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 Send to email | Doing Science In WoW [WoW] in WoW Mmo Science Warcraft World of Warcraft |  By Leigh Alexander
el 25-Jun-2008 |  Here's something fun: a bunch of scientists decided to get together and do some field research, and assembled a conference. In Azeroth. They published their findings in the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine, and it's an entertaining read:
Thus began the first scientific conference held in Azeroth, the online universe inhabited by millions of people playing World of Warcraft. Anyone who has been part of a conference's organizing committee knows that some glitches and mishaps are just unavoidable. And as usual, the problems that actually did occur were unforeseen. It was a success nonetheless. By the end of the third day, a real scientific exchange took place, I married one of the conference participants, and within an hour of the wedding, we were all dead.
There are a lot of feel-good stories circulating about how scientists are using online games to study behavior, but this one is a lot of fun. Slaying Monsters For Science [Science, thanks Gumblackwood!]
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 | Thoughts From Kansas |  Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
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| Science Education | | A teacher at Netroots Nation asks what can be done to improve science education, and to get principles of science as a process back into classes within the NCLB framework.
Gore responded briefly that it is "really harmful that science education… [has] been pushed out of the experience our children have in schools in order to teach to a test."
Pelosi answered by talking s [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Jul-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Easy does it | | A recent edition of Science featured a worrying paper by University of Chicago sociologist James A. Evans titled Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship. Seeking to learn more about how research is conducted online, Evans scoured a database of 34 million articles from science journals. He discovered a paradox: as journals begin publishing online, making it easier for re [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Aug-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Doing Science In WoW [WoW] | | Here's something fun: a bunch of scientists decided to get together and do some field research, and assembled a conference. In Azeroth. They published their findings in the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine, and it's an entertaining read: Thus began the f [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Jun-2008 by Leigh Alexander in WoW Mmo Science Warcraft World of Warcraft
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| What Does It Mean to Be Human? | | What does it mean to be human? And can science illuminate the answers? A star-studded panel of scientists discusses these heady themes at the World Science Festival in New York City.
Wired.com [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Jun-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Texas |  Wednesday night, Ed Brayton and I joined Texas Citizens for Science and Center for Inquiry-Austin for a series of talks about science education in Texas.
Earlier that day, a number [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Jul-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Science says: Game violence makes players relax |  Filed under: CultureThe link between playing violent games and short-term increases in amorphous measures of "aggression" has been well-established by science. Or has it? Develop takes note of a new study being presented today that shows gam [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Apr-2008 by Kyle Orland in aggressionsciencestudyviolenceworld-of-warcraftWoW
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| World Science Festival 2008 NYC (photos) |  MAKE hit the World Science Festival in NYC today, packed with tons of people - the event took over Washington Square park and parts of NYU. For the kids there were lots of hands on exhibits and for adults (and kids) lots of sessions/events/talks - it was so popular the ticketed events were sold out [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Jun-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| "Not a sham": Oppose creationist legislation in Louisiana | | An important principle in first amendment jurisprudence is that government actions must not be undertaken solely for the benefit of religion. In 1987, the Supreme Court considered a law passed by Louisiana that required teachers who presented "evolution-science" to "balance" it with "creation-science." Legislators insisted that the bill had valid secular purposes, but the Supreme Court's majo [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Jun-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Kansan wins Alliance for Science essay contest | | Neal Desai took first place in the contest. Desai is a 10th grader in Kansas City, MO's Pembroke High School, but clearly identifies as a Kansan, and the Alliance for Science assures me he lives in the Sunflower state.
The contest allowed students to address either of two topics: Agriculture and Evolution or Climate and Evolution. Desai's essay addresses agriculture, and especially th [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-May-2008 by Thoughts in Biology
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