{"id":516910,"date":"2010-04-05T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2010-04-05T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:02:05","slug":"come-to-the-island-of-science-writing-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516910","title":{"rendered":"Come to the Island of Science Writing! | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/files\/2009\/08\/laighton440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\"\/>This August I will be teaching a week-long writing course on Appledore Island in the Gulf of Maine. <a rel=\"nofollow\">Last year<\/a>, the first time around, we had a blast, embarking on an Ahab-like quest for hagfish, observing the role played by mind-controlling parasites in the ecology of the island&#8217;s tidal zone, learning how to use broken 300-year-old pipe stems and cod ear bones to reconstruct American&#8217;s first economic boom, and much more. (Here are <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/scienceonshoals.blogspot.com\/\">some articles<\/a> the students wrote about their experiences.)<\/p>\n<p>This year promises to be just as much fun (and intense).<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for registering is <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>April 16.<\/strong><\/span> You can reigster and get more information on <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.sml.cornell.edu\/sml_cc_sciwrit.html\">the course page<\/a> at the Shoals Marine Lab web site. (Shoals is jointly run by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire.) For those beyond college interested in the class, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.sml.cornell.edu\/sml_students_creditcourses.html\">here<\/a> are some details about taking the course non-credit.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ttblen22AQNs8S9aexwaV6anf8E\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ttblen22AQNs8S9aexwaV6anf8E\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ttblen22AQNs8S9aexwaV6anf8E\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ttblen22AQNs8S9aexwaV6anf8E\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/CqEkbBeCtZk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/3ZSW6KkqfCA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This August I will be teaching a week-long writing course on Appledore Island in the Gulf of Maine. Last year, the first time around, we had a blast, embarking on an Ahab-like quest for hagfish, observing the role played by mind-controlling parasites in the ecology of the island&#8217;s tidal zone, learning how to use broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}