Lest you think I’m as bad at math as I really am, let me just say I know I skipped Day 60.
Day 60 is dead to me.
On Day 60, I landed at the doctor’s office again, because an infection didn’t respond to the first antibiotic — so now I’m on two. Yesterday, I felt awful. [...]
There’s a whole new world buried under more than two miles (4.5 km) of ice in East Antarctica — or at least a whole new mountain range.
An international team of researchers, braving insanely bone-chilling conditions, has used twin-engine light aircraft, along with a network of seismic instruments that would span Texas, to map the mammoth range. [...]
Mostly, I just wanted to share this image because I think it’s beautiful, especially once you know what it represents. This is the branched network of nerves that communicate with a small muscle in the head of a mouse, connecting the base of the ear to the top of the skull.
Researchers want to diagram neural [...]
I wish I remembered which science conference that was. There was a small presentation room, with a handful of speakers who projected their slides onto a big screen, as usual. But hardly anyone was in the audience; the sessions in rooms down the hall were much more crowded. The title, something about quantifying nature’s value [...]
I love to write. And I love science. But so far, my attempt to combine these things in a style fitting for the modern age — by maintaining a blog — has been spotty. So I hereby challenge myself: 100 posts about science in 100 days, promoted as much as possible through other modern channels [...]
