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aardvarchaeology | October 8, 2008The fifty-first Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Clashing Culture. Archaeology and anthropology, and all from the perspective of mashpi'im!
Mashpia (Hebrew: ×שפ××¢â) lit. "person of influence," pl. Mashpi'im (Hebrew: ×שפ××¢××â) is the title of a rabbi or rebbetzin who serves as a spiritual mentor in Tomchei Temimim (the Chabad yeshiva), in a girls' seminary belonging to the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, or in a Chabad community.
Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me, not to the old submissions address. The next open hosting slot is on 19 November. All…
laelaps | October 8, 2008
The Boneyard #24 is now up over at The Other 95%, and the latest edition of the anthropology carnival Four Stone Hearth is up at Clashing Culture. Be sure to give both of them a look!
The 25th edition of the Boneyard will be up at The Big Dinosaur Lie next month.
laelaps | October 6, 2008Last Wednesday night I slogged my way through the city streets to attend the Blogging Science Pro Session at the Apple Store in Soho, NYC, (Jessica was lucky and got to visit the Evolution store beforehand), and I had a pretty good time. I was a little nervous and stuttered (my thoughts moved too fast for my mouth to accurately capture), but overall I think it went over well.
There has even been a little feedback by way of people who attended the talk, and I agree that I was a little disappointed that we (the panelists) were not able to really get into why science blogging is important during…
laelaps | October 6, 2008
The next edition of the paleo-themed blog carnival The Boneyard (#24) will be going up tomorrow at The Other 95%. Be sure to get your submissions in to me or Kevin sometime today if you want to be in it!
clock | October 5, 2008Shakesville (formerly known as Shakespeare's Sister) is four years old.
Afarensis is four years old.
Highly Allochthonous is three years old.
What is it about October and all those blogiversaries? What were all those people doing nine months prior....
aardvarchaeology | October 5, 2008Everybody with an interest in anthropology and archaeology -- it's time to contribute good new blog entries to the forthcoming Four Stone Hearth blog carnival. You needn't have written them yourself: if you've found something worth reading recently, submit it to Thomas at Clashing Culture.
laelaps | October 3, 2008
About two weeks ago I mentioned that, in conjunction with Expelled, a book called Fossil Hunter was released. I had not heard anything about it until I stumbled upon it by accident, but the book's synopsis did not give me much reason for hope;
Fossil Hunter is an Indiana Jones-style thriller that explores the Intelligent Design controversy from the points of view of two field scientists working in the strife-torn countries of Iran and Pakistan. When paleontologist Dr. Katie James leads an expedition to search for an ancient whale fossil rumored to be in the Iraqi desert, she has no idea her…
clock | October 2, 2008
ConvergeSouth - October 16 - 17, 2008 and BlogHer October 18, 2008.
It's the weekend to be in Greensboro!
ConvergeSouth has big updates. See the updated conference schedule here: http://2008.convergesouth.com/schedule/
Read more about the video/photo walking tour here and be sure to sign up (seats are going fast): http://2008.convergesouth.com/schedule/videobustour.php
Be sure to register for ConvergeSouth here: http://2008.convergesouth.com/register/index.php
The ConvergeSouth blog will be seeing more action soon. Be sure you have the blog feed in your RSS reader: http://2008.convergesouth.…
skookumchick | October 2, 2008Steve Higgins of Of Two Minds and I got together with some Midwestern friends at Jupiter's Pizza in Champaign last Saturday to celebrate the millionth comment on Scienceblogs. We ate pizza, drank draft cider (okay, Lisa and I did), discussed what it meant to be an engineer, and stuck the Sb stickers on our shirts. I think a good time was had by all, but certainly by me. Thanks to those who came out to celebrate with us!
Photos below the fold...
Lisa and Sarah
The happy crew, mugging for Sb
Intense scientific discussion.
clock | October 1, 2008You may have noticed, all around Scienceblogs.com, that we have started our traditional annual fundraiser - helping fund science and math projects in schools around the country, mainly focusing on schools in low-income areas where most of the students get free lunches and there is not much support for "extras" which should be normal part of every school - the basic supplies for math and science instruction.
I am right now having a technical problem with my side-bar widget, which I will install as soon as I can. But in the meantime, check out the Scienceblogs.com leaderboard, and pick some of…
clock | October 1, 2008The Book Club blog is active again - discussing Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul Offit, who wrote the first post. Join in the discussion!
clock | October 1, 2008Another five clips from the Millionth Comment party at the NC Zoo in Asheboro:
laelaps | September 30, 2008Is it just me, or have some science blogs been running out of steam lately? I know earlier this year we had a number of people (either on their blogs or privately) express that they were considering giving up blogging to concentrate on other things. I haven't been paying attention for that long, though, so I thought I would open up the question to whoever might want to chime in. Particularly in the case of long-time science bloggers, are you just as enthusiastic about science blogging as you were a year ago (or when you started)? How have things changed?
For my own part, a number of changes…