Browse the Complete PopSci Archive – Check out the flying cars!
New! Browse the Complete PopSci Archive | Popular Science. Ok, this is pretty awesome…Popular Science has put their entire archives online, and it’s all searchable…all 137 years of PopSci in one place. They’re apparently working on a way to browse it, which would be sweet just to see all the covers, but I had a […]
Back from AAAS! (where I heard Ron Howard and Kal Penn speak…)
Spent the weekend at the AAAS annual conference in San Diego, my first time there. It was an interesting experience, especially because I registered as a freelance reporter, and it was my first time with a Press badge! I got access to the newsroom (with free coffee – I guess journalists drink a lot of […]
From dolphins to lasers, major science meet to cover it all
From dolphins to lasers, major science meet to cover it all. Phyorg.com had the story above about the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference in San Diego, for which I’m leaving today (2/18) evening. I’ll be there all weekend, attending lots of talks and trying not to overload on science 🙂 […]
Science is hard, boring, and filled with failure
Or so say these links… Now that I’m working with people in the publishing industry, which everyone seems to think is dying, I’ve met more people who assume that academic careers are more straightforward. I think only scientists appreciate how hard science can be…the results can be great, and very satisfying, but getting them can […]
Eric Heller’s Gallery of Quantum Art
Eric J. Heller Gallery A gallery of images by Harvard physics and chemistry professor Eric J. Heller. According to his website, his digital abstract art is inspired by: “a world we cannot directly see; the quantum realm of electrons, atoms, and molecules. The strange, often chaotic quantum domain yields forms, which I use as a […]
Learn.Genetics™
Learn.Genetics is a site created by the University of Utah to teach people about genetics. It’s got great design, lots of helpful information, and virtual labs that walk you through four common molecular biology techniques, some of which we used to give hands-on experience with when I volunteered at the San Jose Tech Museum. The […]
Photo Gallery of Cool New Science Images
As I’ve previously noted, I like cool, preferably scientific, images. I really enjoyed taking pretty microscope pictures as a graduate student, and I’ve been enjoying working on the Megapixels section of Popular Science and the Bull’s-Eye section of Science Illustrated, as well as for the various photo galleries I created for PopSci.com or posted about […]
Epigenetics, DNA: How You Can Change Your Genes, Destiny – TIME
Epigenetics, DNA: How You Can Change Your Genes, Destiny – TIME. The January 18 issue of Time magazine had a nice cover story on Epigenetics – or how the way we live can actually change our DNA in ways that get passed on to our kids. Follow the link above to the web version of […]
LabGrab: What scientific topics are in the news?
Grab More Science News Graph | LabGrab. The link above features a site with an inventive way to show what scientific fields and topics were getting news coverage over the last couple of weeks. It offers a broad overview of all science in the news, with an option to choose how many days to cover, […]
A couple of new articles
Did some more freelance work for Discovery, the newsletter of the Institute for Human Virology. I always enjoy talking to their scientists about their research, and this time I wrote about science that involved some broader issues outside of science and medicine as well. The two articles in the Fall newsletter are about the testing […]