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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 58,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 68,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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It took some time, but it was worth the wait. The network that everyone’s been waiting for is now live.

My long post on The Network Central blog, in which I introduce all blogs/bloggers is here.

The official press release is here.

Mariette DiChristina’s (Editor-in-Chief) welcome post is on the @ScientificAmerican blog here.

A brief announcement on the Observations blog is here.

The blogs homepage is here.

My own blog, A Blog Around The Clock, has also moved to a new place. The new URL is: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/

And the RSS feed is: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/feed/

See you all over there….

New posts today. Two on the Guest Blog. One last night:

Paris: City of Light and Cosmic Rays by Greg Gbur.

and one this morning:

Scientists Discover that Antimicrobial Wipes and Soaps May be Making You (and Society) Sick by Rob Dunn.

And on Expeditions blog:

Dinosaur Egg Clutches, Not as Simple as Chicken Eggs by Hannah Susorney and Christi Lorang

As always, read, enjoy, comment, and share….

Today on the SciAm Guest Blog, two posts:

Too Hot to Handle: The Dangers of Running in the Heat by By Caitlyn Zimmerman

Too Hard for Science? Off-the-Shelf Organs By Charles Q. Choi

Four today:

Overprescribing the Healthy Elderly: Why Funding Research and Drug Safety is Paramount By Laura Newman

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Cowboy hats and countesses By Lucas Brouwers

Lindau Nobel Meeting–The future of biomedicine By Christine Ottery

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Glowing brainbows By Lucas Brouwers

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On the Guest Blog:

Beauty Pageants and the Misunderstanding of Evolution Meet….Again by Susanna Speier

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Joke van Bemmel, Chromatin and Epigenetics by Christine Ottery

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Evolutionary Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn by Lucas Brouwers

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Peter Agre and Torsten Wiesel: Nobel laureate scientific diplomacy builds bridges by Christine Ottery

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Buckminsterfullerene and the Third Man by Lucas Brouwers

And on the Expeditions blog:

Squid Studies: “It is not down in any map; true places never are” — Herman Melville, Moby Dick by William Gilly

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Three posts on the Guest Blog today:

A Journey in Sharing Science: From the Lab to Social Media and Beyond by Jason A. Tetro

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Sentences that win Nobel prizes by Lucas Brouwers

Lindau Nobel Meeting–If HIV is attacked, it adapts by Lucas Brouwers

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On the Guest Blog:

Education Reform in the Wrong Direction: High-Stake Consequences for New York State Teachers and Their Students by Jeanne Garbarino

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Monday’s Researcher: Madhurima Benekareddy by Christine Ottery

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Stressed Mind, Stressed DNA by Christine Ottery

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Beef Bug to Blame for Bowel Cancer? by Christine Ottery

Lindau Nobel Meeting–Ada Yonath: Climbing the Everest with polar bears by Lucas Brouwers.

On Observations blog:

Are Violent Video Games Corrupting Children? Supreme Court Says States Cannot Decide by Larry Greenemeier

Sequencing of Tasmanian Devil Genome Suggests New Attack on Contagious Cancer, Clues for Conservation by Katherine Harmon

And on the Expeditions blog:

Squid Studies: Correction, Connections and Calamar by William Gilly

As always – read, enjoy, comment, share…

On the Guest Blog, three posts today (so far!):

Stick to the Science by Michael E. Mann

Lindau Nobel Meeting–The Cross-Pollination of Ideas by Christine Ottery

Too Hard for Science? Experimenting on Children Like Lab Rats by Charles Q. Choi, interviewing Steven Pinker.

On Cross-Check:

Defending Stephen Jay Gould’s Crusade against Biological Determinism by John Horgan

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On the Guest Blog:

Close Encounters of Science and Medicine by Iwona Fijalkowska

On Expeditions blog:

We Visit Fishy Relatives, Geology Wonderland by Ashley Poust and Hannah Susorney

On Extinction Countdown:

Platypus Threatened by Climate Change by John Platt

On Solar at Home:

Twatter? Phasebook? My(Green)Space? Can Social Networking Be Harnessed for Energy Conservation?

On the Guest Blog:

#WSF11: The Invisible Language of Smell by Bora Zivkovic and Perrin Ireland

On Expeditions blog:

The South Pacific Islands Survey–One Illness Threatens a Cook Islander’s Way of Life by Lindsey Hoshaw

Go to Landfill, Find a Dinosaur Footprint! by Christi Lorang

On Anecdotes From The Archive:

Hold Your Horses with Electricity by Mary Karmelek

On Cross-Check:

Cool Science Classics for Summer Reading, Part 2 by John Horgan

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June 2011 issue of JCOM – Journal of Science Communication – (issue 2, volume 10) is online.

Plenty of fodder for blogging! Let me know if you comment on any of these papers.

Where is public communication of science going?

We have published this issue of JCOM while the call for papers is open for the twelfth Public Communication of Science and Technology conference. The biennial meeting will be held in April 2012 and for the first time in Italy: the hosting city in Florence. The 2012 edition of the PCST conference is being held after more than twenty years of growth of the network of scholars that founded it and the expansion of its boundaries outside the European context from which it was created. JCOM is a part of this network, made up not only of individuals but also of organisations, university departments, journals, national conferences and so on.

Science as theatre: a New Zealand history of performances and exhibitions

In colonial times in New Zealand the portrayal of science to the public had a sense of theatre, with nineteenth and early twentieth century grand exhibitions of a new nation’s resources and its technological achievements complemented by spectacular public lectures and demonstrations by visitors from overseas and scientific ‘showmen’. However, from 1926 to the mid-1990s there were few public displays of scientific research and its applications, corresponding to an inward-looking science regime presided over by the Government science agency, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The subsequent development of science centres with their emphasis on visitor participation has led to an increase in the audience for science and a revival of theatricality in presentation of exhibitions, demonstration lectures, café scientifiques, and science-related activities.

What are the features of non-expert opinions on regenerative medicine? Opinion analysis of workshop participants

Regenerative medicine (RM) has the potential to strongly impact on society. To determine non-experts’ impressions of RM, we analyzed opinions obtained from workshops in which participants freely discussed RM. Three major features were apparent. First, non-experts were most concerned with the possible effects of RM after it has been fully realized in society. Second, non-experts expressed concerns not only about RM itself, but also about the governance and operation of the technology. Third, non-experts were not only concerned about direct influences of RM, but also about its potential indirect influences. These identified features are likely to be controversial issues when RM is introduced into society. It is important to promote early discussion of these issues by society as a whole.

From journal to headline: the accuracy of climate science news in Danish high quality newspapers

A significant number of mass media news stories on climate change quote scientific publications. However, the journalistic process of popularizing scientific research regarding climate change has been profoundly criticized for being manipulative and inaccurate. This preliminary study used content analysis to examine the accuracy of Danish high quality newspapers in quoting scientific publications from 1997 to 2009. Out of 88 articles, 46 contained inaccuracies though the majority was found to be insignificant and random. The study concludes that Danish broadsheet newspapers are ‘moderately inaccurate’ in quoting science publications but are not deliberately hyping scientific claims. However, the study also shows that 11% contained confusion of source, meaning that statements originating from press material or other news outlets were incorrectly credited to scientific peer-reviewed publications.

Science and the Internet: be fruitful and multiply?

What role and citizenship has the scientific thought on the web, or rather on the social side of the web? Does it benefit from the debate between peers and with the general public, or else does it only risk to become a monologue? How to deal with the number of instruments the Internet is able to provide in making, discussing and disseminating research? These are some of the questions tackled by the reflections from scholars and experts which were the basis for our debate.

The Internet phenomenon

The Internet has become a worldwide phenomenon. It is undeniable that the Net has forcefully entered everyday life, ceasing to be a useful tool only for a small circle of researchers and academics, to become a new and versatile means of mass communication. And measuring Internet access and calculating the number of Internet users is not easy. By using the domain names registered in the “.it” as an endogenous metric, the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the Italian National Research Council (IIT-CNR) carried out a research on Internet diffusion in Italy taking into account some major categories of users (enterprises, non-profit organizations, individuals, professionals and public bodies) and territorial distribution (nation, macro-area, region and province). This research has made it possible to carry out an initial analysis of the digital divide in Italy.

Access to news on line: myths, risks and facts

Although the debates on the Internet (sceptical, enthusiastic and finally more mature ones) in our country started in the mid 90s, it is only over the past few years that the Internet, especially thanks to social networks, has become a daily practice for millions of Italians. Television still is the main medium to spread information, but as it becomes increasingly cross-bred with the Internet (and other media too), the information-spreading process deeply changes. This creates, also in our country, the preconditions for the development of a web public (an active and connected one), founded on the new practices of multitasking and participatory information.

Social networks, a populated picture

Man, by his very nature, puts things between himself and the environment, turning the latter into a place, a space. He arranges the environment around him on multiple levels, by projecting parts of himself and shaping the frontiers and the horizons that surround, define and represent him. This was learnt a long time ago, but a trace and a memory remain in the way man acts: when mapping reality (both physical reality and the reality explored through digital means), we observe it and find a way through it by adopting behaviours that have always been similar. What has changed in this mapping is the ability to recognise, especially the ability to interpret maps and creatively work them.

Today on the blogs:

On the Guest Blog:

Book Review: The Future of Water by Matthew Garcia.

The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Natural Selection and Evolution, with a Key to Many Complicating Factors by Jeremy Yoder

On the Expeditions blog:

MSU China Paleontology Expedition: Rock Mapping a Challenge for Biology Student by Amanda Wregglesworth

Squid Studies: Changing Seas and Shrinking Squid

Two new posts this morning…

On the Guest Blog:

Stem rust Ug99 – The agricultural bully by Tiffany Stecker.

On the Expeditions blog:

Incredible find in temple museum, harrowing rescue on crumbly mudstone by Betsy Kruk

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Happy Father’s Day!

On the Guest Blog:

Good Dads and Not-So-Good Dads in the Animal Kingdom by David Manly and Lauren Reid.

See more about The Science of Fatherhood.

On the Expeditions blog:

MSU China Paleontology Expedition–Beautiful window serves as escape hatch for baby dinosaur by Betsy Kruk

Fossil hunting in China very different than in Montana by Ashley Poust

Squid Studies: Scientists Seeking and Savoring Squid by William Gilly

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Plenty of interesting stuff on SciAm blogs today, something for everyone:

On the Guest Blog:

Too Hard for Science? Neutrinos from the Big Bang by Charles Q. Choi

On the Expeditions blog:

MSU China Paleontology Expedition–New season starts with division of egg duties, petrified trees, soybean Popsicles by Betsy Kruk

Squid Studies: Back to the Sea of Cortez by William Gilly

On Observations blog:

Leap Seconds May Hit a Speed Bump by Sophie Bushwick

On Extinction Countdown blog:

Arabian Oryx Makes History as First Species to Be Upgraded from “Extinct in the Wild” to “Vulnerable” by John Platt

On Bering in Mind blog:

Female Ejaculation: The Long Road To Non-Discovery by Jesse Bering

As always, read, enjoy, post comments, and share with your friends on social networks…

There are two new blog posts on the #arseniclife saga on the Guest Blog today;

Rosie Redfield – From the shadows to the spotlight to the dustbin – the rise and fall of GFAJ-1

And Marie-Claire Shanahan – Arsenic bacteria have changed science…science education that is

Today, we are also starting a new trip on the Expeditions blog:

New Expedition – MSU student research with dinosaur eggs in China

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Since you last heard from me, there were two new posts on the Guest Blog:

The Power of Theory in Science by Ethan Siegel.

Linking Erosional and Depositional Landscapes by Brian Romans.

And we finished the ‘Problems Without Passports’ series of posts on the Expeditions blog:

Experiential Learning and Communicating by Jim Haw.

Thank you, Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife by me.

As always: read, comment, share….

First, two posts on the Guest Blog:

What bats, bombs, and sharks taught us about hearing by Bradley Voytek, includes old, rare, amazing footage from the original 1940s experiments that established that bats use echo-location!

Stranded whales on the Key Largo shore by Michelle Bialeck.

On Expeditions:

Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife–Looking Ahead byDavid Ginsburg.

On Anecdotes from the Archive:

A Closer Look at New York City’s Tap Water Monsters

On Cross-Check:

Cool Science Classics for Summer Reading by John Horgan.

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Two posts on the Guest Blog today:

Weinergate: Private Records in a Public Age by Krystal D’Costa.

When Cells Discovered Architecture by Jennifer Frazer.

And on the Expeditions blog:

Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife – Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Better by Genivieve McCormick.

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First, more coverage of the World Science Festival, on the Observations blog – The Bezos Scholars Program at the World Science Festival by Bora Zivkovic and Perrin Ireland.

Then, on the Guest Blog, two posts today (and many more to come next week, some delicious stuff to be looking forward to):

Ant Thrills: Seeing Leaf-Cutter Ants through an Artist’s Eyes by Jessica Wapner.

Too Hard for Science? Regaining the Element of Surprise by Charles Q. Choi.

As always: read, enjoy, post comments, and share with your friends on social networks…

Lots of good stuff today!

On the Guest Blog – three posts today:

To Turn Up the Music, Cochlear Implants Need a Software Update by Allison Bland.

It’s Your Virtual Assistant, Doc. Who Is Watson? by Karthika Muthukumaraswamy.

Lindau Nobel meeting – courting Minerva with Ragnar Granit by Lucas Brouwers.

On Expeditions blog:

Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife–Last Child in the Reef by Emilie Moore.

And a cool thought-experiment post on Observations by George Musser:

What Would Happen If Earth and Mars Switched Places?

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Three great posts today!

First this morning, a wonderful longform article by Ed Yong on the Guest Blog – The Renaissance Man: How to Become a Scientist Over and Over Again.

Then, just a few minutes ago, as today is the World Oceans Day, also on Guest Blog – A World Ocean by Kevin Zelnio.

Finally, on the ‘Anecdotes from the Archive’ blog, Mary Karmelek: As the Wheel Turns: Syria’s Past and Present.

Enjoy, comment, share with your friends…

There are two new posts on the Guest Blog today:

Simply Brilliant Science: Creating Healthier Eggs for a Healthier You by Kiyomi Deards.

What Does the New Double-Slit Experiment Actually Show? by Matthew Francis.

And on the Expeditions blog: Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife – Peleliu: 67 Years After the Battle – A New and Different Conflict by Jim Haw.

Read, enjoy, comment, share….

Two posts on the Guest Blog today:

Too Hard for Science? Seeing If 10,000 Hours Make You an Expert by Charles Q. Choi.

And if you missed it this morning – All about Stories: How to Tell Them, How They’re Changing, and What They Have to Do with Science by Lena Groeger and Perrin Ireland.

Also of interest: Why I’m Not Proud of Being Gay by Jesse Bering.

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Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife series is going strong – there are two new posts from the trip on the Expeditions blog this weekend:

Preserving Biodiversity by Wendy Whitcombe.

And Palau Protects and Conserves by Kirstie Jones.

Check them out, comment and share!

On the Expeditions blog: Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife–Making a Difference: Environmental Students in Palau by Patrick Talbott and Gabrielle Roffe.

On the Guest Blog: Thorium, Polonium, Radium, Oh My! Marie Curie and Maggie Gyllenhaal Kick Off the 2011 World Science Festival by Neda Afsarmanesh.

Also on the Guest Blog: Too Hard for Science? Joan Slonczewski–Reshaping Ourselves for Our Changing World by Charles Q. Choi.

And on ‘Cross-Check’, John Horgan has a new post – Don’t Believe Scare Stories about Cyber War.

On the Expeditions blog, early this morning – Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife– Reflections at the Edge of the Pacific Ocean by David Ginsburg.

Last night on the Guest Blog: Does Quantum Mechanics Flout the Laws of Thermodynamics? by Vlatko Vedral.

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Both responding to recent news – landing of the shuttle last night, and new report on safety of cell phones:

Living Interplanetary Space Flight Experiment–or Why Were All the Strange Creatures on the Shuttle Endeavour? by David Warmflash.

Cell Phones, Cancer and the Dangers of Risk Perception by David Ropeik.

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Flew to NYC early this morning, so just catching up. There are some cool new posts on vairous SciAm blogs, posted yesterday and today, that you may be interested in:

Health Reporting and Its Sources By Hadas Shema.

Too Hard for Science? The Genetic Foundations of Intelligence By Charles Q. Choi.

Getting a Little Racy: On Black Beauty, Evolution and the Science of Interracial Sex By Jesse Bering.

Homogenetic Enumeration: A Numerical System Guaranteed to Move You By Mary Karmelek.

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I am moving my homepage (coturnix.org) and blog (blog.coturnix.org) to a new server over the next day or two so the homepage and blog might be down for a short while. This has nothing to do with SciAm – just my own personal homepage maintenance….

There are two new posts on the Expeditions blog – one yesterday, one today – both from the Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife course:

First, Why Palau? by David Ginsburg, one of the instructors.

Then, Catalina Island, by Caitlin Contag, one of the students.

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Back from Winston-Salem, sorry for the delay in posting these…

On the Guest Blog, Charles Choi is having some humorous fun – Too Hard for Science? Freeman Dyson–ESP.

And on Expeditions blog, recovered from sea sickness, Lindsey Hoshaw and the crew are starting to do research – The South Pacific Islands Survey–South Pacific Flotsam.

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Today on the SciAm Guest Blog – Bedbug Revival 2011: What You Need to Know by Amy Maxmen.

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Before we take a break for the summer, join us for one more Pizza Lunch talk.

At noon on Tuesday, May 24, come hear biologist Kendra Sewall discuss how bird calls accomplish more than you might think. A postdoctoral researcher in Steve Nowicki’s lab at Duke, Sewall studies how the calls serve as badges of social identity.

Thanks to a grant from the N.C. Biotechnology Center, American Scientist Pizza Lunch is free and open to science journalists and science communicators of all stripes. Feel free to forward this message to anyone who might want to attend. RSVPs are required (for the slice count) to cclabby@amsci.org

Directions to Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society in RTP, are here.

Yesterday at the Scientific American Guest Blog:

Too Hard For Science? David Brin – Raising Animals to Human Levels of Intelligence By Charles Q. Choi

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You should read Should everyone have access to lifesaving medicines? by David Ng on the SciAm Guest Blog today. Important stuff.

On the Guest Blog, today, see Seafood At Risk: Dispersed Oil Poses a Long-Term Threat by Allie Wilkinson.

Yesterday – Too Hard for Science? Creating naked singularities by Charles Q. Choi

On the Expeditions blog, Victoria Hill continues liveblogging her field research – two new posts this week: The Catlin Arctic Survey: Thermohaline circulation and The Catlin Arctic Survey: A melting ocean.

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There is a new post on the Scientific American Guest Blog today and it is not an April Fool’s prank – it is serious and for real.

Danielle Lee wrote Under-represented and under-served: Why minority role models matter in STEM and you should read, post comments and share with your friends on social networks.

Hear the amazing story of Darwin’s finches when legendary evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant present highlights of their life’s work on Monday, April 11 at 7pm in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences auditorium, downtown Raleigh. Free.

Peter Grant is professor emeritus of zoology, and Rosemary Grant is a retired senior research scholar, both in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton. In their dogged study of a population of birds popularly known as “Darwin’s finches,” the Grants have won renown for detecting and recording evolution in action, and proving and extending the theories of pioneering evolutionist Charles Darwin, work for which they were recently awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize.

For much of the public, the work of the Grants first came to light in Jonathan Weiner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning account of their efforts, “The Beak of the Finch.” Published in 1994, the book detailed the couple’s arduous, yearly six-month stay in tents on Daphne Major, a desolate volcanic island 600 miles west of Ecuador. There, since 1973, they have undertaken what was described in Weiner’s book as one of the most intensive and valuable animal studies ever conducted in the wild.

“We choose a single group of related species for close scrutiny,” the Grants wrote, “and attempt to answer the following questions: Where did they come from, how did they diversify, what caused them to diversify as much as they did (and no more) and over what period of time did this happen?” What the Grants have shown through their relentless study and cataloging of 14 varieties of island finches is how beak size and shape evolve through natural selection within a dramatically changing environment, according to certain mechanisms and conditions.

This presentation is made possible through a partnership between the Museum, North Carolina State University’s WM Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent).

New, Issue 01, march 2011 issue of the Journal of Science Communication is now out. See the Table of Contents – it is Open Access so you can read them all:

The new book
by Daniele Gouthier

The Internet and digital media are changing science books. They change the way readers approach books and change the way books present their contents. …

Theatre to motivate the study of physics
by Marina Carpineti, Michela Cavinato, Marco Giliberti, Nicola Ludwig, Laura Perini

A survey we carried out in upper secondary schools showed that the majority of the students consider physics as an important resource, yet as essentially …

In search of a new public for scientific exhibitions or festivals: the lead of casual visitors
by Fabienne Crettaz von Roten

This article examines the public at a science exhibition or festival and tries to determine whether casual visitors are a means of expanding the audience. …

The use of scientific knowledge in the decision making process of environmental public policies in Brazil
by Maria José Carneiro, Teresa da-Silva-Rosa

The way policy makers mobilize scientific knowledge in order to formulate environmental policies is important for understanding the developmental process of …

Nearly five centuries of science books
by Daniele Gouthier
In four steps – from Renaissance to the dawn of the 20th century – this issue explores some aspects of the history of book sciences, as research and …

Adrian Johns
Science books and networks in the Renaissance. An interview with Adrian Johns

Bruce V. Lewenstein
Scientific books in American culture. An interview with Bruce V. Lewenstein

Paola Govoni
Popularizing science in Italy: a historical perspective. An interview with Paola Govoni

Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
Farmers for the kingdom of Heaven. Agrarian catechisms in southern Italy in the late enlightenment and the limitations of technical publications

We’ve been busy on Scientific American blogs since you last heard from me.

First, on the Guest Blog, there are three new posts.

Last night: Deja vu: What does the Gulf oil spill tell us about the Japanese nuclear crisis? by David Wogan.

Early this morning: Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore’s law apply to solar cells? by Ramez Naam.

Just before noon: Art in the Service of Science: You get what you pay for by Kalliopi Monoyios.

Finally, our Expeditions blog has a new series of dispatches from the field – check out the first introductory post: Destination: Arctic! by Victoria Hill.

As always, read, enjoy, post comments, share the links with your friends…

Done with the AAAS meeting, did my panel this morning, finally getting back online, traveling home tomorrow.

But there is a new post on the Scientific American Guest Blog anyway (viva scheduled posting).

So, go over there and read Ecological opportunity: The seed of evolutionary change in your backyard–and in your veins by Jeremy Yoder….enjoy, comment, share.