slacktivist: Credit scoring and unemployment “Say you’re unemployed and you decide to work your tail off to land a new job, so you send out 40 résumés a week. Half of the companies might decide to do a credit-check before getting back to you. This sets off alarm-bells at the credit-rating agencies. Twenty credit-checks in […]
Month: July 2010
Thursday Toddler Blogging 072210
After a hard day of toddling, sometimes you just need to kick back on the couch with your sky-bison, and munch on a fruit strip: You know what I mean?
Sex, Intuition, and Evidence in Science
Over at A Most Curious Planet, Alexandra Jellicoe offers a story with the provocative headline Is Science Sexist?, which spins off an anecdote from astronomy: I was listening to Radio 4 a few months ago and the discussion about gender intelligence lodged in the deeper recesses of my brain unthought-of until recently when I went […]
The E-Book Experience
A bit more than a month ago, I got a Sony Reader as a birthday present, upgrading my electronic book-reading platform from an old Palm Pilot. this is, obviously, not as sexy as a Kindle or a Nook, but then again, it doesn’t involve me paying fees to use wireless services and further stoke my […]
Teleconference Poll
Pretty much what the title implies: for a variety of reasons, I find myself in a position where people keep holding or suggesting conference calls as a way of getting the relevant players together on the phone if not in person. I’m not wild about this, but I’m curious what other people think: Conference calls […]
Cake?
Well? Cake?customer surveys
Links for 2010-07-22
More Online Astronomy Resources for Writers “A few years ago I compiled a list of online astronomy resources for writers following that year’s Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers. Every year there are new links we pass around and discuss, so I wanted to do an addendum, if you will, adding more links to the […]
Backyard Fluid Dynamics
Here’s a picture of the ornamental pond we have in our back yard, showing the fountain that we run to keep the water circulating so it’s not just a mosquito ranch: You can see the brick that we have sitting on top of the pump housing to keep it submerged (it tends to tip over […]
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Now With More Quantum
If you’re in the UK, you may very well be thinking “You know, I love the idea of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, but I find American idiom very intimidating. If only there were an edition just for people like me…” Well, hypothetical UK person, your prayers have been answered: This is the […]
Links for 2010-07-21
Physics Buzz: APS hits ComicCon with the first superhero science comic “For the rest of this week I’ll be blogging from the madness that is sure to be ComicCon 2010. APS will be the first professional society to bring a comic book, so us public outreach folks are excited to be rolling in with 2.5 […]