Phil's blog

Over the next few days SciVee will be in the Exhibt Hall booth 545 at the FASEB Experimental Biology Conference in San Diego (see http://www.eb2008.org/). Drop by and say hello. We are also trying something new during the meeting - Postercasts. If you would like to talk about your poster on camera and later have the poster and video syncronized and made available on the SciVee Website to further disseminate your work, drop by the booth. We will reward you with a cool ScivVee teeshirt.

Welcome to the SciVee blog. I am one of the founders of SciVee and hope very much you are enjoying the site. There is a small group of us at SciVee and goal is simple - to excite as many people as we can to what science has to offer. Namely, an explanation for the things that surround us - from the tinniest inner most workings of our own bodies, to the distant reaches of the universe. Traditionally, such excitement (if there was any) came mainly from school text books. I suspect that the tipping point (had to get that phrase in somewhere) that made many of us become scientists was not from those books, but from the enthusiasm of science teachers and those laboratory sessions that allowed us to explore first hand the principles that govern our existence. It was the opportunity to ask the question “why or how….” and then be able to explain it through an experiment. A favorite example of mine came when I asked my daughter’s third grade class how do we know there is atmospheric pre...

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