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zooillogix | December 8, 2008Someone made the mistake of interviewing us again. This time it was the Nature Blog Network, which is a great site for demonstrating Zooillogix's crushing dominance in this ultra-competitive field. Check out the face-meltingly informative interview here.
Also, ZooBorns was featured by TypePad today. Good times, great oldies.
cevans | November 10, 2008
For over six months, Veronica McGregor has been Twittering from Mars.
Of course, she's not living among the wind storms and dirt of the red planet herself, but she is the voice of MarsPhoenix, the strangely compelling, first-person, lonely robot Twitter feed that somehow became the official mouthpiece of NASA's Phoenix mission and has catalyzed an entirely new kind of public involvement in science.
MarsPhoenix is followed by over 37,000 people online, and provides daily updates on Martian weather conditions, scientific discoveries, as well as pithy observations about our role in the…
grrlscientist | September 25, 2008tags: Palin-Couric interview, Sarah Palin, Katie Couric, Palin Foreign Policy experience, streaming video
Apparently, during an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin made a mockery of herself as a vice presidential candidate, as a governor of the state of Alaska, and as a woman. I have a video (below the fold) of part of this interview with Katie, along with the transcripts of part of that interview where Sarah describes her foreign policy experience.
Hey Sarah, what do Alaska and Russia trade? Polar Bears??
There is NO WAY this moron is qualified to do anything at all. I have potted…
grrlscientist | May 14, 2008tags: bird watching, Bill Thompson
Thanks to the good people at Houghton Mifflin Publishing House, I am meeting Bill Thompson, the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest and author of several books, tomorrow afternoon. Needless to say, I am excited to meet Bill and to see Houghton Mifflin's offices, and to attach faces and voices with the names of those people who mail me their lovely beautiful books and email me appreciative and encouraging messages about my book reviews (Thanks, you guys!)
Houghton Mifflin recently published a book by Bill Thompson, The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of Eastern…
bleimanb | April 10, 2008Here is a transcript of our exclusive interview with Dr. Jane Goodall...enjoy.
Jane spoke with Zooillogix at a teacher's conference in New York City, where she had given a speech to educators about living in harmony with the Earth and ingraining youngsters with community service experience early and often, just like her "Roots and Shoots" program happens to do. Here are Zooillogix's brilliant, thought provoking questions and Dr. Goodall's titillating answers.
Zooillogix: You came into science and research as a relative outsider. What advice can you give to others on the outside of the…
bleimanb | March 3, 2008As long as we're on the subject of fascinating interviews, we thought our readers might be interested to see this conversation with one of the world's leading experts on anteaters.
Expert On Anteaters Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters
Special thanks to Danno Robinson for forwarding this video to us, and for his selfless commitment to researching and preserving the habitat of wild sea turtles.
zooillogix | March 3, 2008A few weeks back we brought you a story on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, a system developed to compare the relative intensity of Hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants) stings. The index was developed through personal "research" conducted unintentionally by Dr. Justin Schmidt, an entomologist who has devoted his life to these ornery critters.
As the Index combines all the things Zooillogix readers love (i.e. science and non-life threatening personal injury) the response to the post was strong. Therefore in collaboration with Shelley Batts, formerly of Retrospectacle and now the brand new…
esiegel | March 2, 2008Well, it's not technically a weekend diversion, but something awesome happened in the wake of my recent Awards-show posting of the Carnival of Space. David Livingston, a blogger over at Space Cynics and a radio host of The Space Show, has invited me to be his guest on his April 8th broadcast of his show!
So get ready to listen up, because this is going to be available worldwide for download! I'll definitely have an entry for you after the recording to let you know how it goes and what we talked about, but I hope to get to talk about all the things that excite me about doing this, including…
grrlscientist | January 11, 2008tags: academe, Michael Berube, blogging, streaming video
Michael Berube says that an academic who blogs is contributing to the demise of Western culture. *cough* *cough* Oookay .. what do you think? [1:37]
I think the guy is full of shit, but one could claim that I am biased -- somewhat.
cevans | October 17, 2007Dr. Oliver Sacks is a rare bird in the world of medicine: not only is he one the country's top neurologists, but he also has a knack for weaving clinical profiles of his most exceptional patients into lovely, thoughtful books that open up the complex workings of our minds to the peering eyes of layfolk. His charm has much to do with the fact that he's the embodiment of a long-musty archetype of scientist: blustery, with a lisp, brilliant, and eccentric, a member of the American Fern Society, and fascinated with fluorescent minerals.
His latest book, Musicophilia, tackles our intimate mental…
grrlscientist | September 10, 2007tags: Alex, African grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus, cognition, learning, speech disabilities, Irene Pepperberg, interview
For those of you who are grieving the sad loss of Alex, the African grey parrot who worked with researcher, Irene Pepperberg, you should know that when you awaken tomorrow morning,there will be an interview on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. This interview was just taped this evening. I will provide a streaming link tomorrow after the show airs.
zooillogix | July 24, 2007A few weeks ago, Zooillogix brought you a story about Japanese researchers using giant jellyfish as an ingredient in cosmetics. Jellyfish are predominantly composed of mucin (mucus is made of mucins), and one of our news sources quoted Dr. Tony Corfield, a Mucin Biologist from the University of Bristol. We decided to track down Dr. Corfield and see if he might illuminate the shadowy, sticky field of mucin biology for Zooillogix readers. We are very grateful For Dr. Corfield's thoughtful responses to our sometimes less than respectful questions and his sense of humor.
What exactly is the field…
cevans | March 27, 2007
Welcome to the second in an ongoing series of Interviews with authors of Science Fiction. I'm lucky to have had a chance, recently, to review Portland local Thomas A. Day's A Grey Moon Over China, a totally postapocalyptic epic that takes the ongoing cultural fear of an energy crisis to a particularly dark and alienating place in the cosmos. He's an interesting writer for his sense of grand scope -- in the complexity of the narrative and the breadth of time it represents -- but also because of his background: he's worked in the aerospace industry, flown night-cargo planes, and developed…
sciencetolife | March 22, 2007 We should all be so luck to do what we love, help make a difference in the world and make a million dollars while doing it.
Dennis Liotta Ph.D. has done just that.
I had the pleasure of interviewing him and was inspired by his journey to discover some of the most important drugs of our time.
I hope others can likewise find inspiration in knowing that science can indeed translate from the lab bench to the real world and make a positive difference in people's lives.
Looking at Dr. Dennis Liotta it is hard to imagine that he is worth almost 80 million dollars. Dressed in an unassuming grey…