Random Thoughts
- Museum Days, Not Nights
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Aww. I cannot bring myself to enter the contest to win a month living in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The website beckons: "Be the experiment. Eat. Sleep. Science." But I am not proficient at editing or making videos, a prereq ...
Article - Anonymous - Aug 1 2010 - 12:23am
- The Say Of The Week
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying" Woody Allen ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 2 2010 - 3:12am
- Video games and crowdsourced data
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When I was a grad student, I installed SETI@home on a bunch of lab computers, which served as a screen saver and crunched data from scans of the sky in search of aliens whenever the computer was idle. I thought this was a neat idea, as it tapped into the p ...
Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Aug 4 2010 - 4:07pm
- Scientopia- former Scienceblogs writers get communal
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Know why BetaMax didn't beat out VCRs even though it was better in every way? The same reason more people have PCs than Apples. Strangling the technology with one provider keeps the market small and when a flexible alternative comes out, people fl ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 6 2010 - 2:30pm
- Spitting On Graves
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Spitting On Graves There is science, there is bad science, there is propaganda and then there is spitting on graves. I recently wrote about Robert McClure, the man who finally proved the existence of a North West passage, in fact the most direct passage o ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 6 2010 - 3:11pm
- Dropbox rules
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I love Dropbox. I use it to back up and synchronize all my important files, and it has pretty much replaced my need for external hard drives and USB keys. I also use it to share specific folders with co-authors or students so that any changes they make or ...
Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Aug 6 2010 - 3:17pm
- Discover Magazine sold- print science media valuations plummet
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Discover Magazine, both print and online, has been sold to Kalmbach Publishing, which owns publications like Astronomy, Trains and Birder's World. Price: $7 million, says MediaWeek, for a company with 700,000 print subscribers and $14 million in annua ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 6 2010 - 4:57pm
- In Athens
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No, this is not about Physics. No, you are probably not interested. No, this blog is not only about science. I sometimes use it as-guess what- a log book, a diary. A habit I have learned five years ago, as I walked my first steps in the world of blogging, ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 6 2010 - 5:02pm
- Physicist Sean Carroll is a total diva!
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Science 2.0, being about openness and outreach and participation, can attract its share of kooks. Depending on the whims of the community moderators around that day, goofy, speculative nonsense can even stay on the front page as a blog for a while. It c ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 7 2010 - 7:01pm
- Moods Cloak, Emotions Flitter: Thoughts regarding Faith and Vengeance
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"In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist."-- Hitchens ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Aug 9 2010 - 8:31pm
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