DISQUS

this is great. glad to have some heavy ammunition is this effort to environmentally education inner cities

Thanks Gee,

You're right. I hate the boredom pedagogy of science, eg. sit down and memorize vocab. It's ruining our society's interest in science (and impacting scientific literacy). Or worksheets. I hate worksheets!.

However, there are some great programs and educatorsout there who are doing some great hands-on science. Much of what many of us science and education bloggers promote is a better way to engage people (youth and adults). Relevance is the name of the game and it works at any age and education level.

If I lived in NY, I would love to be there! I love science and natural history museums. have a great time.

I half-way read the first book. interesting. looking forward to the show.

Yeah, I heard about this. A Science Blogging friend of mine is scheduled to present , Danica Radovanovic.

Snap! Dang! I meant to apply. But I got caught up with my real life that I forgot!
I hope they need a new person next year. I'm game.

This IS awesome! My science career began as a pursuit of becoming a veterinarian. I later realized that science, specifically animal behavior, was my real interest. Go Dr. Gina!

not too bad, hope it keeps them afloat.

I like the hair thingy.

Ms James sounds like a hater....mad at the popularity of a younger generation of entertainers. sad.

Ohmy gosh! this is so great. I just started a blog carnival - Diversity in Science with the inaugural edition being dedicated to Black History Month - celebrating black innovators in science, tech, enginnering and math.

I am hosting the carnival on my blog, Urban Science Adventures! (c). The announcement of the carnival is on my page: http://urban-science.blogspot.com/2009/02/its-black-history-month-celebrate.html.
Please, please, please contribute to the carnival. I have received lots of support from the science blogging community but I am hoping this would be a multi-disciplinary blogopshere partiication project. I read your blog all of the time (subscribed via Networked Blogs on Facebook).

Submission deadline is Feb 20, and the carnival will be posted on Feb 24.
This is the link to submit your blog post: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_6257.html.

If you choose to participate, please promote the carnival, encourage others to participate.

Shoot me an email if you have any questions.
Thanks, Danielle

I actually think this might be good. I'd check it out. I even participated in the 25 anniversary of Thriller, Thrill the World, world record Thriller Danceoff. It wasa blast.

I've also thought they favored one another.

that's what's up

cute! that is one catchy tune and dance!

Thanks Angela.

Wow! but what do the letters CES stnd for? I'm still getting my tech bearings.

And Stevie Wonder, too. Amazing!

Those turquoise boots are the BOMB! and I think the article's thesis is great. stay in shape, have fun, be sexy.

J: Thanks for the co-sign.

HECK YEAH!!! I've been waiting on this too. Since I do so much outreach and education to under-served audiences anyway, I would love to be able to "work' my student debt off. And since I'm a scientist, I'm really hoping that gets me extra points - since Obama is pro-science/education/technology.

I just hope the bill allows for some other way to work off your debt than teaching K-12 school (which I know I could do now). I'd rather do "science" or informal teaching - like afterschool, summer science camps, mentoring students and teachers, as opposed to classroom teaching.

I want this, too. See you aroung the community service watering hole.

I first participated in a Day of Service last year, when I was working with AmeriCorps- which I think coined the phrase - A Day on not a Day Off.

If you're doing outside service, stay warm.

That's interesting. I was a skeptic, even as a kid. I remember trying to read the real bible on my own, not the illustrated Children's version, at the age of 6. The poetry confused me, but I was getting through it. I read how God created the world in 6 days and I had to shut the book. I asked every adult: "If the whole world can be created in 6 days, then I why must I wait s long for my new tooth to come in?"

My skepticism wasn't about doubting the exisitence of God (I don't), my issue was with logical proceedings of events. By that age, I had started to gain an idea of time and how long it takes for things to happen. (I was a VERY impatient child - still am), e.g. the school day, the school year, one birthday to the next, time to prepare dinner, arrival of Christmas, the regrowth of my front teeth, etc. It just didn't make sense that the WHOLE, ENTIRE World could spring up in a short amount of time and my whole life was about waiting.

After that, I became the ever skeptical, always reading individual who always cross-referenced EVERYTHING. I felt better when I read (somewhere) that that reference was about 6 man days, but that a day to the Lord is like a thousand or more years. Whew. Made reconciling Evolution easy for me.

I heard a different story. It dates to slave times, too. On some plantations, slaves were given time off from the day after Christmas until New Year's eve. Often families lived on neighboring plantations and given the right paper work (and disposition of the slave) they were allowed to travel to se their families. Since they had to return to their own plantations by New Year's Day morning, the community would stay up all night, celebrating, worshiping, and spending those last moments together. As men were preparing to depart early in the morning, they would make last minute visits to the ladies and give them luck for the new year. This is were the custom of having a man be the first to cross your threshold on New Year's day is said to come.

thank goodness. That show was HORRIBLE!

I don't care for his style of comedy, but I do like his use of unlikely characters to demonstrate Christian principles. I can take his productions in small doses. But I don't have a problem with him. I think it's people engaging in madness. So many of us don't know how to talk about issues or behaviors without making a personal attack. Same goes with criticism. Even if you criticize the act or product, people retaliate with personal lunges.

I think that's what is happening with TP.