Random Thoughts

The Floating (Dolby) City

If I could do Calliope as a full-tilt project, not just a hobby venture, I would make it involve transmedia and gaming.  As life goes, I had neither opportunity nor talent to come up with, say, the 'Urgent' synth riff.  However, an enterprising f ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Feb 8 2011 - 8:35pm

Pain Laboratory

Just that I was recovering from a tooth ache and being lectured upon dental anesthetics, that I came across an interesting experiment on understanding pain.  I hope this can alleviate the pain levels you had been ignoring for some while.  ...

Blog Post - Payal Joshi - Feb 10 2011 - 8:47am

World Cup Cricket: An Indian Perspective and Strategy

If I were to brag about the most exciting and defining moments of India's proud and enriching sporting past, like any other Indian, I too would choose from this willow game. May be I deserve to owe an apology to the magical Dhayanchand and Co, Sprint ...

Blog Post - Madhu Kodappully - Feb 14 2011 - 6:45pm

He Will Be Tried

Finally, it looks like Silvio Berlusconi will be tried. The judge for preliminary investigations has accepted the request of an immediate trial, put forth by the magistrates who collected a large body of evidence on the recent crimes of the Italian premier ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 16 2011 - 4:04am

Jumbled Thoughts, Pinching Worries, And Failing Memories

Balancing the demands of work, parenting, blogging, autism advocacy and more can at times be daunting. My mind is a whirring jumble of thoughts, pinching worries that eat away at me, and an apparently failing memory. I'll start with the failing memory ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Feb 18 2011 - 6:44pm

If Content Farms Die, Science 2.0 Will Win

If a site like the Huffington Post takes a fair use snippet of your article here and then links to you, their snippet will rank higher in Google than your actual article in keywords related to your article. A little crazy but okay, you might say, they earn ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 19 2011 - 5:00am

Nice Win With A Grandmaster

Despite my chronic lack of time these days, I always manage to find ten minutes for a blitz chess game on the internet. It is a total waste of time and brain energy, but it never fails to provide some adrenaline shot in my veins. And at times some real sat ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 20 2011 - 12:27pm

I'm Back- With an Apology

I'm Back- With an Apology I have been absent from science20.com for some time due to illness.  I apologize for not reponding to the many comments and emails I have received in my absence. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 24 2011 - 6:15pm

Kid's Science Zone needs Tumbleweeds

I went to an old link to the Kids Science Zone ("Awesome Science for Kids"), kidssciencezone.com/astronomy.  It said "Nothing found!" Oh, wait, the top-level structure had changed, so I clicked on the "Space" link: kidsscience ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Feb 25 2011 - 6:52pm

Spring and the Atom Tree

Walking through the main campus of Reading University, where they have been planting a lot of saplings recently, I came across this: With the sun getting stronger, and the leaves not yet out, one gets some very picturesque views at this time.  These, on a ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Mar 7 2011 - 3:45am