Random Thoughts

Whose Christmas Story?

According to a well-known British figure:... the true meaning of the Christmas story will not be revealed until Easter – or possibly much later. Now who said that?  Answer at the end of this blog. I am now preparing to give my brain a little bit of a rest ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 23 2010 - 1:32pm

Christmas Science 2.0

What do you get when you cross Science 2.0, the cultural buzzterm that really took off in 2010 (and brought with it a whole host of colloquial meanings veering into 'web 2.0-ish, it means whatever you want it to mean' jargon) with a western world ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 24 2010 - 11:41am

Soldering Hero

I was a soldering fiend.  Rosin and tin melted under the heat of my mighty, err, tip.  Yes, I finally got the chance to start soldering some of the Calliope boards-- plus fix the broken down strum switch on my Guitar Hero guitar, edit two podcasts, and fin ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Dec 28 2010 - 6:21pm

Unidentified Squid Boats

Apparently, the New Zealand Air Force just released a bunch of documents pertaining to UFO investigations over the past 50  years. They include a well-known sighting from 1978 in which a cargo plane said it was being followed by strange lights- and was bac ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Dec 29 2010 - 9:25pm

Ransoming My Future

The Political and Financial Leaders of today have ransomed our future.  No one is innocent.  People of the earth you have all been poisoned.  The only antidote is a drastic program of retraining, retooling, and reform.  Short of this, a Jeffersonian call t ...

Article - Ed Chen - Dec 30 2010 - 12:54pm

Worst Of 2011 (and Science 2.0 Traffic Stats)

I am 21% of awesome.  But the rest, well, as with last year, I thought I'd let everyone know what you hated. My two worst columns from last year, the only ones to get under 400 visitors, were: 1) AGU Meetup? (San Fran, Dec 13-17), at 154 visits. 2) Da ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Dec 31 2010 - 2:22pm

Yearly Blog Report- 2010

The sudden switch from one to another provider of visit statistics last September prevents an accurate assessment of how this blog fared in 2010. However I can collect some information from some in-site tools. The pages of this blog have received a total o ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 1 2011 - 8:52am

It Was A Tentacular Year

Seems to be a time for retrospectives! I couldn't resist the chance to muse on the history of Squid A Day... I started posting sixteen months ago, on September 1st, 2009, having been brought to the site by a writing contest for graduate students. I di ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jan 2 2011 - 11:28pm

Never Forget: How I Will Politicize The Attacks Of September 11th, On 9/11/2012

On Tuesday, September 11th, 2012, I will make the attacks of 2001 a political issue.  For almost 10 years, these attacks have been used by Republicans as a political issue, justifying everything from conspicuous consumption to the Two War Economy of stoppi ...

Article - Ed Chen - Jun 7 2015 - 6:27am

Science and the Senses

A question occurred to me the other day, which was to consider how science might have developed differently had humans possessed different senses.  As an example, humans are significantly visual, but it is interesting to consider how things might be if we ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jan 5 2011 - 2:37pm