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Comment on Over-stuffed servers and sick spiders? by Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:59:08 +0000

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Over-stuffed servers and sick spiders?, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

Comment on Liz Henry live-blogged our Feb. 1 reading by » Blog Archive » Making the familiar strange and the strange familiar

» Blog Archive » Making the familiar strange and the strange familiar — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:41:37 +0000

[...] I noticed the split that runs through the book in the two San Francisco readings for the book. The January 25 reading was weighted pretty heavily toward games and fantasy, and the February 1 reading was towards science and technology. (Charlie and Annalee read the same sections of their contributions at both readings, so they kind of balanced each other out.) [...]

Comment on Tim Berners-Lee calls for end to “stupid” male geek culture by links for 2007-10-10 « Amy G. Dala

links for 2007-10-10 « Amy G. Dala — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:17:08 +0000

[...] » Blog Archive » Tim Berners-Lee calls for end to “stupid” male geek culture (tags: gender computing) [...]

Comment on etymology by kwaut_lizard

kwaut_lizard — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:49:05 +0000

One learned geek enthusiast reports the etymology of geek as lower German/Dutch in origin, apparently in association to its useage in ‘12th Night’ by the royal bard Shakespeare. Hmmmmm. Guess I have to apologize to both my Dutch and English friends for the associations to ‘low’ and the historic Germanic sentence structure of the English language. But what is the exact etymology of the word Geek aka Gek? Enough of circus freak shows and biting assorted animal heads off! What is the previous incantations origins? Anyone? Anyone?

Comment on Tim Berners-Lee calls for end to “stupid” male geek culture by Virginia

Virginia — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:51:26 +0000

Well, golly, who knew it was so simple. We just need to undergo sex change surgery. Of course, it would be cheaper if we all just changed our names to Bob.

Comment on More women physicists will eventually mean more Nobel prizewinners. by Anne

Anne — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:04:29 +0000

Leaving aside the Nobel peace prize (won by such luminaries as Yasser Arafat), the Nobel prizes in science are customarily awarded to people after the effects of their discoveries have had time to be felt. It’s not that it takes them a decade to notice that Mather and Smoot published some paper about the cosmic microwave background; it’s that they’re waiting to see if that discovery turns out to be an error or dead end, or whether it opens up a whole new field. Since Mather and Smoot’s work turned cosmology from a speculative theoretical field into a field in which quantitative predictions could be made and statistically tested, their work was recognized as extremely valuable by the physics community itself.

That’s not to say there aren’t foolish slips. As I understand it, Einstein won the Nobel prize not for his theories of relativity – they were too revolutionary and unsettling – but for his research on the photoelectric effect (which was important but seemed less likely to overturn the foundations of physics). Of course, Einstein’s work on the photoelectric effect led directly to quantum mechanics and its children, which were more revolutionary than his theories of relativity…

Comment on More women physicists will eventually mean more Nobel prizewinners. by tekanji

tekanji — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:46:41 +0000

And these are the people who are supposed to be qualified to decide who some of the brightest people of our times are??? Not that I had a lot of faith in them before, but, oi…

Comment on Scientiae blog carnival by markofando

markofando — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:12:29 +0000

Want to start your private office arms race right now?

I just got my own USB rocket launcher Awsome thing.

Plug into your computer and you got a remote controlled office missile launcher with 360 degrees horizontal and 45 degree vertival rotation with a range of more than 6 meters – which gives you a coverage of 113 square meters round your workplace.
You can get the gadget here: http://tinyurl.com/2qul3c

Check out the video they have on the page.

Cheers

Marko Fando

Comment on Male Geeks Seek Female Greeks for Makeovers…and Possible Change of Major? by Arianne

Arianne — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:00:05 +0000

and I thought this was about transgendered issues… LOL!!!
science is REALLY genderless isn’t? (rhetoric borderline sarcastic question btw)

Comment on Translating the language of misogyny by Foreign Language

Foreign Language — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:12:56 +0000

Hello for abroad – Tooo true (Translating the language of misogyny). Well done article, I hope it gets picked up on the internet more and more. FYI, I found you quite by accident while searching on \’Foreign Language\’. I feel lucky to have found your Blog. Keep thinking and posting!