Women in Science: Still Thin on the Ground But Not For Too Long
Ada Lovelace Day in a Nutshell Finding Ada defines it: Ada Lovelace Day is about sharing stories of women — whether engineers, scientists, technologists or mathematicians — who have inspired you to...
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From Impossible to Incredible
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." The White Queen, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) by Lewis Carroll Not so very long ago,...
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Curiouser and curiouser: curiosities & collections
“Curiouser and curiouser!” Alice, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll There is a meaning for the word “curiosity” that has fallen out of common use. Nowadays, when we say...
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Mother of invention
When I was seven years old, I did a self-directed school project on electron microscopy. It’s worth noting that I was no child prodigy. I was simply a son inspired by a wonderful mother. As a young...
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#aMomentaryLapseOfReason: Without music, life would be a mistake
'Noisy jelly' is a game where you cook and shape your own musical material based on coloured jelly. Thus, you need some water, agar-agar powder and the most important: different colours and shapes. 10...
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A daughter’s inspiration
“Always the spirit of joyousness rises before me as her emblem.” Memorial to Anne Elizabeth Darwin, by Charles Darwin There are few things more harrowing than seeing children struggle with a...
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#aMomentaryLapseOfReason: Bizarre Creatures
The first edition of my #aMomentaryLapseOfReason experiment met a very warm welcome, thank you! Here we go with a second one: 'Bizarre Creatures.' Each Monday, a video and a picture, although unrelated...
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#aMomentaryLapseOfReason: Yummi!
Yours truly was delighted to see #aMomentaryLapseOfReason featured among the Best of Nature.com Blogs for the last week! This definitely whets my appetite for continuing this lovely experiment....
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#aMomentaryLapseOfReason: Comics Reloaded
If you like PhDComics, XKCD, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereals, and other strips and cartoons, you will definitely be looking forward to watching 'Stripped'. Its authors say it is "a love-letter to...
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#GeekyTreasures: The dreams of the future meet the history of the past
Along with my #aMomentaryLapseOfReason series (goes live every Monday morning), I decided to wrap-up interesting science- and technology-related stories. This linkfest will point to often overlooked...
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#aMomentaryLapseOfReason: Beer Fans United
Charlie 'The Pope of Foam' Bamforth is the head of Malting and Brewing Science at UC Davis. In the video below, he explains beer-making and indicates how to pick the freshest pint at a pub. A...
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#aMomentaryLapseOfReason: Mother Nature Calling
'Don't swim after lunch' is a short fairytale-like movie. According to its creators, it is "a take on turning mundane environments into nature habitats, re populating them with life. The human presence...
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#aMomentaryLapseOfReason: Till Death Do Us Part
This week's #aMomentaryLapseOfReason is somewhat unwieldly: it contains skeletons but no video. Don't get trepidatious, but check it out! Food artist Annabel de Vetten (a.k.a. Conjurer’s Kitchen)...
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Love your data – and let others love it, too
The Projects initiative, a Digital Science endeavour, provides a desktop app that allows you to comprehensively organize and manage data you produce as research projects progress. The rationale behind...
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