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 about them in his book “Surely you’re joking Mr. Feynman!” After conducting a few experiments, he concluded that the ants were following some sort of invisible trail, and that “when an ant has found some food, he leaves a much stronger trail than when he’s just wandering around.” He also observed that
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- December 12, 2009 – 11:44 am
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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 So You Think You Can Dance would increase interest in dancing in general. But maybe that’s not the case?
swing dancing – loss of interest since 2004
salsa dancing – also a general fall in this search term
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- November 6, 2009 – 12:35 pm
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I recently conducted a poll on my FaceBook to ask people which cities they think are the friendliest. These are the names that came up: Cuenca, Ecuador; Toronto; Vancouver, BC; Chicago; Manchester, England; and Texas. Of course Texas is a state and not a city, but I have heard that on a whole the people are very friendly from there. I decided to create a list of factors
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- October 13, 2009 – 4:04 pm
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Lately, I’ve been feeling really excited about the concept of Science 2.0. I feel that science is at its best when it is discussed and shared with everyone. Because after all, what is science, without a discussion of ideas?
The Nature Network is social networking for scientists,
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- October 3, 2009 – 12:27 am
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