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gregladen | August 9, 2009Well, you can do it every day, so please do it again! Thank you very much.
grrlscientist | August 9, 2009The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 3731 - 2083 - 1535 - 1293 - 1113 out of 425 candidates registered. I am now in fourth place so I need your votes more than ever to recapture first place, so please ask your friends and relatives to vote for me now!
If you've already voted, then please encourage your family, friends, colleagues and neighbors to vote for the person whom you think would be best for this unique job: traveling to Antarctica for the month of February 2010 and writing about it for the public on a blog. Here is my 300-word essay; hopefully, you will agree that I am…
gregladen | August 8, 2009..... on this day in 1945.
American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in three days.
The bomb was dropped by parachute from an American B29 Bomber at 1102 local time.
It exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground and is believed to have completely destroyed the city, which is situated on the western side of the Japanese island of Kyushu.
more at the bbc
gregladen | August 8, 2009We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.
gregladen | August 8, 2009Hey, my BFF Analiese Miller needs you to vote for her. Go here and click on the stars down below her photo!!!
Vote early, vote often. (I think you can vote every day, starting today and for a few days.)
Trust me, she deserves this. She is an extraordinary actress. Quite good at singing and dancing, too, and she is brilliant in a zillion other ways as well.
Let's get Ana this job! We can do it!
Oh, and if you are a blogger and want to remain my friend, you have to tell your readers to vote for Ana too. ASAP, please.
By the way, the photo is by Ben Zvan. Ben is quite an excellent…
gregladen | August 8, 2009On this day in 1974. It was Richard Nixon. I remember it like it was yesterday.
gregladen | August 7, 2009The Carnival of Evolutoin 14 is at Quintessence of Dust.
Trees, Plants and More has the Festival of the Trees #38
Carnival of the Blue #27: The Vacation Edition is at Oh, for the love of science.
gregladen | August 7, 2009Dear MSNBC Viewer Services,
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I normally watch MSNBC. I'm a writer and blogger, so I often have MSNBC on for a few hours during the day as I write, so I can pick up on the latest news. I love Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, and I often watch Hardball.
But, I've got to tell you this: Every time one of those "free credit report dot com" ads comes on, I turn you off. Click. MSNBC goes off for at least an hour or so, often until evening or maybe for the entire day. I think I don't often notice the ads if I'm in the other room or something, but man, they are very very obnoxious ads and…
gregladen | August 7, 2009There is a lot of discussion on the Anti-Health Teabagging Town Hall Crashing.
The Field Negro tells is "Its working!"
Just Orb asks us to Try to Remember
Related:
Evolving in Kansas: U.S. Not Tops in Health Care, Only Cost
The Lay Scientist is Drowning in Alphabet Soup: The Wider Battle for Health Regulation
Is "Southerner" GOP-Codespeak for Fundie?
gregladen | August 7, 2009I have been consumed with frustration in recent days. The principal cause of this has been industrial action by an assortment of trolls who think that holding strikes for pay in a recession, thus holding commuters to ransom, is a good way to improve public relations. ... We commuters are so powerless...
Cromercrox writes...
grrlscientist | August 7, 2009tags: Antarctica, humor, funny, streaming video
My friend, Richard Carter, made this very sweet little video to help publicize my desire to go to Antarctica as your official penguin whisperer [0:33]
Please vote for me to go to Antarctica as your official blogger.
grrlscientist | August 7, 2009
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a 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. To send your submissions to Scientia Pro Publica, either use this automated submission form or use the cute little widget on the right (sometimes that widget doesn't upload when the mother site is sick). Be sure to include the URL or "…
gregladen | August 7, 2009OK, there is this blogger named Steve. Steve is of some interest, so let's see who he is. This is what Steve says this about himself in the about section of his own blog:
Though I grew up in Garland, I was born in Irving. And my dad's biggest bragging point about me is that you could see Texas Stadium from the window in the room where I was born. So, as you can see, I never had a chance. I love the Dallas Cowboys more than most of my family members and I'm here to keep haters on the straight and narrow. I'm also the resident hippie-hater. Don't bring your liberal crap in here, because it…
sb admin | August 7, 2009by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure
We've been rather kind to Senator Charles (Chuck) Grassley in the past. Yes, he's a right wing Republican with some really odious ideas, ideas for which he deserves to be criticized. But he's also been a champion of the Federal False Claims Act which has encouraged and protected whistleblowers to reveal how corporations have taken the taxpayer for a ride, something for which he deserves credit. Lately he has been on a tear about the ways Big Pharma has been buying influence with high profile medical professionals, with the direct implication that…
mspringer | August 7, 2009The excellent readers of this blog have left numerous astute comments about the Nuke the Moon post, assessing the difficulty of knocking aside asteroids via nuclear explosions. The two most common themes are orbital mechanics and using the lunar mass itself in a sort of mass-driver configuration. Both are excellent points. The orbital mechanics are more trouble than I want to go through at the moment (though maybe later), but the lunar surface mass is easier pickings.
The equation I derived for impulse-per-nuke was this:
This is of course with dramatically simplifying assumptions,…
cortex | August 7, 2009Apologies for the radio silence - I've been moving across the country, my life in a big metal box. I'm leaving Boston (sadly) and just arrived in Los Angeles, my old hometown and new home.
Whenever I first arrive in LA, I'm always struck by the same two thoughts: 1) it really is a beautiful city, especially around dusk when you make a left turn and all of a sudden you're heading into the chaparral of the Hollywood hills, glazed with pink light and softened by the haze of smog. I'm not one of those people who always talk about the "quality of light" but there is something about the light here…
gregladen | August 6, 2009Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
With cutting-edge nanotech, Michael Pritchard's Lifesaver water-purification bottle could revolutionize water-delivery systems in disaster-stricken areas around the globe.
For more information about the world water problem, visit Digital Rabbit.
mspringer | August 6, 2009Graduate school is like the previous 16 years of school in that you learn things and take classes, at least for the first couple of years. On the other hand it's also much more like a regular job than the previous schooling. You do work that's unrelated to class, and you get paid. Maybe not a whole lot of pay, but it keeps a roof over your head and food on the plate. Roughly speaking the paycheck will come from one of two things: teaching assistantships or research assistantships. In the former you are involved in teaching classes/labs and grading the resulting work. In the latter you…
grrlscientist | August 6, 2009
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) was published recently at Pleiotropy. The current edition is entitled Scientia Pro Publica -- with a Twist. There is some controversy there where the host takes exception to one of the contributors' essays, so you will find this edition of Scientia Pro Publica most interesting.
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a traveling blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing…