The article we all wanted to write, but it isn't science and we feel guilty wasting the audience's time complaining about people they never run across but we see day ... after day ... after day ... 

They subscribe to our Twitterfeed, they want to write to us on Facebook, they can show us how to make money if we just bookmark them.

No one knows what they actually do is just 1 of the 5 signs.  You have to read for the rest ...

H/T Jennifer Ouellette at Cocktail Party Physics.

British nanny Nicola Paginton, age 30, suffered a sudden heart arrhythmia, likely caused by "her activity before death", says the coroners report.  

A heart attack at such a young age?   What was that activity?  I am not writing it here but you can go read about it. 



I guess all British nannies look like this?  It explains why American men are not allowed to have them.

Alex Antunes, space columnist and mastermind behind Project Calliope, got some love from Wired's online Gadget Lab.

It doesn’t always have to be a scientific experiment. Antunes’ project, called Project Calliope, will use magnetic, thermal and light sensors to detect information in the ionosphere and transmit the data back to earth in the form of sound. That sound is almost like space music, he says.

“Just like people have taken ambient sound and used it in music, artists can take this and create something out of it.” says Antunes.

Extreme Hobbyists Put Satellites Into Orbit With $8,000 Kits By Priya Ganapati

Dave Bacon, who used to be at Scienceblogs it seems (though not a departed because of Pepsigate, at least from what I gathered) outlines a pretty good vision of what the future of science networks might be.

Obviously we are a science network but we are not the only model - however, we are very much Science 2.0 whereas Scienceblogs was Blogging 1.0 (and yet I would regard Adam Bly as a Science 2.0 pioneer, even though Scienceblogs is not a Science 2.0 site - makes no sense?   You'll have to buy the book) and there are tangential ways to go as well, something a quantum physicist would surely understand, living in a world of complex adaptive systems.

Casey Rentz takes that whole chicken-egg silliness (solved! say headlines) and gets to the meat of the issue in Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist?

It isn't just pageview-whoring journalists and media companies, Casey notes, but researchers and PIOs at institutions as well.

Web publications want flashy news. Press officers want to glorify their own institution. Scientists want to attract new funding. It's a reinforced loop that can in some situations lead to the printing of truly questionable material, as the chicken and egg article so plainly illustrates.

Strange creatures have been inhabiting London’s construction sites. Artist Zara Gaze knows more about their nocturnal origins.



Artist Zara Gaze calls the installations “sandalism” - I call it awesome.   http://sandalism.co.uk/ for lots more cool stuff.

Hypatia was, if we are being honest, one of the sexiest women ever -  not because of looks, on that we have no clue, but because this fourth century citizen scientists discovered the sun was the center of the universe a thousand years before Copernicus did.  Smart women rule.

And, if you go for that sort of thing, she was a total pagan in a land of Christian expansion, and she kept boytoys around for her amusement.   

This disappeared from the Internet after I wrote Awesome Thanksgiving Science last year so I found an archive version before it disappears for good.

Original link: http://www.kimmerer.com/a-botanical-guide-to-thanksgiving-dinner/