Archive for January 17th, 2009

Nerdabout New York : Science Channel

By Joanna Burgess Knitting is more than a pastime for me, it’s a slight obsession. It ranks right on up there with playing WOW with Eyre, my Night Elf Druid. One of my favorite places to hang out (especially when…

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Science Friday Archives: Methane On Mars

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Eating Cereal Won't Make More Girl Babies | Wired Science from

Rest easy, girls: You won’t be deprived of romantic options because eating breakfast cereal made mothers less likely to have male babies. The cereal-makes-girls connection was made last April by.

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009

What is the Longest Sentence in English? | Science Blog

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Thoughts from Kansas : Synchronicity

As someone at ScienceOnline’09 mentions the Twittering of the Hudson River landing, I had just started reading Orac’s explanation of why that happened. Apparently God hates pigeons, but doesn’t mind people so much….

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Uncertain Principles: Are You Excited About the Inauguration?

I went to a meeting earlier this week with a bunch of other faculty members and students. Before the meeting proper got going, a few of the other faculty were discussing whether they should cancel their mid-day Tuesday classes because.

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Sciencewomen : Alice's gender and science session: How can we be

Gender and science session - Alice, Zuska, and Abel Non-chronological note-taking from a great session. What is an ally? How do you become an ally? You can be an ally for any oppressed group.

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Highly Allochthonous : Liveblogging from ScienceOnline…

The ‘Adventures in Blogging’ session has taken a rather surreal turn - we’re in the dark, being told to imagine we’re liveblogging from a submarine. Complete with shaken chairs, attacks from cuddly angler fish, and… sea shanties.

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: The Travails of Travel

Well I’m back in Michigan but not yet back home. I landed at the airport at 5 am, got a hotel room and caught about 6 hours sleep. Checked out of the hotel room, got about 20 miles down the…

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Adventures in Ethics and Science: ScienceOnline'09: Managing your …<…

Some quick thoughts in response to the session led by PropterDoc and Sciencewoman. In some sense, this is really just an extension of the problem of managing your public persona as you go through transitions in life.

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Saturday, January 17th, 2009