carnivals
clock | July 23, 2008Grand Rounds 4:44 - the 200th Edition! - are up on GruntDoc
Volume 3, Number 2 of Change of Shift is up on Emergiblog
The 134th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Life on the Road
Strangely, blogs that were supposed to host this week's Tangled Bank, Carnival of Education, and Carnival of the Green, have not been updated in a while....
clock | July 21, 2008Encephalon #50 is up on SharpBrains
Gene Genie #34 is up on ScienceRoll
The new edition of the Philosophers' Carnival is up on Beyond Borders
neurophilosophy | July 21, 2008The 50th edition of Encephalon is now online at SharpBrains. It includes entries about the path planning by hippocampal place cells, the role of calcium ion homeostasis in Alzheimer's Disease and the potential applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation.
pharyngula | July 20, 2008Here's some reading material for your Sunday afternoon.
The Freethinker Sunday Sermonette is amusing today.
The Hourglass, a new carnival on the biology of aging.
I and the Bird #79
Humanist Symposium #22
Carnival of the Liberals #69
Carnival of the Godless #96
Friday Ark #200
The Giants' Shoulders #1
The next Tangled Bank will be at Blue Collar Scientist on Wednesday. Send links now!
I'm hosting the next Carnival of the Elitist Bastards on 26 July, and the submissions are barging in to my mailbox and demanding my attention…but I need more. I want a legion of arrogant SOBs…
clock | July 20, 2008The latest edition of Medicine 2.0 Carnival is up on ScienceRoll
Carnival of the Godless #96 is up on Sean the Blogonaut
Friday Ark #200 is up on Modulator
Next Berry Go Round will be hosted by me here, so send me your entries by July 27th.
clock | July 17, 2008Skeptics' Circle #91 is up on Sorting Out Science
Carnival of the Liberals LXIX is up on Stump Lane
The Carnival of Education #180 is up on Steve Spangler's Blog
clock | July 15, 2008Welcome to the Firstest, Biggestest, Inaugural Edition of The Giant's Shoulders, the carnival of History Of Science! The carnival grew out of the Classic Papers Challenge by gg of Skulls in the Stars. That was so much fun, several of us thought this is something that should be done regularly, perhaps every month. So, gg and I got together and got this thing started.
I know some of the future hosts will do this very creatively (and yes, you can volunteer to host, though you will have to wait six months for your turn!), and I envisioned doing this in a form of, perhaps, a vigorous debate at…
clock | July 15, 2008Oekologie #17 is up on Reconciliation Ecology
Carnival of the Green #136 is up on AIDG blog
Grand Rounds 4.43 are up on Unprotected Text
The 133rd Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Red Sea School
clock | July 12, 2008The deadline for your entries for the first edition of The Giant's Shoulders is the end of July 15th (deadline is midnight EDT). Your posts should cover one of the following:
Classic Papers - your blog post should describe what is in a paper that is considered to be a classical paper, or explanation why you think the paper should be considered classical, or foundational, or monumental, or seminal, or mind-boggling/earth-shaking/paradigm-shifting, or just plain cool. Then place the work in some kind of context: historical, philosophical, theoretical, technological, political, social. Try to…
clock | July 11, 2008Friday Ark #199 is up on Modulator
Only four more days for your submissions to the Giant's Shoulders!
pharyngula | July 10, 2008
Greg Laden has created a festival of LOLcats for the latest edition of the Tangled Bank. Should I be appalled or amused? Science is serious business! We never laugh, we're all supposed to be like Mr Spock!
clock | July 10, 2008I and the Bird #79: The Third Anniversary Edition is up on 10000 Birds and the celebratory topic is "Why are you still bird blogging?"
Change Of Shift - the Second Anniversary Edition is up on Emergiblog and the celebratory topic is explained by Kim: "In celebration, I asked nurse bloggers to send in their first posts and tell us a bit about why they started blogging."
Both are really worth checking out. Congratulations to both long-living carnivals!
clock | July 9, 2008Tangled Bank #109 is up on Greg Laden's blog
The 132nd Carnival of Homeschooling is up on SuperAngel's blog
clock | July 8, 2008The first installation of Hourglass, a blog carnival devoted to the biology of aging, is up on Ouroboros
Carnival of the Blue #14 is up on Blue Economy
Carnival of the Green #135 is up on Greentime
Grand Rounds, Vol 4, No 42 are up on The Blog That Ate Manhattan
clock | July 7, 2008Encephalon #49 is up on Neuroscientifically Challenged
The 61st Carnival of Space is up on The Bat Page
Carnival of the Godless #95 is up on The Atheist Blogger
The 68th edition of Carnival of the Liberals is up on Globally Rational
neurophilosophy | July 6, 2008The 49th edition of Encephalon, which is online now at Neuroscientifically Challenged, includes entries on the limitations of the use of gene therapy for psychiatric disorders, the sensationalization of neuroimaging data by the mass media, and how the relationship between music and movement is manifested in the drumming that accompanies Sudanese martial arts demonstrations.
pharyngula | July 6, 2008Read.
The Four Stone Hearth
Carnival of the Liberals #68
Friday Ark #198
Freethinker Sunday Sermonette (Irony that must be seen to be believed!)
Carnival of the Godless #95
Greg Laden will be hosting the next Tangled Bank on 9 July. Submit now!
Speak:
clock | July 4, 2008Four Stone Hearth #44 is up on Greg Laden's blog
The 90th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle is up on The Millenium Project
Friday Ark #198 is up on Modulator
clock | July 2, 2008The 25th edition of the Festival of the Trees is up on Earth, Wind and Water
The 178th Carnival of Education is up on An (aspiring) Educator's Blog
The 131st Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Beverly's Homeschooling Blog
And don't forget to submit your entries to the inaugural edition of The Giant's Shoulders