Done watching Worldcon 2024 recordings
I watched 55 of the recorded panels and presentations from this year’s Worldcon; here are my six favorites.
Archive for Science
Some responses to “The Cold Equations”
Some notes on the history of temperature scales
RAW and the couch stampedes
Terraforming Mars and atmospheric pressure
Misleading graphs
I've seen several potentially misleading graphs in articles lately, so here's a reminder of a couple of common y-axis issues:...
The Martian (book and movie)
A few weeks ago, I decided to take a look at the book of The Martian. I hadn't had much...
Nifty squaring technique
I just encountered this nifty way to easily square numbers in your head: To calculate n2 for n between 40...
Happiness study, happiness video
There's a lovely 7-minute feel-good video that purports to reproduce a scientific study that, the video says, proves that the...
Star Trek science
I've seen a couple of people complain about the new Trek movies not being very scientific, which led me to...
On scientific dissent
Happened across this while looking up something else: But being a dissenter from orthodoxy is not difficult; the hard part...
Links: tech stuff
Some technical and vaguely tech-related items, mostly from a couple months back: IBM discovers the business value of editors. OkCupid...