The Royal Society has launched a spiffy new site that lets you browse highlights of the last 350 years of science as published in the Philosophical Transactions (“Giving Some Accompt of the Present Understanding, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World since 1665.”). These include things like Ben Franklin’s… Continue reading When Men Were Men, and Physics Was Natural Philosophy
Coming Soon, Frame-by-Frame Video Analysis of ScienceBlogs
Rhett Allain’s Dot Physics has joined ScienceBlogs. Sweet. Update your RSS readers accordingly. That is all.
Links for 2009-12-01
A Good Author Is Hard to Find – Books – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper “Mention the word “slush” to anyone who’s worked in publishing for longer than five minutes, and you’re likely to get an expression of sheer horror. Slush pile is a term used to refer to the collective mass of unsolicited manuscripts… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-01
Hail to the Geek
Via Chris Mooney, a Seth Borenstein article about Obama’s love for science: Out in public, Obama turns the Bunsen burner up a notch, playing a combination of high school science teacher and math team cheerleader. Last week, for example, the president announced that the White House would hold an annual science fair as part of… Continue reading Hail to the Geek
More Early Reviews of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
The official release date for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is three weeks from tomorrow, but a couple of new reviews have been posted, one linkable, the other not so much. The linkable one is from one of our contest winners, Eric Goebelbecker, at Dog Spelled Forward (an excellent name for a dog-related… Continue reading More Early Reviews of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
Thank You, Switzerland
It’s always nice to be reminded that the US is not the only country in the world prone to acts of petty and childish xenophobia. The last eight years have been especially rough, but between the Obama administration acting like adults and now this silly minaret ban, we no longer look like the most infantile… Continue reading Thank You, Switzerland
Links for 2009-11-30
On false dichotomies : Thoughts from Kansas “To the degree that I object to “New Atheism” (an ill-defined entity to which I am not entirely unsympathetic), my objection is to this precise aimlessness. By embracing Radical Honesty and railing against evidence-based communication strategy, they seem to be coming out against clearly stated goals, yet they… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-30
Links for 2009-11-29
For a Budding Fan, Basketball The Way It Ought to Be – NYTimes.com “My older son, Gabe, turned 3 in May, and I knew this would be the season I would finally take him to his first basketball game. I wanted the experience to be fun, the start of what I hoped would be a… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-29
Science: Notable at Last
The New York Times list of “Notable Books for 2009” has been released, which means it’s time for my annual rant about how they’ve slighted science books. So, how did they do this year? Here are the science books on this year’s list: The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn By LOUISA GILDER… Continue reading Science: Notable at Last
Links for 2009-11-28
Colliding Galaxies For Fun and For Science! : Starts With A Bang “Galaxy Zoo has developed an outstanding game where you can help astronomers by doing something that humans easily defeat computers at: visually matching galaxies to simulations!” (tags: science astronomy computing internet blogs starts-with-bang) Should You Get a Ph.D.? : Mike the Mad Biologist… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-28