Category Archives: bloggery

Learn about our planet – it’s the only one we’ve got

Whilst we’re on the subject of listening to what geology can teach us, Grrlscientist has uncovered a pretty cool video, entitled ‘Why Geology?’, from the American Geological Institute. There’s something that might be a magnetometer hidden in there somewhere – … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, geology, links, public science

Go bully for Brontosaurus

Is this: What’s Your Favorite Toy?Brickfish cuter than this? Of course it is. So help Amanda the Self-Designed Student fund her foray into full-time education by ensuring that her Brontosaurus is voted as the Internet’s Favorite Toy. It may be … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, links

Back from the (almost) dead

The silence that fell on this blog last week was unplanned; I was struck down by a rather evil bout of flu, which kept me bid-ridden for much of last week. Given that at certain delirious points I was half … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery

ScienceOnline Day 2: generalised ramblings

Sessions attended: Nature blogging: a lot of discussion time was spent on what exactly a “nature blog” was, with a clear division between those who viewed nature blogging as a broad church, with the more science-oriented blogs as a subset … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, conferences

ScienceOnline Day 1: generalised ramblings

Since I’ve yet to develop the sort of mind that can blog the last sentence whilst listening to the next one, I’ve mainly kept the laptop closed and just listened and/or pontificated in most of today’s sessions. But I thought … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, conferences, general science, public science