/few hundred emails. Sorry some comments were trapped in moderation, but I've released all the real ones.
Later, I'll tell you all about the conference. I had long interesting talks with Sheril, Chris, PZ, Rebecca, which you should have expected, but also I have some interesting stuff from Chicago's Rabiah Mayas, some reactions to Abel Pharmboy and Damond Nollan's section, and others. A lot of what I learned at this conference is very useful to me but not…
grrlscientist | January 15, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
Have you read an especially good essay about science, nature or medicine lately? If so, why not share it with the world by submitting the URL for this essay to a blog carnival designed to share excellent writing with others? You don't need to be the author of an essay to submit it for consideration, and this is one way that blog carnivals grow in size and influence: by sharing with others.
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a traveling blog…
gregladen | January 14, 2010Every time Rush Limbaugh opens his mouth I grow less enamored with the mindless fetish for free speech that permeates American culture. And notice that I use the word "culture" and not "civilization." Because as long as this sort of thing is routine on our airwaves, we ain't got that civilization thing.
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