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We Are Bonnie Offit!

by podblack on November 27, 2010

For what on earth this means, head to Orac’s blog.

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Yes, getting back to work and slowly directing my energies away from reflecting on the sadness from the last few months and seeing if I can get back into the office by throwing myself bodily at the door and upending the piles of research papers from the stacks that have started to collect dust. Moments [...]

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Happy Second Blogoversary Digital Cuttlefish

by podblack on October 23, 2009

I envy the Digital Cuttlefish. You may note that I often post links to their site – not just because they are incredibly insightful as a contemporary and astoundingly topical blogger (which they are), but because they are unique as a skeptic poet, a versifying science blogger who can intelligently tackle a range of topics [...]

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One of the reasons I became a teacher? Because I don’t think anyone should go through this or the rest of the story he tells. From Good Math, Bad Math: Almost every geeky kid gets socially ostracized. Almost all get mocked. In fact, almost all face some physical abuse. The main determinant of just how [...]

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Sheril Kirshenbaum leads a vital blogo-spheric initiative called SILENCE IS THE ENEMY starting today, June 1st, to help a generation of young women half a world away. She says: An International Rescue Committee survey suggests 12 percent of girls aged 17 and under acknowledged having been sexually abused in some way in the previous 18 [...]

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Dr. Isis is donating the funds from her blog traffic to fund a scholarship for undergraduate research, and has gotten the American Physiological Society to match her donation up to $500. And all you have to do is click on her site – no $$ donations required. Go visit her announcement for this month.

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Open Laboratory 2008 Book – Buy Now!

by podblack on March 6, 2009

Digital Cuttlefish features in it! The Bad Astronomer features in it! AND PODBLACK CAT BLOG (yes, this one) features in it! From Blog Around The Clock: I know you have all been trembling in anticipation! But the day has finally arrived – the third science blogging anthology, The Open Lab 2008, is now up for [...]

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Little Kitten – Carmina Beeranda

by podblack on February 24, 2009

Just a quick one here — Richard Wiseman recently posted yet another one of those Carmina Buranda parodies, which if you checked A Blog Around The Clock in January, you would have seen a distinctly squidy-version already. Whilst I’ve written about audio illusions before, with a more academically-minded post called Going Backwards, which talks about [...]

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