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Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your BrainHere's the past week's (give or take a few days) crop of blog carnivals (in no particular order)...
A bumper crop of blog carnivals for the inquiring mind (and I don't mean the kind of minds that read The National Inquirer):read more »
Something for everybody! And last but not least, the umpteenth edition of Carnival of the Godless will be this Sunday at Hell's Handmaiden so get that godless blogging in via blogcarnival.com. Oh, and I should probably also note that Neural Gourmet will be playing host to Carnival of the Godless on April 15th. You know, just to give you a little extra time to work on those infidel masterpieces that you're all going to send my way.
Well, don't let anyone tell you there's nothing interesting in the blogosphere, because we've got proof right here that anyone who says that is full of it. So, in no particular order and I hope I haven't forgotten anyone, here's the notable blog carnivals for the past week.
Over at Brainshrub, Paul was proudly showing off his birthday suit in the 17th Carnival of the Liberals.
Tangled Bank has become a grand old science blog carnival, with #58 hosted by Martin at Salto Sobrius.
And there's a hot, hot, hot Carnival of Education#76 down in Texas at the Education in Texas blog.
If you think the Texas heat is for the birds, then you're wrong because they've all flown across the Atlantic to do I and the Bird #28 with Katie over at Bogbumper.
If you're looking for a bite to eat, then maybe the skeptics will give you a Scooby Snack if you ask nicely. For it's 39th meeting, the Skeptics' Circle has taken a field trip to Franken Castle (aka Mike's Weekly Skeptic Rant).
The brainy people are engaging in Pure Pedantry with Encephalon #2.
Finally, if you're feeling overwhelmed by all this great reading, then maybe you want to join everyone else Powering Down in Carnival of the Green #36.
Coming up Sunday we've got every infidel's delight, the Carnival of the Godless at Beware the Dogma and Synapse, the other neuroscience carnival at The Neurophilosopher's Blog, who coincidentally runs Encephalon.
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect skepticality... A Coca-Cola themed 38th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle is available at Skeptic Rant.
Other fine carnivals that go with a friend and a coke are I and the Bird #27 at 10,000 Birds,74th Carnival of Education at NYC Educator, Tangled Bank #56 at e3 Information Overload and Philosopher's Carnival #32 at Adventures In Ethics and Science.
A whole passel of our favorite blog carnivals and two new blog carnivals that we hope will become favorites. [...]read more »
Not sure how all these incredible blog carnivals got all synced up to run within a few days of each other but what I do know is that it leads to a biweekly drop in my personal productivity from all the fantastic reading! Just don't forget about Neural Gourmet as you go exploring all these interesting blogs.
Twice the fun this Wednesday with Circus of the Spineless and Carnival of Education. Go on, click the links. It's therapeutic.
It's great to see our friend J.R. from Don't Floss With Tinsel (and occasionally Neural Gourmet) included in the latest Carnival of Education. In addition to J.R.'s well reasoned post on the 10 year old Coral Springs girl who is not being allowed to sing a controversial song about President Bush at her school talent show (read the post -- it's more complicated than you think), there's a lot of thought-provoking writing in this edition.
I've said it before, but the Carnival of Education isn't of interest to just educators. Education (or the lack thereof) of our children affects us all, and Carnival of Education features (mostly) professional educators writing about their work and the issues surrounding it. We should be paying attention to them.
The latest Carnival of Education is up at The Education Wonks and per usual there's some posts of interest even outside the EduSphere. Brett at The DeHavilland Blog asks if parents really are The Third Rail of education, "Is it really such a political lighting rod to expect parents to be parents? Why aren’t we stating what is so obvious to so many: that parents have an essential role in the education of their children?" Meanwhile, Sinead at Edpol is asking, "Does Math and Science need to be fun?" You know, I would venture that math and science are inherently fun but I realize that's a minority view.
In other education related news, the latest National Geographic-Roper Public Affairs Geographic Literacy Study results seem even more abysmal than usual. Almost 2/3 of Americans aged 18-24 can not locate Iraq on a map and less than half can identify the states of New York or Ohio.
You can download the complete survey and findings [PDF] or test yourself.
Find out over at The Education Wonks and Carnival of the Education #63. It's a doozy with something for everyone!
