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Last night I attended the party of the year, and easily the best Christmas bash in town. It was organized in two weeks time by volunteers, managed to pack a …

At the upcoming Science Online ’09 conference, Peggy Kolm and Stephanie Zvan will be hosting a session about the use of science fiction to communicate science. They’re asking science fiction …

Funnier than the Nobel Prizes, the IgNobels highlight research that makes you laugh. The research itself is completely valid and serious, but the topics can be funny. Among this year’s …

Concerned conference attendees at the Perimeter Institute anxiously follow the Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet? website. Has it? Has it now? Let’s refresh it to be …

I’m at the Science in the 21st Century conference at the Perimeter institute. You can listen to the recordings of the talks on PIRSA (they go up a day after …

Alex Palazzo of The Daily Transcript was in town for a job interview and he met some local science bloggers (me, Philip, and John) while he was here. Alex told …