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Computer scientist and pioneer of high-speed molecular dynamics simulations to speak at Carolina David E. Shaw’s special-purpose supercomputer could help researchers understand malfunctions underlying many diseases. CHAPEL HILL, NC–Understanding how protein molecules move could resolve longstanding scientific questions and help … Continue reading
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ScienceWriters 2012 – Oct. 26-30
North Carolina is going to be the proud host of the ScienceWriters 2012 meeting, Oct. 26-30 at the Raleigh Convention Center and environs. http://www.sciencewriters2012.org/ I hope all of you can be involved in some way. (Program details, so far:http://www.sciencewriters2012.org/about) Please … Continue reading
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“GlobalClimate Change: A Primer” with Dr. Orrin Pilkey
Carolina Science Café “GlobalClimate Change: A Primer” with Dr. Orrin Pilkey Thursday, Feb. 2, 6 p.m. Back Bar, Top of the Hill restaurant, Chapel Hill Is climate change a real issue? How could it impact life in North Carolina? Dr. … Continue reading
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Upcoming Events from the local American Medical Writers Association
How do you market yourself as a freelancer? January 26 | 6:30pm | An Cuisine, 2800 Renaissance Park Place, Cary Join us as Tara Hun-Dorris, owner of THD Editorial, Inc., and the publisher of the Peer Referral Network Web site … Continue reading
Watch This Space – ScienceWriters 2012!
UPDATED – Dec. 19, 2011 to reflect policy on admission to both conferences. (see below) SCONCs and friends: We’re next in line to host ScienceWriters 2012, a joint session combining the annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers … Continue reading
American Scientist Pizza Lunch – 10/25
Misha Angrist is a geneticist and writer on the faculty at Duke University who in 2007 was the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church’s Personal Genome Project. Yep, his entire genome was sequenced and is now a public document. … Continue reading
Win a travel award for best evolution-themed blog post
Application deadline: December 1, 2011 Are you a blogger who is interested in evolution? For the third year in a row, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is offering two travel awards to attend ScienceOnline2012, a science communication conference to … Continue reading
Doing Science in the Open
You’re invited to a talk on October 4 by Michael Nielsen, who will be speaking on Doing Science in the Open. Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation, and recently has been working on a book called Reinventing Discovery and advocating … Continue reading
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From the Vault: SCONC Celebrates Darwin’s 200th Birthday
From 20 November 2009: In what was a long overdue celebration, the Science Communicators of North Carolina headed to the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NASCent) to celebrate the birthday (and publication of The Origin of Species) of Charles Darwin. SCONC … Continue reading
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Rob Dunn at the NC Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh
Oh man, am I on a roll with the posts today. I first saw Rob Dunn during one of the American Scientist’s Pizza Lunch when he was talking about his first book. He now has a second and is at … Continue reading
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