clock | October 30, 2009An awesome experiment in Stockholm, Sweden where students changed stairs in a subway station into a piano:
And? More people started using the stairs than the escalator! It's just more fun!
clock | October 29, 2009Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
- Andrew Jackson
clock | October 29, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Science journalists, bloggers and the Brave New World we live in
Whispers Offstage? Could Be Actor's Next Line
College Newspaper Writing in the GoogleAge
Information technology boosts popular science education in poor areas
Building an open Carolina news network
The Mammoths in Spain Lived Mainly on the Plains
Venomous…
clock | October 29, 2009The Halloween edition of Change of Shift is up on Reality Rounds
I and the Bird #112 is up on Walk the Wilderness
clock | October 29, 2009The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Daniel Brown from the Biochemical Soul blog to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background?
My name is Daniel Brown, and I am a biologoholic.
I grew up as a rat-tail-sporting, barefoot…
clock | October 29, 2009
Today I'll mention a few of the people who are traveling from afar.
Fabiana Kubke is a professor of anatomy at University of Auckland (yes, birds brains! I hope we find some time to talk shop while she is here). Yes, that is Aucklans in New Zealand!
Dr.Kubke blogs on Building Blogs of Science which is also cross-posted on her SciBlogs blog.
At the conference, Fabiana will do a demo of The Science Media Centre and the SciBlogs - the first science blogging network in New Zealand (if I understand correctly, they even call each other SciBlings!).
You can also follow her on Twitter
Jelka…
clock | October 29, 2009If you follow me on Twitter or peruse the links in my daily Tweetlinks summaries, you may have noticed I posted several links to a new Collection at PLoS. This one is not a PLoS ONE Collection, but a PLoS-wide one, spanning six of the seven journals in the house.
The Collection Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease, was compiled by Jonathan A. Eisen (who you probably know from his excellent blog), the Academic Editor-in-Chief at PLoS Biology.
Jonathan, together with PLoS Biology Senior Editor Catriona J. MacCallum, wrote the introductory editorial explaining what the Collection is about and…
clock | October 29, 2009
The Program is now finalized - the schedule of rooms and times can be found here. What an incredible line-up of moderators/presenters and intriguing topics!
And if you think that making the schedule was easy....it took a couple of hours of moving the index cards around until I got the Best Possible Schedule in place:
Sorry, a little blurry, I know - taken by iPhone. But yes, each Index card had the title of a session and names of moderators on it. And I used several different criteria to try to make the least conflicting schedule. I hope it works....
clock | October 28, 2009Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie
clock | October 28, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Science Fiction has no necessary connection with Science: Your Mind Tricks Won't Work On Me, Jedi and ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Blake Stacey.
The Atlantic article: sur rebuttal
If FriendFeed does not die by then, we'll use this Room for live coverage of #scio10, if not - GoogleWave? I am wondering if it will become…
clock | October 28, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 440 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
10 days of science: Astronomical art: Representing Planet Earth
2020 Science: Hooked on science - ten things that inspired me to become a scientist
A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a…
clock | October 28, 2009
Continuing with the series of posts introducing the participants - you can see the whole list here.
A couple of dozen SciBlings will be there, but here are five I picked for today:
Janet D. Stemwedel (aka Dr. Free-Ride) is a Philosopher and a Chemist. She is a Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University in California and she blogs on Adventures in Ethics and Science and can also be found on Twitter.
Janet is the veteran of our conferences - one of a handful to attend her fourth, and one of only two people who did something - a talk, presentation or session - every single year. I…
clock | October 28, 2009There are 21 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Bringing Home the Trash: Do Colony-Based Differences in Foraging Distribution Lead to Increased Plastic Ingestion in Laysan Albatrosses?:
When searching for prey, animals should maximize energetic gain,…
clock | October 27, 2009Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
- Ambrose Bierce
clock | October 27, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Defending Science Isn't Always Pretty and When critics disagree with me, I'm a Pharma Shill. When critics disagree with a woman, it gets sexual.
How I Find Time to Write
Why The (Impure) Public Option is (Probably) Gaining Momentum and Don't Bother Waiting for Bloggers to Get Credit for the Public Option
A Graphic History…
clock | October 27, 2009The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked my Scibling, Blake Stacey from the Science After Sunclipse blog to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? For example, what is your Real Life job?
Nominally, I do "complex systems modeling and analysis", but the projects I work on are…
clock | October 27, 2009
Registration is now closed - we are full!! You can see the entire list of registrants if you go and click here. To sign up for the waitlist, please use this form.
So, let me continue introducing the participants, those lucky 225 who managed, in less than four days, to grab a spot on the roster.
Joanne Manaster teaches histology in the department of Cell and Developmental Biology, and mammalian cell culture techniques and the concepts of stem cells and tissue engineering in the Bioengineering Department at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
You can learn much more about Joanne, her…
clock | October 27, 2009
As of a few minutes ago, we are full! You can see the entire list of registrants if you go and click here.
As you may have noticed, we have stopped the form at 225. The remaining 25 slots will be filled by Miss Baker's students (and parent chaperones), the Big Speaker, a straggling moderator who is not registered yet, a couple of pseudonymous bloggers, and a few folks who sign up first for the waitlist.
To sign up for the waitlist, please use this form.