Tabitha M. Powledge is lost in space at On Science Blogs, as many of us were this week. Mars made a considerable amount of news by not making any news at all: the zen of planetary exploration. And neuroscience, according to a small but growing band of critics, has...
Category: Mars
7Dec 2012
Tabitha M. Powledge is lost in space at On Science Blogs, as many of us were this week. Mars made a considerable amount of news by not making any news at all: the zen of planetary exploration. And neuroscience, according to a small but growing band of critics, has apparently been making news for years now when there was no news to be made. Or not much.
It's all here.
-Paul Raeburn
Last Friday's On science blogs collects bloggers' accounts of the Mars news that wasn't, or was, or might be. And it likewise tries to sort out the news of a gene that might, or might not (I vote not) make us human.
Find Tabitha M. Powledge's...
Last Friday's On science blogs collects bloggers' accounts of the Mars news that wasn't, or was, or might be. And it likewise tries to sort out the news of a gene that might, or might not (I vote not) make us human.
Find Tabitha M. Powledge's On science blogs here.
-Paul Raeburn
I am led to believe that many Tracker readers will be watching election returns tonight instead of roaming through the Tracker's archives, looking for the crankiest, funniest, or most astute posts of yesteryear. (For some reason, Nate Silver did not find it within his means to predict what Tracker readers would...
I am led to believe that many Tracker readers will be watching election returns tonight instead of roaming through the Tracker's archives, looking for the crankiest, funniest, or most astute posts of yesteryear. (For some reason, Nate Silver did not find it within his means to predict what Tracker readers would be doing tonight, so I can't back this up with data.)
So I'm conceding the evening, even before the polls close. You win. But while you're publishing your own cranky, funny, or astute election comments on Twitter or FB, I thought you might like a little diversion. Here are a few things to scan while waiting for Ohio to come in:
--Adam Mann at Wired likes the new Google Mars, which has "more coverage, more detail, and...
On Sunday, The New York Times fronted a story about a 36-year-old man, Matt Heverly, who "started a recent workday as any young father might...
On Sunday, The New York Times fronted a story about a 36-year-old man, Matt Heverly, who "started a recent workday as any young father might: up at 5:30, gulping coffee, fixing a bottle for the baby. He threw on jeans and a T-shirt and drove his two sons to day care. He stopped to get the brakes on his Toyota checked and swung by the bank."
Then, the Times breathlessly reports, "he went to the office ... to drive a $2.5 billion robot on Mars. The emphasis is mine, but it could as easily have been that of the Times, if it allowed italics for emphasis. The writer,...
The summer heat must be affecting the brains of some science writers, if recent stories are any indication. Perhaps one of the little-noted consequences of global warming--if indeed it's partly responsible for this summer's drought and heat--is its effect on human neurons.
Case in point: Seth...
The summer heat must be affecting the brains of some science writers, if recent stories are any indication. Perhaps one of the little-noted consequences of global warming--if indeed it's partly responsible for this summer's drought and heat--is its effect on human neurons.
Case in point: Seth Borenstein and Alicia Chang of the AP, two stalwarts who can usually be counted on for solid reporting and clear writing, have turned in a piece on the new Mars rover, Curiosity, that says little about Mars but instead talks about Mohawk Guy, Elvis Guy, and "seven minutes of terror." See what I mean? When science writers start churning out copy on hair styles, you know something is wrong. They write:
Known to the Twitterverse and the president of the United States...
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