1. evolgen
  2. We're All Uncle Leo

We're All Uncle Leo

By evolgen on January 20, 2006.

Just don't let Elaine draw in your eyebrows.

The New York Times has an article profiling the advertising side of ScienceBlogs (you know, the thing that allows Seed to provide us with bandwidth so that we can spew our ivory tower propaganda far and wide). Anyway, they refer to the type of people who like to read about science in their spare time as "Leonardos". And all this time I thought we were just dorks, dweebs, and nerds -- but not geeks (they bite the heads off of live chickens). To learn more about your bad-ass-Renaissance-man selves, check out the Seed guide to Leonardos.

I also noticed that P. Zed Myers has his own take on it -- apparently he doesn't like being a pawn in the money game. Don't hate the playa, P. Zed, hate the game.

Tags
Admin

More like this

Math Confuses Princess: I Read It In Seed
One of the perks of being a Scienceblogger is getting a free subscription to Seed Magazine. Last week, issue 11 August 2007 arrived, and I happily began sampling its good stuff. There's a new feature this month called "Incubator" that tries to "capture the multifacted nature of science itself -…
The Cherry Blossom Classic, Part Two
After my win in round two I was excited for round three. My opponent sported a 1952 rating, and he had white. He opened with 1. e4. Now, over the years I've tried most of the major defenses to e4. I was an aficionado of the Dragon Sicilian for a while, until I noticed I kept getting mated on h7…
Professional science journalism
I've taken a few pokes at the bad science of Rhawn Joseph and the Journal of Cosmology over the years — for instance, in this post summarizing an article that was little more than a thinly threaded excuse to show off pictures of women in bikinis, or this post about their claim to have found…
"I'm just turning a rational eye to your dogma"
I went to see Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, a few weeks ago at MIT. Unfortunately the line to get him to sign books was about fifty frenzied geeks long, so I didn't stay for that. But I did enjoy his dialogue with the audience, which mainly consisted of answering questions ranging from…