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sciencedingsi started it with the Germany FONSFAQ /Masterlist here), and here it is:Frequently (Or Not So Frequently) Asked Questions About Science
What do people want to know about all kinds of science fields? Feel free to ask questions on basic or not-so basic Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Medicine, Geology, and so on! Whether you want to know how DNA mutates, how nuclear fission works or what we know about the pleacebo effect, just post a comment.
And if you know enough about one of the prompts, claim it and write an entry on it during the next few weeks. I know we have many scientists and interested laypeople on Dreamwidth, so let's get tose together!
Directions:
1. If asking a question, make the subject "PROMPT: [short summary of prompt]", so I can index them in this entry
2. If claiming to answer a question, make the subject "CLAIM"
3. When you have written your entry and posted it to your journal or this community or whereever you like on Dreamwidth, post a comment with a link to the entry in the comment thread. I will post a masterlist of answers sometime next week and update it regularly.
If you are not sure whether you will get around to answering something, don't worry - there is no direct need to claim anything.
Also, if you have a subject you'd really like to write about yourself, don't be shy and just post a comment with "CLAIM: [short summary of prompt]" yourself. The more entries, the better.
Any more questions, just ask!
Prompts
Biology
cesy: Next big thing in biologyComputer Science
snowynight: Cutting-edge computer scienceGeneral
vacillating: Scientific theoryMedicine
yvi: IVFsnowynight: Recent develoments in gentic therapyScientists
yvi: What got you into scienceholyschist: What do you want the public to learn about science
PROMPT: Next big thing in biology
Date: 2011-04-22 08:40 am (UTC)Prompt: IVF
Date: 2011-04-22 09:10 am (UTC)Prompt: What got you into science?
Date: 2011-04-22 09:15 am (UTC)Prompt: What do you want the public to know about science?
Date: 2011-04-22 02:24 pm (UTC)CLAIM: Next big thing in biology
Date: 2011-04-22 05:17 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt: What do you want the public to know about science?
Date: 2011-04-23 03:45 am (UTC)Re: Prompt: What got you into science?
Date: 2011-04-23 03:47 am (UTC)It's as much a part of who I am as breathing (or teaching).
ETA: Why do I stay? It's fun!
Re: Prompt: What do you want the public to know about science?
Date: 2011-04-23 03:48 am (UTC)Re: CLAIM: Next big thing in biology
Date: 2011-04-23 03:49 am (UTC)Re: Prompt: What do you want the public to know about science?
Date: 2011-04-23 03:55 am (UTC)My very favorite story like that of All Time has to do with stinkhorn fungi.
There was a Married Couple (Mycologists) and he'd been stepping out on her. She described a new species of stinkhorn .... and very tiny species of stinkhorn and named it in his honor .....
Prompt: Computer science
Date: 2011-04-23 04:50 am (UTC)Prompt: Genetics therapy
Date: 2011-04-23 04:53 am (UTC)prompt: scientific method
Date: 2011-04-24 12:22 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt: What do you want the public to know about science?
Date: 2011-04-25 08:10 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt: What do you want the public to know about science?
Date: 2011-04-25 08:26 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt: What do you want the public to know about science?
Date: 2011-04-25 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-25 09:15 pm (UTC)Outreach/Teaching
Communicating science effectively with school-age and adult audiences
Chemistry
Introduction to chemical dynamics
Environmental science
Geoengineering: Should we?
CLAIM: Computer science
Date: 2011-04-28 08:41 am (UTC)The post will appear on my journal and I'll edit this comment or post a second reply with the link.
PROMPT: interpreting study results (for beginners)
Date: 2011-04-29 02:55 am (UTC)As you can tell, I know some of these things, or at least have vague memories of them from school, but not enough to really write the entry!
This prompt might benefit from multiple answers, in fact -- I'm pretty sure that a reasonable number of subjects could be "10,000" when studying mice or corn plants, but "50" when studying people with heart murmurs... likewise it's probably silly to give a placebo to a cat, but sensible to a human. (At least if it's a drug study. If it's a study of, say, allele frequencies in population X, it's not going to be at issue at all.)
Prompt: Normal workdays
Date: 2011-05-04 09:54 pm (UTC)