September 2009
Bergen SWAN →
Bergen SWAN’s (Save the Watershed Action Network) primary focus has been, since its founding in 1988, on the preservation of the natural lands surrounding the drinking water supply…
Valentine's Day Card in Strange Town →
Valentine’s Day Card in Strange Town, originally uploaded by shadowplay. dolls still spook me. clown dolls are REALLY spooky. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Premaking Movies →
This would have been a great exercise back in my days of teaching film and video production classes. A former student sent me a link to a “premake” of the trailer for Raiders of the Lost Ark as…
Blog Action Day 2009 →
10,000 bloggers voted and chose as the topic for Blog Action Day 2009 “Climate Change.” If you are a blogger,
you can go can register for Blog Action Day 09 at www.blogactionday.org To be a…
18th Annual Watchable Wildlife Conference To Be... →
Via NJ DEP Division of Fish and Wildlife
You are cordially invited to attend the 18th Annual Watchable Wildlife Conference at the Golden Inn in Avalon, New Jersey, October 6-8, 2009. The…
Tools →
Forbes.com’s list of the top 20 tools that have “most impacted human civilization” (in no particular order) the knife the abacus the compass the pencil the harness the…
Grizzly Bear Returns to Endangered List in... →
Grizzly sow and cubs Photo: GreaterYellowstone.org
Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled in Greater Yellowstone Coalition’s favor and restored Endangered Species Act protections…
Heather McHugh Receives MacArthur Fellowship →
Poet Heather McHugh has received a MacArthur fellowship (the “genius grant” comes with a $500,000 honorarium). Having taught for 33 years, McHugh says she that “to learn to teach…
Forecast: Partly Cloudy With A Chance Of Mobile →
If you haven’t already caught on to using cloud computing, then you’d better move quickly because “mobile cloud
computing” is the current flavor. Like any cloud computing, it is when the…
It’s Turtles All the Way Down →
I think I first saw the expression “Turtles all the way down,” when I read Carl Sagan’s Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science. He recounted it as a conversation between a Western…
Philosophy 100 →
Usually, the beginning course in college is coded as “101.” You take psychology 101 and English 101 and philosophy 101. Sometimes, courses considered below college level (remedial or basic skills,…
Lorrimer Sanctuary →
Lorrimer Sanctuary was bequeathed to the New Jersey Audubon Society by Ms. Lucine L. Lorrimer in 1956. It is one of 10 staffed centers in NJ. The main house, parts of which date back to the late…
Full Moons and New Moons →
I have been writing here about each of the full moons and what they mean in different cultures. There must be an interest in the topic because they are consistently in the top posts for the site. In…
Anti-Virus →
I don’t really write about pure tech topics here, but the past few weeks some computers in our college writing center,
two friends’ home computers and now my own laptop were hit with a wave of…
This Weekend: Warren County Poetry Festival →
UPDATED INFORMATION
This weekend (Saturday, September 26) is the free one-day 6th Biennial Warren County Poetry Festival. The updated schedule is: 11 AM - 12 PM Poetry Readings Pam…
Web 2.0 for University 2.0 →
September 25, 2009 at University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT “Web 2.0
Delivery & Content for University 2.0” I wrote earlier about this session I’ll be doing Friday at the conference…
Jane Goodall on Endangered Species →
While extinctions still happen at a fast pace, some species are coming back, such as California condors and American crocodiles. Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall profiles these survival…
Housewarming Party for Poets House - New York City →
A Housewarming Party for Poets House Part 2 Saturday, September 26, 11:00am–5:00pm at Poets House Pavilion of Nelson A. Rockefeller Park 10 River Terrace New York, NY
Invocation of the Muse:…
Teachers and Mad Men →
You probably have heard this. You take five professionals from 1960 and bring them to 2009. There is a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, a scientist and a teacher. Which one would have the least difficulty in doing her job after this 49 year gap? …
Autumnal Equinox →
It’s fall – or it’s spring – depending on where you are when you read this today.
The Autumnal Equinox 2009 will occur today, September 22, at 21:18 UTC (17:18 EDT or 14:18 PDT).
To scientists, an…
Internet Stats →
Google has launched a new
resource called “Google Internet Stats” (the microsite is
hosted in the UK). The resource brings together data from five different industries using third party…
My Perpetual Motion Machine →
I’ll bet you recognize the light-bulb looking object shown here on my windowsill, but I suspect you don’t know much about it.
The first one I remember seeing was not in a science class, but in the…
Wildlife Heritage Festival at Pequest September 26 →
The NJDEP Division of Fish and Wildlife will hold its popular Wildlife Heritage Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 26 at the Pequest Trout Hatchery and Natural Resource…
Remembering Dog Days →
I don’t own a dog right now. I always had one when I was a kid. But my wife was raised in a pet-free zone and developed a fear of most dogs, so we never had one, though my sons always asked about…
Top Ten NJ High Schools →
For what it’s worth, yet another ranking has come out on high schools. Having been in that world for a few decades, I still read the rankings. There are ones from the Gold Medal High Schools in…
Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge →
Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge is located in Sussex County, New Jersey and Orange County, New York. Congress established the refuge in 1990 to preserve and enhance lands and…
Will Keats Become A Bright Movie Star? →
There is a new film, Bright Star, out this month that centers on the passionate, brief, love affair between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne before his death at age 25. Directed by Jane…
Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge →
Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a part of the Cape May National Wildlife Refuge Complex in Cape May Court House, NJ. Supawna Meadows NWR is located along the Delaware…
eLearning 2.0: The Next Generation of Online... →
I’ll be attending and presenting on
September 25 at the eLearning 2.0: The Next Generation of Online Education Conference at the University of Connecticut. My particular session is…
U.S. Government Finds $20 Trillion Buried By... →
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Your Real Friends Are Your Online Friends →
Your “Real” Friends are Your Online Friends (or so Says Gen Y) and so reports Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb. It’s a subject that has long been
mocked by those who don’t use social networks. “You…
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge →
The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1960 and lies 26 miles west of New York City’s Times Square and 7 miles south of Morristown, New Jersey in Morris County. This “oasis of…
Renegade, Radiance and Rosebud Are Playing With... →
Who is Rosebud? (Image from Citizen Kane) According to a June 17, 2007, report in The Washington Post, the U.S. Secret Service gave the code name “Renegade” to Senator Barack…
Mobile Teens →
You might have guessed otherwise, but teenagers have actually been behind adults in their ownership of cell phones. (It
just seems like they all have cell phones.) The Pew Internet & American Life…
Cape May National Wildlife Refuge →
Shorteared owl on refuge sign (USFWS)
The Cape May National Wildlife Refuge was established in January 1989 when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acquired the Refuge’s first…
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge →
The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, where more than 43,000 acres of southern New Jersey coastal habitats are actively protected and managed for migratory birds. Forsythe is one…
The First Plug-In Hybrid Will Be From China? →
As Ford, GM and Toyota work to bring you the world’s first, mass produced first plug-in electric car, China has beaten them to it…
Keep the Arts in Public Schools →
Here’s an example of some social networking via Facebook that is not about getting together for drinks after class. Using the Facebook “Causes” application, many groups create places to rally…
Forget Gen Y: Gen X is Making Real Change →
A new Forrester survey of 2,000 information workers has revealed that despite the hype, it’s not Gen Y that’s getting business to adopt collaborative technology. Gen X, those who are 30-43, are the ones leading the charge for social computing…
The Dancer Gene →
Research published in the September 2005 issue of Public Library of Science Genetics suggested that genetics may in part explain why some people are more interested in dance than others.
Okay, maybe…
and you thought summer was over →
P8150271, originally uploaded by veronica lola ♡. Jersey Shore in September… Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Open Source for K-12 →
Third Annual K-12 Open Minds Conference October 6th and 7th,
2009 in Michigan City (Indiana) formal and informal sessions in various areas of Open Source and your
experiences and…
National Wilderness Month →
On September 3, there was a milestone in conservation history. It was the 45th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. President Obama extended the celebration to the entire month long by…
Harmony, Balance and Food →
Japanese-style meals are called washoku. The kanji (the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system) for washoku are:
和食
which mean literally “harmony” and…
