grrlscientist | August 1, 2009tags: Upland Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Upland Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, photographed at Quintana, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 8 April 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with tsn-pz camera eyepiece 1/800s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Review all mystery birds to date.
grrlscientist | August 1, 2009tags: TEDTalks, sociology, society, motivation, Tony Robbins, streaming video
What motivates people to succeed? In this video, Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row [22:31]
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes
grrlscientist | August 1, 2009tags: humor, funny, plastic surgery, ONN, Onion News Network, streaming video
In this hilarious video, Rep. Lynn Merriweather says HR7652 will protect the millions of Americans who just want to appear as young as they feel on the inside, that's all [2:01]
grrlscientist | August 1, 2009The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 3523 - 1423 - 1419 - 1257 - 1221 out of 400 candidates registered. I am now in fourth place so I need your votes more than ever to recapture first place, so please ask your friends and relatives to vote for me now!
If you've already voted, then please encourage your family, friends, colleagues and neighbors to vote for the person whom you think would be best for this unique job: traveling to Antarctica for the month of February 2010 and writing about it for the public on a blog. Here is my 300-word essay; hopefully, you will agree that I am…
grrlscientist | July 31, 2009tags: Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia, cities, image of the day
Barrel.
Barrel outside a restaurant in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.
Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
grrlscientist | July 31, 2009
Who: Josh Rosenau, policy analyst at the National Center for Science Education
What: free public presentation, "Adventures in the Defense of Evolution: From Kansas to Turkey to New York"
Where: SLC Conference Center, 352 7th avenue (between 29th and 30th streets), 16th floor.
When: 700pm, Tuesday, 4 August
"That's not a problem here, right?," New Yorkers ask when they hear what Josh Rosenau does for a living. Rosenau is a policy analyst at the National Center for Science Education, where he defends the teaching of evolution against creationism. He and his colleagues have tracked attacks on…
grrlscientist | July 31, 2009The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 3483 - 1384 - 1341 - 1251 - 1215 out of 398 candidates registered. I am now in fourth place so I need your votes more than ever to recapture first place, so please ask your friends and relatives to vote for me now!
If you've already voted, then please encourage your family, friends, colleagues and neighbors to vote for the person whom you think would be best for this unique job: traveling to Antarctica for the month of February 2010 and writing about it for the public on a blog. Here is my 300-word essay; hopefully, you will agree that I am…
grrlscientist | July 31, 2009tags: Field Sparrow, Spizella pusilla, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery birds] Field Sparrow, Spizella pusilla, photographed at Paul Rushing Park, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 28 March 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with tsn-pz camera eyepiece 1/500s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Review all mystery birds to date.
grrlscientist | July 31, 2009tags: humor, funny, claymation, creature comforts, Being a Bird, streaming video
This hilarious video is composed of audio interviews with Londoners and is animated with Claymation animals. I was thinking it could be amusing to ask you to identify the species for each bird in the video -- can you identify the species? [9:00]
Aardman animations: Nick Park Julie Lockhart Richard Goleszki. Clay animals Creature Comforts by Juanchovaldez.
grrlscientist | July 31, 2009tags: humor, funny, claymation, creature comforts, The Pet Shop, streaming video
This hilarious video is composed of audio interviews with Londoners and is animated with Claymation animals. As a former manager of a pet shop, I find this video to be amusingly close to how I'd imagine reality to be for wannabe pets [8:59]
Aardman animations: Nick Park Julie Lockhart Richard Goleszki. Clay animals Creature Comforts by Juanchovaldez.
grrlscientist | July 30, 2009
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing targeted specifically to the public that has been published in the blogosphere within the past 60 days. To send your submissions to Scientia Pro Publica, either use this automated submission form or use the cute little widget on the right (sometimes that widget doesn't upload when the mother site is sick). Be sure to include the URL or "…
grrlscientist | July 30, 2009My fifth blogoversary is coming on 4 August 2009 (FIVE YEARS of continuous blog writing!), and I'd like to celebrate with all of you. I'd like to meet my readers and all those who write for ScienceBlogs and for Nature Networks who are in NYC for a party. We will meet this Saturday at 10am at the front door to the AMNH (I might be able to arrange tix for my readers if I know how many people will be coming), and then will go out for food and drinks at a nearby pub (precise pub to be determined and will be announced) at 6pm.
I am also planning to go to see the 6pm IMAX showing of the Harry…
grrlscientist | July 30, 2009tags: Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia, cities
Inside the church.
Inside the entrance of St. Olav's Church in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.
Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
grrlscientist | July 30, 2009tags: Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia, cities, image of the day
Inside the spire.
Inside the spire of St. Olav's Church in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.
(Photograph of the outside of the spire)
Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
grrlscientist | July 30, 2009tags: Indigo Bunting, Passerina cyanea, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Indigo Bunting, Passerina cyanea, photographed on High Island, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 7 April 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with tsn-pz camera eyepiece 1/400s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Review all mystery birds to date.
grrlscientist | July 30, 2009The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 3425 - 1364 - 1316 - 1242 - 1205 out of 394 candidates registered. YIKES! I am now in fourth place! Obviously, I need your votes more than ever to recapture first place, so please ask your friends and relatives to vote for me now!
If you've already voted, then please encourage your family, friends, colleagues and neighbors to vote for the person whom you think would be best for this unique job: traveling to Antarctica for the month of February 2010 and writing about it for the public on a blog. Here is my 300-word essay; hopefully, you will…
grrlscientist | July 30, 2009tags: biodiversity, conservation, endangered species, Encyclopedia of Life, TEDTalks, E.O. Wilson, streaming video
As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TEDTalks Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life [24:22]
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.
grrlscientist | July 30, 2009tags: humor, funny, penguins, streaming video
This amusing little video reminds me of something .. life, perhaps? How about you? [1:33]
grrlscientist | July 29, 2009
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing targeted specifically to the public that has been published in the blogosphere within the past 60 days. To send your submissions to Scientia Pro Publica, either use this automated submission form or use the cute little widget on the right (sometimes that widget doesn't upload when the mother site is sick). Be sure to include the URL or "…
grrlscientist | July 29, 2009My fifth blogoversary is coming on 4 August 2009 (FIVE YEARS of continuous blog writing!), and I'd like to celebrate with all of you. I'd like to meet my readers and all those who write for ScienceBlogs and for Nature Networks who are in NYC for a party this weekend, preferably on either Friday or Saturday evening for a drink- and food-fest. If you cannot comment here, please email me at GrrlScientist@scienceblogs.com so we can arrange something fun in the Big Apple. (Of course, I am happy to meet you on other days as well, if this works out) If you ask nicely, I will get us in to the AMNH to…