Posts Tagged ‘science’
Megalodon and other sharks at Darwin Day
Saturday, February 13, 2010, 8:44 amLast night, braving horrible traffic on the way there, and snow on the way back, I made my way to the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences for the Darwin Day shark lecture co-organized by NESCent and the sneak preview of the Megalodon exhibit which officially opens today.
Ecology, conservation, and restoration of oyster reefs in North Carolina
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 9:10 pmOn Tuesday I went to the monthly pizza lunch at Sigma Xi, featuring a guest lecture by Dr. David B. Eggleston, Professor of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science at North Carolina State University and the Director of Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST).
While Dr.Eggleston conducts research in several areas (and several geographic locationa), in this talk he focused on the ecology, conservation, and restoration of oyster reefs in North Carolina.
RTP Weekahead 12/7
Sunday, December 6, 2009, 11:36 pmEvents taking place the week of Dec. 7 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:
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NESCent panel on intersection of public policy, economics, & evolution
Thursday, November 26, 2009, 4:02 amNESCent Catalysis Meeting, coorganized by the Evolution Institute was on November 13-15, 2009 and several of the participants remained another day and came to NESCent on the 16th to report on the meeting in a form of a panel. The meeting and the panel were organized by David Sloan Wilson, professor of evolution at Binghamton University and one of my newest SciBlings. The other panelists were Dennis Embry, John Gowdy, Douglas Kenrick, Joel Peck, Harvey Whitehouse and Peter Turchin.
RTP Weekahead 10/12
Sunday, October 11, 2009, 5:23 pmEvents taking place the week of Oct. 12 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:
Harnessing the Internet for science
Friday, May 1, 2009, 7:59 pmTen years ago, business and science reporters wrote a lot about Y2K, which was basically the concern that the date change from 1999 to 2000 would shut down the Internet. Instead, the Internet blossomed. A decade later, we’re just beginning to grasp what we should have really been worried about when we entered the 21st century: The Internet’s effects on the flow and distribution of information.
