In honor of the Olympic games, Scientific American has put together a slide show of the fastest animals in the world, like the peregrine falcon shown in the picture above that has been recorded diving at speeds of 115 mph! The slide show is definitely a must-see! To check out the show, click here.
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Speaking of conferences (as we were a little while ago), the Female Science Professor has a post on the phenomenon of logos in talk slides:
Several people in the geekout thread asked me to explain how a sliderule works, and I've been meaning to write a couple of article about manual computing devices. So I thought I'd do it.
Having just returned from a long trip where I gave three talks, one of the first things I saw when I started following social media closely again was this post on how to do better pr
Bad teaching is one of my pet peeves, but I go back and forth on PowerPoint. I think its egregious abuse most of its users shouldn't necessarily bring a cloud on the whole program -- sometimes it is used effectively.
You're so awesome! I do not think I've truly read through something like this before. So great to find somebody with original thoughts on this subject. Seriously.. thanks for starting this up. This web site is something that is needed on the internet, someone with a little originality!