clock | October 8, 2009This was a very busy day. I went to five science-related places/events today (and one yesterday).
The first three, this morning, were part of an education school trip with my daughter's class and her science teacher.
First we visited the OWASA Water Treatment Plant which provides tap water for about 80,000 people in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC, followed by a tour of their Wastewater Treatment Plant. Last time I visited a water treatment plant was about 30 years ago, in Belgrade (which has 2 million people using the water), so it was exciting to see how technology has evolved over the years…
clock | October 8, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Geobloggers - who is coming to #scio10? There is a session proposed that you may want to join in
How @TomLevenson rakes Megan McArdle over hot coals on disingenuous science reporting: It's not that McArdle can't read...it's that she can't (won't) think: part four (and last, thank FSM). (part 4, links to 1,2,3)
Spoor of South African Dinos Analyzed
BLT Kama Sutra
Rules to Eat By
Darwin: 3 Poems
Lisa Sanders was on State Of The Nation at noon at wunc 91.5FM today.
Book Review: Don't Be SUCH A Scientist
Open Access…
clock | October 7, 2009The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
- Alexander Smith
clock | October 7, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?
The Paleo Paper Challenge in the Blogosphere (see also)
RT @anthonymobile: The Open Laboratory 2008 anthology of science blogs is one of the most fun things i've read in ages
Uses and Abuses of Nobel Causes
"One day it's bound to happen. The same person will get an igNobel one day and then a Nobel the following week. For the same research."
Review of "Creation" by science educator James Williams
2009 #Nobel09 Prize in Chemistry: *really* a chemistry prize…
clock | October 7, 2009Next Periodic Tables, a Durham, NC version of Science Cafe, will happen on October 13, 2009 at 7pm at the Broad Street Café:
Science on Tap: The Chemistry of Beer
Join us as we tap into the science of brewing beer and discover how a few simple ingredients (yeast, water, hops and grains) can make a variety of brews. We'll also discuss the importance of sterilization and the microbiology of yeast culturing.
Speakers: Triangle Brewing Company and Brew Master Store
clock | October 7, 2009From Sigma Xi:
We'll reconvene at noon, Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, with a peek at one of the many ways technology helped our species survive and prosper long ago.
Steven Churchill, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, will discuss the origins of projectile weaponry, and how that fit with the emergence of other aspects of modern human behavior. He'll talk about his fascinating forensics work exploring ways our ancestors may have used weapons against evolutionary cousins who no longer roam this planet.
American Scientist…
clock | October 7, 2009Press release (in Swedish - translation from the Swedish by Ingegerd Rabow):
The Swedish Research Council requires free access to research results.
In order to receive research grants the Research council requires now that researchers publish their material freely accessible to all.
The general public and other researchers shall have free access to all material financed by public funding,
The thought behind the so called Open Access is that everybody shall have free and unlimited access to scientifically refereed articles, The Research Council has now decided, that researchers who are…
clock | October 6, 2009Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Alexander Pope
clock | October 6, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Genes, Categories and Species, by Jody Hey, a book review.
Some wicked multimedia tools...
In the past, when a country switches from dollar to euro we invent a reason to bomb it. Too late now: The demise of the dollar
Immersion In Nature Makes Us Nicer
These are @justarikia's Top 5 Favorite Music Videos Involving Robots - what are yours? 'We are the robot'?
Our screwed-up malpractice system. Whose fault is that? Let's try 'nobody'.
How to sell news on the web: A checklist
Why Blog? A study
Darwin, 'Ardi', and the…
clock | October 6, 2009As you are likely aware, the DonorsChoose campaign is in full swing here on Scienceblogs.com.
What you may not be aware is that Seed Media Group is in, with some nice prizes to the donors:
You can forward the donation receipt to scienceblogs@gmail.com for a chance to win some Swag Bags from ScienceBlogs, complete with Seed moleskin notebooks and tote bags, ScienceBlogs mugs and USB drives, and books from Yale University Press and Oxford University Press - we'll draw a winner or winners every week in October.
Check out all the Sciblings' challenges and pick some to give - a little bit by many…
clock | October 6, 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:
From the Eye of the Albatrosses: A Bird-Borne Camera Shows an Association between Albatrosses and a Killer Whale in the Southern Ocean:
Albatrosses fly many hundreds of kilometers across the open ocean to…
clock | October 5, 2009Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.
- Alexander Graham Bell
clock | October 5, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Warning, Revisited
How Twitter is changing the way wars are fought
Come hang out with me at ScienceOnline 2010
Nature Communications: A breakthrough for open access? (and discussion)
Using tequila to make diamonds - igNobel: Scientific Diagrams - How not to do it
2009 medicine Nobelists - their PLoS publications - they have all three published in PLoS.
Why Does Daniel Lyons Unnecessarily Opt-in To Stupid? (Contribution #1 of this)
Blogger Outreach Manifesto
Balloon Animals! (video) ROFL - is this Stuart Pivar's…
clock | October 5, 2009There are 32 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:
Dynamic Locomotor Capabilities Revealed by Early Dinosaur Trackmakers from Southern Africa:
A new investigation of the sedimentology and ichnology of the Early Jurassic Moyeni tracksite in Lesotho, southern…
clock | October 5, 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 Arikia Millikan, the former Overlord here at Scienceblogs.com, 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?
First and foremost, I consider myself a scientist, though perhaps not in the…
clock | October 4, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Why Chicago Failed To Win The Olympics - because nobody but Americans wants yet another Games here....
I Unleash My Journalism Students To Critique Newsweek's Daniel Lyons
The discovery of heredity - some ideas we take for granted are pretty recent discoveries.
Rethinking the Shape of Everyday Life
Changed your mind on 'attending', 'maybe attending' or 'not attending' ScienceOnline2010? Change your response
Twitter.org? and building models for social media
Sex Determination in Sea Monsters
Can your slides pass the…
clock | October 4, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 390 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 4, 2009Bats in Peril?
October 28, 2009
8:30 -10:00 am with discussion beginning at 9, followed by Q&A
Location: The Acro Cafe - 4th Floor of the Museum of Natural Sciences
Have you ever seen a bat flying around your house on a summer evening? Did you know that there are 17 different species of bats that live in North Carolina? Come to our…