Archive for 2013
While you’re waiting for the bus March 26, 2013
Stuff worth reading Red, Bike & Green wants to shift the color balance in bicycling The cycling community would do well to acknowledge that poor folks have been using bikes and their own two feet as their primary form of transportation since long before all their spandex and activism and bike lanes and $3000 bikes […]
Music for trying 5000 paths up the PhD mountain
The Do – On my shoulders from The Dø on Vimeo.
Would NSF have funded Galileo?
Still, says Clette, it is fascinating to ‘work’ with colleagues from hundreds of years ago. For instance, he says that even though Galileo’s coverage of the Sun was spotty because Galileo was “busy with planets and other things”, the drawings are detailed enough to reveal information about the magnetic structure of the sunspot groups and […]
Tuesday Shoesday
How to make the world worse when communicating your research
At a workshop on media relations for scientists, we read the first page of a paper from a totally foreign field and wrote a headline and first paragraph for a news story on the study. It was pretty challenging, but fun, to think of attention-getting but accurate ways to convey research. Then the presenter, someone […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
A semi-weekly list of stuff worth reading What the Steamship and the Landline Can Tell Us About the Decline of the Private Car – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities The car is already dead. How to double science research What if your advisor didn’t spend 70% of her time chasing/administering grants? I kind of hate TED […]