Last night, on the eve of what might be the most exciting Apple announcement this year, I wondered what a Mac slate or tablet could mean for scientists, researchers, and people in the field. Now with the iPad announced and the details of it released, here are some of my thoughts. The increased mobility ofRead More
The genius of RSS feeds
When you train your dog to bring you the morning paper, that is a neat trick. When you train your computer to bring you news you want to read, that is an RSS feed. I never fully appreciated RSS feeds for what they can do until I started reading the book We the Media byRead More
Quote I found in my journal
“The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Suquamish Chief Seattle
What is the Study of Science and Religion?
Image credit: Flickr user Colin Purrington (This image created by Axis of Evo is not exactly what this entry is about, but it is an interesting use of a scientific technique to map out religions of the world.) I wasn’t so sure what to expect when I went to the first lecture of the EarthRead More
Paleoclimatology – connecting CO2 to changes in temperature
A friend recently messaged me with a link to this lecture by Richard B. Alley of Penn State. This lecture was part of the American Geophysical Union that took place in December 2009. Aiming to explain the long story of how carbon dioxide might have fit into climate and changes in temperature, Alley explains aRead More
Spotlight videos on The Nature Conservancy
Here are some interesting videos! This first one is about river flow, featuring the Potomac River. Mark Bryer, who is the director of The Nature Conservancy’s Chesapeake Bay program, explains a little bit about how river flow is important for ecology and the wildlife living in the rivers and in the Chesapeake Bay. Taking aRead More