Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Blogging For Girls by Quiet Riot Girl – in response to Margaret Wente of Canada’s Globe and Mail, who wrote ‘Why Are Bloggers Male‘? “She thinks blogging is ‘a guy thing’, like driving a snowmobile up a mountain ‘at 120 miles per hour’ is a guy thing (for James Bond maybe). According to Wente, women [...]
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I got mail! Last year you supported Ada Lovelace Day, the international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology and science. It’s now time to pledge your support once more for Ada Lovelace Day, 24 March 2010. To sign up, please go to http://findingada.com and add your details to our brand [...]
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Great looking headline at BBC News — “Juggling Increases Brain Power“, about a forthcoming study in Nature Neuroscience, where results indicated a 5% increase in white matter — the ‘cabling network of the brain’. The scientists studied a group of 24 healthy young adults, none of whom could juggle. They divided them into two groups. [...]
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You may have noticed that the blog has pretty much been a string of videos, links to media items and plenty of ‘little kittens’. If you’re new to the blog, my ‘little kittens‘ are essentially fun and / or interesting finds. They also indicate that I’m probably under the hammer or under a pile of [...]
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March 24th is Ada Lovelace Day, intended to encourage blogging about women in technology, the visibility of women in technology and encourage beyond the stereotypes. Whilst I have been taught to be rather skeptical about the actual contributions of Ada Lovelace, due to a friend with a PhD in the subject who is a very [...]
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Upon signing up, I thought “I wonder if it’ll happen” – Blogging Carnival for Ada Lovelace Day. Found via Twitter. And it has! 1,057 people have signed up (57 over target) — success! I urge other people to join in too. Do please note – it doesn’t HAVE to be about Ada. You can choose [...]
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I got a notice today from the The Australian Science Teachers’ Association, on an issue I’d known about for a while – the National Science Curriculum Framing Paper. I thought I may as well broadcast the links that will direct what will be going on and urge people to have a say – and hope [...]
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The Impossible Triangle (1999) Artists: Brian MacKay & Ahmad Abas. [Claisebrook round-about] ‘The Impossible Triangle is a geometric phenomenon, that when viewed from a specific position creates the illusion of a perfect triangle’. – City of Perth Sculpture and Art Pdf. ‘I heard that if you get in a position to see it properly, you’ll [...]
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