Posts from the ‘technology’ category

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……

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Tis’ 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…

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Google 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…

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Media 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…

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More 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…

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Drinks! 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…

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Girl 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…

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Movie 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…

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Graffiti, 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…

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Something 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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