I was just reading through my friends page and came across the latest offering from Bad Astronomy, 'Scientists are...' (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/12/04/search_engine_bias_scientists_are.html). In this article Phil Plait is worrying about the bad rep scientists seem to have via Google search autocomplete ( Read more... )

Last push for the masters is today! 4000 words to finish it, then the dissertation will be printed and bound and handed in tomorrow. Then the year will be done! Come on Kat you can do it!

edit: dissertation is done!

43,651 words, 214 pages, 47 pictures, 10 focus groups, 4 tables, 2 graphs and 1 interview. My summer's work.

I have been emailing myself links from Twitter that I want to remember or read later, and have amassed quite a few over the last month or so, so I thought I'd organise them somewhere I can check back and look at them. They are a bit random but still interesting. If you want to know more about any of the articles, let me know in comments and I'll ( Read more... )

I couldn't let this page from my assigned reading pass without comment here...

From Understanding Popular Science by Peter Brok ( Read more... )