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July 25, 2008
It’s really hard to write a good news article on science issues in a way that both instructs the public, and doesn’t manage to raise the hackles of folks who play with science stuff all the time. I am picky, and I end up with some favorite writers, but generally i like blogs on […]
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May 20, 2008
As a follow up to yesterday’s post… I currently have in my possession, on loan from the Harvard library, volume 6 part 5 of Science and Civilization of China. This particular volume was published well after the death of Joseph Needham, but nonetheless, is made from his painstaking research on China.
You may wonder why on […]
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February 29, 2008
Occasionally I have reason to leave my office desk to print out labels over in the Unio room of the department. This means I have to walk out into the HMNH gallery of mammals. The lower part of the gallery is, for sure, full of mammals, and whole whale skeletons are right at eye […]
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February 28, 2008
so I don’t use GPS, but i love the idea, and we’ve had lots of mapping talk and some training here at work for GIS, though my department
doesn’t really deal in it since the vast majority of our collection only has information as detailed as “right side of Waianae Ridge, Hawaii,” or “near New Caledonia,” […]
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January 18, 2008
Once upon a time there was an evilscientist article put out about making a bristlebot. Now, to improve on the theme, there is a snailbot. too cute!
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August 17, 2006
I love listening to The Naked Scientists at work. Mind you, they are going on vacation until September, but their archive is fully available and downloadable to listen to. I absolutely adore it and it keeps me going often at work.
On the question and answer show from August 6th there was a fantastic question […]
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July 5, 2006
Two links of interest today. First off, Josh pointed me to this fantastic size comparison of various planets and stars. Some of the image resolution is prettier than on other pictures, but the concept is great. The thought of sitting some size comparison planets on my desk is a lot of fun.
The […]
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