Random Thoughts
- The Big Bang Theory, Neurodiversity and the Promotion of Science as Something Worthy of Attention
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The Big Bang Theory is a great show for promoting both science and acceptance. It's a favorite show in our household, and all three of my children, who are at various spots on the autism spectrum, find something appealing in the show, see some aspect ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 1 2011 - 12:37am
- Library Of Congress- Government Gets It Right
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Government work is usually a thankless job- yes, thanks to guaranteed pay raises and a union that can shut down the government, government employees make more money than the private sector and have better benefits and retirement, so it is not exactly thank ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2011 - 2:46pm
- Dr. Sascha Vongehr's Science 2.0 Articles by Topic
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Recent articles are chronologically at: column. But here, articles are categorized thematically. ...
Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 13 2015 - 3:12am
- I Will Vote
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Democracy should never be given for granted. So if you are given a chance to cast a vote, you should not overlook the fact that voting is both your duty toward your country, and a right you need to exercise if you don't want to lose it. In Italy on Ju ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2011 - 2:45am
- Fly Away: One Look At A Family Impacted By Autism, One Really Good Look
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We’ve just finished a documentary on Stephen Hawking and I hand Bobby the dvd and ask him to put it in. “What now, Mama?” “Wait and see,” I tell them. As the film starts, my three children, all at various points in the spectrum, all engaged in their ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Jun 10 2011 - 4:18pm
- Dante in the Scientific Inferno
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The topic of Dante came up recently here in a comment stream following an article on parsley. So I am taking this opportunity to share with you two of my favourite bits. First, from Canto XVI of Paradiso ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 13 2011 - 11:54am
- Wired In And Then Some: Finding an Electronic Balance With Our Kids
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How many famlies have more electronic devices than people? It's not hard to be swimming in a digital sea in today's culture. Americans appear to worship the latest upgrade, willing to wait overnight in lines just to get the next version of an i ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 26 2011 - 1:55pm
- Jackson Pollock, Closet Physicist
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Jackson Pollock (d.1956) is famous to mainstream people more for the movie about his troubled life than his art, but his drip paintings have intrigued more than art historians. A quantitative analysis of Pollock's streams, drips, and coils reveals som ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2011 - 3:31pm
- Beware Onbilgi: They're Taking Our Posts From Here as Their Own
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I discovered several of my articles at http://onbilgi.com/ today, all of them lifted from here, all of them without my name as author, all of them without links back to here. Not only did I find my work, it looks like all the articles they have are taken ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jul 2 2011 - 10:50am
- The Say Of The Week
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" I envy University Professors. They are paid to question people who know nothing but try very hard to say something, while I have to question people who know everything but do their utmost to say nothing at all." Piercamillo Davigo, Italian Jud ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2011 - 4:37am
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