New forums on SFN

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Today we've added a few more forums to SFN and reorganized the rest. I'll put a summary of our changes here so everybody can see what's new:

• SFN Book Discussions: By popular request, we've opened a "book discussions" forum for members to discuss a featured book. New books will be chosen on a monthly or bi-monthly basis (basically whenever we feel like it, actually), and we'll be soliciting public suggestions for new books to discuss.
  
• Media Discussions: We've also added a forum for the discussion of a featured media clip - anything from a keynote speech to a lecture - also updated on a semi-monthly basis. Again, we will solicit suggestions for clips to host and discuss.
  
• Sci-Fi and Science in Entertainment: This forum is a sort of mish-mash of several things. It's for the discussion of anything from science fiction to scientific errors in your favorite movies. We may also open a creative writing subforum if the demand exists (if you want one, start posting your stories now!).
  
• Your Experiments: A subforum of Chemistry, this forum is dedicated to user-contributed chemistry experiments. If you have a fun (and legal) chemistry experiment you'd like to share with the world, post your instructions (and perhaps some pictures) there.
  
• A new category, Education, has been formed, containing our Homework Help and Science Education forums.
  
• The main page has been brought back by popular demand. It's different than it was before, but we hope it will now be more useful and more attractive to new members.
  
• The Polls forum has been removed and all threads have been placed in General Discussion.
  
• Be sure to also check out our relatively new Philosophy of Science forum!
  

 

Hope everybody enjoys the new forums!

[Genecks]

How about some kind of alteration?

 

...Book, Journal, and Magazine discussion..

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

What do you mean? Allow free discussion of other magazines and journals?

[antimatter]

Yeah, I think it's a good idea to also have a discussion of science magazines.

[a Clown]

Yeah, for example, a Scientific American discussion, or something like that.

[ecoli]

not enough demand for a separate board.

 

Try starting some threads, and if there turns out to be a lot of interest, we'll take it from there.