Pick up a hard copy of the OPEN LABORATORY: the best science writing on the web 2010

Yep, nothing's more fun than seeing how web writing stands up on the printed page. Buy a copy of OPEN LAB 2010 today and read what's been on other web-nut's minds for the past year and what kind of writing we value. This year's editor, Jason Goldman, is a neuroscience grad student at USC writes The Thoughtful Animal at Scienceblogs. The series editor, Bora Zivokovic, is affectionately known in science blogging circles as "the blogfather."

PIC: Plasma plumes leaping up from the sun

Crazy resolution on this pic of the sun taken by Alan Friedman, astrophotographer. More...

SCI CAL, LOS ANGELES (March)

MARCH
4TH    NHM: First Fridays event (5PM) Call ahead for tix, res req.
9TH    Caltech: Revealing the Cold Universe, lecture (8PM) Free 
11TH    USC: The future of climate change policy, symposium (9-3:30PM) Free
11TH    UCLA: ES Cells, iPS Cells and the Promise for Personalized Medicine, lecture (12-1PM) Free
12TH    Griffith Park Obs: Public Star Party (5-10PM) Free
17TH    JPL: WISE: Infrared sky survey, lecture (7PM) Free
18TH     Pasadena City College: WISE: Infrared sky survey, lecture (7PM) Free
20TH    Griffith Park Obs: Spring Equinox Events (noon--sunset) Free
21ST    Griffith Park Obs: Cosmic Musings: How it all ends, lecture  (7:30PM) Res. Req.
21ST    Huntington Library: Mysteries of the Dark Universe, lecture with Rocky Kolb (7:30PM)Free
23RD    UCLA: Radiolab live recording (8PM)Res. Req.
23RD    Caltech: Discovery and surprises with small molecules, lecture (4-5PM) Free 
26TH    Caltech: Science Saturdays film: Roachmobile (2-3PM) Free
26TH    Caltech: The Physics of the Future, lecture (2-5PM) Free
27TH    Machine Project: Moonwalking with Einstein, book release (8PM)Free

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PIC: ME AT 7AM THIS MORNING

That's me at 7AM this morning--I mean--that's an Australian frilled lizard.