I haven't had time to post of late, but maybe if I write shorter more informal posts I'll write more of them. I'm amazed that folks keep finding my blog via keyword searches, often leading to posts several years old. It kinda takes the chronological element, the log, out of blog. So enjoy my b.
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Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Friday, July 1, 2011
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Blog short-circuited by Twitter
Apologies for not writing in a while. Life is busy, and when I have a quick idea or link I want to pass on, I simply issue a tweet and leave the blog for "sometime soon". (email me at science.eyes at g m a i l . c o m if you want to follow me on Twitter.)
This 'Compose' window now seems absolutely enormous compared to the 140 characters of a Twitter window. Now, if I just had the time to create text worthy of filling it...
I do plan to write a few posts about climate change and my perspective on the Obama administration. I will also post on the LHC, and update the CDMS dark matter story. Soon.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Digg
I just joined a service called Digg, which lets people rate blog posts, webpages, videos, and more. If you like any of my posts (past or future), please click the "digg it" button next to it (it will probably ask you to sign up for a free account the first time).Right now, the most popular Digg item is this:
It is pretty neat. I love the last line of the video.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Happy Monthday!
Science Sense is one month old today! It's turned out to be more about politics than I expected, mostly due to the fact that this is a presidential election year in the US. That should simmer down in another month, by which time the nominees for the Democrats and Republicans will probably have been decided.
When I started the blog, I installed an invisible counter (now visible) to give me a sense of how many hits I was getting. It gives me the rough location each reader. By 'rough' I mean that, for example, it thinks I am in Connecticut instead of Long Island. But I think it is usually right within say 100 km. Above is a map of my readers this month.
As you can see, you come from all over the world. This is truly amazing to me. Yes, I know all about cyberspace, and the global village, but somehow I did not expect such geographical diversity in my readers. Some of you look me up once on some search, others tune in nearly every day. One of you from Finland wants to know about Ron Paul's views on evolution, one of you from UK wants to know about champagne bubbles, and one of you from Korea wants to know about Science Debate 2008. I get about 100 hits a week, which I think is pretty good for the first month. Here are the top five search subjects which led you to my blog (in order):
- Science Debate 2008
- Champagne Bubbles
- Ron Paul & Evolution
- Thought Experiments or Cannonballs
- Second Amendment
- Barack Obama
I'd like this to be a bit more of a two-way street. I've been meaning to do more science posts, and I have a few planned about elementary particle physics, quantum computers, global warming, evolution, and cosmology. But what do you want to know about? If you have a request, email me, or post a comment.
Until then, happy monthday!
Saturday, January 5, 2008
How to Make Expandable Posts
To make expandable posts, as I've done recently on this blog, please follow the directions on this hackosphere post.
I did need to click on the Expand Widget Templates button. I advise clicking on the Preview button at the bottom of the page after you do each thing to make sure you haven't fried your template. Also, make a copy of the template before you start, and remember you have an 'undo' command :).Finally, if you want to "collapsify" your existing posts, be careful to insert the <span id="fullpost"> outside of any other <span>...</span> pairs, and put the </span> at the very end.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
"Sense"
Welcome to Science Sense!
This blog is about
- making sense of the world
- pointing out nonsense
- using an internal sense we all have
- having sense to know when to shut off being analytical
- enjoying and appreciating life and the other five senses
The internal sense is not something supernatural like ESP, but an ability to examine the world within our minds, using imagination and logic. It is an eye on an inner world of ideas. It is the sense that Einstein used to see the world with his "thought experiments". In the next post you'll see that "thought experiments" started way before Einstein.
[A note on punctuation. I know that in American English, the convention is to put the period inside the quotes. I've always found that illogical because quotes are like parentheses, and a period is an outer delimiter of the sentence. The quote is inside the sentence, not the other way around. Why would you put part of the sentence after the thing that marked its end? So in this blog I will not put the period inside quotes.]
I'll have more to say about each aspect of the word "sense". Here are some of the things I hope to cover in the blog:
Science:
- science news, especially of physics
- science politics and ethics
- my ideas
- explanations, like what "relativity" means
- how to develop that internal sense, an inner logical eye
- pseudoscience (i.e., nonsense)
Politics:
- opinions about the news of the US and the world
- opinions about important causes and ways to help
- opinions about electoral politics
Philosophy & Religion:
- what does it all mean?
- how does a scientist make sense of the world and find happiness?
- issues of religion and science
- issues of religion and politics (yikes!)
- issues of morality and ethics (outside of science)
Reviews:
- music
- books
- movies
I will try to indicate my qualifications for the subject at hand (trained, informed, none), and the confidence level of the ideas (established, likely, speculative). This way, you'll know what to take with a grain of salt.
I hardly know where to start! But I do know when it is time to end. See you next post.
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