Comic-Con gathered together the world’s top zombie experts not named “George Romero” to talk zombies. Unsurprisingly, they see our favorite brain eating shamblers in radically different ways. I cobbled together their comments from throughout the panel to paint a picture for how each writer imagines zombies.

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Carla Speed McNeil writes the Finder graphic novels, a work that in many ways blends science fiction and fantasy. With a hybrid work, she’s had to confront some of the definitional questions of the genres: • Super hero comics are not SciFi. They’re stories of emotion and character embroidered with these scientific ideas

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Spring boarding from Amos’ paper on Thursday’s Discover panel, I want to delve into some unexplored tension. The panel focused on how science could make storytelling better, and it included a mix of scientists and TV writers

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Comic-Con Gauntlet Thrown: Fringe Producer Says Scientific Fact Must Yield to Story | Science Not Fiction

Coat a piece of lace with Mod Podge. Position the lace over the top of a locket. (the lace should be slightly larger than the locket) Once dry, trim the edges of the lace to match the edges of the locket

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Make This: Hot Glue and Mod Podge Locket

Using Hot Glue Gen Helper Tweezers, hot glue gems around the top of a pair of hairsticks! (HGGH Tools are shipping soon!) Mod Podge a piece of decorative paper to the top of a flat ring.

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Make This: Hot Glue and Hairsticks and Gem Ring

Before turning the page on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s all-too-hasty firing of Shirley Sherrod, let’s consider what leaders in the private sector can learn from the episode. Yes, Vilsack rushed to judgment. But why?

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White Executives Should Head to the ‘Hood

Using my Tattered Rose Tutorial, make 2 large roses. Add tattered sheer fabric and a gem to the center.

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Make This: Hot Glue and Tattered Rose Fedora and Glasses

Unlike video content , Google crawlers can easily discover most images that are embedded in your web pages. However, if a page on your site has multiple images, Google may have a problem identifying which among them is the most relevant image for the content of that page

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Create an Image Sitemap for your WordPress Blog

My friends at the Washington Post , where I’m a member of the newspaper’s “On Leadership” panel, posed a provocative question to the group that is perfect for the times in which we live. Here’s what the editors asked: “Tony Hayward, once credited for BP’s ‘green’ turnaround, is forced to resign in disgrace.

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Where Have all the Business Heroes Gone?

Here’s another find from my recent eBay spendarama, and another CD that wasn’t on Discogs (now rectified, here ). I first heard about these mixes from The Soul Vendor blog, which had lots of interesting stuff on it before dying off last October with no explanation.

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Dread Flimstone – From The Ghetto (1991)

Born to Learn is without a doubt, the number 1 resource for Microsoft learning, exam, and certification information (and so much more) for current and aspiring MCPs and MCTs, Microsoft partners and many others. The Born to Learn blog was started in September of 2008 by Ken Rosen, Director of Community, Marketing and Evangelism Team with Microsoft Learning after taking over Trika’s blog .

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Train Signal Interviews Born to Learn’s Ken Rosen

Those of you who follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on facebook may have seen that last month, I asked for volunteers to come catch and tag sharks with me here in Charleston. While I was pleased by how excited respondents were for this opportunity, I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge that involving members of the public in scientific research is an old idea. It’s called Citizen Science.

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Adventures with Citizen Science: perspectives of a shark biologist

This cute line of papers and scrapbook goodies is just too cute to pass up!!! They are by My Little Shoe Box ! The colors were all perfect. Just looking at them – my head was racing thinking about all the projects I could do with them and Mod Podge.

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Cute papers – My Little Shoe Box

In the WSJ today, a letter to the editor was published extolling the major strides made by the U.S. military in voice recognition technology for electronic health records: [ Note: this is not to denigrate the military, and I am very thankful to all who serve and defend our country and freedoms

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If Our Honored Military Personnel’s Medical Care Was Not Involved, This WSJ Letter Might Have Been Considered Oddly Funny

The UK’s bonfire of the quangos continued today, as the coalition government lined up a selection of health-related agencies for termination. Rising from the ashes may be a new super-regulator for research as the government has pledged a “radical simplification” of medical research. Overall, the Department of Health is to reduce the number of its so-called arm’s length bodies from the current 18 down to around nine as part of the government’s aim is to shave over 45% from the administrative …

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Quango cull triggers research regulator rationalisation

The Scienceblogs saga continues to rumble on, with more people quitting – the departure of Bora Zivkovic making perhaps the biggest ripples in this latest group – and now PZ Myers going on strike (see some discussion in the comments here). [Note added: As I was finishing off this post, I saw one of my favourite Sb bloggers, Abel Pharmaboy of Terra Sigillata, is going too

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In praise of the somewhat shambolic

Image by cameronneylon via Flickr I’ve been watching the reflection on the Science Blogs diaspora and the wider conversation on what next for the Science Blogosphere with some interest because I remain both hopeful and sceptical that someone somewhere is really going crack the problem of effectively using the social web for advancing science. I don’t really have anything to add to Bora’s masterful summary of the larger picture but I wanted to pick out something that was interesting to …

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The Nature of Science Blog Networks

I had a really strange few days this past week. I’ve taken on some new work, streamlined my current projects so I can take most weekends off and started to jot down ideas for the book I’ve been trying to write for a while. I should have been ecstatic, but instead I found it particularly difficult to get – and stay – motivated

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How To Stay Motivated As A Freelance Writer

Most of you who have been reading my blog for some time know that I’m a big fan of getting the word out in any way possible. Whether you’re using PR, direct mail, or pay-per-click marketing, being in front of your target audience whenever and wherever they may happen to be is good for your brand

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Internet Marketing Is Everywhere

…remember that the following two domains will always point to where I am: http://www.respectfulinsolence.net http://www.respectfulinsolence.com Also remember that, should anything happen, I still have my old Blogspot blog Respectful Insolence, which can be reactivated at a moment’s notice, as I did last year when an attempt at a software upgrade at ScienceBlogs took longer than anticipated. Meanwhile, I continue to dither while Pharyngula goes on strike and Zuska, Mike Dunford, and Grrl…

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Just a notice while I’m dithering over my future here at Sb…