December 20, 2007 – 6:38 pm
Ugh. One of the things I hate most about the holidays is the need to sort out just what needs to be done in terms of gifts and parties for the workplace. My new boss gave me a present–what does that mean?
Do I need to give her one back?
Should I be sending cards to [...]
December 20, 2007 – 11:22 am
Another of my “what I learned at the Entomology Meeting” posts: Project Insect (International Spectrum of Enormous Crawling Things).
Their mission:
“We educate the general public on the science of entomology, ecosystem preservation, and global conservation through the mediums [...]
December 19, 2007 – 8:36 pm
Mental Floss has an interesting article about 6 different parasites, and an extremely entertaining trailer for an imaginary film to go with it! You’ll recognize some bits from MST3K movies in this, too…
December 19, 2007 – 11:32 am
An end of the year reminder: you may wish to nominate someone for the “Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2007″ anthology. This is a great opportunity to bring a nature blogger to the attention of a larger audience!
Entries need to be originally published as a blog post between 12-20-06 and 12-20-07 to [...]
December 18, 2007 – 2:46 pm
No, not more about insects and porn! This is one of the things I learned about at the Entomology meetings. Bugwood is a huge network to store and index Creative Commons photos and resources for agriculture and entomology. Their mission is to:
“gather, create, maintain, promote the use of, and economically distribute digital information both [...]
December 17, 2007 – 4:01 pm
This is an interesting little game, but I suspect it will have more to do with what Google has recorded about each user in the past than any actual Google supremacy.
Here’s the premise:
“you will attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into Google (preferably google.com, but we’ll take the other country [...]
December 16, 2007 – 12:07 pm
Well, I’m back from the Entomology conference, and I’m now snug in my house, looking at the snow fall. (I also know for sure that I’m back in rural Michigan, because I can see my neighbor and his gun stomping around in the corn fields. 10 inches of snow doesn’t seem like ideal hunting [...]
December 15, 2007 – 9:58 pm
I really love the random Flickr feed on my blog, and I find all sorts of neat photos that way.
One of the more interesting things I found recently was someone using a kaleidoscope filter to create new images. So, this aquatic larva becomes a beautiful star! Very seasonal
Check out meridee’s pages for [...]
December 14, 2007 – 9:19 pm
Another neat resource I discovered recently–there are a large number of interviews with scientists online you can download (including text transcripts) in the form of podcasts. The “Ask-A-Biologist” podcast is produced on the campus of Arizona State University.
Not surprisingly, many of them are about insects! (Although “Dr. Biology” seems to be kinda squeamish, [...]
December 14, 2007 – 2:02 pm
In case you missed it–or won’t get to the exhibit–there is a new website to support the American tour of Lucy, a partial skeleton of a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis.
eLucy has activities for both students and teachers, as well as lots of other info. It took me a minute or two to figure out [...]
