Relevant links for pub night - January 26th
Eva Amsen
Monday, 26 January 2009 20:32 UTC
I’m going to post some links here that are relevant to topics that will be discussed at the pub night tonight. (Will edit with other things as they come up.)
Talk by Joey DeVilla
Joey’s blogs:
Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
Global Nerdy
Open Laboratory 2008
Open Laboratory 2006
Open Laboratory 2007
Winning Entries Open Lab 2008
(I am bringing printouts of eight of these entries (and a preview of the cover!) to the pub, in whole or as extracts that fit on one page.)
ScienceOnline09
ScienceOnline09 program
Blog posts from participants
Flickr photos of the event
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Stuff Joey mentioned:
Seat Guru (the site that made money out of just posting airline seating charts)
The Air Force’s comment policy
Top science blogs article in Nature (subscription required)Stuff Eva brought along
Brought printouts from these 8 blog posts from Open Lab, read from 5 of them:
Digital Cuttlefish: The Evolutionary Biology Valentine’s Day Poem (read first verse)
Green Gabbro: The Igneous Petrology of Ice Cream
Life, Birds, and Everything: Do we see what bees see?
Mind the Gap: In Which Science Becomes a Sport – Hypothetically Speaking (read from “..imagine, Dear Reader,” to “Big Experiment”)
Pondering Pikaia: Social Clocks – How do Cave bats Know When It’s Dark Outside?
Reciprocal Space: I Get My Kicks From Thermodynamicks (read first few paragraphs)
The Oyster’s Garter: How a coccolithophore without its plates is like a grin without a
cat (read letter and first sentence of reply)
Tom Paine’s Ghost: Biochemistry of Halloween (read first paragraph)Here’s the blog of the cover-art artist
Stuff John and Eva mentioned in conference review
Some links are above in the original forum post. Have a look at the blog posts from participants if anything.
John also mentioned Miss Baker’s Biology Class
This is the page of Rebecca Skloot who is writing a book about Henrietta Lacks.Did I forget anything?
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And as an addition (thanks Bora . See, he really is everywhere , even reading our pub night posts!) here is Rebecca Skloot’s blog . There are some notes on there about the journalism session John talked about.
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