Episode 9 - Blogging with PZ Myers
b'In this episode, we chat with PZ Myers - lead author of the blog Pharyngula (Pharyngula is hosted at Science Blogs - a project from Seed Magazine). Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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- Contact \\n Information at UM Morris \\n
- Curriculum \\n Vitae \\n
- Personal Page \\n
- Profile \\n on Nature Network \\n
- Pharyngula Galleries \\n
- Articles \\n written by PZ Myers at Seed Magazine \\n
- 2006 \\n Weblog Award Winner: Best Science Blog \\n
\\nMyers: What you want to do with a blog - it\'s \\nsuch an informal medium - if you get all stuffy and treat it as something where \\nyou are going to write a formal treatise everyday, I don\'t think you\'ll \\nget as much interest. So by keeping it personal, keeping it human, what I think \\nI\'ve done is open up a little window into a science professor\'s life, \\nwhich is sometimes scary, but fun.
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\\nBasler: Do you think that this type of casual \\ncommunication [blogging] is something really important that the students are going \\nto need in the future, or was it just an experiment to try out because you were \\nblogging?
\\nMyers: Oh it\'s both. I mean,\\nthis is a brave new medium. I\'m trying new things; I wanna\\nexplore this and see what we can do with our students. But I also\\nthink it\'s important for the future of science and science education -\\nthat what we want is active, involved learners at every stage of the\\ngame. And if this is a way that we can get people talking about\\nscience, then that\'s a huge step - that\'s important.
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\\nMyers: My schedule\'s turning into a\\nfrightening thing; it\'s getting so packed full of requests to talk, but\\nI try to indulge in as much as possible.
\\nBartel: So you\'re working on Darwin Day instead of enjoying it, is what you\'re saying?
\\nMyers: Well, getting up in front of\\nan audience and talking about evolution and talking about science,\\ntalking about philosophy in these ideas - that\'s not working is it?
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- Wikipedia Entry \\n
- The Mad Scientist (from Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages) \\n
- Monkey\'s Uncle (from Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages) \\n
- PZ Myers on Richard Dawkins (from Seed Magazine) \\n
- Interview with DailyKos \\n
- Interview by John Horgan \\n
- DarwinDay.org \\n
- Darwin Day Celebration at Lawrence University - February 9, 2008 \\n
Books Discussed on the Show:
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- Your \\n Inner Fish by Neil Shubin \\n
- The \\n Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen \\n