The new blog carnival, covering the way science is changing (or not changing enough) in the 21st century - Praxis, is about to start. The call for submissions is now open - send them to me at Coturnix AT gmail dot com by August 14th at midnight Eastern so I can post the carnival on the 15th in the morning.
The business of science - from getting into grad school, succeeding in it, getting a postdoc, getting a job, getting funded, getting published, getting tenure and surviving it all with some semblance of sanity - those are kinds of topics that are appropriate for this carnival, more in analytic way than personal, if possible (i.e., not "I will cry as my minipreps did not work today", but more "let me explain the reasons why I chose to work with advisor X instead of Y" or "how to give a good talk", or "why publish OA" or "how does an NIH section work?") and perhaps most importantly how the new technology - mainly the Internet - is changing the world of science. I expect a LOT of entries about Open Access, of course.... :-)
When I think back the prime technological development of all time has to be the transistor.
Think about it, it's part of pretty much every technology we use today. From computers, to aircraft, spacecraft, medicine, etc.
And the uses of the technology enabled by the transistor is astounding. Would the human and other genomes been sequenced in such a short period of time without the computers that utilize millions of transistors?
It's opened up so many areas that we just couldn't get to without it. Vacuum tubes were ok for their time but their power requirements and heat output doomed them.
Bora, you are of course welcome to take whatever you want from my blog. I'm too damn busy to write anything new though, I'm afraid.
As is usually case with the First editions of a new carnival, there is not timeframe - oldies but goodies are welcome. Only with the second and future edition there may be a time limit as to how old a post can be (usually since the previous edition).