Archive for October, 2007
Carnivalia
This week, in blog carnivals:The Accretionary Wedge #2Boneyard #7Carnival of the Green #99Four Stone Hearth XXV – 1st Anniversary EditionGrand Rounds Vol 4:4Mendel’s Garden: Haloween EditionOekologie! #10And of course, tune in tomorrow for the Carnival of Space — right here at SOS!
Global climate change — the risk management approach
Here’s another interesting take on climate change — and it doesn’t even require any background in climatology (although around here, you really have no excuse for that):http://view.break.com/381084So, what do you think about this approach?
Carnival of Space — a little reminder
Just a little reminder here — SOS will be hosting the Carnival of Space this coming Thursday. So if you run across any particularly interesting blog posts about space related subjects in the next few days (say, by Wednesday morning) — please send them along to me using the contact form. Thanks!
Casual Friday — math quiz!
Could you pass 8th grade math?
Carnivalia
The interwebs hold another bountiful crop of blog carnival goodness for your reading pleasure this week — click on through for the details…
Shelley needs your vote!
If you read many science-related blogs, you’ve almost surely run across the excellent neuroscience blog Retrospectacle…. Meanwhile, if you like her writing, you can help her out by voting for her right here.You’ll be glad you did.
Carnival Hosting
If you’ve subscribed to this blog for long, you’ll know I’m a big fan of blog carnivals — they’re good things for both writers (providing a potential source of new readership) and readers (giving them a quick taste of a number of new blogs). The hosts get a potential boost in readership as well…
Either out of a desire for publicity, or some personal sense of masochism (hosting a carnival isn’t exactly a trivial undertaking), I’ve signed up to host three carnivals over the next couple of months. Here’s the lineup….
Casual Friday — Cappuccino as Art
Since last Friday’s little study break was coffee related, I thought I’d follow up with another on the same theme, but in video form (courtesy of Retrospectacle and YouTube)…
Sputnik hyperindex
OK, there are just all sorts of sites out there with either a little or a lot of information relating to the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1. Even I got into the act… Since some of the discussions of Sputnik are in-depth, and others little more than “me too!” notices of the anniversary, I thought it might help to put together a quick list of links to some of the “meatier” discussions of the event. Read on…
Episode 12 — Getting to Sputnik
Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Earth’s first artificial satellite — Sputnik 1. Lots of news sites are covering various aspects of this anniversary — mostly dealing with what’s happened in space in the intervening 5 decades, and what we may see in the future. What seems to be getting far less coverage, though, is the twisted path that led to the launch. Sputnik’s launch didn’t take place in a vacuum (no pun intended), after all — a number of social, political, and technical forces were at play. Tune in this week, and I’ll fill you in on all of the good “deep background” information that’s often lost in the shuffle.
