The Antarctic Grrl 26 Jun 2009 I’m very conflicted about this because I wanted to go to the Antarctic (but not for a month), but GrrlScientist has thrown her fedora into the circus, so I will tell you all to go vote for her to win the “spend a bloggy month in Antarctica” comp. Just so long as you vote for me when a “Send a blogger to Space” comp comes along. Or vote for my friend Wesley Elsberry. Damn! Now I’m conflicted! Administrative
Administrative Wilkins back in Portuguese 14 Aug 2008 Thanks to the editor of Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and the permissions department of Elsevier, my scientific blogging article is up again in Portuguese. At no cost! Thanks folks. João Carlos at Chi vó, non pó, translated it and hosts it. And it’s all legal and above board. Read More
Administrative How to hijack a thread 11 Dec 2008 From Almost Diamonds, by Stephanie Zvan, comes a description of many of my favourite trolls, including the one who won’t take “you’re banned” as an answer. This is why he’s banned. Read More
Administrative Sorry for being absent 27 Jun 2011 Stuff has been happening, and I have been Blogor absentibus, for which I apologise. I will soon be doing an introduction to argument series which will begin when I can take material I used in teaching and format it. I am now an unemployed philosopher. It seems this is not… Read More
It doesn’t bode well for the expidition if they illustrate blogyourwaytoantarctica with a pic of a polar bear! You can’t get more lost than that.
moochas smoochas, john! i agree, eddie, but i checked their site more carefully and they apparently specialize in trips to the arctic and the antarctic, so that’s what the polar bear in their banner is about.