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Nagoya COP10 Primer #4: with reference to Twitter
Continuing from: Nagoya COP10 Primer #1: with references to Star Wars Nagoya COP10 Primer #2: with a reference to Kevin Bacon Nagoya COP10 sidebar: UNFCCC YOU! Nagoya COP10 Primer #3: with a small...
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Thanks for reading and "May the scientific method always be with you."
Phylomon cards: "EUROPEAN HONEY BEE, I CHOOSE YOU!" I had a great experience here at Boing Boing, and want to send on a big thanks to Mark, Cory, Xeni, David, Rob and the rest of the crew for letting...
View ArticleChapter Titles from my Unicorn Physics Textbook
This is a continuation from this post about crowd sourcing humour writing. There were many great suggestions, some of which were almost complete pieces in themselves (especially this one from pencilbox...
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Do you know what this is? (Pretty sure it's not a Tribble)
Not much information about it, except that the furry stuff does appear to be hair. Current hypotheses involve something to do with a lion hairball that may have been blown about in the dusty savannah,...
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My virtual swag bag for biodiversity and Nagoya COP10 includes Zhu Zhu pets.
So this Nagoya COP10 conference is coming up in a week, and at these events what tends to happen is that all the delegates will receive a "swag bag' of sorts. Actually, the term "swag" is probably...
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The Candy Hierarchy
LATEST: The Candy Hierarchy has been updated for 2012. With Halloween approaching, I thought it would be amusing to write a bit about candy, or more specifically, a system that aims to rank it. In this...
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The Nagoya Protocol: the first step towards saving the endangered Unicorn?
If a Society for the Preservation of Unicorns1 were to put out commentary or a press release about important but largely unreported UN biodiversity meetings, I'd imagine it would go a little like this:...
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Star Wars posters by Tom Whalen
This poster and the two others below (after the jump) are things of beauty. Best of all, if you think the trilogy posters are awesome, then you could easily spend a happy hour or so browsing through...
View ArticleStudents doing right by making medicine accessible to the developing world.
In light of World AIDS Day, I'd thought I'd post a little bit about Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. It's a bit of a mouthful, but it's a student run non-profit that does brilliant things....
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How not to go crazy traveling with young children
One of the things you have to do when you're on sabbatical in a city like London, is make sure you take advantage of your travel opportunities. For my family, this equated to visiting a number of...
View ArticleThe Rap Guide to Evolution: Helping out with the music videos.
Now that classes have started, and I'm in the "teaching" zone again, it's always cool to check out folks who have come up with unconventional, and dare I say, innovative ways of talking science. One...
View ArticleScientists pick apart list of nonsense
RealClimate.org has a great piece by Michael Tobis and Scott Mandia which is going to be incredibly useful for one of the classes I teach (Global Issues in the Arts and Sciences), and to be honest, I...
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The classroom blog: This is how you do it, science style!
Last fall, whilst I was in London at the Natural History Museum, I was lucky enough to spend some time with a group of high school students who had travel all the way from the northeastern United...
View ArticleUsing the Force. Messing with kids' heads can be fun!
My friend Anne recently passed on the above Volkswagen video, created by Craig Melchiano and David Povill, which involves a kid dressed up as Darth Vader trying to use the force. It's pretty funny and...
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More geeky science badges please!
Last Friday night I attended a Jamboree, and yes it was a "jamboree." We weren't all dressed in the same uniform, but there was talk about badges and the occasional hushed mention of sashes. Except...
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Bake a cake for Darwin
In case you didn't know, February 12th is Darwin's 202nd birthday, and that means you've got a perfect opportunity to practice your culinary baking skills. That's right: it's time for us all to "Bake a...
View ArticleNeil Finn takes song request from fan holding up an iPad
Neil Finn, whom you may know better as the lead singer of Crowded House, is hands down one of my favourite song writers. He's also very good live, and is a natural talent when it comes to interacting...
View ArticleNew science scout badges!
Just a quick note to say that I've taken the suggestions from this previous Boingboing post and from twitter, and have put up some new science scout badges. Now, you too can earn the "I make weaponized...
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Giant knitted squid made from plastic grocery bags.
Deadly Knitshade has put up some amazing photos of "Plarchie," a freakishly awesome 8 metre giant knitted squid, made out of orange (Sainsbury) plastic grocery bags. The squid is cool enough (is it...
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Dear Oprah: Some thoughts on your credibility.
(Image: Shutterstock) Now that we're half way through the university semester, I'm finding myself inundated with a lot of marking. Sometimes, I try to tackle this work at home, but being the skilled...
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