Archives for January, 2010
This was a project by a high school video class. As you watch, you’ll see objects doing things that they should not do as students take turns singing a Hall and Oats song while they walk/dance along the halls of their high school. The entire thing is filmed backwards, which explains how paper air planes…
Well, not really. But, as noted in Eruptions, there is a new swarm of little earthquakes underneath the Yellowstone Caldera. You’ll remember we discussed this here last time that happened. Since that time, of course, we’ve gotten to see what it would actually look like if the world’s scariest caldera (maybe) actually went off:
I pointed to this earlier, but I think it deserves its own post (hat tip ABATC)
is here art Ionian Enchantment. Please have a look, there is good stuff there. Honest. No need to be skeptical about it. Just go and look!
Miriam Goldstein of The Oyster’s Garter will now be blogging at Deep Sea News. Miriam is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch researcher featured here. Bookmark DSN. Interesting things will be happening.
Last weekend I attended Science Online 2010, which is a conference of science communicators with a heavy mix of bloggers, many journalists and others from the print industry, an increasingly large number of book authors, and OpenX (X=access, notebook, science, or whatever) advocates and practitioners.
I will be doing a Cafe Scientifique with the above title on Tuesday, January 19 (tomorrow as I write this) at 7:00 p.m. at the Bryant Lake Bowl. Doors open at 6. Get there early or call for reservations! The venue is small and the last CS sold out. Call 612-825-8949 for reservations (tickets are…
There are a LOT of videos coming out on Science Online 10. Go to YouTube and enter Scio10 in search and you’ll see them. Here are a few chosen from what is there already. This is not comprehensive … but will give you a flavor of the event. Enjoy:
In reference to this Bullet Point 1: I agree, and I wanted to do that to you but for some reason we did not hook up. Bullet Point 2: It is good to match up the flesh to the sound, it changes everything! Bullet Point 3: I’m sure you are right about the explosion. Brilliant,…
Bullet point 1: I just laid down and passed out. Bullet point 2: I stayed as far away from SciCurious as possible, for that very reason. Bullet Point 3: I also want to bottle Damond Nollan. Bullet Point 4: LOL. But seriously, this is a philosophy that not only applies to phones but to all…
Well, I got back last night, but then I was asleep until now. So, as I have my morning cup of coffee I’m going through a couple/few hundred emails. Sorry some comments were trapped in moderation, but I’ve released all the real ones. Later, I’ll tell you all about the conference. I had long interesting…
There IS water on mars! Basic vi commands cheat sheet. How Google works
If you haven’t seen, ah, heard it, you should check it out. Free sounds. For free.
Now, I know all the ditto heads are going to show up and start arguing whether or not “horse-whipped” is spelled with a dash, but that is just a distraction. Check this out:
Every time Rush Limbaugh opens his mouth I grow less enamored with the mindless fetish for free speech that permeates American culture. And notice that I use the word “culture” and not “civilization.” Because as long as this sort of thing is routine on our airwaves, we ain’t got that civilization thing.
All good things come to an end. But then if you work hard enough, you can get them back.
The Center for Inquiry is accepting disaster-relief donations through its S.H.A.R.E. program to support those providing care to the survivors of the 7.0 earthquake that struck Jan. 12 near the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. All donations–100 percent with no operating costs retained–will be sent directly to the secular aid group Doctors Without Borders, which…
The new strain of virus is likely to replace the older one; and if there’s a third wave later in the year it could be more virulent. We had the equivalent of a flu season’s worth of illness and deaths from August to November, when there are normally very few. In Canada, most of the…
Funny Thing Two and Funny Thing Three.
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum tries to make several different points. The central framework of the book, on which all the arguments are hung, is that science has a status, a place, in American culture, politics, and economy, and that this status has changed over time.…
Mercy Corps is said to be one of the better charities to donate to to help Haiti. This is their main web page for Haiti. They are: “… a team of 3700 professionals helping turn crisis into opportunity for millions around the world. By trade, we are engineers, financial analysts, drivers, community organizers, project managers,…
The user VenomfangX, famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) for his videos supporting creationism and against atheism, has yet again filed false DMCA notices against several of his critics. He did this before against another YouTube user, Thunderf00t (of the Why People Laugh at Creationists series, among other things), who forced VFX to issue…
Well? What are you standing there gawking at this blog post for? Go tell DuWayne what culture is! CLICK HERE Thank you, that is all…
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Why did this disaster hit Haiti? Pat Robertson will be happy to tell you.
Obsession can be a good thing. And I’m not talking about some dumb-ass fragrance.
OpenLab 2009 is a compilation of fifty blog posts chosen from several hundred nominated for 2009. For the second time I was a judge for OpenLab, and I can tell you that it is a shame to see only 50 selections given that many more than this number were clearly worthy. But that is what…




