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Tag: science
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Precision and Accuracy
I may have written an essay about this topic before, but you know, I think it bears revisiting. For one thing, every time I write about something, I am coming back to it with deeper understanding, more experience, and a changed outlook. I can’t help it, really. Time is not static, therefore neither am I.…
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The Elephant’s Child
I was talking with a friend and was reminded of why I became a scientist. Why I have always wanted to be a scientist of some form or another, nearly for as long as I could remember. Well, except for those two years where I wanted to be a fighter pilot. But that didn’t even…
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Food, Fads, and Fooey
I’m up to my eyeballs in work, life, and a strong craving for significant time spent outdoors in the amazing late summer weather with my hiking boots and camera. That last part isn’t happening, but I can dream. I am spending some of my off moments in research, as always. I want to do up…
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Science Flights of Fancy
Ever considered using your hair for tapping into the internet? Or as an antenna? Or…? Personally, I’ve used my hair as a weapon, having worn it as long as past my waist, and put up into a whip-like braid. Long enough to sit on! If I dyed it with graphene, in the new process that…
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Blinking in the Dark
I have been listening, for my own amusement, to a history of chemistry as audiobook. It wasn’t a history when it was written – it was intended to be a non-technical take on what chemistry could do for mankind to inspire and reduce the fears of the time that surrounded the science. It’s a fascinating…
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Low-Hanging Fruit
I was talking with the Little Man last night, and he was being gloomy. He told me what he wants to do when he grows up: he wants to get a degree in Electrical Engineering and help design a plane that hovers. But then as we were chatting about that and the Arduino kit he…
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Faces Turned to the Past
I have been listening to audiobooks and podcasts at work to pass the time, and have discovered that while I thought that audiobooks were far too slow, and narrator’s voices annoying, with further exploration I found some that work for me, by accelerating playback speed and choosing non-fiction. I do have one fiction I’m listening…
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Spidersilk
I read a pair of articles this week about spiders, their genes, venom, and silk. It was a fascinating glimpse into the little creatures I already am fascinated with. I had no idea how complex the arachnid genome is, much more than a human’s. And untangling that genetic riddle could lead to advances in textiles,…
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Cultivating Patience
I don’t do bored very well. Or patient, for that matter. I can do both of them, although I get a bit twitchy, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. I joked the other day about being an adult meant that I could indulge in something small from time to time, but it…
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Double-Edged Sword of the Apocalypse
There are days that I can say and mean it from the bottom of my heart: science is scary. This is true on every day, of course, but it rarely impinges on my day-to-day reality. Kids, dogs, husband, work, writing… and then there are the science journals. The headline of this article caught my attention…
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One Small Step for Cyborgs
One giant step for Mankind. Or at least, for holding it all together while we figure it out. This article on hydrogel bonding has so many fascinating applications I find it hard to start. It’s not just the adhesive properties, but it’s also conductive, too. In the article, they discuss how they could utilize those…
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Interesting Stuff
I have Thursdays noted, on my ad hoc schedule, as the days for link round-ups. I do a fair amount of reading in odd moments, from blogs I touch in at on a routine basis, to tidbits that float across my screen seemingly at random. I’ll collect the ones that caught my eye, and post…