Articles tagged: science
Column: This Week's Web Picks: War! What it is good for; watch the birdie; making movies cinematic; when science is embarrassing
Posted: Jun 30, 2012This is the next in a series of posts highlighting useful and interesting websites. The American Civil War Homepage Take a look at these musical Civil War celebrations, courtesy of the 2nd South Carolina String ... Read more »
column: This Week's Web Picks: overcalculating; substances disabused; knots so fast; making fun of the news
Posted: Jun 09, 2012Editor’s note: This is the next installment of a weekly column by Paul Wiener designed to point readers to cool or useful websites. Martindale's Calculators Does anybody really need a website that points to over ... Read more »
Opinion: Does the atom have a designer? When science and spirituality meet
Posted: May 24, 2012The fundamental building block for the universe in not a passive billiard ball. It is a complex assembly of interacting particles called the atom. These subatomic particles represent a fine balance of forces, have very ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: infinite baseball; everybody's foreign accent; the protein game; and worldwide radio
Posted: May 05, 2012Baseball-Reference.com How many times did the Tigers strike out in 2003? Here is a site that offers tons of cold hard facts. Well, not all cold. Is there any sport other than baseball that is ... Read more »
faith: Start your week inspired - Experience Gelek Rimpoche's wisdom every Sunday
Posted: Mar 28, 2012Gelek RimpocheHappy Spring to you all! Word seems to be spreading about the weekly 10 a.m. Sunday morning talks with Gelek Rimpoche at Jewel Heart in Ann Arbor, with the audience growing in number week ... Read more »
What’s true of religion is true of science
Posted: Oct 06, 2010A caricature of Charles Darwin as an ape published in The Hornet, a satirical magazine | photo courtesy of wikipedia.org In the continuous battle between science and religion, there are several hotly contested issues: the ... Read more »
How are you planning to spend your Nikola Tesla Day?
Posted: Jul 10, 2010As it happens, it would not be uncommon for you to answer that question with, “Wait, spend my who day?” I mean, unfortunately, Tesla’s name has largely been shoved out of the common vernacular in ... Read more »
Science policy: Why do we do science? And how much should we spend doing it?
Posted: Jun 25, 2010I am currently participating in a workshop on science policy offered by the Consortium for Science and Policy Outcomes (CSPO). These posts are summaries of some of the interesting material we are studying here in ... Read more »
Science policy: Lessons from Washington, D.C.
Posted: Jun 17, 2010Right now I am taking part in an experience that is highly unusual for graduate students in the physical sciences: a two-week science policy workshop. Typically, even though we are not enrolled as university students ... Read more »
neighborhood news: Glacier Way West Side Cooperative Preschool provides free science class to public
Posted: Jun 04, 2010Glacier Way West Side Cooperative Preschool is hosting a small series of free science classes for preschoolers called "All About Science," which are also open to the public. "All About Science" is a traveling preschool ... Read more »
How I became a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Michigan
Posted: May 17, 2010Hello, Ann Arbor! I am currently a graduate student studying organic-materials chemistry at the University of Michigan. I am starting this blog to help break down some of the barriers between the public and the ... Read more »
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