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Saturday, December 25, 2010

“Facebook and PayPal Founder Looks to the Science Future - NBC Bay Area” plus 7 more

“Facebook and PayPal Founder Looks to the Science Future - NBC Bay Area” plus 7 more


Facebook and PayPal Founder Looks to the Science Future - NBC Bay Area

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 01:30 PM PST

In the movie The Social Network, the character of Peter Thiel is played as a slick Master of the Universe, a tech industry king and kingmaker with the savvy to see that a $500,000 investment in Facebook could mint millions later. Reality is a little more ...

UK science journal publishes study by 8-year-olds - Seattle Times

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:51 AM PST

It came with wobbly writing and hand-drawn diagrams, but an elementary school science project has made it into a peer-reviewed journal from Britain's prestigious Royal Society. Biology Letters published a report Wednesday conducted and written by a group ...

In Budget Crunch, Science Fairs Struggle to Survive - New York Times

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:13 PM PST

DARIEN, Ill. — When one team's model helicopter broke before a recent science competition here, the students made a replacement at the last minute using a pizza box and a rubber band. Get Science News From The New York Times » Things do not always go ...

Science Fiction Review: "The Yarn", "The Ouroboros Wave", "Rocket Girls", and "Six-Guns Straight from Hell" - Denver Post

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 01:49 AM PST

Yarn, by Jon Armstrong, $14.99. Jon Armstrong calls his style "fashionpunk." It's set in a satiric world of fashion and consumerism gone wild. Underneath this world is another world of exploitation and violence. Tane Cedar is at the top of the fashion ...

Comment of the Day: Reader Questions Claims Made Against Science Center - Riverfront Times (blog)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 12:47 PM PST

Today's comment comes in response to last Friday's post, "Science Center's Cataloging Problems Spread to Art Museum." From "STL Neighbor" : "Instead of spending so much time obsessing about those roadside souvenirs you claim are so valuable, spend some ...

How Science and Technology Influence Language - NPR News

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 10:40 AM PST

Have you ever been Plutoed (demoted)? Is your inbox clogged with "bacn" (spam by personal request)? Are you a lifehacker (master at optimizing everyday routines)? Jonathon Keats, artist and author of Virtual Words , explains how science and technology ...

Looking back: History, art and science dominate 2010 - Daily Advance

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:35 PM PST

Perhaps if you were to ask some folks how they might sum up the past year, they might just tell you that 2010 was a year for history, art and science.In fact, there are certainly some who will tell you that Elizabeth City H.A.S. it! — History, Arts and ...

Siemens Science Competition: doing science in a community - Ars Technica

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 11:38 AM PST

People outside the research community tend not to recognize that it really is a community—science is a social activity, and you tend to spend your days interacting with the other members of your research group, other members of your institution, and ...

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