It’s Okay To Be Smart - Weekly Highlights
Greetings and salutations, amigos. Welcome to your weekly highlight reel, Sagan-heavy edition.
Let’s get started!
- If you like this blog, want to help spread the message even wider and take it to the next level, I have put a donate link on my home page to help me get to conferences and speaking engagements. Thanks to those of you who have supported so far! Even if it’s just the price of a Starbucks coffee, together we can help return science to its rightful status as “best thing ever in the universe”.
- Did you know that last Wednesday was Carl Sagan Day? That’s right, Carl would have been 77 years old on Nov. 9. We all celebrated by posting lots of Sagan stuff, like this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this. And lots more. He deserves every bit of love we can muster.
- It looks like artificial intelligence may take the place of “guys in funny hats randomly combing the desert with paintbrushes” when it comes to fossil hunting.
- Check out this awesome Phineas gage crochet work, and look here for more background on his unlucky saga.
- Old news: Turning stem cells into neurons. New hotness: Turning stem cells into neurons and then implanting them in rodents to cure Parkinson’s Disease.
- The New York Times looked at why science majors have such high attrition rates in college, and determined “Because it’s hard.” It’s also not taught in a very appealing way.
- They, very literally, found water on Mars (bar).
- Behold the periodic table of pumpkins!
- A tiny asteroid flew by Earth, and if a few tinfoil hats hadn’t gotten knocked asunder, we wouldn’t even have noticed. We did get some cool pictures, though.
- A beautiful piece of animation from the old PBS show 3-2-1 Contact takes us through one billion years in three minutes.
- Rick Perry accomplished the moon landing of political brain farts during last week’s GOP debate, but what does neuroscience have to tell us about “retrieval failure”?
- It hath been decreed that there shall be formed an Order of Science Ninjas to defend at popularize science. Here’s the official induction ceremony for you to take part in, should you so decide to join. Any volunteers to make our official badge (someone has to be a better graphic artist than me!)
- The hipsters are invading the labs. Are labsters taking over?
- Finally, follow this charming journey into the invisible highway above your heads, as Robert Krulwich narrates a cartoon about the billions of bugs flying through our skies every day.
Lots more in the archive, as usual. Stay curious, friends.
-Joe
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