SCIENCE

Where's the science at KUOW? Why public radio wants to mix things up.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:59:10 GMT

Source: crosscut.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
NPR's 'SCIENCE Friday' host visits the station that dropped his show, and KUOW's program director explains why public radio would rather offer a little something for everyone than treat subjects at length and depth. ...

SLV science teacher Preston Boomer retires after 56 years

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:05:02 GMT

Source: www.santacruzsentinel.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
BONNY DOON -- After teaching for 56 years at San Lorenzo Valley High School, Preston Boomer can recall generations of families learning about physics and chemistry in his classroom. ...

Boost! opens June 22 at the Science Museum of Virginia

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:14:38 GMT

Source: easternhenrico.nbc12.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
The SCIENCE Museum of Virginia invites you to Boost! your creativity, flexibility, memory, strength (well, you get the picture) in our first new permanent exhibition in a decade. Boost! is a new approach to wellness and self-improvement. It’s neither a sports nor a traditional health exhibit - it’s innovative and insightful. Boost! shares important scientific knowledge about sleep, memory and... ...

Summer Solstice 2013: Astro-Science & Pagan Ritual

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:17:16 GMT

Source: www.surfersvillage.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
20 June, 2013 : - The Summer Solstice occurs on Friday 21 June 2013 at 05:04 UT/GMT. It is also known as: Alban Heflin, Alben Heruin, All-couples day, Feast of Epona, Feast of St. John the Baptist, Feill-Sheathain, Gathering Day, Johannistag, Litha, Midsummer, Sonnwend, Thing-Tide, Vestalia, etc. It is celebrated around the world most notably at... ...

Science of the Times: Supreme Court: No patent on human genes

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:32:51 GMT

Source: www.delcotimes.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Alex Rose Got a few bits and pieces for all you out there in newspaperland this week — everything from mind-bending drugs to the impact social media can have on a person’s life. First up, though is a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, which miraculously managed to issue a ruling last week that doesn’t take away any more of your fast-disappearing rights. ...

Hertz: Classics of Science Fiction at Westercon

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:21:10 GMT

Source: file770.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
By John Hertz: We’ll discuss three classics at Westercon 66 , one discussion each. Come to as many as you like. You’ll be welcome to join in. For our starting definition, “A classic is a work that survives its own time. After the currents which might have sustained it have changed, it remains, and is seen to be worthwhile for itself.” One author from England, three from the United States; one woman, three men; one outside our field, three among us. Two stories from almost the same time, one a decade earlier. Each seems to be a love story; but is any of them? Each may be more interesting today than when first published. Have you read them? Have you re-read them? Ian Fleming Moonraker (1955) Nothing like the Moonraker came for two more years; even then the R-7 and Atlas couldn’t burn hydrogen – fluorine. At Boskone 50 our discussion flamed with inquiry whether this story is s-f. What about the craftsmanship? What about the denouement of Gala Brand? Henry Kuttner & Catherine Moore “Vintage Season” (1946) Haunting, careful, penetrating, it’s often anthologized. It’s been attributed mainly to Moore, but both said that after they married they wrote everything together; for this one they used the name Lawrence O’Donnell; some call it their best. What makes them different from their symphonist Cenbe? Jack Vance To Live Forever (1956) Vance preferred to entitle it Clarges , and maybe we should; it seems easier to find now under the infini ...

Science camp experiment burns 4 to hospital

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:29:00 GMT

Source: hattiesburgamerican.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
COVINGTON — Two boys were seriously burned and a teacher and a third boy suffered minor burns when a SCIENCE camp experiment to make "black snake" fireworks got out of control, setting fire to at least one boy's clothes, said Covington Fire Chief Richard Badon. ...

Calling all space nerds: Join Bill Nye The Science Guy for tonight's episode of...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:21:40 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Calling all space nerds: Join Bill Nye The SCIENCE Guy for tonight's episode of Planetary Radio streaming live on our site NOW. Planetary Radio Live: SCIENCE, Nature and Music www.scpr.org Host Mat Kaplan and Bill Nye the SCIENCE Guy will welcome singer/songwriter Peter Mayer. The Minnesotan has been called a magician and a master storyteller. ...

Cryptography is a science, not engineering

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:36:41 GMT

Source: news.ycombinator.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
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The Campbell & Sturgeon Science Fiction Story Award Winners Announced

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:36 GMT

Source: www.geekexchange.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Over this past weekend, the John W. Campbell Jr. Memorial Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards were announced at the Campbell Conference in Lawrence Kansas this past weekend. We previously... ^^^ click the post title for more ^^^ ...

Science: Meet the Whale-Taming Woman Who Swims Butt-Naked With Beluga Whales

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:22:00 GMT

Source: ace.mu.nu --- Monday, June 17, 2013
There are pictures, and she is butt-naked in them, but remember, this is SCIENCE, and she's learning about swimming naked with Beluga whales. Well actually it's not about SCIENCE (TM) per se, it's about taming whales, about getting them to... ...

intractably: My science teacher wrote this poem when he was in...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:22:27 GMT

Source: bekatha.me --- Monday, June 17, 2013
intractably : My SCIENCE teacher wrote this poem when he was in grade 9, which was 1985. When you read it from a relationship perspective, it means that she didn’t like him, she liked someone else. When you read it from SCIENCE’s perspective, “he” would be the Earth, and it explains how eclipse works. ...

Science Camp Chemistry Experiment Goes Terribly Wrong

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:21:00 GMT

Source: www.wrno.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Two boys suffer serious burns, a teacher and a third boy suffer minor burns, Covington fire chief says ...

Student Wins prestigious science award

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:44:44 GMT

Source: www.pakistantoday.com.pk --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Manzar Abbas, a student at the Pak Turk International Schools & Colleges Karachi Clifton Boy’s Campus, has achieved a Grand Winner Award and Gold Medal in the 7th International Young Inventors Project Olympiad. The competition was held from April 25th-27th in Tbilisi, Georgia, and included over 120 projects from 28 countries. Abbas, who is in class FSc-I, developed a project entitled “A New Approach to Purify Seawater.” Since 1999, Abbas’ school has operated under the auspices of Pak Turk International Cag Educational Foundation (Pak Turk ICEF), an international Turkish non-governmental organisation. Pak Turk ICEF aims to promote education as a tool of social development, and caters to over 6,500 Pakistani students in 20 schools throughout the country. The foundation was awarded the prestigious Sitara-e-Eisaar in 2006 for their various humanitarian efforts, including relief work in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake and a program for internally displaced people in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. ...

Perth Talk – Science, Atheism And The Joyful Life By Sean Faircloth, Richard Dawkins Foundation

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:34:51 GMT

Source: www.patheos.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
I’m up early working (mostly due to a nasty cough), but it’s a optimistic, cheerful kind of day already – mostly because I discovered that the talk I couldn’t attend due to being several hundred kilometers north enjoying a beachside resort with the family has been posted online! Sean Faircloth was a great person to [...] ...

Mozilla Opens ScienceLab To Help Shape Science’s Future [Updates]

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:00:39 GMT

Source: www.makeuseof.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Mozilla has just opened ScienceLab, believing that the project will help foster scientific ideas and will be an open platform for making scientific research more collaborative. The ScienceLab is an initiative that aims to use the open web to build a community around ideas, tools, and implementation of best practices for using next-generation web solutions to solve real problems in SCIENCE. Continue reading the article Read full post: Mozilla Opens ScienceLab To Help Shape SCIENCE’s Future [Updates] ...

Nice video of Bill Nye, the Science Guy--warrior for science and champion of the...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:41:06 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Nice video of Bill Nye, the SCIENCE Guy--warrior for SCIENCE and champion of the bowtie. Bill Nye, Firebrand for SCIENCE, Is a Big Man on Campus www.nytimes.com William Sanford Nye, better known as Bill Nye the SCIENCE Guy, has gone from TV host to fierce defender of scientific issues that have been polemicized for religious, political and even economic reasons. ...

Firebrand for Science, and Big Man on Campus

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:31:00 GMT

Source: voxverax.blogspot.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
By JOHN SCHWARTZ, NYT AMES, Iowa — As the car pulled into the parking lot of a Starbucks, William Sanford Nye unknotted his trademark bow tie and slipped it off. “This might buy us a couple of minutes,” he said. Roughly two minutes later, before his drink was ready, he was recognized anyway. Two awed young women approached to ask if he was really Bill Nye the SCIENCE Guy. Like more than a dozen other college students who would approach him over the next several hours, they asked if they could take a picture with him. He smiled, took a proffered iPhone, scooched the students in and, in a practiced gesture, stretched out his arm to take a shot of the three of them that you just knew was totally going on Facebook. Mr. Nye had come to talk to them, and a few thousand of their friends, at Iowa State University. If he were a politician, college students would be his base. Instead, he is something more: a figure from their early days in front of the family TV, a beloved teacher and, more and more these days, a warrior for SCIENCE. They, in turn, are his fans, his students and his army. They have gone from watching him explain magnetism and electricity to defending the scientific evidence for climate change , the age of the earth and other issues they have seen polemicized for religious, political and even economic reasons. (More here.) ...

What if Superman Punched You? [Science Video]

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:30:00 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
What if Superman Punched You? [SCIENCE Video] What if Superman Punched You? [SCIENCE Video] www.geeksaresexy.net http://youtu.be/V-fL8zopddI Physics-wise, do you know what would happen to you if Superman ever decided to punch you? Watch the video to find out! [Vsauce ...

Science educators, brush up on a variety of topics this summer, including Earth,...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:29:04 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
SCIENCE educators, brush up on a variety of topics this summer, including Earth, oceans, climate change, genetics, and more, in one of our Seminars on SCIENCE online courses, beginning July 1. Register now and use code AMNHSOS to save $50: http://bit.ly/11k0YsF ...