Link Chain: 10/5/11
Which Authors Should Meet Astrophysicists?: Apparently Tor is planning to send a group of their authors to NASA to talk with the people who actually do science. Rose Fox's first question was about whether or not anyone was going who wasn't an old white guy. I like the way she thinks. She's calling for suggestions.
Speaking of the world's top scientists, are you familiar with EarthSky.org? It's a great source for science content online and features interviews with top scientists regularly. Personally, I love their Tonight feature, which shows you what special stuff to look for in tonight's sky, along with the moon's phase for every day.
Speaking of every day, any interest in looking at brainy hunks every day next year? Men of the Stacks: A 2012 Calendar is for book lovers, library lovers, librarian lovers... well, you get the idea. (via the lovely and talented marthawells)
Speaking of books, Liam's Pictures from Old Books offers a cool resource for images, typography, quotations and so on from old, rare, out-of-print books. There's some great stuff here, especially if you're a typography geek (Hey, shellyinseattle! snarke! Check it out!) or love antiquarian design.
On the subject of quotations, let me share one I discovered this morning, from Albert Einstein, who was describing how radio works and who, I suspect, knew what he was talking about:
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
This quote is awesome, except for the bit about there being no cat. On the other hand, as long as I have Sophie, there will always be a cat, so it's all good.
Speaking of the world's top scientists, are you familiar with EarthSky.org? It's a great source for science content online and features interviews with top scientists regularly. Personally, I love their Tonight feature, which shows you what special stuff to look for in tonight's sky, along with the moon's phase for every day.
Speaking of every day, any interest in looking at brainy hunks every day next year? Men of the Stacks: A 2012 Calendar is for book lovers, library lovers, librarian lovers... well, you get the idea. (via the lovely and talented marthawells)
Speaking of books, Liam's Pictures from Old Books offers a cool resource for images, typography, quotations and so on from old, rare, out-of-print books. There's some great stuff here, especially if you're a typography geek (Hey, shellyinseattle! snarke! Check it out!) or love antiquarian design.
On the subject of quotations, let me share one I discovered this morning, from Albert Einstein, who was describing how radio works and who, I suspect, knew what he was talking about:
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
This quote is awesome, except for the bit about there being no cat. On the other hand, as long as I have Sophie, there will always be a cat, so it's all good.