Earlier this year I received an award from the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). AIBS is a scientific society of life science educators and researchers, K-12 teachers and college professors, dedicated to sharing biological discovery and knowledge. AIBS recognized and promoted the achievements of underrepresented minorities, including persons with disabilities, in the biological sciences. The students are competitively selected to be part of the AIBS Diversity Scholars program. This year, I was selected as the 2009 Diversity Scholar, the last one it seems.
Though the Diversity Scholars Award has ended, …

Carnivals are like online Zines, you know, those independent creative publications you created in high school or college. Carnivals are a collection of blog articles about a topic. Like a magazine, there is a publication date – some are published quarterly, monthly, or weekly ; an editor – which usually rotates among interested parties; and a theme.
I participate in a few Carnivals (see my bottom side bar). It helps me share my work with larger audiences. It’s also a great way for non-bloggers to get into blogs and see how …

Science Face to Face is a series of one on one interviews between Science Friday® radio host Ira Flatow and renowned scientists from across the United States. These events are free and held on college campuses in the New York area. A webcast will also be available to watch live TODAY. At 7:30pm join Ira Flatow in a discussion with neurobiologist and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Eric Kandel at the New School, at 65 West 11th Street. Visit the webcast website for more information.

Welcome to the new TalkingScience! TalkingScience.org has been completely redesigned and reorganized in order to bring you the world of science in a cleaner and more concise way. The new website uses the excellent Arthemia theme for Wordpress to tighten our integration with social media networks like Twitter and Facebook, while making it easier for you, the reader, to access our content. The new theme provides a visual sampling of the website and previews five featured blogs to delve into on the main page.
But the new TalkingScience is more than …

Super Saturday! is a free event for families and children on Saturday, April 4, 2009. Enjoy a fun-filled day of hands-on science and math activities and demonstrations. Learn the physics of how things fly and how hula hoops work, and the biology of how our bodies move and function, among other amazing things. Parents and children will enjoy exploring the science that we see in our daily life!
See what you can do at Super Saturday!

- See a cow eye dissection
- Learn how 3-D works
- Make your own mini-helicopter and …

By Talia Page
Ask any non-New Yorker what comes to mind when they think of New York City, and you’ll likely get one of three responses: Wall Street, Broadway, or the Statue of Liberty. These cover important aspects of the city: money, theater/art, and the promise of freedom. But what about science?
In 2004 Mayor Bloomberg and Andrew Alper, President of the Economic Development Corporation, unveiled a plan for a commercial science center in a city-owned chunk area of Kips Bay that would attract the world’s top scientists. If successful, the …

By Nikki Saint Bautista
When you think of your environment, what do you see? I imagine myself walking out the front door and facing the morning traffic on the Staten Island Expressway. I hear the farting noises the trucks and buses make as they climb the ramp off the service road. A plane whizzes by and the ground bumbles. Exactly fifteen steps from my front door take me beyond the front lawn onto the sidewalk. If I walk west along the service road, I hit a patch of trees, a mini-forest …

Sharing is caring right? Well, collaboration may be cool at school, but cross-corporation communication is a concern to many. So, is open science good for research and/or good for researchers? Then answer is what answers nearly always are: it depends.
My friend Bora Zivkovic was on a Columbia University panel to discuss this issue, along with Barry Canton (founder of OpenWetWare wiki and  Gingko BioWorks ), and Jean-Claude Bradley (Associate Prof. at Drexel and founder of UsefulChem). Ultimately, each panelist agreed that, in most situations, open access to information is a …

By Justin Peacock

Standing at 6′7″ tall, Will Allen’s height is obviously one of the first things people notice about the CEO and founder of Growing Power, Inc. I had the privilege of hearing Allen speak at a Yale University sponsored Sustainable Food seminar. The aspects of Allen that stuck out most to me were not his physical height, but the height of his character. Symbols of that character were his wide grin, faded blue hoodie, and cracked, rough hands. Shaking those hands, I caught a glimpse of the type …

By Stephanie Levi
I had the pleasure of hearing Al Gore speak at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference last week. Here are the Cliff’s Notes of his talk. I would have loved to post video of it for you, but recording of sessions was not permitted and I’m no rule breaker, so here is the next best thing. Trust me, it was excellent.