clock | January 24, 2007Most of our anti-Creationist battles are over efforts to infuse Christian religion into K-12 education. One common battlefield is the courtroom where our side has (so far, until/unless the benches get filled with more clones of Priscilla Owen) won. But another place where we can stop them is the college admission office.
Sara Robinson of the Orcinus blog (which everybody should read daily) revisits, in more detail than I ever saw on any science blogs at the time this first started, the legal battle between the University of California and the Calvary Chapel Christian School over what…
clock | January 24, 2007In the Inkling Magazine: Science Bloggers Avoid the Spinach Dip Brush-Off, by Eva Amsen.
I am really happy to see how real-world conversations that started at the conference are now continuing online. Check the latest updates on the bottom of the posts here or here.
Also, the people who have ordered the blooks first, have now started receiving their copies (and commenting about their beauty on their blogs). The updated list of people blogging abot it is at the bottom of this post.
clock | January 24, 2007Mormon Missionaries knocked on a wrong door earlier today. I think their heads are still spinning...
clock | January 24, 2007You have to read Conference thank you by Anton - the final word on the Science Blogging Conference, the behind-the-scenes commentary and the plans for the future! Go say Thank you to Anton - without him no conference would have happened last week in Chapel Hill. Anton also runs the Blogtogether site, where you can leave comments.
clock | January 24, 2007The Carnival Of Education: Week 103 is up on Education Wonks
The Carnival of Homeschooling Week 56 is up on The Thinking Mother.
clock | January 24, 2007Rep. Brad Miller, familiar to Daily Kos readers from his frequent posting here, will play a critical role in a new subcommittee formed by House Democrats to investigate allegations of GOP science and policy abuse. The new Science Oversight and Investigation (I & O) subcommittee will report to the House Committee on Science and Technology. The parent committee has jurisdiction over non-defense Federal spending. That includes agencies such as NASA, DoE, EPA, NOAA, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, just to name a few.
Miller, who won reelection in a 2 to 1 landslide…
clock | January 24, 2007'Terror Bird' Arrived In North America Before Land Bridge, Study Finds:
A University of Florida-led study has determined that Titanis walleri, a prehistoric 7-foot-tall flightless "terror bird," arrived in North America from South America long before a land bridge connected the two continents. UF paleontologist Bruce MacFadden said his team used an established geochemical technique that analyzes rare earth elements in a new application to revise the ages of terror bird fossils in Texas and Florida, the only places in North America where the species has been found. Rare earth elements are a…
clock | January 23, 2007Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
Plato (427 BC…
clock | January 23, 2007For quite a while I was aware of two blogs written by vet techs, and recently I discovered a couple of more written by veterinarians or vet students:
All But One Species
Vet Techs
Pet Connection
Diary of a Depressive Veterinarian
The Happy Healthy Horse
Dogged Blog
Discovering Michelle
Ambitiously Inquisitive
Not all of them write about animal health all the time, but, hey, if you go to a Xena Convention and get to interview Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor, of course you blog about it and post pictures of them and get, like, a million hits from Google the next day. You can always go back to…
clock | January 23, 2007The Barcode Blog
My Biotech Life
The Happy Tortoise
A Natural Scientist
Greg Laden
Gaddeswarup's blog
Balyblab
clock | January 23, 2007The newest edition of Grand Rounds with a focus on the science aspects of healthcare and medicine, is up on my newest SciBling's blog Signout.
clock | January 23, 2007Well, as I said before, the end of the Conference/Anthology whirlwind is also a return to my Dissertation writing (and a lowering of my output here).
But I had to procrastinate just a little bit more - I just gave a very pleasant 30-minute interview for the Asheville (NC) community radio station about blogging, science-blogging and everything else (including the Conference and a pitch for the anthology), as a part of their Tips For Political Bloggers series. The interviewer is Paul of the Brainshrub blog. It will appear on his site next Monday morning and will air on Monday evening - I…
clock | January 23, 2007Dogs May Be Responding To Psychological Seizures, Not Epilepsy Seizures:
Reports of dogs that can predict their owners' epilepsy seizures have been anecdotal and not objectively confirmed by doctors and researchers. Some people obtain service dogs trained specifically for people with seizures. In two new studies published in the January 23, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, researchers found that in some cases these dogs are responding to seizures caused not by epilepsy, but by psychological conditions.
Bumblebee House Warming: It Takes A…
clock | January 22, 2007Audio of Dr.Willard's talk is here
Update: for ease of use, here it is cut in two:
Part I: 16.6mb
Part II: 10.72mb
Slides of Dr.Stemwedel's talk are here - apparently the mic got turned off after the first 7 minutes of her talk - we may post those later, but slides (and her own pictures and comments) should be sufficient for you to get the idea.
Podcast of the Open Science/Open Notebook sesssion is here.
Check out what people are saying about the conference here (perhaps the best strategy is to go down to the bottom of the page and work your way up until you are exhausted).
Technorati Tag:…
clock | January 22, 2007If you were at the conference on Saturday, please take a couple of seconds to let us know what you think about it by filling this short feedback questionnaire.
And if you post stuff online (blogs, podcasts, photos, videos), do not forget to use the Tag: sciencebloggingconference
clock | January 22, 2007If you went to the Open Source/Open Notebook session on Saturday or checked the podcast (linked in there) of it, you are probably familiar with some of the ideas revolutionizing the science publishing world.
One of the people on the forefront of thinking about these questions is Bill Hooker who just finished the third part of his trilogy guest-blogging on 3 Quarks Daily. Just in case you missed the first two installments, here are the links to all three - but take your time and check out the numerous links embedded in them:
The Future of Science is Open, Part 1: Open Access
The Future of…
clock | January 22, 2007Nature: Science blogger Bora Zivkovic
Nature Newsblog: Science blogger Bora Zivkovic
Addendum: The author/interviewer, of course, blogged about it as well: North Carolina Science Blogging Conference-pt 2-how blogging saved one man's science career
Funny, in order to put that picture of me there, they had to cut out Atrios out of it. Atrios who? See the uncropped original under the fold....