I just got word that the Physics Bus will stop at Fermilab on Sunday, 30 July. Unfortunately, I will not be in town to see it. From their site:

The Physics Bus is our science museum on wheels, and it's taken us on Bus Stops from New Mexico to California ( Read more... )

I had not heard of Famelab before, but I think a nationwide contest to find the best explainers of science is a cool idea. If they had it in my own nation, maybe I'd audition!

Podcasts here.(For that matter, there are a number of city "science festivals" in the UK-- the finals event was part of the Cheltenham Science Festival-- but none I'm aware ( Read more... )

The new issue of Symmetry hit the streets. In it is Simon Singh's account of the mock feud he got into with pop singer Katie Melua.

Originally, the song went:
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I've learned of a small rundown of comics about science at the site of some space scientists who produced one.


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From Fermilab Today:

Education Office Offers Family Open House, Feb. 19
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Just learned that my old packet-pal Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer, has a blog!

Check it out if you can't get enough of Bad Astronomy.

Over at bibliotrope's place:

Here's a headline that could be improved by "scare" quotes:

Kansas School Board OKs Science StandardsFrom the first paragraph/sentence: "...the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution ( Read more... )

Creationist filksongs. Channel 10 of my cable system. Right now.

I think I just missed a lecture on dinosaurs and Genesis from the author of several children's books on the subject.

In Nature, an account of an American Film Institute workshop for scientists who want to write screenplays. The goal is to improve the image of science in public entertainment.

(Nice to see that one of the speakers was Martha Coolidge, director of Real Genius, and another was Prof. Martin Gundersen, who was a technical adviser on the film and ( Read more... )