On sexism, with humour
0A friend of mine just posted a quotation up on her Facebook feed and I thought it so good I figured I’d share it with you all. Well, to be fair, I read it, and then went and found the… Read more ›
Here is today
0One of the many uses of my inbox is for me to email to myself things to blog, share, write about and read. Of course, this means I have a great many unacted-upon notes in my inbox, but c’est la… Read more ›
Fantastic data vis of US language differences
0As with all countries, large OR small, there are going to be variations in dialect and pronunciation. Given its size and history, one would expect the US to have some pretty fantastic ones. And it does! PhD (Statistics) student Joshua… Read more ›
The danger of science denial
0This, ladies and gentlemen. THIS. Journalist Michael Specter gives an impassioned TED Talk on the danger of science denial. A brilliant talk, and something to be shared as widely as possible. _Especially_ with the anti-science people you know! Vaccine-autism claims,… Read more ›
Best cover ever – Space Oddity from the ISS
0Legend-of-a-human-being* Commander Chris Hadfield, who (in my view) has been responsible for some of the coolest, most inspiring science communication ever**, has just won everything. Ever. As his goodbye to his time aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Chris recorded… Read more ›
On the subject of patents
0Something encouraging actually happened today in politics for a change. Commerce Minister Craig Foss, who gets the ‘aimee whitcroft award for most awesome aptronym of the day’, has been listening to NZ’s IT sector on its huge resistance to software… Read more ›
How did feathers evolve?
0No doubt you all know by now that fellow Sciblogger and all-around awesomesauce person Siouxsie Wiles has started making some wonderful science videos. If you’ve not already seen and loved them, you can catch them on her YouTube channel –… Read more ›
Who are we without the internet?
1‘I’m Paul Miller and I just spent a year without the internet. Can you tell?’ Paul Miller – tech writer for The Verge, amongst other things – has just completed a full year ‘without the internet’. On April 30th 2012,… Read more ›
A boy and his atom feature in world’s smallest movie
0And now for something a little different! IBM, who make Very Clever Machines, have just released “A Boy and His Atom”, the world’s smallest movie. How small? Well, atomic scale. IBM using a tunneling electron microscope (which won IBM a… Read more ›
Citizen science class: Using the “bigfoot genome” for 21st century biology
0Those of you who read this blog regularly (or not) will likely have picked up that I have something of a passion for things involving citizen science and education-type stuff. So, with that in mind, I present to you ‘science:… Read more ›