links for 2010-01-05
At Colleges, Humanities Job Outlook Gets Bleaker – NYTimes.com Oversupply? Is academia a demand or supply-driven business? "With colleges and univers...
Author: charlie
Institutional science needs to change
I was having lunch with some old ex-lab friends. Unlike me, who left the lab at the end of the 90s, all three of them have kept on doing research and medicine a...
links for 2009-12-31
Is aviation security mostly for show? – CNN.com Brilliant. I've felt this way since before 9/11. Read this article. And here's a great quote fro...
links for 2009-12-30
CHART OF THE DAY: The End Of Newspapers Yes, yes, YES! Just tells me that there were too many folks in the newspaper industry. Weren't the 50s really good ...
links for 2009-12-24
Red-tailed Hawk – Whatbird.com Our local raptor (tags: birds hawk catalog nature home)
links for 2009-12-23
Fluke Footage Shows How Sperm Whales Steal : NPR Heh. (tags: biology science whales fishing video) Credit where credit is due : Article : Nature "A propose...
links for 2009-12-17
Newton man, Dutch man pair up to piece together life of fallen WWII soldier – The Boston Globe I had a conversation today about WWII. Odd to see this stor...
links for 2009-12-15
PHD Comics: If TV Science was more like REAL Science (tags: science funny culture research humor comics comic fiction humour popculture phd television phd-comic...
links for 2009-12-14
20 Things Worth Knowing About Beer – The Oatmeal "Cenosillicahobia – fear of an empty glass" (tags: interesting science funny inspiration ...
Hacking microscopes – DIYBio meetup 13dec09
We had another gathering at The Sprouts. Mac, Jason, Jason, Dave, Kay, and I (with my son) gathered and talked about moving forward with safety stuff (pages, FA...