Science journo quits writing to fight chiropractic libel suit
Science journo quits writing to fight chiropractic libel suit. Ok, this story is just kind of unfortunate. According to this Ars Technica story, Simon Singh, whose Fermat’s Last Theorem I remember reading and enjoying back in high school, is apparently quitting his job at the Guardian in order to defend himself against a libel suit […]
Movie/TV Science vs Real Science
A couple of nice cartoons that illustrate the differences between science as depicted in movies and TV – i.e. awesome, fast, and produced quick and definite results – vs real science, which is often slow, painstaking, and rarely produces the kind of conclusive results that can be stated with a whole bunch of qualifiers… Here’s […]
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 […]
The Onion’s take on Cable News (and what will loons do without newspapers?)
After Charlie Booker’s hilarious take on the “anatomy of a newscast” here comes The Onion‘s take on cable news: Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere It wouldn’t be as funny if it didn’t ring so true…that’s what most local “Breaking News” is like! And just to make more fun of old media, here’s another Onion […]
George Lois Tells the Stories Behind His Twelve Favorite Classic Esquire Covers — Vulture
George Lois Tells the Stories Behind His Twelve Favorite Classic Esquire Covers — Vulture. Ok, there’s nothing scientific about these Esquire covers, but they’re certainly great examples of of how powerful images. I just found it interesting how these covers capture so many iconic moments and eras – enough that even though I wasn’t around at […]
4 articles in the March issue of Popular Science
No wonder I’ve been busy…the March issue of Popular Science just came out, and it was a busy one for me, I had 4 articles in there. There was a Megapixels, which I’ve done before, but all the other sections were totally new for me – 2 Headlines stories and 1 How it Works. Was […]
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 đŸ™‚ […]
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena. A great collection of optical illusions by Michael Bach. What’s great is that he actually explains why it happens, and you get to play around with the animations and see how that affects the illusion. Saw this first on  Carl Zimmer’s blog where he points to a particularly trippy optical […]
2009 Photo Contest Winners Gallery – National Wildlife Federation
2009 Photo Contest Winners Gallery – National Wildlife Federation. 2009 Photo Contest Honorable Mentions – National Wildlife Federation. Just came across these photos of the winners and honorable mentions from the National Wildlife Federation‘s 2009 photo contest. See the links above for all the images, there’s 32 winners (across several categories) and 60 honorable mentions, […]