clock | January 7, 2007
Jeff Foust of The Space Review is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 7, 2007Thanks to the help of twelve wonderful "judges", I have managed to reduce the 218 nominated posts down to a manageable number of 63. And yes, it is 6:30 in the morning! I will have to go to sleep now, but when I get up I will read those 63 posts all over again (the third time in a week) and try to make the final decision - which 50 posts will be included in the book - which I will post on Monday.
clock | January 6, 2007
Kent Robertson is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 6, 2007This magnificient experiment got started exactly a year ago yesterday. It immediatelly caught fire and grew steadily from the initial 14 to the current 54 blogs and is still growing bigger and stronger. Here is a look from the outside.
clock | January 6, 2007I am the systems bitch
The Olive Ridley Crawl
Appletree
chez Odile
WWdN: In Exile
The Blogging Journalist
The Pump Handle
Rob Zelt: streams of thought
clock | January 6, 2007The Top 100 Science Stories of 2006 by Discover magazine.
Science: BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR and Runners-up.
Did you know there are hundreds of scientists posting on DailyKos? You should check the science tag there every now and then - there is some great stuff! For instance, Mark H of the Biomes blog has been posting a magnificient series of posts about marine life there for a while.
Oh, and Darksyde, thank you for the link!
clock | January 6, 2007Under the fold, due to MT malfunction....
New Sucker-footed Bat Discovered In Madagascar:
Scientists have discovered a new species of bat that has large flat adhesive organs, or suckers, attached to its thumbs and hind feet. This is a remarkable find because the new bat belongs to a Family of bats endemic to Madagascar--and one that was previously considered to include only one rare species.
Queen Bees Shown To Pass Viruses To Their Offspring:
The first evidence that viruses can be transmitted vertically from mother queens to their offspring in honey bee colonies has been discovered by…
clock | January 6, 2007
Ivan Oransky from The Scientist is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 5, 2007In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)
clock | January 5, 2007Here is a post exactly a year old (January 02, 2006)
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There was an interesting discussion a few weeks ago on The Carpetbagger Report about the viability of third parties in the US political system.
Of course, the US system is officially a multi-party system. There are dozens of political parties out there, each with a name, a logo, a platform, elected officers, a newsletter, etc. Several have managed to field candidates in local and statewide elections. Greens, Libertarians and Reformists have had Presidential canidates and some impact during the…
clock | January 5, 2007The Science Blogging Anthology is in the works. So far, eight out of twelve "judges" have returned their grading sheets to me and I have started comparing their assessments and putting the final list of 50 posts together. This is not going to be easy!!!! If you are one of the chosen authors, I will likely contact you with information and instructions (and asking for your permission) on Sunday. I will post the list of Final 50 on Monday. I hope we manage to get this done by the 20th! Anyone interested in desginging the cover?
clock | January 5, 2007New Orleans Termites Dodge Katrina Bullet:
Tales of survival have been trickling out of New Orleans ever since Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005. But few have focused on what might be considered the city's most tenacious residents--its subterranean termites. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologists recently confirmed what many termite researchers and city officials were hoping against. Despite the high waters, winds and other havoc unleashed by Katrina over a year ago, the invasive Formosan subterranean termite is persisting in New Orleans.
Wetlands Curb Hog Hormones In Waste…
clock | January 5, 2007
Sarah Bruce is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 4, 2007Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
clock | January 4, 2007Top Ten Workplace Safety Stories of 2006 on Confined Space is worth a careful read.
Hat-tip: Lindsay
clock | January 4, 2007Hal Crowther on Iraq
Kirk Ross on Edwardses
Lisa Sorg on the Chapel Hill event
clock | January 4, 2007Praying Online Helps Cancer Patients, Study Suggests
Breast cancer patients who pray in online support groups can obtain mental health benefits, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research that was funded by the National Cancer Institute.
"We know that many cancer patients pray in online support groups to help them cope with their illness. This is the first study we are aware of that examines the psychological effects of this behavior," says Bret Shaw, an associate scientist in UW-Madison's College of…