carnivals
clock | May 1, 2009Berry Go Round #16 is up on Quiche Moraine
May Festival Of The Trees is up on Orchards Forever
May Scientiae Carnival - A Snapshot! Part 1 is up on Endless Possibilities v2.0
Friday Ark #241 is up on Modulator
clock | April 30, 2009I and the Bird #99 is up on Migrations
Change of Shift Vol. 3 Number 22 is up on codeblog
clock | April 28, 2009Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 32 are up on Six Until Me
Friday Ark #240 is up on Modulator
The 174th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Corn and Oil
clock | April 23, 2009Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival #65 is up on A Primate of Modern Aspect
Carnival of the Liberals #89 is up on Johnny Pez
clock | April 21, 2009Scientia Pro Publica #2 is up on Living the Scientific Life
Grand Rounds, Vol. 5, No. 31 are up on Diabetes Mine
Carnival of the Green #176 is up on Mother Nature Network
clock | April 17, 2009The Giant's Shoulders #10 is up on Stochastic Scribbles
I and the Bird #98 is up on Biological Ramblings
Friday Ark #239 is up on Modulator
clock | April 14, 2009Encephalon #68 is up at Ouroboros
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 30 are up on Pharmamotion
clock | April 13, 2009Since The Lay Scientist had technical problems with the blog, there was no Praxis last month. Martin will thus post it this month (on or close to the 15th). He still has all the entries from last time around, but please also send some fresh submissions as well.
Next edition of The Giant's Shoulders will be hosted by Stochastic Scribbles on April 16th. So, if you have History Of Science posts (or are just about to write one), please submit.
clock | April 10, 2009The Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival #64 is up on Quiche Moraine
The Skeptics' Circle #109 is up on The Lay Scientist
Carnival of the Liberals #88 is up on Liberal England
Friday Ark #238 is up on Modulator
clock | April 8, 2009Carnival of Education #214 is up on So You Want To Teach?
The 171st Carnival of Homeschooling is up on A Pondering Heart
clock | April 7, 2009Carnival of the Blue #23 is up on Deep Sea News
Scientia Pro Publica #1, The Science, Nature and Medicine Blog Carnival, is up on Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Carnival of the Green #174 is up on GreenDeals Blog
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 29 are up on Getting Closer to Myself
clock | April 6, 2009Circus of the Spineless 37 is up on Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Carnival of Space #97 is up on Cheap Astronomy
clock | April 4, 2009April Scientiae is up on Candid Engineer in Academia
Friday Ark #237 is up on Modulator
clock | April 2, 2009Carnival of the Arid #3 is up on
Coyote Crossing
I and the Bird #97 is up on Great Auk - or Greatest Auk?
Festival of the Trees #34 is up on The Marvelous in Nature
Berry Go Round #15 is up on A Neotropical Savanna
clock | April 1, 2009Carnival of Evolution #10 is up on Oyster's Garter
Change of Shift: Volume Three, No. 20 is up on Emergiblog
clock | March 31, 2009Encephalon #67 is up on Neuroskeptic
Podcast Of The Blue #1 is up on Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 28 are up on Running a hospital
Carnival of the Green #173 is up on Eco Joe's
Friday Ark #236 is up on Modulator
khannula | March 27, 2009This month's Scientiae is about overcoming challenges: our worst moments, and how we survived them. I've had trouble deciding which story to tell. Field camp? Running out of food while dropped off by helicopter? Not finding the rocks that were supposed to be in my dissertation field area? Bad dates (geologic, that is)?
I had some disastrous fieldwork in grad school, yeah, but I think my worst experience came from teaching. In fact, my teaching lost me a job. But I'm getting ahead of myself...
I was hired at the last minute for a one-year replacement position at a small liberal arts college in…
clock | March 26, 2009Diversity in Science Carnival #2: Women Achievers in STEM - Past and Present, is up on Thus Spake Zuska
The 108th Skeptic's Circle is up on PodBlack Cat
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 27 are up on Code blog
Carnival of the Green #172 is up on The Evangelical Ecologist
clock | March 23, 2009World Water Day synchroblogging is up on Crikey Creek
Gene Genie #44 is up on Mary Meets Dolly
Friday Ark #235 is up on Modulator
khannula | March 22, 2009This is a post for World Water Day. See more posts about transboundary water at Cr!key Creek.
For the past two years, my intro Earth Science students have been doing a project monitoring one of our local rivers. On the one hand, it's just another stream, small enough for students to safely wade into it with a current meter. On the other... it's our town's water source, and every drop of it is promised at least once, for irrigation, for municipal water supplies, for fish, for electricity, for a treaty between the US and Mexico.
The Florida River (Flor-EE-da, the Spanish word for "flowery") is…