Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. mikethemadbiologist
  2. Links 8/19/11

Links 8/19/11

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
Profile picture for user mikethemadbiologist
By mikethemadbiologist on August 19, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Texas Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe Responds To Rick Perry
What Will You Earn With a Ph.D.?
Pig-Size South American Rodent Spotted in Central California
Can Math Beat Financial Markets?

Other:

Paul, its time to update your textbook (wonky, but must-read)
Rick Perry for President? My Experience with "The Texas Unmiracle" (Krugman)
Back to school in the USA: 4 charts
John Singer Sargent murals
Rick Perry Is Now Sorry He Banned Parental Honor Killings
End This Fed
Summer jobs reduce crime and we can prove it
What Michele Bachmann's submission theology really means
In defense of the low road

Tags
Lotsa Links

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • Don't Sleep A Lot? You May Be At Risk For Diabetes
  • Mushrooms Linked To Fewer COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects
  • New Study Shows Shrinking Snow Coverage
  • Satellite Livers Instead Of Transplantation
  • Canadian Epidemiologists Claim Processed Foods Cause Bad Kids

Science Codex

  • Communism V. Journalists: Beijing’s Crackdown on Press Freedom

More by this author

Program Announcement: I'm Moving
September 1, 2011
I've dropped some hints in the past that my relationship with ScienceBlogs would be...altered. Well, I've decided to leave. Mostly, it had to do with the issue of pseudonymity, although I'm very excited to hang out my own shingle once again. I don't want to rehash the issue of pseudonymity,…
Note to Unions: This Is Not How You Build a Coalition
September 1, 2011
The old saw that 'we hang together or we get hung separately' is a perfect description of how the left has disintegrated into irrelevance. Too often, groups will focus on modest gains for their own narrow constituency, while selling out other allies. Over the long term, each component of the…
Links 8/31/11
August 31, 2011
Links for you. Science: Underground river 'Rio Hamza' discovered 4km beneath the Amazon What do accommodationists do about creationist politicians? I've Been Told You Can Get Flu From the Flu Shot: False! Federal Work Suspension of Leading Arctic Scientist Ended as Investigation of His…
Meet the New New Math, Same As the Old New Math? What We Can Learn from Finland
August 31, 2011
Recently, The New York Times published an op-ed calling for curricular changes in K-12 math education: Today, American high schools offer a sequence of algebra, geometry, more algebra, pre-calculus and calculus (or a "reform" version in which these topics are interwoven). This has been codified by…
Links 8/30/11
August 30, 2011
Links for you. Another Scientist Calls Out Sen. Coburn's Misleading, Juvenile "Report" XMRV: ITS EVERYWHERE! UUUUUGH! ITS IN MY RACCOON WOUNDS! AND MY QIAGEN COLUMNS! Coulter Goes All Science-y in Bid to Disprove Evolution Yet another bad day for the anti-vaccine movement 2011 Antibiotics: Killing…

More reads

Disney's "Tangled" and Beautiful Mathematics
Walt Disney Pictures Did I not say that science can be beautiful? Consider Disney's latest animated film, "Tangled." How does one simulate human hair, taking into account sheen and reflection of light, not to mention bending? In the earlier days of animation, these drawings were done by hand by masters of the craft. Now, the images can be generated by computer algorithms. The answer is…
"There can be no such creature" - Chemistry Nobel: Daniel Shechtman
The finding for which this year's Chemistry Nobel was awarded earlier today was sufficiently unexpected and counter to the orthodoxy of the time that today's prize winner was tossed out of his own research group for reporting it. His 1982 discovery has to do with how atoms are organized in solid matter, and is based on observations made with electron microscopy. Daniel Shechtman's imagery…
A lonely chair in North London: how urban skeuomorphs speak volumes about the city
I live in Haringey, an as-yet-ungentrified part of North London, and there's a small park near me with a very curious chair in it. The park isn't much - just a strip of lawn passing by a basketball court and a small playground for toddlers. Sprouting like mushrooms here and there are chairs like this one.  Lonely little chairs just big enough for one person to sit on. When I first saw these…

© 2006-2026 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.