about time! that was seemingly much too difficult, but now, you should be able to make your opinion known by signing into the comments by either using your disqus account or your facebook account.

There is an important video making the rounds on science and political blogs that i think you will appreciate and i feel it’s important for people on both sides of many debates. 

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I got so tired of trying to explain to people how Dorkbot was an amazing time, so my friend and I took the initiative to get it captured for the net. This is totally an altruistic effort (because giving makes you feel good, people!). I really want people to see how much fun is going on in the avant garde community of science, technology and art. So, pretty soon, i will be posting video of the second to last Dorkbot of the season.

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Lots of events this week.  you’ve got a bacon lovers event, free markets, music, coyote memorials, a reverse beer crawl (where you help a bar move). check them out

Mating season has begun, and i can’t think of a better way to figure out your strategy for success than to listen to Radiolab’s discussion OF ALL THINGS SPERM. (sorry egg, you kinda get the short end of this stick…. Can we still be friends?)

my favorite two words from this podcast? SUGAR ROOM.

You can listen to the entire show here.

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I had a meandering conversation with ScienceLife contributor JC recently on the use of the statement “I believe” and the term “gut”. His understanding was that I (as a person who uses a life strategy of observation, the scientific method, skeptism, partial self-doubt in my own limited experience, a fetishization of balance, and respect for opposing viewpoints, to come to my own understandings)  should never say, “I believe”. His supposition was that by using the word belief meant that I could not be using any of these processes and consequently, I denied that I could be wrong.

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disclosure: I did outreach and media consultation work for the movie last year. I have been dying to know what a general audience would think of the documentary Naturally Obsessed: The making of a scientist. I know for me, it was a very personal and emotional viewing; those lab feelings of frustration, camaraderie and fun poured out fast and often. I always felt that it had the chance to be received well, and I am glad someone over at the Washington Post agrees: (continue reading…)