First things first, sorry for the lack of updates in the past few days, partly caused by not finding much interesting stuff to write about, and partly caused by beer-drinking induced by various Christian and socialist holidays. Drinking aside, it’s been awfully quiet around here for a few days so sorry about that.
I’m going to try something new in this post, so let me know if it’s something you’d like to see more of or if you’d prefer for this kind of link-spamming to stay on reddit/digg etc. I realize that these posts tend to be like the clip-show of blogging, but bear with me. The basic idea is that I often see interesting science stuff around the interwebs, but it’s not really news as much as it is posts by other science bloggers about something interesting. Now I’d like to expose you to it, but it would basically be stealing their content if we did a post on the exact same thing here, so we’ll try it like this.
Seven warning signs of bogus science: This article is a bit long, but even if you just skim through it and look at the bold headlines for each section, it’s 100% worth it. It is basically a pocket guide to spotting when a proposed science theory/news is bullcrap. Originally intended to help judges decide if scientific evidence in court was good or bad science, having the skill to spot red-flags in stuff like this is something everyone should have.
Bad astronomy’s video tour of CERN: Phil Plait, the man behind bad astronomy is quite the jet-setting rockstar when it comes to science bloggers. He was actually invited to Europe for a few days and got the grand tour of the new Large Hadron Collider over at CERN. Check out his youtube video as he guides you through it, the size of it is incredibly impressive and i, at least, find it to be awe-inspiring thinking of all the things that went into creating it and how complex it is, such a feat of engineering.
Alright that’s about it for this time around. Not a whole lot to start with, but hopefully (assuming your verdict isn’t that you hate these kinds of posts), we can expand on this and have more substantial link-hoarding post next time.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 am
I like the idea of links with an opinion/viewpoint saves me going to the pages if I don’t find your review interesting. Although I did follow the link to the first one cause it sounds cool and I usually check BA on a regular basis.
Sure hope it was quality beer and not massed produced bland stuff.
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Good to hear Dennis, i’ll keep the same style in the future.
As far as beer goes, i’m a poor student so i usually drink the local lagers. It’s not the horrors of Coors Light or anything, but Carlsberg and Tuborg aren’t exactly luxury beers. If i’m feeling extravagant i might splurge on a good Weissbier like Erdinger or Paulaner.