Technology
March 5, 2010
Tomorrow's Table
2009 Visualization Challenge Within its tiny white flowers, thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) does what most plants avoid: It fertilizes itself.
A Blog Around The Clock
Ignite Raleigh #2 and TEDxRTP - what a week! On Wednesday, Bride Of Coturnix and I went to Ignite Raleigh. There was an Ignite show in many cities around the world that night, and the one in Raleigh was one of the biggest, with 702 people in attendance, in...
SciencePunk
Record grooves as seen under the microscope Thanks to Emilia for showing me this awesome post on the Synthgear website which shows what record grooves look like under an electron microscope. Here's a line of disco magnified 500 times: Researcher Chris Supranowitz at the University of Rochester's...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
How Will the End of Print Journalism Affect Crazy Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers? The decline of the newspaper?? Ransom notes, papier-mâché and slacker gift wrapping will never be the same! Worse, what will crazy old loons pack their houses to the rafters with?
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Two Girls and One Giant Piano Two women play Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata et fugue on a giant piano -- with their feet. This amazing performance looks like dancing as much as piano playing.
March 4, 2010
The Quantum Pontiff
Steve Ballmer Talk at UW March 4, 2010 Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke at the University of Washington in the Microsoft Atrium of the Computer Science & Engineering department's Paul Allen Center. As you can tell from that first sentence UW and Microsoft have long had very...
Greg Laden's Blog
Windows Users: Do Not Press Just Any Key! Apparently, there is a strange security bug in Windows XP whereby some web sites will ask you to press the F1 Key, and if you do, you are screwed....
Confessions of a Science Librarian
From the Archives: If you don't have a blog you don't have a resume (Part I) I'm away for a couple of days, so I thought I'd fill in a bit with an oldy-buy-goody from February 4, 2009. It ended up being the first of three parts, with the other two being here and here. As...
Collective Imagination
Your daily healthy imagination question: Have digitized medical records changed your experience of managed health care? How? This is the fourth daily question on the Collective Imagination blog. Every day, respond to the question (or another commenter's answer) and you will be eligible to win a custom ScienceBlogs USB drive. We'll announce the previous day's winner in...
A Blog Around The Clock
The Online News Association meeting - vote for my panel The Online News Association organizes a meeting every year (and gives Online Journalism Awards there). The next one will be in October 28-30, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The program is formed by the online news community submitting proposals, then everyone...
Terra Sigillata
Welcome back Nature Network blogs! Our colleagues at Nature Network have adopted the Movable Type 4 blogging platform and a nice new user-friendly interface.
March 3, 2010
The Primate Diaries
Nature Network Has A Brand New Look Think you know Nature Network? Wait till you see what they're up to now. The members of my former parish have now unveiled their long awaited MT4 platform and you can re-experience all of their wonderful science blogginess updated afresh...
Collective Imagination
Electronic Health Records SNAFU? Hospitals and physicians in the U.S. have until 2015 to deploy comprehensive electronic health records (EHR) and the accompanying technology to meet federal guidelines and qualify for billions of dollars in reimbursements. But some health care experts are concerned that...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Mark MacAllister Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this...
bioephemera
So that's how a browser works. . . Google may have done Buzz all wrong, but they do Chrome right in these adorable, Rube Goldberg-style ads....
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
LavaAmp: The Amazing Handheld Thermal Cycler This inventor is seeking $upport to help develop and build their new invention, the LavaAmp, a rugged, accessible, DNA diagnostic tool to quickly respond to pandemics and neglected diseases
A Blog Around The Clock
Why it is important for media articles to link to scientific papers You may be aware that, as of recently, one of my tasks at work is to monitor media coverage of PLoS ONE articles. This is necessary for our own archives and monthly/annual reports, but also so I could highlight some...
March 2, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
New user functionality at PLoS - referenced PDFs via Pubget Often when a scientific paper gets cited, one wants to see how exactly it was cited. Thus one needs to download the citing article. There are numerous ways to do so, but starting today, you can get this done with...
Greg Laden's Blog
Using computers in schools: Everything changes The following video documents a project in the Bronx where students are given laptops and much of their school work (in the classroom and out) is done on Google Docs or using other resources. Interesting changes happen. The number of students at grade level in...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Are Computing journals too slow? Continuing the ongoing discussion about the publication habits of computing researchers that I've recently blogged about:Time for computer science to grow up? ACM responds to the blogosphere The Association for Computing Machinery on Open Access. Conferences vs. journals in computing...
A Blog Around The Clock
Nanomaterials in Ecosystems: Should we worry? Duke's Periodic Tables at the Broad Street Cafe March 9, 2010 | 7:00 P.M. Nanomaterials in Ecosystems: Should we worry? Nanotechnology has the enormous potential to change our society. New advances in medicine, energy production, environmental cleanup and better access...
Collective Imagination
Your daily healthy imagination question: Have you ever lied to your doctor? Why? This is the second of daily questions we will be posting on the Collective Imagination blog throughout the month of March, to draw attention to some of the emerging issues in modern health care and foster an interactive discussion around...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Introducing the Science, Medicine, Environment and Nature Blog Carnival Twitter Feed Using twitter to publicize blog carnivals that communicate with the public about science, the environment, nature and medicine
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
The Dork Anthem This video is a musical tribute to the miserable lives led by high school guys with talent in the sciences, and yes, it's actually funny. I wish that us grrls would do something like this, though, except I'm thinking we're all too busy struggling to pay rent while searching for tenure-track positions and taking care of kids
March 1, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
Science of airport security screening At Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill this week: SCIENCE & ETHICS: AIRPORT SECURITY Thursday, March 4, 7 p.m. Michael Zunk, Federal Security Director, TSA, RDU International Airport Come hear Mr. Zunk discuss scanning technologies while busting some popular myths on...
