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posted a tweet: 1 year agoNew IMF study finds oil & wine prices had 90% correlation in movements between 1990 & 2010. http://is.gd/XX6q2K
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posted a tweet: 1 year agoGoogle’s First Science Fair Seeks Volcano-Builders From Around the World http://is.gd/kzb7N
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maitri posted an update: 1 year, 1 month ago · updated 1 year, 1 month ago
@mark Lots of spam coming through after each post. Just thought you’d want to know, in case there’s a better anti-spam plugin out there.
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maitri posted an update: 1 year, 1 month ago · updated 1 year, 1 month ago
Teach myself more 3dSMax or choose geology teaching slides to turn into digital images?
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A new skill over Christmas is always a good thing. I vote 3dsMax.
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maitri wrote a new blog post: Eight-Year-Olds Teach Themselves About The Bees 1 year, 1 month ago
Birds come next. Discover | Eight-year-old children publish bee study in Royal Society journal
Their paper, based on fieldwork carried out in a local churchyard, describes how bumblebees can learn which flowers to forage from with more flexibility than anyone had thought. It’s the culmination of a project called ‘i, scientist’, designed to get…
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maitri wrote a new blog post: GenSpace DIY Biotech Lab Opens In New York City 1 year, 1 month ago
Some explosion in DIY Science activity in the last few weeks. So, any interest in making these for sciences other than biology? Anyway, How To Write A Science Article: Wired Science | DIY Biotech Hacker Space Opens in NYC
“If you work in a university lab, you have to do what your adviser tells you to do,” [...]
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maitri commented on the blog post The Interdisciplinary Hype – Can physicists help out with biology? 1 year, 1 month ago
While the compartmentalization of disciplines that you and themothergeek describe is the norm on most campuses, I’ve noticed that intermingling arises in engineering departments and corporate research labs in the likes of biophysics, biomedical engineering, materials science, biogeochemistry, geological engineering, geophysics, etc. Such synthesis…[Read more]
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maitri wrote a new blog post: How Do I Get My Kids Interested In Science? 1 year, 1 month ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Get out of the way! And get out of the way as a minimum. As a maximum, further stimulate curiosity by surrounding kids with things that they can explore on their own.”
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Trying to review this book to Sasha’s Airdrawndagger and hot cocoa. Failing desperately at the reading bit.
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maitri commented on the blog post Televisual And Accessible 1 year, 1 month ago
Mark: Dr. Petra lives and works in London, so apparently it happens there as well.
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maitri wrote a new blog post: Televisual And Accessible 1 year, 1 month ago
In Not Fit For Television , Dr. Petra recounts her experience repeatedly declining a gig as TV Subject Matter Expert, only to be told by the show’s producers that they wanted her because “I was ‘televisual’ (wow, lucky me), I was ‘accessible’, but most importantly I was ‘local’.”
I replied that I still couldn’t really help, but the experts I’d…
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posted a tweet: 1 year, 3 months agoPre-ordered Fate Of The World. Yes, I am a dork. http://is.gd/gKzCG @FateOfTheWorld
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posted a tweet: 1 year, 3 months agoScience 3.0 | Activity Directory http://t.co/bmsmNxZ
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posted a tweet: 1 year, 3 months agoMore talk, less agreement: Risk discussion can hurt consensus-building on science/technology http://is.gd/gIVpH
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maitri wrote a new blog post: Science Bloggers For Students! 1 year, 4 months ago
Please support my efforts in the Science Bloggers for Students challenge, a friendly month-long competition (10/10/10 through 11/9/10) between science blogs to see which can do the most to help low-income classrooms on DonorsChoose.org. Pick a Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) classroom project from MY PAGE to support. And…[Read more] - Load More
Yep, there are a lot of spammers out there. As far as I know akismet catchesthem all and its the best I have heard of. If anyone has any more suggestions I’d love to hear them. Thanks @maitri