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Huge props to kindergarten teachers
I’m completely exhausted. I had the pleasure today of explaining a little bit about computers and algorithms to some kindergarteners, and it just about wiped me out :-).
Timna Wyckoff (one of our biologists and mother of a kindergartener) arranged to have all the local kindergarten kids comes to the science building for 90 minutes [...]
Posted in Computing, Education, Events Also tagged bubble sort algorithm, computers, Education, kids, kindergarten kids, kindergarteners, students, teacher, teaching Comments closed
Remembering Rosalind Franklin: A note on Ada Lovelace Day
Today, 24 March, is Ada Lovelace Day, honoring the remarkable woman that is arguably the first computer programmer, working a full century before the construction of the first electronic machines that we would typically recognize as modern computers. In honor of her work and the crucial but typically underreported contributions of women in technology, [...]
Posted in Politics, Science Also tagged Ada Lovelace Day, biology, Research, technology, Women Comments closed
You have to either laugh or cry (and I’ll help you do both)
Lacking the time or neural function to generate any new content, I’ll instead pretend to be engaging in some sort of hip new mash-up by dropping two wildly different videos on you. Connections? Nope. Cool synthesis that comments on the post-modern state? Doubt it. Worth the time? Probably.
The first [...]
You’d almost think women were important
photo credit: Unhindered by Talent
In catching up on a bunch of old podcasts (I’m as behind there as I am on posting here), I ran across a very interesting Science Talk podcast from July 30 featuring “an interview with IEEE Spectrum editor in chief, Glenn Zorpette, talks about high-tech attempts to battle improvised explosive [...]
Maybe some science would be useful in this situation?
Hmmm… Applying vaunted American know-how to find new solutions to the problem of energy independence? What an odd, odd thought, especially when McCain supports a tiny, slow band-aid that … well … won’t really help at all.
We were in Fargo a few days ago buying a car. We sold our one and [...]
Far too many photos from Dagstuhl
Regular readers here will likely remember various past posts extolling the virtues of Dagstuhl, this really wonderful computing research facility in Germany. I’ve been lucky enough to attend several seminars on the Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms in the past, and have taken (and posted) quite a few photos from those trips.
A few months ago [...]
Posted in Computing, Events, Photography, Research, Sabbatical, Science, Travels Also tagged Computing, conference, Dagstuhl, documentary photography, Germany, Photography, Research, seminar, workshop Comments closed
So much to do – so little time
Sorry for the lack of activity here – an EPSRC grant with Riccardo came through, which is big happy news. The downside is that there’s a ton of research work to be done in a very short period of time. We were lucky enough to have Ellery Crane visiting for the last two [...]
Mirages as both science and art
If you’re never been over to BibliOdyssey I highly recommend a visit. The sub-title for the blog is “Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart” which, well, sums it all up rather nicely. Lots of neat old illustrations, often (but not always) on scientific themes. The themes are interesting, the background info excellent, and the [...]
PeeZed gets an asteroid named after him!
Every science nerd hopes to get something named after them, with the mostly likely candidates being small invertebrates or small celestial bodies as there are lots of both still without names.
As further proof of how cool PeeZed is, he just got an asteroid named after him! The little rock formally known as 153298 is [...]
Never forget who the true enemy is