Some time back, Dave Munger and someother folks put together a site called BPR3.org designed to aggregate posts that discuss peer-reviewed research papers in detail. A major weakness of this was that it’s sort of difficult to remember what the acronym stands for (every time I try to figure it out, I come up one… Continue reading Peer-Reviewed Blogging
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Uncertain Principles Radio
Well, OK, not really. You can, however, hear what I sound like by listening to a couple of official Tor podcasts made from the panel I did at Worldcon with Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Adam Rakunas, Paul Cornell and Yoshio Kobayashi. The panel was back in September, but I haven’t seen the files on Tor’s web… Continue reading Uncertain Principles Radio
Perspective
Looking at the traffic stats for the week, we see the following pageview totals: The Funding Issue: 688 Unions and Sour Grapes: 777 Teacher Compensation: 946 Sheep!: 1,261 So, to recap: Ranty blogging about serious issues of science funding and public outreach = Nobody cares. Ranty blogging about teachers and unions = Good for traffic.… Continue reading Perspective
The Year in Cities
Taking my time to copy a meme from Dave, here’s the list of cities where I spent at least one night in 2007: Niskayuna, NY (duh) Whitney Point, NY Tewksbury, MA Mineola, NY Boston, MA New York, NY Holland, MI San Rafael, CA Calgary, Alberta, Canada Cruz Bay, St. John, USVI Kyoto, Japan Yokohama, Japan… Continue reading The Year in Cities
Idle Question: Does “Fisking” Ever Work?
The context for this would take too long to explain, so I’ll just throw it out there: Can anyone think of an example of an Internet troll changing their opinions or behavior because of the savage wit of people responding to their comments? I ask this because I spent a good seven years on rec.arts.sf.*… Continue reading Idle Question: Does “Fisking” Ever Work?
The Year in Blogging, 2007
Because it’s not science without graphs: That’s the traffic for this blog for 2007. If you integrate the area under the curve, you get a total of 833,275 page views for the year, which is, frankly, kind of astonishing. That’s up from last year’s total of 574,676, so I guess the goal for 2008 is… Continue reading The Year in Blogging, 2007
The Year in First Sentences
2006 Was Just This Year, You Know: I lost a lot of weight, read a lot of books, taught a lot of classes, did a bit of research, and oh, yeah, I got tenure. Dorky Poll: Favorite Tool: In the comments to the post where I noted how many more people had least favorite textbooks… Continue reading The Year in First Sentences
Science wa Hanashimsu Ka?
Over at Page 3.14, they’re marking the launch of the German-language site scienceblogs.de (for real, this time) with a poll about language skills: they want to know what languages other than English ScienceBlogs readers speak, and what you think they should target next. Current sentiment is running in favor of French or Spanish next, but… Continue reading Science wa Hanashimsu Ka?
University of Pharyngula?
One of the alternately entertaining and depressing things about the culture wars in the US is the existence of a sort of parallel academic universe, in the form of vanity universities like Oral Roberts University, Bob Jones University, and Jerry Fallwell’s Liberty University. These provide both a thin veneer of credibility for pseudo-academic nonsense and… Continue reading University of Pharyngula?
Santa Claus is a Physicist
Dave Ng over at the World’s Fair is at it again, asking what sort of science background Santa Claus has: So the premise is that Santa is at least several hundred years old, and you’ve got to assume that somewhere along the line, he spent some time in academia and probably got a degree or… Continue reading Santa Claus is a Physicist