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Category Archives: Philanthropy
Light in the darkness.
A colleague of Super Sally’s forwarded her this*:
It’s funny because it’s true, and the pain isn’t just from laughing so hard.
Blogging, philanthropy, and commerce. (Oh my!)
I realize that I forgot to mention here that I’ve been writing posts on the Invitrogen-sponsored group blog What’s New in Life Science Research. The blog is hosting discussions about stem cells, cloning, biodefense, and genetically modified organisms. (The cloning discussion just started yesterday.) As you might guess, I’m primarily blogging about the ethical dimensions of these biotechnologies. We’d love to have you get involved with the conversation.
In other news:
DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: last day.
This is the last day of Blogger Challenge 2008.
You have mere hours left to give to our challenges and get in on Seed’s prize drawing (which includes that spiffy iPod Touch).
Blogger Challenge 2008 thank-you poem: ethics.
Reader Patrick made a generous donation to my challenge, and wrote:
I want to thank you for the posts on Ethics. It is a subject that I feel is mostly neglected during a scientist’s formal education. We end up learning by example (not always good), but it should be a required course for everyone with an advanced degree.
Patrick requested a haiku on ethics … but so far, I’ve been having trouble putting something meaningful into 17 syllables. So, I am hopeful that a villanelle about ethics will suffice.
Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: chemistry.
Regular reader Duke (who this blogger knows as “Dad”) made a generous contribution to my challenge and requested sprog art and a limerick on the subject of chemistry. (Like my mom, he indicated that this donation was to go to the “NO TATTOO” fundraising total.)
Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: astronomy.
Regular commenter Super Sally (who this blogger knows as “Mom”) made a generous contribution to my challenge and requested sprog art and a limerick on the subject of astronomy. (She also indicated that this donation was to go to the “NO TATTOO” fundraising total.)
If only I had a fancy overhead projector with which to show my gratitude …
Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: memory.
Ewan made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge and, as he did last year, he requested a poem illustrated by the sprogs on the subject of memory.
It turns out that drawing “memory” is pretty challenging! However, the sprogs worked out some ways to represent the concept of memory more concretely. So, we offer a poem, some illustration, and our thanks to Ewan:
Blogger Challenge 2008: funds from Seed and a chance to vote on which propsal should get the money.
By now you’ve probably seen the news that Seed has kicked in $15,000 to fund projects in our Blogger Challenge slates. We are, as always, thrilled at our Overlords’ generosity.
This year, though, rather than applying the money at the end of the drive, we have a situation where each blog with an active challenge has been given control of a $715 giving credit at DonorsChoose. In other words, we get to decide how to use this windfall to help fund classroom projects … and to get more readers involved in funding them.
So I’m going to see if I can get some audience participation from you on where to direct these funds.
Blogger Challenge update (day 21): running the numbers.
On the East Coast, the sun is rising on day 21 of Blogger Challenge 2008. With only 10 days left in the drive, it seems like a good time to check how the ScienceBloggers with challenges are making out. Thus, I present the “Top Six” standings to date: