carnivals
clock | January 20, 2009Hourglass VII, the monthly carnival of the biology of aging, is up at brain health hacks
Grand Rounds 5:18: Ten Suggestions For Healthcare Reform, hosted by Dr.Val, now available on MedPage Today
clock | January 19, 2009The Giants' Shoulders #7 is up on The Questionable Authority
Encephalon #62 is up on The Mouse Trap
Gene Genie #42 is up on Genetic Future
Friday Ark #226 is up on Modulator
Carnival of the Green #163 is up on SustainaBee
clock | January 15, 2009Four Stone Hearth (58th Edition) is up on Moneduloides
Skeptics' Circle #103 is up on Bug Girl's Blog
clock | January 14, 2009Carnival of the Liberals # 82 is up on Accidental Blogger
The 159th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Alasandra's Homeschool Blog
clock | January 13, 2009The next edition of Praxis will be on January 15th 2009, at the Pod Black Cat.
There are only 2 days left until the deadline for the 7th edition of The Giant's Shoulders, to be held at The Questionable Authority.
Next Carnival of the Liberals will be on Accidental Blogger tomorrow, but you still have a couple of hours left until the submission deadline.
And in the meantime, check out Carnival of the Green #162 now up on Teensy Green and the latest Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 17 up on In Sickness & In Health.
clock | January 13, 2009Did you know that the largest desert on Earth is Antarctica? And the second largest is Arctic? And only then comes Sahara!
Well, I knew that because Hal Heathwole taught a Desert Ecology course that many of my buddies in grad school took. But if you don't believe me, check out the Wikipedia page about deserts.
And then, don't stop at that. Do you have a blog? If not, start one. If yes, sit down and write a post about a desert. Then send it to the very first edition of the Carnival of the Arid:
Submissions should have something to do with a desert somewhere in the world. (If you're not…
clock | January 9, 2009The Best of Anthro 2008 Prizes, a kind of an annual carnival, is up on Neuroanthropology
Friday Ark #225 is up on Modulator
clock | January 7, 2009Mendel's Garden No. 27 is up on Another Blasted Weblog
The latest Carnival of Education is up on Right Wing Nation
clock | January 6, 200915th Monthly edition of the blog carnival Linnaeus' Legacy is up on Greg Laden's blog.
Grand Rounds Vol.5 No.16 are up on Edwin Leap.
Carnival of Homeschool: Week 158 - The 3rd Anniversary is up on Why Homeschool
clock | January 5, 200920th Carnival of the Blue is up on Biomes Blog
Carnival of the Green #161 is up on Tao of Change (a blog very local to me, here in Carrboro, NC).
Cabinet of Curiosities #12 is up on Walking the Berkshires
Edition #12 of Berry-Go-Round is up on Foothills Fancies
Festival of the Trees # 31 is up on Rock Paper Lizard
Encephalon #61 is up on SharpBrains
Change of Shift Volume Three - Number Thirteen is up on Nurse Rached's Place
Four Stone Hearth the New Year edition is up on Testimony of the spade
Gene Genie #41 is up on ScienceRoll
Cancer Research Blog Carnival #17 is up on Blind.Scientist…
clock | January 5, 2009The next edition of Praxis will be arriving on January 15th 2009 at Pod Black Cat.
The 7th edition of The Giant's Shoulders will be held on January 15th 2009 at The Questionable Authority.
Start submitting your entries.
clock | January 2, 2009The 31st edition of the Festival of the Trees is up on Rock Paper Lizard
Friday Ark #224 is up on Modulator
clock | January 1, 2009The most awesome January Scientiae is up on Thesis - with Children
Carnival of the Liberals #81 is up on Rust Belt Philosophy
clock | December 30, 2008Edition #12 of Berry-Go-Round is up on Foothills Fancies
Grand Rounds 5.15: At the interface of evolution and medicine are up on Moneduloides
Carnival of the Green is up on Ruscombe Green
Carnival of the Elitist Bastards: Stardate 62453.9 is up on Submitted to a Candid World
Friday Ark #223 is up on Modulator
clock | December 23, 2008Four Stone Hearth #26 is up on The Greenbelt
Carnival of Space Week #84 is up on Next Big Future
Grand Rounds 5.14 are up on Highlight HEALTH
clock | December 22, 2008Encephalon #61: Brain & Mind Reading for the Holidays is up on SharpBrains
Friday Ark #222 is up on Modulator
159th edition of the Carnival of The Green is up on Lighter Footstep
denialism | December 18, 2008Please check out this week's skeptics' circle at Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes.
Of note, I liked Dr Austs' post on the human toll of HIV/AIDS denialism, it is stirring. I also found the Skeptic's field guide particularly interesting. I would have two suggestions. One would be to prioritize by frequency of use or rhetorical appeal rather than alphabetical, and second would be to include a section on conspiracy (like the ones the Lay Scientist and Dubito Ergo Sum describe in this issue ), which I believe is the hallmark of all denialist arguments. If you need a non-parsimonious conspiracy…
clock | December 17, 2008The 102nd Skeptics' Circle: [Bleeping] Edition is up on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes
The 202nd Carnival of Education is up on Steve Spangler's blog
The 155th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Small World