While browsing through Twitter one day, I came across Dr. Zen Faulkes who is a scientist adept at using social media and blogging to communicate his research and ideas.
He is a Canadian researcher living in Texas doing behavioural research on the unusual crustacean creature, Marmorkrebs. He is interested in the evolution of behaviour and nervous [...]
Categories: Featured Articles
Tagged: crustaceans, disaptation, Marmorkrebs, model organisms
I don’t know how many of you like to blog about science, but here are some tips. Writing a blog post on a scientific subject is a little different than most other types of posts. You do have to state true facts, but yet you don’t want your post to sound like a formal journal [...]
Categories: Tips and Tricks
Tagged: primary literature, science blogging
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always found it fascinating to sit and watch ants (especially when I was younger and I had more time). I always wondered where it was they were trying to go, and how did they know where to go?
The physicist Richard Feynman had also observed ants, and he talks [...]
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Tagged: ant pheromones, Richard Feynman
I enjoy statistics, and so I thought I would try putting some search terms into Google Insights to see if any interesting trends popped up. Keep in mind that Google Insights only has data from 2004 onwards.
You can check out Google Insights here:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
Dancing with the Stars:
I thought shows like Dancing with the Stars and [...]
Categories: Thoughts and Observations