Today, as Wikipedia went dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA, and people all over the world found themself screaming ‘arg, no infomation!’, the Washington Post, Guardian and NPR stepped in to answer people’s questions, via the #altwiki hashtag. And a number of people with access to old-fashioned resources like, well, encyclopaedias. An interactive […]
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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that […]
5,000 posts on Sciblogs!
This post is, officially, the 5,001st blog post on Sciblogs. Since the inception of Sciblogs in October 2009 - a little over two years ago - we’ve been impressed with the quality of writing of our bloggers, and the growing stable of talent this network has attracted and continues to attract. And so, both Peter […]
An Open letter to Greg Mankiw
[reproduced below: you can find it in full at it’s original source, the Harvard Political Review] The following letter was sent to Greg Mankiw by the organizers of today’s Economics 10 walkout. Wednesday November 2, 2011 Dear Professor Mankiw— Today, we are walking out of your class, Economics 10, in order to express our discontent […]
Kermadec adventures: A talk by Tom Trinski (tonight)
I am SO going to this - should be great fun! Kermadec Adventures: A special Blue Wellington event: Dr Tom Trnski of Auckland museum is coming to town! Dr Trnski led the awesome marine survey trip earlier in the year, which found several fish species completely new to science. Come and hear his presentation and […]
Plucky young New Zealanders to undertake Mongol Rally
“Far out!” say friends and loved ones. aimee ‘oh dear, her again’ whitcroft and Dane ‘finn’ Foster are, it would appear, going to be undertaking the legendarily ludicrous Mongol Rally next year. Naming themselves ‘Lemur Attack Force’, they will be powering (slowly) across 16,000km – 1/3 of the earth’s surface - in a car […]
The devil’s dictionary
nevver: The Devil’s Dictionary
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qotumblr: thespitfireemporium: ornamentedbeing: Topless dueling? I know it’s a long text but it’s worth the read! “The most intriguing duel fought between women, and the sole one that featured exposed breasts, took place in August 1892 in Verduz, the capitol of Liechtenstein, between Princess Pauline Metternich and the Countess Kielmannsegg. It has gone down in […]
Kraken/Singularity
In stillness it rests ‘Until the latter fires heat the deep’ Tentacles the waveforms of the future Singularity: reaching out To enfold. The end of the world. A bad poem written while trying to write content for this year’s #twecon, my subject […]
don't bother
dear companies spending all that money on tracking my clicks and interests, and advertising to me on the interwebs. don’t bother. honest to god, i don’t even _see_ them anymore :)