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January 28, 2011
celebrating female science bloggers
So this is a list of women bloggers who I think you should read, with specific reasons why I think you should read them, and some of my favourite posts of theirs to get you started. And note, this is not a list of top female science bloggers; it's an all-female list of top science bloggers.
via blogs.discovermagazine.com
At the link above, Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science provides a stellar list. I know of some, but not others, and am excited to find out more about them.
Filed under: Interesting Tagged: women in science
Celebrating female science bloggers
So this is a list of women bloggers who I think you should read, with specific reasons why I think you should read them, and some of my favourite posts of theirs to get you started. And note, this is not a list of top female science bloggers; it's an all-female list of top science bloggers.
via blogs.discovermagazine.com
At the link above, Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science provides a stellar list. I know of some, but not others, and am excited to find out more about them.
Filed under: Interesting Tagged: women in science
January 27, 2011
leave the libraries alone
In the world I know about, the world of books and publishing and bookselling, it used to be the case that a publisher would read a book and like it and publish it. They'd back their judgement on the quality of the book and their feeling about whether the author had more books in him or in her, and sometimes the book would sell lots of copies and sometimes it wouldn't, but that didn't much matter because they knew it took three or four books before an author really found his or her voice and got the attention of the public. And there were several successful publishers who knew that some of their authors would never sell a lot of copies, but they kept publishing them because they liked their work. It was a human occupation run by human beings. It was about books, and people were in publishing or bookselling because they believed that books were the expression of the human spirit, vessels of delight or of consolation or enlightenment.
via falseeconomy.org.uk
And if you click on the link, you can read more of Philip Pullman's lucid and heart-felt analysis of cuts to libraries and "the greedy ghost of market madness" which "has got into the controlling heights of publishing."
Filed under: Concerning Tagged: greedy market and human spirit
Leave the libraries alone
In the world I know about, the world of books and publishing and bookselling, it used to be the case that a publisher would read a book and like it and publish it. They'd back their judgement on the quality of the book and their feeling about whether the author had more books in him or in her, and sometimes the book would sell lots of copies and sometimes it wouldn't, but that didn't much matter because they knew it took three or four books before an author really found his or her voice and got the attention of the public. And there were several successful publishers who knew that some of their authors would never sell a lot of copies, but they kept publishing them because they liked their work. It was a human occupation run by human beings. It was about books, and people were in publishing or bookselling because they believed that books were the expression of the human spirit, vessels of delight or of consolation or enlightenment.
via falseeconomy.org.uk
And if you click on the link, you can read more of Philip Pullman's lucid and heart-felt analysis of cuts to libraries and "the greedy ghost of market madness" which "has got into the controlling heights of publishing."
Filed under: Miscellany
Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato found murdered
And Uganda still considering a bill sentencing gays to life in prison and eventually a death sentence. The Guardian http://ow.ly/3LAWw
Filed under: Concerning Tagged: homophobia in Uganda
in tunnels under Paris, gold and shit
stones, bones, & tourism? National Geographic article on what's stashed (and flowing) beneath Paris.
Filed under: Interesting Tagged: cataphiles in Paris
cheeky artist Ai Weiwei bravely takes on China's government
China is used to shocking stuff from this bold artist. He's spent years fighting for a full accounting of student deaths from the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. One of his most powerful works fills a studio wall with the names of 5,000 children. They were in the 20 schools that turned to dust while the surrounding buildings stood firm, he notes. Officials still refuse to investigate the apparent corruption that resulted in such substandard construction or to acknowledge such a large number of deaths.
via online.wsj.com
His art is shown around the world. His blog has been shut down, but he still tweets. His father, too was an artist and poet, who spent a large chunk of his life cleaning toilets for speaking his mind. But Ai Weiwei's international reputation has, so far, protected him from that–and his reputation may, in part, be a result of authorities' irritation with him. It certainly attracted my attention, and made me think about my role as a writer in a free country while other writers and artists are not free. What do you think? Click on the link to read the whole article.
Filed under: Interesting Tagged: Ai Weiwei, protest art
Ai Weiwei: cheeky artist bravely takes on China's government
China is used to shocking stuff from this bold artist. He's spent years fighting for a full accounting of student deaths from the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. One of his most powerful works fills a studio wall with the names of 5,000 children. They were in the 20 schools that turned to dust while the surrounding buildings stood firm, he notes. Officials still refuse to investigate the apparent corruption that resulted in such substandard construction or to acknowledge such a large number of deaths.
via online.wsj.com
His art is shown around the world. His blog has been shut down, but he still tweets. His father, too was an artist and poet, who spent a large chunk of his life cleaning toilets for speaking his mind. But Ai Weiwei's international reputation has, so far, protected him from that–and his reputation may, in part, be a result of authorities' irritation with him. It certainly attracted my attention, and made me think about my role as a writer in a free country while other writers and artists are not free. What do you think? Click on the link to read the whole article.
Filed under: Interesting Tagged: Ai Weiwei, protest art
January 26, 2011
look at baby universe
It was a long time ago, and it was a galaxy far, far away, but it's doubtful that any Ewoks, Hutts or Wookies would have had time to evolve there. In fact, the galaxy in question is so far away, and the distance its light must travel to reach Earth so vast, that astronomers see the galaxy as it appeared more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was just 3 or 4 percent its present age.
via scientificamerican.com
Filed under: Miscellany
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