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All you have to do is make a donation to one (or more) of those challenges, then forward your email confirmation from DonorsChoose to scienceblogs@gmail.com. I’m told that at present, the chances for each entrant in the drawing of being drawn for a prize are very, very good.
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The clock’s ticking — why are you still here?
Blogger Challenge 2007: how’s your team doing?
The 2007 DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge is in its last few days, which means there may be enough data to start identifying trends as to which ScienceBlogs readers are the most generous:
In case your need for nerd poetry today is not fully satisfied …
… The Ridger has posted the illustrated sonnet about Saturn’s rings that the sprogs and I crafted as a “thank you” for donating to a project in my DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge.
It’s not too late to get your own sprog artwork, or nerd poetry, or sprog-illustrated nerd poetry — and to help teachers and students in the process!
Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art + poem: reptiles.
Jennifer is another reader who made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge. She wrote:
I felt like I definitely needed
a piece of art work from your very talented crew. … I’d like
something in the style of Dr. Seuss about reptiles with some
accompanying artwork.
I’ve done my best to get my Seuss on. (This is one of those instances where it’s clear how much more talented my offspring are than I!) This goes out to Jennifer with our sincere thanks for her donation.
Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art + poem: the brain.
Ewan made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge and wrote me the following:
The concept of a sprog-illustrated nerdy poem was especially appealing… Could I please request a topic of ‘brain’ (ideally,
hippocampus, but that seemed a little potentially overdemanding)?
The sprogs and I are delighted to oblige. They have drawn some brains, while I offer a villanelle about the hippocampus — along with our thanks to Ewan for his generous donation!
Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art: insects.
Dan Hough, a regular ScienceBlogs reader and the webmaster for Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education, made a generous donation to my challenge. He requested some insect artwork from the sprogs, and said, “Please tell them from me I think they are really cool!”
Dan, the sprogs think you are the cool one for lending your support to teachers who are trying to make learning exciting for their students. Here’s the artwork with our heartfelt thanks.
Friday Sprog Blogging: matter matters we need to pursue.
The Free-Ride offspring are magnets for questions not easily answered in the framework of the grade school science curriculum. This means, I think, that the Free-Ride parents are going to have to work out some age-appropriate ways to offer explanations. And I have a feeling my molecular model kit is only going to take us so far.
For example:
Dispatch from SERMACS: surreal moments.
As mentioned before, I’m currently at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (or SERMACS if you’re in a hurry) in Greenville, South Carolina. I got in last night, just in time to catch the last 25 minutes or so of Dick Zare’s plenary address on “The Chemistry of Propulsion”.
Where I arrived was when he put up the slide that asked, “Is Global Warming Happening?”
An open letter to the ACS.
Like Revere and the folks at The Scientist, I received the series of emails from “ACS insider” questioning the way the American Chemical Society is running its many publications — and in particular, how compensation of ACS executives (and close ties to the chemical industry) might influence editorial policies at ACS publications.
The ACS disputes the details of the anonymous emails, so I won’t have much to say about those. But as an ACS member (who is, at present, participating in an ACS regional meeting), I’d like to ask the Society for some clarity.
The “I rank number one on Google” meme (and dark mutterings about technology).
David Ng at The World’s Fair wants me to play along before I head to the airport. Here are the rules:
I’d like to suggest a meme, where the premise is that you will attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into google (preferably google.com, but we’ll take the other country specific ones if need be), you’ll find that you are returned with your blog as the number one hit.
This takes a bit of effort since finding these statements takes a little trial and error, but I’m going to guess that this meme might yield some interesting insight on the blog in question.
To make it easier, we’ll let you use a search statement enclosed in quotations – this is just to increase your chances of turning up as number one, but if you happen to have a website with the awesome traffic to command the same statement without quotations, then flaunt it baby! Of course, once you find your 5 statements, pass the meme on to others.
Where I come out on top: