About MuseumBlogs.org
MuseumBlogs.org is a directory of museum and museum-related blogs as well as a space for re-postings and roundups. The purpose of the site is to raise awareness and increase the authority of blogs focusing on museum issues. Authority is used by search engines to filter results. The more links, the more authority and more visible a blog will become.
The Directory
A publicly editable, moderated directory provides a central website for listings to museum and museum-related blogs.
The Blog
We encourage re-posting from qualified blogs and bloggers. The aim of MuseumBlogs.org is to drive visitors to other museum blogs and increase their authority. If you're interested in re-posting or creating roundups which focus on the museum blog world, please feel free to contact us for password and log in information.
Who and Why?
This site was developed by Ideum. We're a small design company that develops interactive exhibits and websites for museums. The idea for MuseumBlogs.org came about after we developed a survey of museum blogs & community sites in March of 2006. One of the major outcomes was that the vast majority of museum blogs lack authority which was covered in a follow up post on the Ideum blog. It's our hope that MuseumBlogs.org will help increase communities’ awareness and authority.
Policies
MuseumBlogs.org is run as a public service and encourages community participation. The site does not accept commercial advertising of any kind.
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August 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
People get Type 1 diabetes when their bodies attack and destroy their own islet cells. These people can’t make insulin anymore and so have to inject it. The best cure would be if scientists could replace the old islet cells with new ones. This is what the researchers
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Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in Health, KQED, pbs, QUEST, Partners, Science, genetics, genes, exocrine, gene therapy, islet cells, pancreas, transcription, transcription factor | Comments Off
August 19th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
In a new studt out in Nature Neuroscience, scientists tinkered with a single gene in a mouse and made it less likely to get fat. Finally I can eat as many Double Stufs as I want without worrying about gaining weight. If scientists can turn what they’ve learned into
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Posted in Health, KQED, genetics, dna, brain, fat, AgRP, GABA, hypothalmus, metabolism, thalmus | Comments Off
August 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Being a neurologist in the era of fMRI scanners must feel like being a kid in a candy shop. What’s going in there while we’re, say, shopping? How about reading? Watching campaign ads? Now that we have a way to take real-time images of the brain at work, the scientific
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Posted in Health, Radio, KQED, kqedquest, brain, ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, fMRI, Howie Rosen, Lou Gehrig's Disease, MRI | Comments Off
August 5th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Given today’s environment, it is surprising that there are still thin people around. The origins of this epidemic are pretty easy to spot—lots of food and less opportunity for exercise. And yet, not everyone in the U.S. is overweight. So why is one person fat and the next thin?
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Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in Health, KQED, Physics, genetics, genes, obesity, bmi, dopamine, DRD2, eating, fat, hunger, overweight | Comments Off
July 22nd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Mole voles do fine with one X and no Y
chromosome.
Last blog I talked about the Transcaucasian mole vole. This little burrowing mammal has lost its Y chromosome over time. Now both males and females have only a single X.
I focused on how scientists can’t yet figure out how there
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Posted in Health, KQED, kqedquest, Partners, genetics, dna, genes, evolution, chromosome | Comments Off
July 17th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Walk Score is a US-based website that rates a suburb by how many services are within walking distance. Whilst it is focussed on North America, because it uses Google Maps, it works quite well with Australian addresses too.
With the Federal Government’s long awaited introduction of emissions trading - and
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Posted in Health, climate | Comments Off
July 17th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Imagine your dream college:
A green campus with a swan-filled lake to dream by and shady spots to sit and contemplate, classrooms with state of the art sound, dynamic classmates, organic and delicious food, shade-grown coffee, vibrant music and festive gatherings, small classes led by industry experts and large lectures led by
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Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in Health, KQED, pbs, QUEST, Partners, Environment, california, oakland zoo, biomimicry, bioneer youth inititative, bioneers, kenny ausubel, marin civic center | Comments Off
July 12th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
It’s tricky to talk about pharmaceuticals in the drinking water without risking two really unfortunate side effects: 1) Make people panic that their tap water is unsafe. 2) Send listeners running to Costco to buy pallet-loads of overpriced, highly packaged, and often dubiously-sourced bottled water.
You can never really say enough about
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Posted in Health, drinking water, drugs, epa, Jim Scott, monitoring, pharmaceuticals, safety, santa clara valley water district, SCVWD, teliosis institute, toxic | Comments Off
