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Wind Map
lovely & hypnotising
weather  science  infographic 
8 weeks ago by epersonae
A Mathematician’s Lament (PDF)
On the horrible state of math education, esp K-12. (I now feel extra-lucky to have taken the after-school math classes I had in high school, instead of the standard ones.)
math  science  academia  philosophizing 
8 weeks ago by epersonae
The Oil Drum | Space-Based Solar Power
"Astronomers frequently face this issue: should we build a telescope/observatory on the ground, or launch something into space? The prevailing wisdom is that if the science can be accomplished on the ground, then by golly you’d best do it that way."
science 
9 weeks ago by epersonae
comments on I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ask Me Anything...
"What can you tell a young man looking for motivation in life itself?" and the answer is quite lovely
philosophizing  science 
12 weeks ago by epersonae
Science-Based Medicine » Lessons Learned
A nice rule of thumb here.
science  medicine 
january 2012 by epersonae
Data Furnaces Could Bring Heat to Homes - NYTimes.com
"In the coldest climate, about 110 motherboards could keep a home as toasty as a conventional furnace does."
misctech  eco  home  science 
november 2011 by epersonae
About Pepper Spray | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
"As the chart makes clear, commercial grade pepper spray leaves even the most painful of natural peppers (the Himalayan ghost pepper) far behind."
science  medicine  occupy 
november 2011 by epersonae
HowStuffWorks "Someone told me that if there are 20 people in a room, there's a 50/50 chance that two of them will have the same birthday. How can that be?"
for future reference.
science 
november 2011 by epersonae
Science-Based Medicine » “And one more thing” about Steve Jobs’ battle with cancer
A thoughtful look at the information about the course of his cancer in the just-released bio.
science  medicine 
october 2011 by epersonae
Die, VPN! We're all "telecommuters" now—and IT must adjust
::sigh:: (That's all I have to say about that.)
science  misctech 
october 2011 by epersonae
The Moneyball of Campaign Advertising (Part 1) - NYTimes.com
"much of what goes into modern campaign advertising may be futile" - Let's try SCIENCE!
politics  science  math 
october 2011 by epersonae
Christmas 2010: The Lives of Doctors: Bicycle weight and commuting time: randomised trial
"Evidence based cycling is not high on the bicycle salesman’s agenda." - study author saved about 30 SECONDS (on a 27mi ride!) with a carbon frame vs a steel frame. I'll stick to my big ol' xtracycle, thanks. Interesting that the time difference of winter vs summer (7mins) vastly overwhelmed the difference in frames. I've had the same experience.
bicycling  science 
august 2011 by epersonae
NYT: Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
Fascinating. Sugar boosts willpower, which is part of what makes diet changes so difficult.
psychology  science  health  society 
august 2011 by epersonae
How we know we're causing global warming in a single graphic
as predicted by experiments done in the 1860s.
science 
august 2011 by epersonae
How Well Do Miss USA Contestants Represent Their States? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
"This is not to say that Americans have no opinions about evolution until they get that call, only that there are several sets of information and intuition triggered by questions about evolution, and slight changes in circumstance can shift which of those sets will dominate a person’s mind at a given moment."
science  politics  society 
august 2011 by epersonae
NYT: The Mechanic Muse - The Jargon
Words & colocations (sp?) that are much more frequent in modern fiction.
writing  science  academia 
august 2011 by epersonae
Unsung Heroes of NASA Space Suit | The Mary Sue
Sewn by hand. (And what i almost missed: done so even to this day!)
history  science  gender  crafty 
july 2011 by epersonae
New York - Empire of Evolution - NYTimes.com
evolution in urban environments: ants, fish, mice, bacteria.
science  urbanstudies 
july 2011 by epersonae
release 1988 1196
"Elaine Nelson, "What Are the Effects of Music on Human Temperature?" Ninth place, Eliot (tie)." (IIRC: none, really, but it was a fun project.)
personal  science 
july 2011 by epersonae
Postcards from Space
"In recognition of your [hard work / untimely death] on [Name of Recent Project], an Advanced Confectionery Positive Reinforcement Facilitative System has been placed in the Production Break Area."
funny  productivity  science 
july 2011 by epersonae
To Keep Off Pounds: Pass The Nuts, Hold The Chips : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
"The worst of the bad food news can be summed up in one word: potatoes." nooooooooo!
food  science 
june 2011 by epersonae
The Red Juice in Raw Red Meat Isn’t Blood
food  science 
june 2011 by epersonae
Photopic Sky Survey
"The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures." amazing, beautiful, entrancing.
photography  science  space 
may 2011 by epersonae
The Truth about Margaret Sanger | Planned Parenthood Affiliates New Jersey
"This fact sheet is designed to separate fact from fiction and to further explain Sanger's views and the background against which they must be judged."
history  gender  science 
may 2011 by epersonae
3quarksdaily: The Anti-Predictor
"Predictability is elusive because randomness holds much more sway than most of us would like to believe."
science  psychology 
march 2011 by epersonae
Science-Based Medicine » Acupuncture Revisited
It doesn't work.
science  health  medicine 
march 2011 by epersonae
Radiation Dose Chart (xkcd)
Nice visualization. (wouldn't mind seeing backscatter info on that chart, tho.)
infographic  science 
march 2011 by epersonae
This is not Chernobyl – Response to Skewed Media Coverage of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Incident -HESO Magazine
"If you’ve been reading the foreign press about the “toxic cloud” hanging over Tokyo, you should know that I’m fine. Everyone in Tokyo is fine." among other things, evacuations of foreign nationals seem to be mostly about logistics, power outages, etc.
japan  earthquake  news  science 
march 2011 by epersonae
Calling Out Gendered Advertising » Sociological Images
Awesome! (My mom learned how to build a laser when she went back to school.)
gender  science 
february 2011 by epersonae
Lice DNA study shows humans first wore clothes 170,000 years ago
Gnarly.
history  science 
february 2011 by epersonae
Looking under the street lamp again - Charlie's Diary
"before actually sending out a generation starship, a necessary first step is to assemble the habitat section, populate and provision it, and boost it out to the Earth-Sun L2 point (a stable solar orbit in Earth's shadow, about 1.5 million Km further out from the sun)"
science  scifi  space 
february 2011 by epersonae
David MacKay FRS: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air: Contents
whole book online
science  eco  politics  home  to-read 
january 2011 by epersonae
Making Light: Alien Abduction: Betty & Barney Hill
in short: highway hypnosis, sleep deprivation, and the Cannon Mountain observation tower's light. love the turn-by-turn revisiting of the original trip.
conspiracy  weird  science 
january 2011 by epersonae
The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast - NYTimes.com
now I don't feel so bad about not getting breakfast before morning bike commutes. :)
exercise  bicycling  health  science 
december 2010 by epersonae
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
restless math guy! but some interesting ideas that would be worth following up on by someone persistent.
science  urbanstudies 
december 2010 by epersonae
Solstice Lunar Eclipse - NASA Science
monday night/tuesday morning, hella late/early. (alas, our weather report calls for rain.)
science 
december 2010 by epersonae
James Burke: Connections | Watch Free Documentary Online
On YouTube. All of it.
science  history  personal  webvideo 
december 2010 by epersonae
The Burger Lab: Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald's Burger That Just Won't Rot (Testing Results!) | A Hamburger Today
basically: burger jerky. any burger of that size & shape will dry out before it has enough time to mold, assuming it's not kept in a damp environment. so stop freaking out already.
food  weird  science 
november 2010 by epersonae
Faith and Foolishness: When Religious Beliefs Become Dangerous: Scientific American
"I don’t know which is more dangerous, that religious beliefs force some people to choose between knowledge and myth or that pointing out how religion can purvey ignorance is taboo."
religion  science  politics  academia 
november 2010 by epersonae
Science of Raw Food? | Ask MetaFilter
(I read "Catching Fire", mentioned in the discussion. Good book.)
science  food  health 
october 2010 by epersonae
Sundial : How to make your own Cut Out Paper Vertical Sundial
looking forward to seeing how this looks at our place.
science  local  home 
october 2010 by epersonae
BattleBricks: MakerLegoBot: The Lego Mindstorms NXT 3D Lego Printer
whoa.
lego  science  weird 
october 2010 by epersonae
Those popular joint-pain supplements? They don't work. - Los Angeles Times
An analysis of 10 studies involving more than 3,800 people has found that glucosamine and chondroitin supplements for joint pain are ineffective either alone or in combination.
science  medicine  health 
october 2010 by epersonae
Jake Poznanski - Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain
"the story of how and why, in late summer of 1986, Sergei decided to move his family out of the Soviet Union" freaky.
history  politics  science  misctech 
october 2010 by epersonae
Scientists find area responsible for emotion in dead fish « Mind Hacks
this is the article I mentioned in my review of Delusions of Gender, and yes, it was @fakebaldur who linked to it. quite a while ago, apparently.
science  gender  psychology  weird 
september 2010 by epersonae
Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Northwest Monsoon
"Olympia has accumulated 4.1 inches of rain in just the past 4 days and 5.3 inches over the past 31 days. September normal at Olympia is 2.0 inches for the entire month." yipes.
science  local  olympia 
september 2010 by epersonae
Feeling the Pain of Rejection? Try Taking a Tylenol: Scientific American
how bizarre. admittedly, early research, but fascinating idea.
weird  science  psychology 
september 2010 by epersonae
Two Cities Two Wheels: Middle Ground
"Anyway, I found it interesting to look up some actual facts regarding autos and bikes."
bicycling  bike-vs-car  science 
september 2010 by epersonae
The death of ‘right brain thinking’ « Mind Hacks
"creative thinking does not appear to critically depend on any single mental process or brain region, and it is not especially associated with right brains [or a bunch of other stuff]" - meta-analysis of 70+ experiments.
science  psychology  writing  arts 
september 2010 by epersonae
An idle brain may be the self's workshop - latimes.com
and from the related story mentioned near the end: "But in those with depression, he adds, the network is not so easily suppressed. There is no escape from the self." indeed. I wonder & worry about ongoing feedback mechanisms.
psychology  depression  science 
september 2010 by epersonae
Space Cadets - Charlie's Diary
"the political roots of the space colonization movement in the United States rise from taproots of nostalgia for the open frontier that give rise to a false consciousness of the problem of space colonization"
history  politics  space  writing  science 
august 2010 by epersonae
Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass - life - 22 July 2010 - New Scientist
"Once you are in a situation where the expected healthy lifetime is short whatever you do, then there is less incentive to look after yourself." - and why reducing economic inequality is more important than education programs, etc.
society  politics  psychology  science 
july 2010 by epersonae
How Microbes Defend and Define Us - NYTimes.com
fascinating stuff.
science  health 
july 2010 by epersonae
Psychotherapy for All: An Experiment - New York Times
"He hoped to prove that Western concepts of mental illness did not apply in the developing world. Instead, he came to the opposite conclusion, that the ailments were in fact just as common and just as treatable as in the West."
depression  science  society  health 
june 2010 by epersonae
DCKX: Directory of Curricular Knowledge in xkcd.com
"DCKX indexes science topics in xkcd, so that you can use them to illustrate your syllabi, assignments, etc." I'm just sad that it doesn't include the often awesome alt/title text.
funny  academia  science  misctech 
june 2010 by epersonae
Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate Majority - NYTimes.com
"huge majorities of Americans still believe the earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it"
science  politics 
june 2010 by epersonae
Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench
infographic  science 
june 2010 by epersonae
Experiments in Torture: Physicians group alleges US conducted illegal research on detainees - Boing Boing
"We have provided credible evidence of a crime. When that threshhold is crossed, it then becomes the responsibility of the responsible authorities to thoroughly investigate the allegations."
war  politics  psychology  science 
june 2010 by epersonae
The Shallows : The Frontal Cortex
"I was not entirely convinced by Carr's arguments" - intriguing reading.
blogosphere  psychology  science  writing  history 
june 2010 by epersonae
Whole Health Source: Full-fat Dairy for Cardiovascular Health
"People who ate the most full-fat dairy had a 69% lower risk of cardiovascular death than those who ate the least." huh.
science  health  food 
june 2010 by epersonae
Do spices really only keep for six months? - Francis Lam - Salon.com
it's a lot like coffee, actually: a lot of the flavor is in volatile oil, so unground they keep for a while, but grinding loses flavor pretty quickly.
food  science 
may 2010 by epersonae
Darryl Cunningham Investigates: The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
"A fifteen page (cartoon) story about the MMR vaccination controversy"
science  arts 
may 2010 by epersonae
Mount St. Helens, 30 years ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com
astounding photos.
photography  history  science  local 
may 2010 by epersonae
30 years after Mount St. Helens blew, the volcano reveals its secrets | OregonLive.com
fascinating stuff. (I have a chunk of pumice at home that we found in the Cowlitz River a couple of years ago.)
science  history  local 
may 2010 by epersonae
The Rise and Fall of the G.D.P. - NYTimes.com
fascinating stuff, and not simple to figure out what to do, either!
infographic  society  politics  history  science 
may 2010 by epersonae
Doubt Is Cast on Many Reports of Food Allergies - NYTimes.com
"for now, Dr. Fenton said, doctors should not use either the skin-prick test or the antibody test as the sole reason for thinking their patients have a food allergy" also, food intolerance != allergy.
society  medicine  science 
may 2010 by epersonae
A Rare Meeting of Planets and Spaceships - NASA Science
in this area, 5/15 at about 9:30.
science  space 
may 2010 by epersonae
Color Survey Results « xkcd
"If you ask people to name colors long enough, they go totally crazy." indeed. some fascinating stuff.
infographic  science  weird  design 
may 2010 by epersonae
80499_marianatrench.jpg (785×3593)
scale drawing of the Mariana Trench. includes "Average cruising altitude for a commercial airliner." ...and that's NOT the bottom.
weird  science  infographic 
april 2010 by epersonae
Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again - NYTimes.com
"Dr. Martin credits that six-hour experience with helping him overcome his depression and profoundly transforming his relationships with his daughter and friends"
psychology  depression  science 
april 2010 by epersonae
The shock of the old: Welcome to the elderly age - opinion - 08 April 2010 - New Scientist
"What will it be like to live in societies that are much older than any we have known? We are going to find out, because the ageing of the human race is one of the surest predictions of this century." fascinating (otoh: damn boomers.)
society  health  science 
april 2010 by epersonae
The Aral Sea Has Vanished
"The Aral Sea (which used to be the answer to the question, "What is the fourth largest freshwater lake in the world?") has now shrunk to ten percent of its former size"
science  politics 
april 2010 by epersonae
Snarkmarket: Towards A Theory of Secondary Literacy
"But while voice and speech recognition and commands have gotten a lot better, generally the trend has been in the other direction - instead of talking to our computers, we’re typing on our phones."
academia  writing  society  science  history  misctech 
april 2010 by epersonae
News Analysis - With or Without Health Reform, We Pay for Others’ Bad Habits - NYTimes.com
"personal responsibility is a complex notion, especially when it comes to health"
politics  health  science  society  medicine 
march 2010 by epersonae
Why you only need to test with five users (explained): Measuring Usability
with math! and charts!
usability  science 
march 2010 by epersonae
Harvard Medical School: The dubious practice of detox
health  science 
march 2010 by epersonae
Science-Based Medicine » Plausibility in Science-Based Medicine
"But not knowing everything is not the functional equivalent of knowing nothing." linked for that quote.
history  science  health  philosophizing 
march 2010 by epersonae
Op-Ed Columnist - The Spread of Superbugs - NYTimes.com
terrifying.
health  science  food  politics 
march 2010 by epersonae
Scott and Scurvy
"tl;dr: scurvy bad, science hard." fascinating reading. those polar explorer stories freak me out.
history  science 
march 2010 by epersonae
Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com
"There is nothing profound about depressive rumination. There is just a recursive loop of woe."
science  depression  psychology 
march 2010 by epersonae
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