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Life in the fast lane

This is one time you don't want to be in the fast lane... xkcd ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Aug 19 2011 - 11:49am

Stretchy Squids Save The Seas! (Game)

I've seen cephalopods pop up in a few video games here and there, but The Game Bakers'  Squids  is the first one that looks both adorable and fun enough that I want to play it. (Which is a big deal, for me--I don't make time to play video/co ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Aug 28 2011 - 9:47am

Getting No Love: Age Of Autism Wants Autism Speaks To Shut Up

Dan Olmsted is  pissed at Autism Speaks  and wants them to shut up and go away, all because of Dr. Dawson's coverage of the IOM report this past week. ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Aug 29 2011 - 7:23am

4 Content Types

A short entry for today.  Blog material has cycles.  For this blog, I write 4 types of items:    1) Framing pieces (info about satellite work in general)    2) What I have learned (in the process of building this specific satellite)    3) Progress reports ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Aug 30 2011 - 5:53pm

Untethered at the End of the Cosmos

It slips from my fingers Cliched grains of sand. ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Sep 4 2011 - 10:22am

Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives

"Can neuroscience provide evidence for a liberal and conservative thinking style? It may seem like a stretch to say that one could predict whether you lean left or right by looking at a brain scan—no questions asked, no opinions voiced—purely based o ...

Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Oct 28 2011 - 5:57pm

Squid Gear On Sale!

SquidFire is having an end-of-summer sale: $5 off all their adult t-shirts. (I think it still applies even if you live in the southern hemisphere.) While not all of their gear features cephalopods, they do have many tentacular designs. For direct links to ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Sep 8 2011 - 12:00pm

Reusing writing

When I create original 'op ed' or educational bits for Science 2.0 (the movement, not the website), I often start with a podcast of the topic (over at 365 Days of Astronomy).  Then, I post the transcript or an extension of the podcast here as an ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Sep 10 2011 - 3:32pm

Math Links and Creepy Art

Squid news has been kind of slow lately, but I hate leaving this blog empty! (The frequency with which it is meant to be updated is, after all, given away in the title.) So here are a couple of tidbits. First, a creepy illustration by Kevin Evans: ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Sep 13 2011 - 6:25pm

Farewell To The Climber

Walter Bonatti died yesterday at 81 years of age. One of Italy's greatest "old style" climbers, Bonatti is especially famous for the first ascent to the K2, the extremely hard to climb, 8611-meter-tall mountain in the Karakorum. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 14 2011 - 7:55am