Gender-Bending Chickens and the Bookbirder Report Grrl Scientist at rest. GrrlScientist is the pseudonym of a colorful parrot who writes by typing with her beak. A science/nature/bird blogger in flight, at roost she's an evolutionary biologist//ornithologist and freelance science and nature writer from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her Ph.D. is in ornithology, and she spent her two-year postdoc reconstructing the molecular phylogeny of parrots... Submitted: 3 days ago Tags: · flight · Science · The · Bird · Freelance · Nature Writer · Ph.D. · ThePg. 99: John Herron's "Science and the Social Good" The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865-1965 by John P. Herron.About the book, from the publisher:From the beginnings of industrial capitalism to contemporary disputes over evolution, nature has long been part of the public debate over the social good. As such, many natural scientists throughout American history have understood Submitted: on 26th Dec 2009 Tags: · contemporary · p · Science · The · American · Current · History · Publisher · Scientists · The PublisherSmugglivus Day 29 – Guest Blogger: Amy of My Friend Amy Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 29! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s Guest: Amy, the blogging force of nature behind My Friend Amy. Not only does Amy run her own Submitted: on 30th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Authors · Force Of NaturePoetry Friday: Black Nature I've just started Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, but wanted to go ahead and mention it since I think lots of Poetry Friday followers will like the anthology. The poems I've read so far cover ground... Submitted: on 5th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · American · Nature Poetry · Poems · The · WantedA Weekend with the Greats Mother Nature, sensing my need to feed my classic science fiction jones, provided me with perfect reading weather this weekend: ice and snow. After returning from the early morning showing of Shutter Island we shut ourselves in for the weekend as the weather turned quite nasty. I chose to embrace the situation by Submitted: on 23rd Feb 2010 Tags: · Science · The · Fiction · Ice · Mother · Perfect · Reading · Science Fiction · WeatherAfter the Fireworks, By Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley's 1930 tale of louche, clever novelist Miles Fanning and his orphaned young fan, Pamela Tarn, is, given the differences in age and status between the two central players, about the nature of power, rather than the nature of love. Submitted: on 27th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Aldous Huxley · Nature Of · Novelist · PamelaBest Albums of the Decade, 29-20 There were a lot of great records that came out from 2000-2009. Here are 101 of them, delivered in manageable multiple chunks over the next week or so. BSC's Matt Cibula breaks the entries down, and tells you why it mattered and what alternative albums by the same artist might have been used instead. Check out 29-20 after the jump! Related posts:Best Albums of the Decade, 101-90 Best Albums o... Submitted: on 1st Jan 2010 Tags: · The · What · Artist · WhatPortfolio Launches Science Imprint Named Current Today Penguin's Portfolio imprint launched Current, a new imprint for science books--hoping to bring science titles to a general audience. Portfolio and Sentinel publisher Adrian Zackheim will helm the new science imprint as well--using the marketing and publicity resources at Portfolio for the new imprint. The imprint expects to publish between five to eight titles a year. Zackheim had this ... Submitted: on 10th Mar 2010 Tags: · marketing · Science · The · Current · Publish · Publisher · Science Books · TitlesWriting a Science Fiction Story Grade 6 In my offline life, I am a middle school teacher. Sometimes I come across little gems of information that pertain to science fiction and or fantasy, such as this beauty – a worksheet designed to help a 6th grader (10-12 year olds for you non-US folks) write a science fiction story that is found in ... Submitted: on 4th Jan 2010 Tags: · information · Science · Fantasy · Fiction · Fiction Story · Science · Science Fiction · Science Fiction Story · Write · WritingStephen Toulmin obituary Philosopher who was a founding father of argumentation theory Though Stephen Toulmin, who has died aged 87, was initially famous as one of the leading proponents of the "good reasons" approach in ethics, and went on to write about reasoning, science, philosophy of science and the history of ideas, he was ultimately better known in the US field of communication, and in computer science, than in phi... Submitted: on 10th Jan 2010 Tags: · Science · The · Died · Famous · History · Obituary · The · Write
