So, I was checking to see that last night’s Baby Blogging post had posted properly, when I noticed something unpleasant in the right column: I recognize that this is the price we pay for being ad-supported, here at ScienceBlogs. It’s unreasonable to expect every ad company on the Internet to perfectly screen all their content […]
Month: August 2009
Links for 2009-08-21
Liberal Arts Rankings – Best Colleges – Education – US News and World Report The annual clown show begins anew. Williams is #1, Union #43, for those who care. (tags: academia education silly us-news) Francis Collins’ “Five Themes” for the NIH : Respectful Insolence “In the end, I don’t give the proverbial rodential posterior what […]
Thursday Baby Blogging 082009
This week’s Baby Blogging breaks new ground: Outdoor Baby Blogging! SteelyKid says “Stop mugging for the camera, Daddy! This is about me!”
Dorky Poll: Newton’s Laws
I have a bunch of errand-running to do today, so I will leave you with a Dorky Poll question for entertainment, this time regarding the work of the great Sir Isaac Newton: Which of Isaac Newton’s Laws is your favorite?(trends) We’re still dealing with classical physics, here, so superpositions of results are not allowed. Pick […]
The National Academy of Sciences Wants Me
… to write a guest post at the Science and Entertainment Exchange blog. So I did, on science communication: I was asked to write a guest-blog post about “increased incentives for scientists to develop their communications skills.” I’m happy to oblige, but in typical ornery-blogger fashion, the first thing I want to do is take […]
Why Are You Publishing a Comment, Anyway?
I tagged Steinn’s post on publishing a comment a few days ago, because I thought it was pretty funny. In the interim, it’s been picked up by the usual suspects as more evidence of the need to completely discard the current publishing model in favor of something more blog-like. None of the subsequent discussion has […]
Links for 2009-08-20
Cosmological Gravitational Radiation : Dynamics of Cats Steinn explains what the LIGO null results mean (tags: science astronomy cosmology blogs cat-dynamics) PaulCornell.com: Thirty Comics for Hugo Voters “The Hugo Awards for 2009 are going to be presented at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne in September next year. The Best Graphic Story category is […]
The Importance of Distraction
Kate recently signed up for Facebook, and I was talking to her earlier about some of the options for wasting tons of time entertaining yourself with Facebook, and mentioned the ever-popular trivia quizzes and “personality tests” and the like. Of course, I had to caution her that most of the quizzes are really lame, because […]
Barney Frank Is Not Amused
The results, however, are amusing for the rest of us: It’s nice to see somebody in a safe district taking advantage of essentially having tenure. We could use more of this.
Links for 2009-08-19
Regifting Robin. How does it work? | Dot Physics The simple math behind a silly game. (tags: science blogs math silly dot-physics) As 81-year-old Mubarak heads to Washington, Egyptians wonder about their leader’s health — latimes.com An update from Uncertain Principles Senior Middle East Correspondent Paul Schemm. (tags: news politics world) Making graphene in a […]