Posts under ‘Science’

Just a quickie, as I have to go shovel snow. Again.
Here’s one way to depict my day at work: a mousepath. Today was for numbercrunching.

You can get the mousepath software yourself (Mac/Linux, Windows - by Anatoliy Zenkov and picked up by me here).
Hey, guess what? Having a blizzard does not invalidate global climate change. [...]

Sunday afternoon, fiddling around on the computer and organizing stuff. Fiction, non-fiction, photos… it’s all a mess, and all needs sorted out. At least if I post the links I’ve been accumulating, I don’t need to keep track of them any more.

Periodic Table of Visualization Methods: One of my interests is in informative ways to [...]

Science continues to be cool. How do you photograph bats drinking?

Literally - photos of glaciers from space - and figurative - using roads to map everything. That’s just roads, and the maps are remarkably complete.
Science is amazing!

They Might Be Giants has a new album coming out next month: Here Comes Science, a science themed album for kids, with songs like The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space), and Photosynthesis. It’s hard for me to explain here how excited that makes me, since you can’t see me bouncing up and down. [...]

Probably everyone knows that 40 years ago yesterday, Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
There’s an understandably large amount of publicity leading up to the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing. What you might not know about are some of the interesting online resources associated with the anniversary:

The NASA image gallery from which the [...]

This is the kind of thing that I’m always ambivalent about linking to, since that gives the dimwits who write it more publicity, but sometimes it’s worth it just to make fun of them.
Let me introduce you to Project Pterosaur. Sounds innocuous, even interesting, doesn’t it? Not so. The goal of this project is “to [...]

My favorite female naturalist didn’t make the New Scientist list of top ten most influential women scientists, but it’s still a pretty good list. (Bet you can’t guess who number one is? Damn, you guessed right.)
Rachel Carson made the list at number nine; she’s quite possibly responsible for my scientific career, and not for the [...]

That science publishing scam? Yup. It really is.
It’s a bit dismaying that it’s possible to buy publications now, but I suppose it’s been possible to buy entire degrees for a long time.

That’s what it means when we’re targetted by email scams, right?
*ELSEVIER:*
*BUILDING INSIGHTS; BREAKING BOUNDARIES*
*MANUSCRIPTS SUBMISSION*

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of all the Editors-in-chief of Elsevier Journals, we wish to
Communicate to you that we are currently accepting manuscripts in all Fields
of human Endeavour.
All articles published will be peer-reviewed. The following types of papers
are considered for publication:

• Original articles [...]