It’s been a while since I looked at the search engine keywords on Goggle Analytics for this site. It’s a little depressing to find that PZ Myers turns up three times (“pharyngula,” “Pharyngula,” and “PZ Myers”) before my own name. Worse yet, Aaron Bergman, who doesn’t even have a blog any more, also shows up… Continue reading Lazy Blogging Saturday
Month: June 2006
Cheer My Dog Up
Why is this dog sad? Because people aren’t donating enough to the ScienceBlogs fundraiser… Isn’t it worth a few bucks to cheer her up? (Actually, that’s not true– donations thus far are in excess of $3,000, and Seed has promised some additional matching funds. But how could I resist the opportunity for a shameless appeal,… Continue reading Cheer My Dog Up
The Plight of Upstate
The Dean Dad has some interesting comments regarding this depressing New York Times article about the departure of young adults from Upstate New York: From 1990 to 2004, the number of 25-to-34-year-old residents in the 52 counties north of Rockland and Putnam declined by more than 25 percent. In 13 counties that include cities like… Continue reading The Plight of Upstate
Simulate This
Rob Knop has another post to which I can only say “Amen!”, this time on the relatioship between simulation and experiment (in response to this BoingBoing post about a Sandia press release): Can simulations show us things that experiments cannot? Absolutely! In fact, if they didn’t, we wouldn’t bother doing simulations. This has been true… Continue reading Simulate This
More Reading Material
Via James Nicoll, a new SF Webzine, Helix. Because you don’t have enough things to read on the Interweb.
With Great Traffic Comes Great Responsibility
At the suggestion of our resident ethicist, we’ve decided to try to use the power of ScienceBlogs to do some good. Thus, we present the first-ever ScienceBlogs Charity Fundraiser. Here’s the deal: An organization called Donors Choose solicits proposals from school teachers who want equipment that their districts can’t provide. They then accept donations toward… Continue reading With Great Traffic Comes Great Responsibility
I’m Not Fat, I’m Just Big-Boned
Weight and weight loss has turned out to be more popular than I would’ve expected as a blog topic– I get a remarkable number of search engine hits looking for some sort of diet information. Given that, I would be remiss if I failed to note an ongoing series of posts on “fat acceptance” at… Continue reading I’m Not Fat, I’m Just Big-Boned
Special Bonus Duke Bashing
Via Dave Sez, Chris Chase has all the J.J. Redick DUI jokes you could possibly want: * Redick’s arrest could actually help his draft status, as the Portland Trail Blazers are currently sitting at #4. * To keep up with his pal, Adam Morrison plans on knocking off a Seattle-area liquor store this evening. Special… Continue reading Special Bonus Duke Bashing
The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection
Tara wrote a post about pressure to be perfect a few days back. This collided somewhat weirdly with this month’s Rolling Stone piece on Duke (cashing in on the lacrosse scandal), which includes a few serious issues among a bunch of credulous stuff about sex: In 2003, Duke launched a yearlong study, known as the… Continue reading The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection
Politics and Academics
The esteemed Dr. Free-Ride has a post about politics responding to Sean Carroll’s recap of Yearly Kos. Both of them say things about the practice of politics that nicely encapsulate why I’m not a political activist– I’m too much of an academic: