Quantcast
Channel: Matters of Varying Insignificance » Science
Browsing all 9 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

2008 Will Be a Second Longer

If 2008 feels like a long year for you, maybe it’s because it is, by a second anyway. From the “Things You Never Knew You Didn’t Know” category: Apparently a “leap second” will be added to the clock on...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Religion and Evolution

Charles Darwin would be 200 years old this week. There are a couple articles today (NYT, LiveScience.com) suggesting that it may be time to drop “Darwinian” from in front of the word “evolution”,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Using Multimedia and Social Media to Communicate Science

I’ve tweeted this and spread it around on Facebook, but it’s well worth posting again. Veteran science communicator Dennis Meredith has a very nice presentation on how and why scientists should use...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

It’s Not the Size of the Story; It’s How You Use It

Bora Zivkovic, the blog editor at Scientific American, posted a piece few days ago about the rise of forms of storytelling other than “the kind of short, inverted-pyramid article many in the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Redrawing Darwin’s Finches

About seven years ago, while I was working for the DESTINY Traveling Science Learning Program, one of the illustrations I did for one of the program’s science-education modules was a graphic on the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On #standingwithdnlee and #standingwithmonicabyrne

Background The quick version The long version: On Oct. 14, This Happened. Then, This Happened. That came on the heels of this happening on Oct. 11, which prompted this. And then, in the science writing...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Showing, Not Telling, with an Infographic

One of the things I enjoy most about my job is the opportunity to produce stories about our researchers’ discoveries. I love this aspect of my work because 1) I get to learn something new every time,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The American Spirit, As Embodied by 8 Animals

We’ve been snowed in for the last couple days and three-fifths of the household have been under the weather. So we’ve done a lot of nothing aside from lounging on the couch and watching TV. Having run...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How Many New Horizons Missions Can We Fund For …

An infographic comparing the cost of the Pluto flyby with a few other expenditures. Sources for the numbers Cost of New Horizons Thanksgiving spending NASA budget Federal spending on science NBA...

View Article

Browsing all 9 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images