The Donors Choose Challenge is now over, and the project to get more nature bloggers involved was a success!!
The total amount given for the Nature Blogs Group was $5,170. That put our group at #11–not quite in the top 10, but still pretty darn good! That also is quite a bit more than I managed [...]
Just in time for the holidays–Xerces has a new native bee calendar!
“The Xerces Society and the Great Sunflower Project are happy to offer the 2010 Native Bee Calendar, which was created by Celeste Ets-Hokin. With magnificent close-up photos by Rollin Coville, this calendar takes you on a tour of twelve commonly encountered types of native [...]
Ann Fadiman. At Large and Small: Familiar Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2007.
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I freely admit to being an Anne Fadiman fan-girl. Ex Libris is easily one of my favorite books. The Spirit Catches You is an amazing book about culture, epilepsy, immigration, and they way we don’t communicate. So, I was pretty sure [...]
A cool opportunity for teachers!!
WANTED: Up to 20 schools (in the U.S., east of the Rocky Mountains) to follow the development of monarchs on the International Space Station.
Background
The next Space Shuttle launch is scheduled for November 16th. Atlantis will carry three 4th instar monarch caterpillars to the International Space Station (ISS) in a small rearing [...]
Sorry to be a downer lately…I’m realizing that I have to go look for a job soon, and it’s rather a bummer. How about a pretty picture? Ursja has uploaded more beautiful beetle photos! OMGSHINY!!
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Synopsis: Long-winded Libertarians lead the fight against an extra-terrestrial insectish species in this 1983 sci-fi novel.
I had such high hopes for this book. Its cover promised all sorts of awesome. And then, I discovered the author wrote the Star Trek “Trouble with Tribbles” episode.
Cheezy cover! History of Tribbles! Silly rhyming title! (War/Chtorr)
Alas, it was [...]
Just when I think I’ve seen everything…I discover there is an app for your iPhone that claims to repel mosquitoes with high frequency sound:
“Have you ever been camping and you were worried about those mosquitos [sic] outside near your camp light? Wondering how soon it will be before they attack you in your sleep? Well, [...]
Hey–who wants to have a ScienceBlogs vs. Discover blogs vs. Nature Blog Network throw down for Donor’s Choose?
This October, I’ll be part of the DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge. This is a friendly month-long competition between blogs to see which can bring in the most donations to help low-income classrooms on DonorsChoose.org. DonorsChoose.org is an online [...]
Ed alerted me to this–it’s wonderful! And where the heck have I been that I wasn’t in on this myself?? From their Mission Statement:
“Pestival is a mobile arts festival examining insect-human interactivity in bioscience, through paradigms of contemporary art, cinema, music and comedy as well as direct scientific demonstration and educational projects.
Pestival will bring [...]
International Rock Flipping Day will be Sunday, September 20th this year! Wandering Weta will be the coordinator this year.
“Here’s a quick rundown of the procedure:
On or about September 20th, find your rock and flip it over.
Record what you find. “Any and all forms of documentation are welcome: still photos, video, sketches, prose, or poetry.”
Replace the [...]
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