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Science, Blogs, Web III: Science Blogging Conference
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In its continuing bid to take over all aspects of science communication, Nature magazine (or more properly, an alliance between Nature Network and the Royal Institution) will be hosting a European Science Blogging conference in August or September. Right now, however, I’m in Norway. In addition to discussing how we’re going to measure the CMB…
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April First (and Second)
We take so much of the web for granted today, we often forget how very contingent it all is. Without the very specific work by Tim Berners-Lee inventing the http protocol, perhaps some sort of hypertext communication standard would have come along, but it’s hard to believe that it would be quite the same. Berners-Lee…
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Carnival
My post on the topology of the Universe has been included in the latest edition of the physical science and technology “blog carnival”, Philosophia Naturalis, hosted on Chris Rowan’s excellent blog, Highly Allochthonous. If you liked what I wrote, there’s lots more physics, math and geology excitement for you over there.
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New Header Graphic
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…from a photo of a park in Tokyo, a bit more in keeping with the name of this blog.
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