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How can one escape the moral dilemma that is doing some impressive scientific party tricks for kids involving lit matches and candles without simultaneously contradicting years of teaching them not to play with matches?
Egon Willighagen liked this
Solution is simple: don't teach them not to play with matches, teach them not to get burned.
- Egon Willighagen
I'm pretty sure there is no way to teach boys that playing with fire isn't fun.
- Richard Akerman
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@Egon Makes sense!
- David Bradley
@Richard Yes, my son at 15 is already a pyromaniac like his maternal grandfather...
- David Bradley
The underlying wisdom is to teach them *why* playing with matches is dangerous... and learning them to question the why behind anything is the best education you can given them.
- Egon Willighagen
Yeah, I do realise...I was kind of joking having just posted that video showing the guy doing tricks with little matches - http://www.sciencebase.com/science...
- David Bradley
sciencebase - Swinging Sultanas or the Sultans of Swing - SoundCloud - http://soundcloud.com/science...
A quasi-punked up steam-driven version of the only truly great Dire Straits track - Sultans of Swing.
- David Bradley
Twitter Lists - New York Times - http://nytimes.com/twitter
My Scientwist list on Twitter was featured on the New York Times website. Check out the Science --> general category. And, don't forget to follow the list, eh? The list has 500 members (the max possible) but I also run archaeo, bio, chem, physics lists... It is currently at 223 followers and #103 on Listorious, would love to get that follower count to 300 by the end of the year and push us up to the top 50. Please join. http://twitter.com/science...
- David Bradley
Hoping scientwists will spare a few minutes and ten pence to help us out in getting an ITV/Lottery grant: http://www.facebook.com/#...
link sends me nowhere :)
- Kubke
Works fine from this end - http://www.facebook.com/pages...
- David Bradley
Weird. Redirects to my page or login page.
- Kubke
Does it work if you're already logged in?
- David Bradley
Homeopathy really doesn't work - http://www.sciencebase.com/science...
Homeopathy isn't even as good as snake oil, it's far too dilute to be a sugar solution, and as for the notion of complex homeopathic remedies, well if they are real and concentrated aren't they simply herbal remedies...?
- David Bradley
HazChem Social Media Icons - http://www.sciscoop.com/hazchem...
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Social media icons for chemists
- David Bradley
Imaging Storm Photography & Sir Humphry Davy at the Ri - http://imagingstorm.co.uk/sir-hum...
photography, science, humphry davy, Ri, Royal Institution - photo by DB
- David Bradley
Twitter respect ratio for science - http://www.sciscoop.com/twitter...
Work out your twitter respect ratio and then compared it to the scientific twitterati...just for fun...
- David Bradley
Twitter Lists of Health and Science | Dr Shock MD PhD - http://www.shockmd.com/2009...
Healthy and scientific Twitter lists
- David Bradley
Finding Skin Disease Pictures on the Web - http://networkedblogs.com/p173795...
Finding skin disease pictures on the web, what better way to spend a morning...
- David Bradley
IEEE Spectrum: Capturing Sound with Smoke and Lasers - http://spectrum.ieee.org/video...
Smoke and lasers to replace mechanical diaphragm in microphone, perfect for prog rock and heavy metal singers
- David Bradley
Scientwists Twitter List by David Bradley on Listorious - http://listorious.com/science...
500 science types on Twitter, compiled by David Bradley Science Writer - http://twitter.com/sciencebase
- David Bradley
Coming to Twitter: Create Sharable Lists of Users - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Could the scientwist list become "official"? #science Should we start a campaign? http://j.mp/4t1ErO HT @BoraZ [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
@BoraZ Perhaps it should be coupled with that at http://sciencepond.com/ somehow?
- Daniel Mietchen
I now have access to Twitter lists, it doesn't look like there's an easy way to import the scientwist list...need someone with API skills...
- David Bradley
the issue with lists is you can only add people you follow, and lists are owned by individual users
- Richard Akerman
you can add people you don't follow to your lists
- Bora Zivkovic
I assume there is a large overlap between David's list and http://sciencepond.com/ list. Is there anyone on http://sciencepond.com/ that is NOT also on David's list? It is unfortunate, but the Twitter lists have to be built manually (for now, at least). It's a pain, but once done, lists are amazingly useful.
- Bora Zivkovic
Sweet solution to energy production - http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewIte...
Sugarcane biomass waste product from sugar industry in developing world could be used in renewable energy production. Sweet.
- David Bradley
ResearchBlogging.org News & Blog Archive & Editor's selections: autumn leaves, relativistic rockets, galaxy-size telescopes, and human origins - http://researchblogging.org/news...
Fall foliage and much more catch the editor's eye on ResearchBlogging.org
- David Bradley
Chemistry really is cooking - http://www.sciscoop.com/chemist...
Chemistry really is cooking and cooking is all about chemistry. Just ask Harold McGee et al...
- David Bradley
You knew that, right? - http://www.sciencetext.com/you-kne...
Tips and tricks even the most savvy computer user may not be aware of...
- David Bradley
Cornell's "Facebook for scientists" http://www.google.com/hostedn... Dilution of services (Double fail: US biomeds only) (via @mrgunn RT @boraz)
Eventually connect scientists worldwide? thanks a lot from new zealand. Twats.
- Kubke
That's a bit strong...but I do get your point. Interviews and responses to my recent post on social networks for scientists would suggest that scientists don't really want or need them anyway...
- David Bradley
Yes it is strong. Science is a worldwide endeavour, limiting access to national borders is (in my opinion) absurd. It implicitly suggests that "foreigners" have nothing to contribute.
- Kubke
I agree with the sentiment, I just don't like the use of expletives in public forums.
- David Bradley
I apologise, it was not my intention to offend.
- Kubke
I think this 12M could have been spend in a much better way. Creating islands is *not* web2.0, nor what the semantic web is about. Congrats to the team for managing to get this grant!
- Egon Willighagen
With this amount of money, I do not quite understand why the restrict to country... also looking forward to there FOAF use...
- Egon Willighagen
Maybe I'm too sensitive, it's not like I don't swear offline, but not in mixed company. The word you used is superficially just a word for a fool, but read the English dictionary definition...it's definitely a bit stronger than that.
- David Bradley
Gen-F Scientists Ignoring Social Networking - http://www.sciencebase.com/science...
Endre Sebestyen, Cameron Neylon and Jean-Claude Bradley liked this
already time for another Gen name?
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Heheheh...I was trying to be clever, clever with that Gen-F (as in Generation Facebook, but also as in Generation F***
- David Bradley
now that's a bold statement Dave!
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Last week I suggested students to put their papers on google docs so I could comment on the work before they handed in, to which the general response was "google what"?
- Kubke
This seems to correlate with the lack of awareness of RSS in my experience.
- Peter Miller
Heh...wasn't meant to be...was just meant to be a joke...
- David Bradley
My son's (average, nothing particularly special) high school has it's own Google system, so he knows all about Google Docs, maybe his is the generation that won't balk at the idea Kubke.
- David Bradley
I asked my cheminfo retrieval class how many blogged and was disappointed that got 0/30. Most of them had never edited a wiki either.
- Jean-Claude Bradley
I gave one of my Google Wave invites to my son... he's in primary school. At about the age I started programming BASIC on the Spectravideo SV-328... I hope he will write his own robot :)
- Egon Willighagen
I'm sure he will Egon. My daughter's final report from pre-school mentioned "good mouse control" and I assume they weren't talking murine hypnotism...
- David Bradley
I got slated on a list when I told a bunch of science and technology journalists that we shouldn't be wasting each others' time regurgitating the Twitter FAQ on the list when someone wanted handholding through the registration procedure...you wouldn't expect a cookery list to explain how to use a knife would you or a carpentry list to explain what a chisel is?
- David Bradley
I wish I get a gen of students like your son David!
- Kubke
I think it's Egon's son who is going to be the "waving" pioneer. Still waiting for my official Wave invite...maybe they just don't want too many journos hacking at it...
- David Bradley
xkcd - A Webcomic - Purity - http://xkcd.com/435/
But isn't literature just another form of applied psychology? If so, then it also fits the heirarchy at http://xkcd.com/435/ [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
Twitter Spammers - http://www.sciencetext.com/twitter...
Twitter Spammers - http://bit.ly/15Oje7 #tech blog post [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
Ten Digital Marketing Ideas Pharma Companies Will Never Try (But Should) | Dose of Digital - http://www.doseofdigital.com/2009...
10 digital marketing ideas pharma companies will never try, but should. http://bit.ly/17QBQx RT @DianaVermeij [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
Gone Phishing - http://www.sciencetext.com/gone-ph...
The Twitter decision flow chart - Holy Kaw! - http://holykaw.alltop.com/the-twi...
@noelleee Thanks for highlighting my Twitter decision flowchart. It really was a bit tongue-in-cheek although... http://post.ly/7R3B [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics - Press Release - http://nobelprize.org/nobel_p...
Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for fiber optics and digital imaging. #physics #nobel09 http://j.mp/U5FSs [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage - http://www.sciencetext.com/photosk...
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage - http://bit.ly/KSXcY #tech blog post [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
Sniffer, E coli Clues, Graphene — Sciencebase Science Blog - http://www.sciencebase.com/science...
Sniffer, E coli Clues, Graphene: http://bit.ly/lNHjz #science blog post [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
How to Install WordPress on your Local Computer in 5 Minutes - WordPress on Windows - http://www.labnol.org/softwar...
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Install WordPress on your own computer, test-drive themes, plugins, tweaks, and your backup database - http://bit.ly/BCQ7l [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
Nobelprize.org - http://nobelprize.org/
Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009 - http://nobelprize.org/ Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for telomeres and telomerase. [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
emergentuniverse.org - http://www.emergentuniverse.org/#...
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Check out the wonders of the emergent universe - http://j.mp/102qY7 [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
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