Catch-up on a few things I’ve collected:
The business of writing essays for other people. For them to learn from, of course: no one would actually turn these in under a false name. Right? Right.
Citizen science: how interested amateurs can contribute to scientific understanding. Think of it as distributed science – a whole bunch of people doing a little bit can add up to big payoffs. The National Phenology Networkand Project Budburst are tracking the growth stages of particular species of plants, and could use your help.
CPSC guide to the new standards for lead in children’s items discussed here previously.
What’s a heuristic, anyway? And why call your blog such a weird word? Here’s one explanation, from Steve Pavlina, nicely tied into some suggestions for productivity. This is more or less what I had in mind when I titled the blog.
