"The Buried Nose" and "Eye for Science": Scienticity Updates
I have managed in the last few weeks to make a little progress on matter concerning Ars Hermeneutica. (Updating the company website is not one of them, however.)
On the book note front, there were some enhancements and new features that appeared some little while back that I didn't mention. Among all the fascinating notes about books of some scienticity, we now have two about audio books of interest, and, thanks to Joanne Manaster, we have nearly a dozen video book notes, for those who'd rather listen and watch their notes (or just like listening to Joanne's beguiling voice). We also now list notes from each contributor to the collection.
There are right now 28 contributors, who are responsible for 193 book notes. Many of those contributors came to us thanks to the science book challenge.
Announcement: you can join the challenge at any time (see the page at the last of the previous links), or simply send us your book notes about interesting books with some scienticity. (Book note submissions here.)
While on the subject of book notes and the challenge, I wanted to point out that I have started a new blog at scienticity, its topic concerned with all things related to science books, science reading, science writing, and our book-notes project, including the challenge.
The blog is called "The Buried Nose", a nod to my mother's memory. Like many moms, I'm sure, she often had occasion to say to me: "Wouldn't you rather go outside and play? Must you always have your nose buried in some book?"
So the nose (as I think of it) is just getting started and I haven't set aside much time to work on it as a routine thing yet. It does, though, give me another outlet for using an "Eye for Science" widget. Yes! You can have one too! Just click at left in the box on the text "Steal this Widget!"
Speaking of Eye for Science, that project is coming along well enough since its inception less than two months ago. Between the 19 members we've put together a quickly growing collection of nearly 150 images and little stories of scienticity so far.
Announcement: please do have a look at the group page, browse the images, join the group if you support our mission, and submit some images if you have some in your photostream.
These projects are small but can have significance beyond their size. Participation is easy, rewarding, and non-monetary* (Here's how to contribute.) These community building projects, by means of which I hope to excite sparks of curiosity among people who could use a little scienticity, are important to me and I'd love to have y'all participate in some way.
More generally, information about these projects gets gathered (as I find time to organize and post it) at the Scienticity Project site, or at the Scienticity Cause facebook page.
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* But of course we never turn down any financial assistance. A reminder: Ars Hermeneutica, Limited is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation with a mission to promote science literacy.
In: All, It's Only Rocket Science, Personal Notebook