The end of an email era
As of this week, for the first time since high school, I no longer pay for email. Yes, shocking as that may seem in the age of Gmail and free email access, I still had a [email protected] account that I actually paid for. I got it back around 1998 or so, and it was my […]
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 […]
Bad Astronomy and some drawbacks to personal DNA testing
A few quick things that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while: I’ve added a link to the Bad Astronomy blog by one of my favorite astronomers/debunkers of pseudoscience. Always an enjoyable read, and another example of how to run a good blog. And today’s post mentioned the Amazing Randi, with some links […]
Teens think blogging is about as cool as Rick Astley hits
Teens think blogging is about as cool as Rick Astley hits. Wouldn’t you know, shortly after I decide to start blogging, I find it out’s totally uncool these days (see above link to the story). Actually, I guess it’s not that surprising to find that it’s becoming less of a teenage thing and more for […]
A few links to other blogs: NCBI ROFL and Pwned Experiments
A couple of new sites that I’ve found entertaining: NCBI ROFL, which posts real scientific studies that are funny, often inadvertently. The creators of that site (which will soon move to Discover magazine‘s site) recently launched Pwned Experiments, a collection of funny failed experiments. It’s only just getting started, but I think it hits home […]