CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-06-15 02:55:41 (14 comments, 9 reshares, 10 +1s)

TweetPee - Great idea or waste of money?
TweetPee consists of a sensor and a Twitter alert. The cute little bird-shaped sensor attaches to the front of the diaper. When it senses a change in moisture, it sends you a tweet letting you know it's time to get off of Twitter and attend to business.

Read more: http://goo.gl/pY7kA

h/t to +Kevin Snyder 

2013-06-12 17:55:52 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Have you ever wondered what it's like to give a TEDx talk? How about working at M.I.T.? What sort of excitement comes with working on a project that allows people from across the globe to map neurons through a video game? Come find out when +Buddhini Samarasinghe and +Scott Lewis interview +Amy Robinson!

Buddhini and Scott will be together in San Diego hosting this special Google+ Hangout On Air interview with Amy from +Sebastian Seung's computational neuroscience lab at MIT. 

This Hangout On Air will be broadcast live and recorded to YouTube. If you have any questions or comments for Amy or the hosts, please feel free to leave them here on the event page, through the live Google+ shares, via YouTube or on Twitter using the hashtag #ktcHangout . 

Buddhini's Twitter:@DrHalfPintBuddy
Scott's Twitter:@BaldAstronomer
Amy'sTwi... more »

2013-06-12 12:32:15 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Music Hangouts On Air (formerly the Google+ Open Mic Series) is proud to present a special Australian Edition of our Songwriters Showcase.  Our featured artist for this week is the lovely and very talented
+Meri Amber.  In order to accommodate our friends in Australia, we have time shifted the program to start at 10pm EDT on Saturday (GMT-5) rather than our usual time slot on Sunday.  This puts our show at noon on Sunday Sydney time with a sound check 30 minutes prior for performers.

Our featured artist will go first with a 30 minute set, followed by a 15 minute performance by our host.  Afterwards, the mic will be handed over to whomever signed up to play.  We welcome all variety and styles of live original music, so don't be shy and share your music with the world.

Comment below if you would like to play a few songs at HOA #17 hosted by +Jonathan Blackshire.  Youwill b... more »

2013-06-12 01:09:43 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Researchers Move Closer to Low-Cost, Implantable Electronics
New technology under development at The Ohio State University is paving the way for low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue inside the body. The first planned use of the technology is a sensor that will detect the very early stages of organ transplant rejection.

Read more: http://goo.gl/ti6pZ 
h/t to +Lake Shore Cryotronics 

#ohiostateuniversity   #columbusohio #scienceeveryday

2013-06-11 15:15:43 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Music Hangouts On Air is a collaboration of Hangout On Air hosts working to provide a place for musicians to build a community and showcase their work. Please fill out this short form (http://goo.gl/cDzMZ) if you would like to play a few songs in an upcoming Hangout On Air.

Are you hosting a Hangout On Air show and promoting musicians on G+? Let us know by filling out the form and we will help promote your show and help you track down musicians.

2013-06-07 18:01:25 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 19 +1s)

Chemical that Causes ‘Kidney’ Failure in Mosquitoes
An Ohio State University researcher and his collaborators have discovered a chemical that causes “kidney” failure in mosquitoes, which may pave the way to the development of new insecticides to fight deadly mosquito-transmitted diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.) The discovery is reported in the May 29 issue of the online journal PLOS ONE.

Read Article: http://goo.gl/4xUJ3
Read more: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/mosqkidney.htm
Image Source: http://goo.gl/Ad7AX

#ohiostateuniversity   #columbusohio #scienceeveryday

2013-06-07 17:47:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Science Pages- All Disciplines
Pages categorized by discipline: http://goo.gl/WCohT
Add your profile/page to next circle: http://goo.gl/yEg7M

Feel free to share your science posts with the Science on Google+ Community: http://goo.gl/mTTxX

#scienceeveryday   #science #publiccircles #sharedcircles  

2013-06-07 13:49:04 (19 comments, 4 reshares, 14 +1s)

The Birthday Problem
I just stumbled across this problem while listening to +Marshall Brain's Brainstuff podcast. A room is filled with 23 randomly chosen people. What is the probability of at least two people sharing the same birthday?  It's okay to guess.

After you make your response, you can get the answer by listening to the podcast (http://goo.gl/BqzP7) or by visiting Wikipedia (http://goo.gl/2Rr7). Have a great weekend!

Image source: http://goo.gl/7KJFQ

2013-06-06 00:26:10 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 13 +1s)

Smokin' Science Circle
We took 500 active profiles from the  +Science on Google+: A Public Database and put them into this circle.  Be careful, this circle is smokin' hot! #scienceeveryday    

Don't forget to check out the Science on Google+ Community: http://goo.gl/mTTxX

Database
Search Communities: http://goo.gl/Rvyez
Search Pages: http://goo.gl/WCohT
Search Profiles: http://goo.gl/Yz8KR
Add Profile or Page to Database: http://goo.gl/yEg7M
Add Community to Database: http://goo.gl/zh0xJ

2013-06-02 23:26:14 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

Super Science Circle - May 2013 Edition

Need more science in your Google+? Well, here's all the science you can handle! Enjoy my latest, heavily curated edition of the Super Science Circle.

Please share this circle... for Science!

For the uninitiated, I maintain a circle of 450+ people who are active on Google+ and regularly post on Google+. In this circle you'll find scientists, journalists, astronauts, educators, and science enthusiasts. By importing this circle into your own circles, you'll immediately gain a vibrant and fascinating feed of amazing science stories.

I recognize that it might be too much science, so I suggest you create a brand new temporary circle and evaluate the people in the circle. Only transfer the keepers to your permanent circles. Then, when I update the circle next month, rinse and repeat.

Are... more »

2013-05-15 18:43:18 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Sharing from Google's new music streaming service. Cool!
#IO13  

2013-05-01 15:53:36 (3 comments, 12 reshares, 29 +1s)

NSF award winning video showing voyage of music inside ear

2013-04-30 13:55:15 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 24 +1s)

Happy Birthday, +Willie Nelson!  

Live in Amsterdam
Whiskey River / Stay All Night, Good Hearted Woman, Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / Night Life, Help Me Make It Through The Night, Fast Train To Georgia, Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, Blue Skies, Georgi On My Mind, All Of Me, Stardust, Me & Paul, The Gypsy, If You've Got The Money..., My Bucket's Got a Hol In It / Jambalaya, Walkin' The Floor Over You, Vous et moi, Seven Spanish Angels, City Of New Orleans, To All The Girls I've Loved before / Luckenbach, Texas / Whiskey River, Still Is Movin' To Me, Mil Cow Blues, Pancho & Lefty, Till I Gain Control Again, Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys, Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground, On The Road Again, Always on My Mind, I Never Cared For You, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms more »

2013-04-18 16:38:20 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

Hi. I'm a violinist and a software developer.

Of the past year I've built and kept The Global Map of Musicians alive. It's all about helping musicians find a teacher, start a group, promote their music, share a gig and trade gear locally.
www.musomap.com

Coming up in April this year I am hosting my first ever Musomap event.

World Musician Day - a day for neighbouring musicians to come together and perform for one another. I've recently been given the funds to put on a launch event in Sydney. 2013 is in Sydney. 2014 is in every major city around the world.
www.worldmusicianday.com

Please take a look at my project and share it with the musicians you know. If you would like to help me share this project, in order to encourage more local music collaboration, please get in touch!

Wishing you an awesome day of creativity...

2013-04-18 14:03:19 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

My first TEDTalk at TEDxNijmegen featuring +Sebastian Seung 's +EyeWire , a game to map the brain!  Join us and let's crowd-source science's toughest challenges!

#ted   #tedtalks   #gamification   #brain   #neuroscience  
#tedx   #TEDtalk   #EyeWire  

2013-04-17 20:04:33 (6 comments, 10 reshares, 21 +1s)

Using the Internet and Social Media the Right Way
Over the last year and a half I have met some really great musicians here on Google+. I would like to take this opportunity to mention one of my favorite bands on Google+ and comment on what they're doing right. 

1. Engagement: Unlike many musicians on social networks, +Moonalice engages and interacts with everyone on a variety of topics, while at the same time they make it very easy to find their music. Prioritizing engagement and diversity of content over massively distributing their own music is an approach that more musicians should follow.

2. Sharing for free can go a long way: +Moonalice takes sharing to the next level. For example, they stream all of their live shows for free (see www.moonalice.com for links). The combination of engagement on social platforms and sharing live shows is a recipe forsu... more »

2013-03-24 14:35:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Join us for another Science HOA, brought to you by +ScienceSunday as we talk to Dr +Jon Hiller about electron microscopy! Jon is a electron microscopist in the Nanoscience & Technology Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Jon’s research includes the development of state-of-the-art electron and ion beam instrumentation for materials and nanoscale research. He is most well known for his work in 3 dimensional Focused Ion Beam (FIB) tomography and complex sample fabrication for electron microscopy. His characterization of diamond thin films has lead to the development of the artificial retina.

We will be discussing all this, along with a live on air demonstration of scanning electron microscopy! Jon has also kindly offered to allow you, the audience to choose any objects that you would like to see under the electron microscope! So if you have any questions for Jon, or suggestions fors... more »

2013-03-24 13:38:19 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

SciTech #ScienceSunday Digest 12 - 24th Mar 2013
Implantable diagnostics, neuron-level brain activity, ionic computation, switchable gene therapy, DNA Origami, phasers, artificial cells.

1. Implantable Wireless Diagnostic Chip.
An implantable diagnostic system has been developed that measures just 3 cubic millimeters in volume and yet packs in five sensors, a radio transmitter and a power delivery system http://actu.epfl.ch/news/under-the-skin-a-tiny-laboratory/. The device is designed to be implanted under the skin, measure the concentration of substances in blood - one sensor per substance (protein or organic acid), transmit this to a battery patch placed on the skin that provides inductive power, and then via bluetooth to the patient’s mobile phone. The limited lifetime of six weeks is adequate for most applications and removing the old and replacing with new iss... more »

2013-03-23 11:52:02 (1 comments, 15 reshares, 34 +1s)

10 Hilariously Amazing Artist Renditions of the NYC Meteor
Source: http://goo.gl/tNsQK
#caturday  #Meteor

2013-03-21 02:45:19 (2 comments, 21 reshares, 52 +1s)

Mapping a Living Brain, Neuron by Neuron

It looks like an oddly shaped campfire, but it is activity of individual neurons across a larval fish brain. It is the first time that researchers have been able to image an entire vertebrate brain at the level of single cells.

Brain function relies on communication between large populations of neurons across multiple brain areas, a full understanding of which would require knowledge of the time-varying activity of all neurons in the central nervous system. Here we use light-sheet microscopy to record activity, reported through the genetically encoded calcium indicator GCaMP5G, from the entire volume of the brain of the larval zebrafish in vivo at 0.8 Hz, capturing more than 80% of all neurons at single-cell resolution. Demonstrating how this technique can be used to reveal functionally defined circuits across the brain, we identify... more »

2013-03-20 00:32:52 (0 comments, 7 reshares, 15 +1s)

The Return of the Super Science Circle

Okay, I'll admit, I made a mistake in retiring the Super Science Circle. I wasn't wrong; Communities are still the future and the best way to make friends here on Google+. But I realized that the Super Science Circle is simple and efficient way to get new people to see that Google+ isn't a ghost town.

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST... FOR SCIENCE!

When I was attending +ScienceOnline 2013, I must have helped dozens of people join Google+, and the first thing I had them do was import this circle. It's an invaluable tool for getting new people up to speed.

So, I just did a complete refresh on the circle. I examined every single member and judged them according to my two-part criteria:

1. Active in the last 30 days or so.
2. Regularly post on scientific topics.

If you know anyone... more »

2013-03-18 01:27:04 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 31 +1s)

Study Shows How Vitamin E Can Help Prevent Cancer
Researchers have identified an elusive anti-cancer property of vitamin E that has long been presumed to exist, but difficult to find. Many animal studies have suggested that vitamin E could prevent cancer, but human clinical trials following up on those findings have not shown the same benefits. In this new work, researchers showed in prostate cancer cells that one form of vitamin E inhibits the activation of an enzyme that is essential for cancer cell survival. The loss of the enzyme, called Akt, led to tumor cell death. The vitamin had no negative effect on normal cells. “This is the first demonstration of a unique mechanism of how vitamin E can have some benefit in terms of cancer prevention and treatment,” said lead author Ching-Shih Chen, professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy at The Ohio State University and an investigatorin ... more »

2013-03-17 23:14:09 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Science on Google+: Weekly Hot List  
March 10-16, 2013

Every week Science on Google+ is producing a list of the 6 most interesting posts to the community page. This is the second edition of the post, expect to see a new version every Science Sunday.

Links to the original articles:
Irish Star:  
http://tinyurl.com/buh8otg
+Brian Koberlein 

Physics:  
http://tinyurl.com/c6n396c
+Michael Allen 

Psychology:  
http://tinyurl.com/cydyxxc
+OSU Research 

Moon:  
http://tinyurl.com/cqbsp5s
+Ben O' Hare 

I See Science:  
http://tinyurl.com/bmfqx8l
+Chad Haney and +Mark Crowley 

Capitol Hill:
http://tinyurl.com/bqqjvtp
+Rajini Rao 

#sciencesunday   #scienceeveryday   #science  +Science on Goo... more »

2013-03-17 21:35:26 (6 comments, 15 reshares, 32 +1s)

The Best +YouTube  Educational Channels

+Google Science Fair 
https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleScienceFair

+Khan Academy 
http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy

#Scishow by +Hank Green 
http://www.youtube.com/user/scishow

#CGPGrey +C. G. P. Grey 
http://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey

+Epipheo 
https://www.youtube.com/user/epipheo

+MinutePhysics  by +Henry Reich (Physics)
http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
#MinuteEarth
https://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth

#PhysicsLectures #DrPhysicsA  (Physics)
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrPhysicsA

+Derek Muller by +Derek Muller 
http://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium

#Vsauce - Amazing Facts & The Best of the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/VSAUCEhttp://www... more »

2013-03-18 00:57:26 (47 comments, 132 reshares, 153 +1s)

Maximize Audience Without Destroying Your Profile
A lot of people are destroying their Google+ profiles by sharing the same post to multiple communities. Not only does this add a lot of redundancy to your profile (i.e., duplicate posts) but you are also making your posts ineligible for What’s Hot. Here’s a simple tip to maximize your audience without killing your profile.

1. Change your personal settings by unchecking “Show your Google+ communities posts on your profile” (see left pic).
2. Share your post publicly (this makes your post eligible for What’s Hot).
3. Then re-share your public post to relevant communities.

Using this strategy will: (a) only show one post on your profile, as opposed to showing many duplicate posts, (b) show the share count on a single post, rather than being scattered across multiple posts, and (c) keep your post eligible forwhat’s ho... more »

2013-03-17 13:36:55 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Science Pages- All Disciplines
View pages categorized by discipline: http://goo.gl/WCohT
Links to shared science circles: http://goo.gl/nO7rB

If you have a science related degree, you are a science journalist, you are a K-12 science teacher, or you curate a science page, then add your profile/page to the database by filling out this form (http://goo.gl/yEg7M). Active profiles and pages will be included in the next shared circle.

Science on Google+ community: http://goo.gl/mTTxX

#sciencesunday #science #publiccircles #sharedcircles 

2013-03-16 22:45:27 (8 comments, 65 reshares, 35 +1s)

The Science of Beer
This is a great song about the science of beer (see lyrics below). Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Lyrics:
In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and eleven
On March the seventeenth day
I will raise up a beer and I'll raise up a cheer
For Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Here's to brewers yeast, that humblest of all beasts
Producing carbon gas reducing acetaldehyde
But my friends that isn't all -- it makes ethyl alcohol
That is what the yeast excretes and that's what we imbibe

Anaerobic isolation
Alcoholic fermentation
NADH oxidation
Give me a beer

[CHORUS]

My intestinal wall absorbs that ethanol
And soon it passes through my blood-brain barrier
There's a girl in the next seat who I didn't think that sweet
But after a few drinks I want to marry... more »

2013-03-16 19:05:52 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Social Sciences and Communication
This circle will give you exposure to Anthropology, Economics, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology/Neuroscience, Sociology, and it also contains K- 12 Science Teachers and Science Writers.

If you have a science related degree, you are a science journalist, you are a K-12 science teacher, or you curate a science page, then add your profile/page to the database by filling out this form (http://goo.gl/yEg7M). Active profiles and pages will be included in the next shared circle.

Science on Google+ community: http://goo.gl/mTTxX
View underlying database: http://goo.gl/Yz8KR
View most recent shared circles: http://goo.gl/nO7rB

#sciencesunday #science #publiccircles   #sharedcircles 

2013-03-16 14:57:43 (21 comments, 93 reshares, 39 +1s)

Celebrating +Chad Haney's Birthday with fireworks fruits and vegetables in an MRI.  #HappyBirthdayMrMRI  

Source: +Andy Ellison's MRI scans from http://goo.gl/bikwW

#HappyBirthdayChad   #ScienceEveryday #ScienceSunday

2013-03-16 12:00:16 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Happy Birthday, +Chad Haney!

#HappyBirthdayChad  #HappyBirthdayMrMRI  #ScienceEveryday #ScienceSunday

2013-03-15 19:37:51 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Weekly roundup and the Who's Who of Google Plus !
And the confessions of Euro Maestro.

#sharedcircles      #top500      #ff      #euromaestrocircles     #euromaestro       #sundayseven   #weeklyreview  

The top gplussers in the world this week  
http://www.circlecount.com/euromaestrowhoswho/

Did you know ...
Did you know you can filter any of these lists to see the top women or the top men only ?

Many thanks to Circlecount for making this possible.

What is page rank ?
Well, there have been some posts this week talking about pagerank. 

There's a site where presumably you can check out the pagerank for any url.
www.prchecker.net 

I have no idea if there is any accuracy to it but these are some sample results taken from that site. 
Name Score<... more »

2013-03-15 15:48:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Feel free to share your music, events, HOA's, circles, and tips with the Musicians on G+ community.

If you're interested in playing a few songs at an upcoming Google+ Open Mic, check out +Google+ Open Mic Series. 

2013-03-14 01:52:38 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 27 +1s)

I See the World with Science! Image Competition

It's time again to play #ISeeTheWorldWithScience ! 
Science is all around and sometimes it lets us see things that aren't obvious at first. 

This image was taken by +Guillermo Abramson of this week's fantastic comet PANSTARRS. But I bet you can see a lot else going on with all that science knowledge you have...

What do you see in this image? Provide a creative and sciency description of something going on in this image or related to it and suggest a caption.
One caption will be selected as winner judged by science content and the number of +1 votes. You have 48 hours. (If you are seeing this as a reshare please try to use the original post so the comments are mostly in one place, it's more fun that way.)

See the first #iseetheworldwithscience  competition for ideas of whatwe&... more »

2013-05-22 23:24:59 (493 comments, 618 reshares, 522 +1s)

Interesting cake! Do you want the left or right hemisphere?

2013-03-12 03:08:13 (13 comments, 4 reshares, 13 +1s)

Are you smarter than a chimpanzee ?

#chimpanzee   #intelligence   #sciencesunday   #euromaestro  

Chimpanzees outperform humans in short term memory tests.

Very interesting clip to watch.

While chimpanzees can easily remember the place of 10 digits, humans struggle to do more than 6.

Take this test and see if you can do better than this monkey ?
http://games.lumosity.com/chimp.html

Thanks to +al pistacchio for providing the link to one of the tests. In the lumosity version of one of the tests, there are only 5 numbers to memorize and that's pretty difficult. As you can see in the clip, the chimpanzee can do it even with 10. 

How did you do on this test ?

2013-03-12 00:50:17 (26 comments, 13 reshares, 29 +1s)

Baked Hard "Boiled" Eggs
Just preheat the oven to 325 degrees, and arrange your eggs in a muffin tin. Bake the eggs for 30 minutes. Remove them from the oven and immediately submerse them in ice water for about 10 minutes. Source: http://goo.gl/kgdrp

I will definitely have to try this! According to this page (http://goo.gl/gPtLb), the whites have a different texture (e.g., they're not rubbery) and the eggs are easier to peel.

2013-03-10 23:28:48 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I See the World with Science! Image Competition
#ISeeTheWorldWithScience  
Here's a photo of a monkey. Isn't it adorable? Normally you'd just see an adorable monkey, some ruins and maybe wonder why he's trying to get past the photographer. Maybe he's trying grab some food or chase another monkey**. 

But how much more can we see with science?
If you see something more, add a one sentence description in the comments. It should be short, clear and very sciency. (See some suggestions below)  

The more creative, surprising or unexpected the better. But it needs to be something based on actual science. Don't just say the trees are green, explain why they're green.

The winner will be mostly determined by the +1's on your description by others. The winning description will be added to the image and posted separately onou... more »

2013-03-10 21:56:24 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

Science on Google+: Weekly Hot List  
March 4-9, 2013

Every week Science on Google+ is producing a list of the 6 most interesting posts to the community page. This is the first edition of the post, expect to see a new version every Science Sunday.

Links to the original articles:
Climate:   http://tinyurl.com/b4gvf6k
Space:   http://tinyurl.com/aw9hnln
Engineering:   http://tinyurl.com/a5ej66b
Medicine:   http://tinyurl.com/b5j39m2
AMA Astronomy:   http://tinyurl.com/af4ecuz
Women Academics:   http://tinyurl.com/a7od746

#sciencesunday #science +Science on Google+: A Public Database 

2013-03-04 01:57:34 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

Google+ Hot Circle for Earth Science, Geology, and Geophysics

We are compiling a list and circle share of all of the interesting and active Earth Scientist on Google+. The circle is limited to people who publicly post frequently about geoscience. The group will be limited to:

* Professional Geoscientists
* College Faculty
* Graduate Students
* Science Writers

Please submit your information to this web form http://tinyurl.com/b28r96s. 

Moderated by:
+Jason Davison 
+Charles Carrigan 
+Science on Google+: A Public Database 
Science on Google+ and Geoscience communities.

Please feel free to re-share this post to your public circles!

#sciencesunday  +ScienceSunday 

2013-03-03 14:23:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Join us this Sunday for our first Early Edition of our Songwriters Showcase.  Starting March 3rd we are switching to a weekly format to bring you more musicians from more locations.  We will be alternating between early and later editions of the show to better accommodate musicians in Europe and the UK every other week.

+Jeffrey Hellman has joined the team as the host of our Later Edition which will be hosted on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of every month.  They will be held at our old time slot of 6:00pm to 8:00pm EST (GMT-5) with a sound check at 5:30pm.  Jeff's first Songwriters Showcase will be on March 10th.

Our featured artist this week is +James Olmos.  As we're starting a new format, we're also changing our preview format.  Since James was just on Let's Talk About Music, we're linking to his appearance there as the preview video. 

We'llalso be... more »

2013-03-02 18:26:40 (9 comments, 6 reshares, 21 +1s)

Feel free to share your music, events, HOA's, circles, and tips with the Musicians on G+ community.

Search for Bands and Musicians on G+
Check out the +Musician and Band Public Database (http://goo.gl/a30yT) or add a shared circle (http://goo.gl/EhCJa). Musicians can add themselves to the database by filling out this short form: http://goo.gl/aWK4w. Musicians who share their music on G+ will be added to the database and to shared circles.

Open Mic Hangouts
Would you like to play a few songs in an upcoming Open Mic Hangout On Air? Check out +Google+ Open Mic Series. We are also looking for more people to host their own Open Mic HOA. Let me know if you're interested.

2013-02-27 04:13:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Science Pages- All Disciplines
Spice up your stream with this nice set of Science pages!

View pages categorized by discipline: http://goo.gl/WCohT
Add your science page to next circle: http://goo.gl/yEg7M

Science on Google+ community: http://goo.gl/mTTxX

#scienceeveryday  #science #publiccircles #sharedcircles 

2013-02-27 03:33:50 (2 comments, 15 reshares, 23 +1s)

Science Hangouts On Air
Science Live from the +AAAS has started hosting G+ Hangouts but they're hard to find on G+. Here are links to the first three HOA's.

Our Toxic Environment: http://goo.gl/hqjsi
The Scars of Human Evolution: http://goo.gl/gSdwU
The Future of Physics: http://goo.gl/UiGbI

Image source: http://goo.gl/tgYOV

2013-02-22 03:45:52 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 27 +1s)

Oldest Biomolecules Isolated Directly from a Fossil
Though scientists have long believed that complex organic molecules couldn't survive fossilization, some 350-million-year-old remains of aquatic sea creatures uncovered in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa have challenged that assumption. The spindly animals with feathery arms—called crinoids, but better known today by the plant-like name “sea lily”—appear to have been buried alive in storms during the Carboniferous Period, when North America was covered with vast inland seas. Buried quickly and isolated from the water above by layers of fine-grained sediment, their porous skeletons gradually filled with minerals, but some of the pores containing organic molecules were sealed intact.

Read more: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/oldbiomarkers.htm

#ohiostateuniversity   #columbusohio #scienceeveryday

2013-02-21 03:19:54 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 12 +1s)

Important article and context for  #STEM  discussions

2013-02-21 02:29:31 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Science on Google+ is a community moderated by scientists, for all people interested in science, both professionals and the general public. The primary goal of this community is to bring real scientists to the public, for science outreach. A secondary and long-term goal is to create an environment that fosters interdisciplinary collaborations; thus, enabling and promoting cloud collaboration between scientists.

2013-02-21 02:16:12 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 18 +1s)

New Coal Technology Harnesses Energy Without Burning
A new form of clean coal technology reached an important milestone recently, with the successful operation of a research-scale combustion system at Ohio State University. “In the simplest sense, combustion is a chemical reaction that consumes oxygen and produces heat,” Fan said. “Unfortunately, it also produces carbon dioxide, which is difficult to capture and bad for the environment. So we found a way to release the heat without burning. We carefully control the chemical reaction so that the coal never burns—it is consumed chemically, and the carbon dioxide is entirely contained inside the reactor.”

Read more: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/looping203.htm

#ohiostateuniversity   #columbusohio #scienceeveryday

2013-02-14 19:06:28 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Psychology Circle
View profiles in circle: http://goo.gl/n0OPA
Links to shared Science circles: http://goo.gl/nO7rB

If you have a science related degree, you are a science journalist, you are a K-12 science teacher, or you curate a science page, then add your profile/page to the database (http://goo.gl/yEg7M).

#scienceeveryday #science #publiccircles #sharedcircles 

2013-02-14 11:44:46 (6 comments, 40 reshares, 59 +1s)

This is a nice collection of recent science news. I could definitely use a Quantum Stealth Invisibility Cloak!

h/t to +Frank Kanayet on fb

2013-05-24 06:26:15 (18 comments, 15 reshares, 42 +1s)

Cognitive Science Models HOA's
I am teaching an undergraduate Introduction to Cognitive Science course at The Ohio State University Newark, and I blocked off three days (2/7, 2/12, and 2/14) to talk about modeling. My original plan was to build very simple connectionist networks during this time; however, I think my students and the general community would benefit more by hearing about different types of networks and models.

My plan is to round up cognitive scientists for two or three sessions to discuss the following issues in a Hangout On Air:

1) General theories underlying the various models (e.g., symbolic vs. sub-symbolic, supervised vs. unsupervised, etc.)
2) Brief presentation of your model (presented at the undergraduate level)
3) Online tutorial of software (e.g., how do you build a model in ACT-R, Emergent, SANlab- CM, etc.?)
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