By Ken Levine: How to create a hit network drama “Fame and riches can be yours! Procedural/action dramas are in and you too can create one if you just follow these very simple steps: Always start with a couple. He must be boyishly handsome and she must be smoking hot. You can go “mature” but […]
Month: April 2011
What to Tell Your Dog About Einstein
Regular blogging has been interrupted this week not only because I jetted off to southern MD but because this week was the due date for the manuscript of the book-in-progress. It’s now been sent off to my editor, and thus begins my favorite part of the process, the waiting-to-see-what-other-people-think part. I’m pretty happy with it, […]
Thursday Toddler Blogging 041411
SteelyKid has been sick this week, which made it a perfect time for me to fly down to Maryland for a couple of days. Fortunately, she and Kate have both forgiven me. I did break out the new friend I purchased for SteelyKid a couple of weeks ago, and have been holding in reserve: The […]
Links for 2011-04-13
The Defenders – NYTimes.com “One of those on the ramparts peering out into the night was a blue-eyed, dark-haired young Irishman named John Thompson, a private, who left what may be the only surviving description of the battle by a rank-and-file soldier: a long letter that he sent two weeks later to his father back […]
Hello, Southern Maryland: Talk Wednesday at St. Mary’s College
I’m in last-minute-revision mode here, made mroe frantic by the fact that SteelyKid developed a fever yesterday, and had to be kept home from day care. I did want to pop in to note that I will be giving the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium at St. Mary’s College in Maryland tomorrow, Wednesday the 13th. […]
Links for 2011-04-12
Making Light: *Spoilers* Sucker Punch *Spoilers* “Imagine The Matrix as written by M. Night Shyamalan, casting no one you’ve ever heard of, and shot as soft-core porn. That’s Sucker Punch.” (tags: movies culture review blogs making-light) WTF: Journal publishes ESP B-u-n-k | “The article ends, as these things often do, with a discussion section. This […]
Links for 2011-04-11
Cocktail Party Physics: so you want to be a science consultant Step Zero: Live in Los Angeles. (tags: science education outreach media television movies blogs cocktail-party books communication)
The Tale of Little Red Robin Hood
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl from a family of modest means, who received a spiffy new jacket as a gift. It was bright red, and had a big warm hood that she could pull up over her head when she didn’t feel like combing her hair. She was so pleased […]
Links for 2011-04-10
“Tie this to your lanyard, Billy Collins” “My brother Aryaman (the talented one) writes: “A colleague of mine who is interested in pursuing science education after her PhD was directed to a collection of (I think apocryphal) answers to science questions from 5th and 6th graders in Japan. I noticed many of them were almost […]
Hugo Humiliation
Over in LiveJournal land, nwhyte just finished reading all the Hugo-winning novels, and provides a list of them with links to reviews or at least short comments. He also gives a summary list of his take on the best and worst books of the lot. The obvious thing to do with such a list, particularly […]