3-D printer helps save dying baby

More fun things we could do with the lab’s printer:

3-D printer helps save dying baby – CNN.com.

For the full NEJM article, see http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1206319

Science fairs: rewarding talent or privilege? | Sci-Ed

Some of my students probably have something to say about this-

Science fairs: rewarding talent or privilege? | Sci-Ed.

An attack on reductionism in neuroscience

Neuroscience needs its Einstein – Salon.com

“I was a liberal arts major, prefer stories to hard facts, questions to answers. I prefer ambiguity, mystery and awe to bottom-line explanations. I’m personally offended by fundamentalist and reductionist beliefs, be they religious or unjustified scientific pronouncements. I recognize and often rejoice in the absurdity of the human condition, and wouldn’t want it any other way. If scientists arrived at a final theory of everything, I would try not to read it.” – Robert Burton

Magic Revealed: Cups Trick Found to Be More Effective Than Thought: Scientific American

Here is that article again, this time from Scientific American.

Magic Revealed: Cups Trick Found to Be More Effective Than Thought: Scientific American.

Ancient Magical Illusion Even More Effective Than Magicians May Realize | Inside Science

Ancient Magical Illusion Even More Effective Than Magicians May Realize | Inside Science.

I am quoted herein. Let’s hear it for 1) magic and 2) a new open-access journal making the scene.

Here’s a link to the actual article: https://peerj.com/articles/19/

Moth Drives Robot (VIDEO)

Indeed we are totally screwed once they realize that it was us who invented lightbulbs and bug zappers.

Moth Drives Robot (VIDEO).

Sci² Tool : A Tool for Science of Science Research and Practice

Sci² Tool : A Tool for Science of Science Research and Practice.

Crapulent

I was watching my Mac OS screen saver go by, it was randomly on dictionary…

From the apple dictionary, crapulent. I never knew it was a real word.

Programmer Interrupted

Programmer Interrupted.

A very interesting piece of research on being interrupted whilst writing code.

… the office is where we go to get interrupted.