ideonexus

Month: June 2007

  • Letter to the Editor: Tattoos about style, not sex

    This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: A recent letter criticizing the Currituck Board of Commissioners’ decision to relax zoning restrictions on tattoo parlors serves as yet another reminder of how quaintly behind the times we are here in…

  • “Planetes” a Great Anime About Space Exploration

    “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”      – Neil Armstrong Planetes The space age began in the 1950s with the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1, which was followed by a Space Race that lasted until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Without milateristic competition between our countries, all we…

  • The Port Discover Science Center

    Port Discover Science Center Science in my first life. The Port Discover Science Center located in downtown Elizabeth City provides me with my most rewarding philanthropic exersizes and volunteer activities. The center runs on a shoe-strig budget of a little over $50k a year. With that it must rent a space in a downtown location,…

  • Science in Cyberspace

    Professor Ozymandias Spark Science benefits from working on an open source model. Peer review, publication and dessemination of experimental results, public education, access to higher education, all of these contribute to a large number of people with the tools and resources to help them contribute productively to our collective body of knowledge. Peers on the…

  • Should Scientists be the Only One’s Allowed to Talk About Science?

    Dr. Moran has essentially written one big justification for intellectual laziness in his post “Lessons from Science Communication Training,” where he rationalizes and credentializes away any social responsibility scientists have to educate and persuade the public. I can understand the political naivety I’m reading in this article; after all, natural scientists are notoriously out of…