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clock | September 2, 2007
That's me, speeding through SciFoo, challenging Attilla's photography skills.
clock | August 27, 2007Yesterday I had lunch (and coffee and another coffee - this lasted a while because it was so much fun) with Tanja and her husband Doug. Regulars here probably recognize the commenter who goes by the handle "tanjasova" - that's her.
They just bought a nice house in Winston-Salem and will completely move to North Carolina next month, so we'll get to meet each other and indulge ourselves in Serbian cuisine often in the future. They have three teenage boys (from their respective first marriages) and they live on his salary as she is still looking for a job. Now that she will be here, she can…
clock | August 25, 2007Oobleck and Semen are on Jennifer's mind these days. Obligatory Readings of the Day.
clock | August 23, 2007Matt did it first! And then he told more of us. I like the one Laelaps did. But this is more truthfull:
clock | August 21, 2007Do you have pictures from your lab (or office or Jeep you use to do your fieldwork), showing off some quirky aesthetic details? If so, send them to Cognitive Daily to include in the growing collection of the coolest lab decorations ever!
clock | August 20, 2007OK, this will be the last series of pictures of my Sciblings from the shindig of the past weekend. As you may have noticed, several others have posted their recollections and pictures on their blogs. You can also see some pictures on Flickr and Facebook and please add and tag more if you have them.
I have noticed it several times before, but this is something that really came out in full force at the Meetup as we really feel like an online family - meeting people online can produce real freindships. Then, when you meet offline for the first time after years of cyberchatter, there is…
clock | August 20, 2007Thanks to Sheril who provided us with tickets, a bunch of us Sciblings went to the American Museum of Natural History on Saturday afternoon (pictures under the fold) and saw "Galactic Collision" - a planetarium-style presentation with awesome special effects (no cameras allowed, unfortunately), as well as an exhibit about frogs (difficult to get good pics, but I will choose a few semi-decent ones and post them later).
clock | August 19, 2007OK, so a bunch of us sciencebloggers went to New York City this weekend. This is something that we were trying to do for almost a year now. Sure, many of us Sciblings have met one-on-one on occasion, but this was an opportunity to get many of us together all in the same place at the same time, to have fun together and see what happens.
So, on Friday, most of us managed to meet at Seed magazine's (and scienceblogs.com) offices. That is where we started on our first beers....(see my pictures from the event posted on Saturday, as well as other people's pictures)
Then we went to a Brewery on…
clock | August 19, 2007Under the fold, Saturday morning pictures from New York City Sciblings meetup, at Union Square Inn and a pastry/coffee place where we had breakfast
Suzanne Franks
Dave and Greta Munger
Dave Munger, Rob Knop and Mo Costandi
Evil Monkey and Tara Smith
Janet Stemwedel
Janet Stemwedel and Karmen Franklin
Karmen Franklin and Sheril Kirshenbaum
Kevin Beck
Me again....
Me and Mo Costandi
Mo Costandi
Mo Costandi and Rob Knop
Mo Costandi, Rob Knop and Dave Munger
Rob Knop
Rob Knop, Dave Munger and Janet Stemwedel
RPM
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Steve Higgins
Related: Housekeeping NoteCome and meet the…
clock | August 18, 2007Come and meet the Sciblings
About 30 or so of us Seed sciencebloggers are in New York City this weekend (many, many pictures to come), but if you want to see for yourself that we actually exist and our blogs are not written by robots, meet us at BBar and Grill at the corner of Bowery and 3rd starting around 7pm until they kick us out.
clock | August 14, 2007So, you look around to see if there is anything edible!
Of course, it's easy if you work with tasty animals....(just ask the guys in the next door lab who work on lobsters, crayfish and oysters...or wait until you get some brains out of quails and notice the plump breastmeat....just joking).
clock | August 13, 2007I don't know why this post is one of the most popular of all times here, but I just discovered a relevant illustration to go with it: Bosco wrote a post in which he links to a whole bunch of pictures of a popular mascot (almost as popular as Professor Steve Steve).
clock | August 12, 2007Checking out hundreds of pictures from Scifoo that people have uploaded on Flickr and their blogs, I found a couple of more that have me in them:
In this one, I explain to Greg Bear that Open Access is not Science Fiction any more:
[Photo: Simon Quellen Field]
In this one, I tell Sara Abdulla (of Nature) how nice it is to work for an Open Access publisher:
[Photo: Jacqueline Floyd]
And in this one, I stand on a street corner in the middle of Googleplex, preaching Open Access to whoever will listen (perhaps I should grow a long beard, wear a toga and some sandals, and get Jack Chick to draw…
clock | August 8, 2007If you have a science-themed tattoo, Carl Zimmer would like to know about it. You can already see quite a variety of cool pictures Carl's readers sent him on these three posts:
Branded with Science*Very* Branded with ScienceWelcome to sciencetattoo.com
I am as clean as a newborn and will not start at this age, but I find the tattoos quite fascinating.
clock | August 7, 2007How many people had their luggage inspected by a TSA agent at the airport due to the suspicious shape of the Google crystal cube?
I was one....