I’m at Subtle Technologies this weekend. It’s a festival combining art and science, with an underlying theme. This year’s theme is light, so the talks are about ways in which …
I took a fantastic course this semester: Teaching in Higher Education (THE500). It’s a balloted non-credit course for final year PhD students, and it used to show up on your …
Foldit is a web-based computer game that lets you fold proteins, and contribute to science while playing. From the site: “Figuring out which of the many, many possible structures is …
Research contributes to global warming. I’m not surprised. I often feel ridiculous when I make the effort of turning off lights at home while my cells have to grow 24/7 …
I’ve been tempted to link to some of the ReGenesis science Facts Behind the Fiction articles I’ve written, but I kept putting it off because I’m always a few weeks …
We got to play with One Laptop Per Child SciBarCamp – Friday evening, originally uploaded by smithegroups. Ryan Kelln and Hartwell Fong each brought one One Laptop Per Child laptop …
