Actual NASA Mission Posters are Hilariously Awesome!
NASA Mission Posters Are Hilariously Painful – NASA mission posters – Gizmodo. Unbelievably, these are actual NASA mission posters! It’s nice to know that in between all the dangerous and serious science stuff, they can have some fun too….:) The Gizmodo article above has some more details from one of the people who make them, […]
PopSci and Ars Technica feature parasite I did my PhD on!
Gold Nanoparticles and Lasers Kill the Brain Parasite That Causes “Crazy Cat Lady” Syndrome | Popular Science. I never thought this would happen, but PopSci had an article on Toxoplasma, the fascinating parasite that I spent 6 years studying during my PhD. The article itself is about a fairly futuristic-sounding technique to use gold nanoparticles […]
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 […]
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 🙂 […]
Pics of the Earth, Tweeted from Space!
Twitpic / Astro_Soichi. Japanese Astronaut Soichi Noguchi takes photos from aboard the International Space Station and tweets them directly to his Twitpic account along with a caption. He’s definitely managed to take several stunning photos, all over the world. Here’s one of Space Shuttle Endeavor, and strange-looking structures in Bahrain.
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 […]
65,000-Year-Old Language Goes Extinct : Discovery News
65,000-Year-Old Language Goes Extinct : Discovery News. I just found the Discovery News article above sad – apparently Boa Sr., the last speaker of the Bo language, died last week. She was a member of the Bo tribe who lived in India’s Andaman islands. The site also has a video of her singing in Bo, […]