clock | January 10, 2007
Jacqueline Floyd of the Element List blog and Vedana Vaidhyanathan of The Blog That Never Was are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 10, 2007My SciBling, Mike Dunford, who is a military husband has penned an eloquent essay on Iraq and what it all means. Please read it and link it from your blogs.
clock | January 10, 2007
Robert Peterson is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. So is Christina Pikas from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Are you?
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clock | January 10, 2007We're Sorry This Is Late ... We Really Meant To Post It Sooner: Research Into Procrastination Shows Surprising Findings:
A University of Calgary professor in the Haskayne School of Business has recently published his magnum opus on the subject of procrastination -- and it's only taken him 10 years. Joking aside, Dr. Piers Steel is probably the world's foremost expert on the subject of putting off until tomorrow what should be done today. His comprehensive analysis of procrastination research, published in the recent edition of the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin,…
clock | January 10, 2007Just a quick note on the current state of the anthology:
40 41 formatted files have arrived so far, six are on their way today, and four three more people have yet to respond (I may have to tap into the "reserve" posts if I do not hear from these four three today). The cover is done. The title is chosen. The PDF file is in the process of beeing built and looking pretty already.
I am writing the Preface right now. It has been suggested to me to utilize/cannibalize material from these two old posts for the Preface. Both are too long, but have some interesting stuff in them, so I will see…
clock | January 10, 2007The 101st Edition of the Carnival of Education (yes, with a Dalmatian puppy picture) is up on I Thought a Think
Carnival of Homeschooling 54: Variety Pack is up on HomeSchool Buzz and it looks different every time you re-load the page!
clock | January 10, 2007We have just hit 150 registrants at the Science Blogging Conference!
We will not close the registration, though. You can (and should) register. There is room for some more people and there should be enough food for everyone. Only the swag is limited to 150. There may be a few people who will not show up, and a few of us local bloggers involved in the organization may forgo our swag bags in favor of visitors if needed. So don't worry about the 150-people limit and, if you can come, register for the conference today!
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clock | January 10, 2007For a blogger - by definition on the cutting edge of technology - I am quite a Luddite. Perhaps that is too strong a term and I should rather call myself a "patient techno-skeptic".
I watch the development of new technologies with interest, but I almost never get any kind of visceral excitement "I Have To Have This! Now!"
There is always a lot of experimenting going on and the Darwinian forces of the market ruthlessly destroy almost every new gizmo and gadget within a year or two. After a while, the dust settles, and one particular system or gadget becomes the universal standard - it…
clock | January 10, 2007
Charles Yelton of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences and Chris Nicolini of NBC17 WNCN are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 9, 2007In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Aaron Rose
clock | January 9, 2007
Adnaan Wasey and Lea Winerman from the The Online PBS NewsHour are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference and so is Claire Edwards of The American Physiological Society. Are you?
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clock | January 9, 2007Janet reminds us that this is National Delurking Week 2007. So, all of you who come here and read and say nothing, click on that "0 comments" link here and type "Hello". Or more. Who are you? Why are you here? What do you like and dislike here? This is your chance to break the ice and start commenting here and on all other blogs you frequent.
clock | January 9, 2007A look from the outside, in alphabetical order...
Hey, what's this:
"Writes administrative posts and links to stuff around the net..."?!
Yup, I have been busy lately with the anthology and the conference, and prior to that with kids over the holidays and also trying to sneak in some Thesis-writing time, but there are months and months of serious posts that are far cry from 'administrative'. All those Clock Mondays, Personal Tuesdays, Science Wednesdays, Education Thursdays and Politics Fridays, and Friday Weird Sex Blogging, and the Clock Week, the Microbial Week, the Book Week...come on -…
clock | January 9, 2007
Nelda Philllips is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 9, 2007Anton, Brian, Paul and I are now in daily (actually more than once a day) contact, putting together the last touches of the organization of the Science Blogging Conference. Only 9 days to go!
The teach-in session on the 18th is full. The Friday (19th) dinner is in my neighborhood at 7pm - there is a projector and a screen so we will browse and read blogs while eating and drinking. I need to know who is coming to that - e-mail Anton or edit the Dinner page on the wiki (for both Friday and Saturday dinners).
Check out the Program and if you can, make a small donation.
There are currently 143…
clock | January 9, 2007There is a new manuscript online which I will undoubtedly find interesting, I bet, once I find time to read its 52 pages (OK, double-spaced TXT with a long list of references and an Appendix of stats):
The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind (pdf) by Dana R. Carney, John T. Jost, Samuel D. Gosling, Kate Niederhoffer and Jeff Potter.
ABSTRACT: Seventy-five years of theory and research on personality differences between political liberals and conservatives has produced a long list of dispositions, traits, and…
clock | January 9, 2007Serendipitously and unusually, these two carnivals have quite a lot in common this week:
Grand Rounds: Diet and Food, up on Dr. John La Puma Healthy News
Carnival of the Green #59 is up on Hippy Shopper