From GrrlScientist:

What better way is there to celebrate the Nobel Prizes by helping kids in impoverished classrooms throughout the nation begin their own pursuit of their dreams? By helping kids improve their science education, you will be helping them focus on the positive aspects of their lives and give them an outlet for their energy so they realize that they do have a future!

So, why am I posting about it here? Because if you click over to GrrlScientist, you may have a chance to win a PUP book:

In recognition of your kind gift to help others, Princeton University Press is offering 2 books with a value of up to $30.00 each as prizes to two of my DonorsChoose Challenge donors: one book will be awarded to the donor who gives the largest gift, and the other book will be given to a donor who will be randomly chosen by my parrots using a method that I have yet to develop (suggestions welcomed). This kind offer covers most of Princeton University Press’s trade science titles and guide books (view their catalogue PDFs here) and they also pay postage, so this costs you NOTHING! All that you have to do is send me your mailing address after making your donation and you will be automatically entered into this competition.

BALANCE OF NATURE author John Kricher was interviewed on Kathleen Dunn last Tuesday, July 28.  He took questions from listeners and explained the myth behind ecological self-mitigation.  Scroll down to the 10:00 am spot here to listen!

John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University Professor Emeritus and author of THE SOCIAL AMOEBAE: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds, sat down to discuss the tiniest players in life’s drama.

Listen to the You’ve Been Slimed podcast here!

The Evolution of Evolution”*

                                   Tony Rothman

            If there is a grand truth about science, it is that science is a collective enterprise.  Researchers trade ideas, borrow any that come their way.  Colleagues and rivals are indistinguishable, borrowing becomes what in other circles goes by the name of theft; opponents are generally recognized, sometimes not, more often in the vast flood of papers, lost.  Vanishing few are the discoveries made by a single individual.  Strange, then, that even today the media so often portrays the great advances of science as springing fully formed from the brow of towering geniuses who work in splendid isolation.