Going to NASW ScienceWriters 2010
I’m off to attend ScienceWriters 2010, the annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers, this weekend. This is my first time at the NASW meeting, and I’m excited! I’ve also never been to Yale (in New Haven, CT), where the conference is being held this year. It should be a lot of fun, […]
The SciCom Class Blog, and Social Media
This year, SciCom offers a brand new social media class, and as part of the class we just launched our class blog, titled ‘A Tale of Ten Slugs – Becoming science journalists in an electronic age’. It’ll be at ‘http://ataleoftenslugs.com/’ very shortly, as soon as the domain name registration goes through. It’s meant to be […]
Santa Cruz SciCom and Clips from my internship
It’s been an intense few weeks in Santa Cruz, but I’ve been enjoying it so far. It helps that it’s so pretty, and the weather’s been great: here are some pictures of the view of downtown Santa Cruz and the Pacific Ocean during my walk back from class. Classes have been fun, though there’s always […]
I’m off to become a Banana Slug (and get trained in science writing)
Well, after an enjoyable summer in DC, I’m off to UC Santa Cruz to attend their graduate Science Communication program. It should be a great experience, though fairly intense. I’ll have classes twice a week, and be doing an internship another couple of days a week. I’ve been looking forward to my first internship at […]
Turn Your iPhone Into A Microscope For Only $10
How To Turn Your iPhone Into A Microscope For Only $10. Ok, this is just really cool…someone just found an elegant way to fix a small microscope to an IPhone case, making it real simple to take microscopic images with the IPhone camera. (Although the microscope attachment seems to keep increasing in price as more […]
Videogames as art, or as a source of it
With videogames unabashedly mainstream, and titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 earning over $1 billion, or as much as the highest-grossing movies, it’s interesting to see whether videogames are evolving towards being considered art. You could certainly make that argument for the artistic value of some ‘indie’ games (Braid and Limbo come to […]
Sci-Fi Vistas Milked From Boring Old Earth
Sci-Fi Vistas Milked From Boring Old Earth Wired has a gallery of strange other-worldly photographs by Allison Davies, taken all over the world. In the one above she’s present in the photo wearing a ‘spacesuit’ she designed herself. The series is appropriately named Outerland, and is available in her book published by Charles Lane Press. […]
The early twentieth century in color
It’s weird, but when I think of any era before the 1950s, I always picture it in black-and-white. I guess it’s just the effect of all the old movies and photos. The technology for color photography was actually around from sometime in the late-1800s, it was just too expensive and the techniques weren’t perfected for […]
Summertime/end of an internship/moving twice!/grad school…
Wow…yet again it’s been a while since I last wrote anything. It started off because I was busy, and then continued because I was lazy/had time to do non-computer-related things…:) I finished my internship at Science Illustrated and Popular Science magazines back in end-May. It was a really great experience, and I can’t recommend it […]
Best Visual Illusion 2010
Check out this visual illusion, winner of this year’s Best Illusion contest. What’s amazing to me is that it’s a real, 3-dimensional object that someone built, not just an animation or picture. The tricks the mind plays are quite fascinating 🙂 See all 10 finalists, as well as brief explanations of each illusion. [Best Illusion […]