The Future of the History of Science
This is a re-hash of a topic I previously posted on my own blog, but I’m hoping the larger audience of Terry might provoke a more……
Read articleTis’ the Season for Dumpster Diving
Between weekly snow storms, daily melting, and nightly freezing, garbage trucks have yet to tred down many of the neglected and treacherous side streets and back…
Read articleGoogle Trending Influenza
Google’s philanthropic unit (philanthropic unit?) has taken their ever so popular (well, popular on Terry – see here, here, here, and here) Google Trends tool and…
Read articleMedia Awareness Week: Nov 3-7
It’s media education week (MEW)! So…what is it? Media education is the process through which individuals become media literate – able to critically understand the…
Read articleMore Live Blogging from UBC Climate Change Symposia – Geothermal Energy
From the Panel on Accelerating Solutions to Climate Change 11:20am – Dr. John Meech – Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions using Geothermal Energy Systems. What are Geothermal…
Read articleDrinks! Vancouver! Blogs!
So I actually have a regular blogging gig at a site known as ScienceBlogs. It’s pretty vibrant as far as websites go, and essentially is where…
Read articleGirl Meets LHC, Girls Commits Suicide -or- I’m a little doubtful this is actually true…
UPDATE: Reuters has picked up the story. According to their report: But in deeply religious and superstitious India, fears about the experiment and the minor risks…
Read articleMovie Turned Opera: The Fly -or- Egad! I hope Jeff Goldblum makes a cameo
Yes. The Fly. The “mutated mad scientist, Jeff Goldblum, hopping around a loft-turned-laboratory, spitting up stomach acids on to is food while his fingernails and unmentionables…
Read articleGraffiti, Animation, Art? – I’m confused and very excited.
My recent crude espousal of stop-motion animation with my own toolbox led me to discovering a wonderful artist working in Argentina: Blu. His work appears to…
Read articleSomething to add to your weekly reading:
Ben Fry’s Blog An MIT alumnus, he wrote “Visualizing Data”, perhaps better known among certain social circles as, “Hot Science Porn”. Fry thinks up novel, intuitive…
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