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skookumchick | March 18, 2008I had thought that I was getting on top of things over spring break. My folks came to visit us in the Illinois house, we refinished our kitchen floor and made umpteen home repairs, and drove back to W. Lafayette yesterday. My first full day back at work has been outrageously busy, I have a full slate of things to do tonight, let alone tomorrow, and not enough time to do it. So sorry for the lack of posting, but it will persist for a couple more days at least, and my folks will be heading back this way on the weekend...
But spring is definitely in the air here. It smells like earth, the…
clock | March 17, 2008Are you Okay?
A Definition of Insanity
Eastern Bunny
Imposter Syndrome and Imposter Syndrome part 2
Why, yes, it IS my job
Frog hot spots
This week's educational rant
Greener Grass
Wireless Balloons
The Problem of Growth
I'm a Wikipedia Inclusionist
KTU 1.114 - A Student Exercise?
Blood transfusion afterthoughts
On banning prostitution (of a particular sort)
That talking thing... smith-mundt edition
Argh! (A Play in Infinite Acts)
(Don't) Stand By Your Man!
Insanely overpowered hardware, and video games as art
Palm trees and crocodiles in the Arctic
The Frequency of Lunar Eclipses
Less heat…
sciencewoman | March 17, 2008This morning I was using my cell phone to make a donation to NPR while putting gas in my Prius.
I'm not going to put up a mommy monday post today because I am afraid I will say something I'd later regret. Instead, if I get a chance to blog later today or tomorrow or ..., I'll stick to the literature and continue to bring you myths, damnation, and then solutions from Lifting a Ton of Feathers. I'm a bit behind schedule, but I'm going to finish the exercise, so that I have the posts for my own future reference, if nothing else.
Hope y'all have a good week and that my students rock their exam…
clock | March 16, 2008Funny...
Facebook: Community for Loners
Would You Prefer Stupidity Or Apathy With Your Incompetence? and Birth Of A Nation
Paralyzed
Bad Science Journalism: The Myth of the Oppressed Underdog and Statisticians are verifiably insane
Do periods of rest improve learning?
Barnacle sex.
Second Life exhibition about the pleasure of the table in Roma
Snakes versus newts - FIGHT!
Gas passings
Harmony between humans and animals created via Photoshop
Misleading headline of the day: sea level is falling!
NY Times: Kafka's cockroach real! (Really?)
Sentencing Crack-down
Anyone have a spare Andy…
clock | March 16, 2008Visualizing biblical social networks (via)
Publishing and blogging pseudonymously.
What to carry with you when you go birding?
What blogs do journalists read? And the Science of Getting Money Out of Rich People
Vibrations make you sleepy (as in a car, on a train or a plane).
When the media boil over.
The Cost of Copyright
The spring came early to North Carolina. Not everywhere, though....
Inter-laboratory communication....
Aldous makes a comeback, and, Can The World Afford a Global Middle Class?
Flux
The Halo Effect
Destination Sleep
clock | March 15, 2008Just a reminder that you can make me your friend on Facebook, as well as join the groups of fans of A Blog Around The Clock, or the ScienceBlogs Fan Club or the PLoS group. I am also on Dopplr, LinkedIn, Flickr and Stumbleupon so you can find me there if you search and make a connection. I don't care for my profiles on MySpace, Change.org, Pownce and probably some other sites I don't even remember. And I am still resisting Twitter.
clock | March 14, 2008The SuperReaders, site-wide around scienceblogs.com, have been selected. I had considered a number of people (some contacted me, I contacted some), some said No, and after a long and hard deliberation (it was tough, I wish I could have chosen ten people or so) I chose my two SuperReaders and sent in the names. They have been green-lighted by the Overlords and contacted. Unfortunately, their identities will have to remain secret. But they will be the select few (OK, 70 blogs X 2 = 140 people) who will have the ability to form the new RSS feed as well as a special advisory focus group that…
clock | March 14, 2008Toronto SciBarCamp starts tonight and I am so jealous for not being there. Perhaps next time. For now, I'll just follow it via blogs.
laelaps | March 14, 2008Bora has been tirelessly interviewing seemingly anyone and everyone who was in attendance at the 2nd annual Science Blogging Conference (including me), but now he's had his turn in the hot seat. Check out the interview with the "Crazy Uncle" of science blogging over at Confessions of a Science Librarian.
clock | March 13, 2008Yesterday we had our first blogger meetup since the Conference, the Triangle bloggers jointly with the NC science communicators. Who was there? Anton Zuiker, Russ Campbell, Brian Russell, Ernie Hood, Chris Brodie, Abel Pharmboy and Lenore Ramm who took the pictures. We talked about plans for foodblogging, wineblogging and blogging101 events, about local jobs in academia, about the next Conference, about Sigma Xi, about Eve Carson (the helicopters were in the sky above, helping catch the second suspect), and about Carrboro Coworking. Fun was had by all (the weather was gorgeous as well - 65…
skookumchick | March 13, 2008On Monday, I posted two parts to my ethnic story as a white person in the US, and they prompted a variety of comments. Rather than respond in the comments, I thought I'd write another post.
First, I want to thank the people who took up the challenge to write their own stories. DH, grad student, Eric Lund added their stories to the comments, Academic wrote about hers on her blog, as did Ginger Peach, and Makita. Sciencebloggers took up talking about race/ethnicity/diversity and science too including ScienceWoman, razib, Janet, Greg, DrugMonkey, and Maria, and anyone else I missed. If you'…
clock | March 13, 2008David Neiwert:
But I also noticed this line:
"Unlike traditional, mainstream media, blogs often adopt a specific point of view. Critics complain they can contain unchecked facts, are poorly edited and use unreliable sources."
And this distinguishes them from the mainstream press exactly ... how?
Athenae:
What critics? We do not know. The reporter doesn't tell us. Apparently it's one of those things, like "the sky is blue" and "Democrats are weak on national security" that is so obvious we don't need to cite a source of any kind to just blurt it out there and attribute it to "critics." And…
aardvarchaeology | March 12, 2008
The thirty-sixth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Afarensis. Archaeology and anthropology, and this time dealing exclusively with koryÅ«. Explains Wikipedia: "KoryÅ« is a general term for Japanese schools of martial arts that predate the Meiji Restoration (the period from 1866 to 1869 which sparked major socio-political changes and led to the modernization of Japan). While there is no 'official' cutoff date, the dates most commonly used are either 1868, the first year of the Meiji period, or 1876, when the HaitÅrei edict banning the wearing of swords was pronounced."
The next…
skookumchick | March 11, 2008Thanks to those of you who posted on your ethnic stories. I'm thinking about replies, but need some time to do so.
In the meantime, I've started a couple of online communities for people doing engineering education research - if this sounds like you, check out:
a Facebook group on engineering education research (although I'm not offering to be everyone's FB friend ;-) )
a blog on Engineering Education through Wordpress. If you have the engr.ed research chops, and are interested in writing for this blog, do let us know!
Have other opportunities that readers might be interested in?…
aardvarchaeology | March 11, 2008At PZ's suggestion, I've twiddled some knobs behind the scenes to force the blog to speak utf-8 instead of iso-8859-1. This will hopefully allow you guys to write even stranger comments than usual. Maybe I'll even be able to stop writing stuff like "& a u m l ;" Please try it out! Såy sömëthïng ïn Swëdïsh! Mattias, have you any lewd suggestions to make in Koiné Greek? Is anyone able to rattle off a few lines of Arabic love poetry? Go nuts, y'all!
clock | March 9, 2008SCONC Second Wednesday AND the BlogTogether bloggers meetup will occur jointly this month, at Tyler's Taproom, Durham!
Does science make you thirsty?
Jargon got you down?
Want to kick back with other SCONCs?
We're here for you. Come hang with other science communicators on Wednesday, March 12 and talk shop. Or not. Whatever. This is a social event, a chance to talk with people who share your passion for explaining science.
There's no official start time, but say 5-ish. Early arrivers: grab a table. Wear your SCONC pin to find each other.
Tyler's Taproom is on the American Tobacco Campus next…
clock | March 9, 2008Congratulations to Rev. BigDumbChimp for posting the 8000th comment on this blog!
clock | March 8, 2008Today is PZ Myers' 51st birthday.
We've done it last year and the year before. As I did last time, I will collect a linkfest of all the posts - especially those that use the LOLCats generator (Greg has collected some pictures if you want to use them).
First out of the starting gate:
Greg Laden: Happy Birthday PZ Myers!
Maryannaville: There's a Page looking for a Mr PZ Myers located in the lobby
Tangled Up in Blue Guy: Happy Birthday PZ
Of Two Minds: Happy B-Day PZ!
Evolving Thoughts: So, here I am in Arizona, still
Effect Measure: Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: a PZ Myers Revelation
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