Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
As a blogger who has regularly contributed to the Scientiae blog-carnival (yes, I must get back into blog carnivals, I know… but I’ve set myself a deadline for the thesis) – there’s been a bit of breaking-news which does relate to one of the topics that the blog carnival regularly discusses: scientists completing their PhDs [...]
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Thanks to R for sending this one in! If you have any things you want to send in, there’s an email in my About page. I would suggest this could be very useful for a basic science lesson on ‘identify forces or energy used’ in several of the steps? This is from http://baynhamtyers.com, which apparently [...]
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A very useful link! From FindingAda on Twitter: The GetSETWomen database provides the media and other organisations with access to a wide variety of women, at various stages in their science, engineering and technology careers, who have registered their details and can be approached for promotional and work related opportunities. This may include speaking at [...]
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Submission for April’s Scientiae: Rising to the Challenge: When I present anything using Powerpoint, I have to stop for about five seconds before I start – so I remember which hand I’m using and which buttons to press to progress through the slides. In 2006, I discovered what can happen if you overuse a computer. [...]
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The Sacramento Bee – hat tip to Dr Kiki Sandford of The Bird’s Brain: American girls have fallen behind in science. Maybe they think science is for dorks. It can involve things such as dissecting frogs, and that can be pretty gross. Studies have suggested girls don’t have enough scientist role models. None of that [...]
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Just a few quick linky-poos – first, I will be taking part in this great challenge: My “challenge”, for those sciencebloggers who choose to accept it, is this: read and research an old, classic scientific paper and write a blog post about it. I recommend choosing something pre- World War II, as that was the [...]
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