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Jason Goldman
- PublicA Toast to Mike the Durable by +Deborah Blum
If only one of them had a wealthy relative or, barring that, a sick one with a good insurance policy. The right kind of dead family member would have really come in handy right then. Too bad none of them had an expendable relative. But perhaps, Marino suggested, they could create one — someone no one would miss, someone hardly worth keeping alive anyway.
If only one of them had a wealthy relative or, barring that, a sick one with a good insurance policy. The right kind of dead family member would have really come in handy right then. Too bad none of them had an expendable relative. But perhaps, Marino suggested, they could create one — someone no one would miss, someone hardly worth keeping alive anyway.
A Toast to Mike the Durable | Wired Science | Wired.com »A ragtag group of Prohibition-era schemers tried to kill a local drunkard with poison alcohol, but their plan backfired. Elemental blogger Deborah Blum retells the classic story of what happened next....
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Jason Goldman
- PublicPlaying With The New 50mm Prime (15 new photos)
Got a new 50mm prime, so last week +Enrique Gutierrez and I headed to Beverly Hills to try it out.
Got a new 50mm prime, so last week +Enrique Gutierrez and I headed to Beverly Hills to try it out.
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Jason Goldman
- PublicThe Gigapixel Race Begins? by +Alex Wild
Why is this such an advance? It has to do with the data problem. As the megapixel race scales upward, the technical obstacles shift from a problem of how to pack more sensors onto a chip to a problem of how to manage staggering amounts of data. Past a point, wires simply can’t handle the information deluge. Gigapixel cameras can only work when the data is captured in smaller, more manageable units.
My first reaction: ZOMG, want!
Why is this such an advance? It has to do with the data problem. As the megapixel race scales upward, the technical obstacles shift from a problem of how to pack more sensors onto a chip to a problem of how to manage staggering amounts of data. Past a point, wires simply can’t handle the information deluge. Gigapixel cameras can only work when the data is captured in smaller, more manageable units.
My first reaction: ZOMG, want!
The Gigapixel Race Begins? | Compound Eye, Scientific American Blog Network »So your showoff neighbor brings home a new 36 megapixel Nikon SLR, and your previously top-of-the-line 18 megapixel gadget starts to seem... inadequate. The insolence! The injustice! What ...
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Jason Goldman
- PublicThe only good abortion is my abortion - really important, by +Maggie Koerth-Baker
I don’t have to do this. I am making a decision. Plain and simple. An incredibly awful, heart-wrenching decision with positives and negatives no matter which option I choose.
I don’t have to do this. I am making a decision. Plain and simple. An incredibly awful, heart-wrenching decision with positives and negatives no matter which option I choose.
The only good abortion is my abortion »As I write this, it is 1:17 am on Wednesday, June 20th, 2012. I am lying awake in bed, trying to decide whether or not to have an abortion. Of course, we don’t call it an abortion. We call it “a proce...
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Jason Vivar
This is the most powerful and intimate piece of writing on the subject of abortion that I have ever read. +Maggie Koerth-Baker, your strength is unfathomable to me. Quite simply, you are a Hero. Not just because you write so eloquently on such an excruciatingly painful subject, but rather fact that you choose to do so in the first place. My family's and my thoughts are with you. Thank you so much +Jason Goldman for posting this.
Jason Goldman
- PublicThe Average Bear is Smarter Than You Thought - my latest at +Scientific American
Yogi Bear always claimed that he was smarter than the average bear, but the average bear appears to be smarter than once thought. Psychologists Jennifer Vonk of Oakland University and Michael J. Beran of Georgia State University have taken a testing methodology commonly used for primates and shown not only that the methodology can be more widely used, but also that bears can distinguish among differing numerosities.
Confession: while writing this piece, all I could think of was Yogi Bear counting, "one pic-a-nic basket, two pic-a-nic baskets, three pic-a-nic baskets..."
Yogi Bear always claimed that he was smarter than the average bear, but the average bear appears to be smarter than once thought. Psychologists Jennifer Vonk of Oakland University and Michael J. Beran of Georgia State University have taken a testing methodology commonly used for primates and shown not only that the methodology can be more widely used, but also that bears can distinguish among differing numerosities.
Confession: while writing this piece, all I could think of was Yogi Bear counting, "one pic-a-nic basket, two pic-a-nic baskets, three pic-a-nic baskets..."
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Michael Whitby
At one time we had Grizzly bears in California....You can still see the evidence on our state flag....<sigh>
Jason Goldman
- PublicBritish family’s problems hint at a gene involved in linking language and meaning - fascinating stuff, as always, from +Ed Yong
We’ve all had that annoying feeling when we fail to find a word that’s just at the tip of our tongues. Usually, these moments are passing nuisances, but they are a more severe impediment for a British family known as JR. Eight of them suffer from an unusual problem with “semantic...
Expand this post »We’ve all had that annoying feeling when we fail to find a word that’s just at the tip of our tongues. Usually, these moments are passing nuisances, but they are a more severe impediment for a British family known as JR. Eight of them suffer from an unusual problem with “semantic...
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Michael Whitby
Heh..i heard a few Americans suffer from this as well...does that explain puritanical line that still run through our country...It would be fascinating to see if you could trace that link back to England...
Jason Goldman
- PublicI Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger Deep - great post by +Craig McClain #DeepSN
“Why is this all important? Why must we visit the deepest spots of our oceans?”
Walsh started his answer by relaying what a commanding officer said to him when he showed him a photograph of fish taken in the Challenger Deep, “Most expensive goddamn picture of fish ever taken!”
“Why is this all important? Why must we visit the deepest spots of our oceans?”
Walsh started his answer by relaying what a commanding officer said to him when he showed him a photograph of fish taken in the Challenger Deep, “Most expensive goddamn picture of fish ever taken!”
I Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger Deep | Deep Sea News »I asked, “What were the events that lead to you to dive the Marianas Trench?” Don Walsh one of two men to first visit the deepest point of the
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Jason Goldman
- PublicGo welcome the newest +Scientific American blogger, Gary Stix!
This Blog Is about the Good, the Bad and the Meshuga | Talking back, Scientific American Blog Network »At Scientific American's weekly editorial meetings, I'm often the loudmouth. I usually try to get the last word in. When someone suggests writing a story about Google's ...
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Jason Goldman
- PublicCanon’s EF 70-200mm 2.8L IS II USM Zoom Lens Has the Dreamiest Bokeh You’ll Ever See by +Alex Wild
Dreamy indeed.
Dreamy indeed.
Canon’s EF 70-200mm 2.8L IS II USM Zoom Lens Has the Dreamiest Bokeh You’ll Ever See | Compound Eye, Scientific American Blog Network »I recently got my hands on one of Canon's finest lenses, the EF 70-200mm 2.8L IS II. The lens is one of those white bazooka-like tubes sometimes ...
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Jason Goldman
- PublicWhy Women are More Often Right by +Hugo Schwyzer
Why Women Are More Often Right »Hugo Schwyzer discusses how sex, class, and ethnicity influence how we argue. As anyone who's ever been in a serious relationship can tell you, one near-certain source of conflict comes from the simpl...
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Kevin Potter
This applies when the argument is a rational one. When it's not, rightness/wrongness really don't apply to the winner/loser.
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How to get a faculty job in 20 not-so-easy steps contemplativemammoth.wordpress.com Today's post is by an anonymous guest blogger, who submitted this in response to a Twitter conversation today that began with a discussion o |
2012 reelbucket.com Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms |
Found objects, Seal Beach, California. Photo by Jason Goldman.
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Symphony of Science: Onward to the Edge | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine feedproxy.google.com Cool stuff | Brian Cox | A new Symphony of Science has come out today, in honor of Carl Sagan's birthday. And I'm pleased to see it features |
Inkfish: Make Mine Well-Done (with a Side of Calories) feedproxy.google.com Field of Science. New information on the Protorosaurian Reptile Macrocnemus fuyuanensis from the Triassic of China. 3 hours ago in Chinleana |
A pox on antivaxxers | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine feedproxy.google.com Alt-Med | chicken pox | A couple of antivax stories hit the web in the past day or so, and both have me pretty angry, shaking my head about |
A reason for practical genomic education | john hawks weblog johnhawks.net A reason for practical genomic education. Fri, 2011-11-04 21:41 -- John Hawks. Photo credit: Graham Stanley on Flickr, creative commons. The |
Inkfish: Interview with an Inkfish feedproxy.google.com Field of Science. The Toadstone. 5 hours ago in History of Geology. Overturning hydrophobic assumptions. 7 hours ago in The Curious Wavefunc |
NanoWeen Stories | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine feedproxy.google.com Cool stuff | Halloween | I used to dabble in writing fiction when I was younger, and really enjoyed it. I've had some interesting ideas file |
The writing process | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine blogs.discovermagazine.com Journalism | On Twitter, John Pavlus recently asked me which bit of the writing process I like most - researching and collating information, |
