CNN has been giving environment and global climate matters a good, if somewhat breathless and teary-eyed, ride lately with its Planet in Peril project. So a stunned wave of anguish is running among US science journalists today upon word that CNN has just announced near-demolition of its science, technology, and environment news staff. One post down is news of an ancient star-destroying explosion i...... [Show More]
links for 20081203 Post Source: www.morethanthis.net Posted: Dec 03 2008 17:04:52
The 'O' in Obama | Campaign Stops | NYTimes.com
Steven Heller writes, "At the end of 2006, Mode, a motion design studio in Chicago, approached Sol Sender, a graphic designer, to create a logo for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The resulting 'O' became one of the most recognizable political logos in recent history. I spoke with Mr. Sender a few d...... [Show More]
More than 200 million prescriptions for antidepressants are taken each year in the US , many of which end up in our ground water through patients’ excrement or from the pills being flushed down the toilet . According to Discover Magazine :
The concentrations of antidepressants in the water—billionths of a gram per liter—aren’t enough to affect larger species, but they are enough to m...... [Show More]
Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician ... Nightingale created many novel graphics to present statistics that would persuade Queen Victoria of the need to improve sanitary conditions in military hospitals. The area of each region shows the number of soldiers who died of wounds, disease, or other causes, during each month of the Crimean War -
When Florence Nightingale arrived at a Bri...... [Show More]
Science News has a short little article on Florence Nightengale’s impact on data visualization.
From the article:
…As impressive as her statistics were, Nightingale worried that Queen Victoria’s eyes would glaze over as she scanned the tables. So Nightingale devised clever ways of presenting the information in charts. Statistics had been presented using graphics only a few time...... [Show More]
As you know if I you read the first article linked up left, I’ve long been obsessed with getting nonprofits to pay more attention to design. To see how design can help make a positive difference, check out this killer article from Science News, which examines how Florence Nightengale developed cutting-edge information graphics for applied statistical modeling....... [Show More]
By Janet Raloff TAMPA, Fla. - In the fish world, baby is just another word for lunch. So it behooves aquatic larvae to be ever vigilant. Yet those who as embryos or hatchlings encountered water polluted with trace concentrations of an antidepressant are much more likely to become lunch. Tons of medicine ends up in the environment each year. Much has been excreted by patients. Leftover pills ma...... [Show More]
Science News ’s Bruce Bower this week reports that two US studies of babies found that ability to mentally rotate or recognize mirror images of geometric objects - that is, spatial sense - is on average measurably better in boys than girls even at three to five months age. That has some, if slight, pertinence to another spot of current news: Lawrence H. Summers’s position as a top ...... [Show More]
jeffsoesbe on the OryCon cheese party — Mmm, cheese.
First detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet — Oooooh. What you can learn from the light of a single pixel.
Bad Astronomy blog with some (retro actively&# 41; obvious logic about UFOs — Never thought of this angle before, myself.
Pirates protected from EU task force by human rights —
Eight Is Enou...... [Show More]
People have long drawn a distinction between mind and body. A sense of free will, whether explicit or implied - “if I can think it, I can do it” - is too tempting to resist. This ‘min d-bodyR 17; duality is misleading for it neglects to take biology in account for how we think. Of course that makes the ‘min d-bodyR 17; duality all the more tempting because it allows...... [Show More]
Top Ten Reasons Books Are Better Than Sex — (Snurched from Scrivener’s Error .)
musingaloud talks about the 12/08 issue of Realms of Fantasy — Including my story, “Achilles, Sulking in His Buick.”
Ancient eyes head for the light — Poetic and fascinating, a piece about precursors to eyes. IDiots will of course decline to note the dreaded tran...... [Show More]
Whoa, that’s a lot of ice! Nothing new about evidence for old water on Mars, or for plenty of it frozen there still. But in Science this week, with a news-worthiness boost from some fine graphics, researchers say they’ve found near-certain signs of a reservoir of H2O in glaciers spilling from mountains and breached craters at mid-latitudes. That’s south of where ice had previousl...... [Show More]
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
The Situationist has a fantastic video example of a classic experimental philosophy set-up.
The TSA’s ’ behavior detection ’ is wrong more than 99 percent of the time, reports USA Today . Maybe that’s because it’s based on some rather dodgy techniques, as we reported in August last year.
Scie...... [Show More]
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The week started fast, then it dragged and then suddenly it became Friday - just like every other unexpected week at DesignNotes. Just looking at what I have for this week’s Link Drop , there seems to be a slight bias towards info design and typography. Perha...... [Show More]
News and views for Wednesday, November 19th and Thursday, November 20th ( Transgender Day of Remembrance ) …
[CA, USA] “A transsexual former California state prison inmate, who claimed to have suffered repeated sexual assaults and beatings at the hands of two cellmates, can pursue a negligence damage claim against prison officials, an appeals court ruled on November 14, but s...... [Show More]
Holy coprolite, could Michael Crichton have died just a bit too early to see a smidge of his Jurassic Park concoction of science and fiction get a sniff of vindication? There’s no doubt of the bar where the biggest crowd of science reporters bellied up today. Researchers at Penn State University and a big team from all over say in Nature they are very close to sequencing, from Siberian hair ...... [Show More]
For anyone that has delved into any sort of crypto-history, the world is a wonderfully mysterious place. It seems natural that those interested in delving into underground streams, will eventually come across a litany of Fortean type phenomena. Psychics, ghosts, clairvoyants, mediums, past lives, synchronicity, and all other things mystical seem to float on the edge of many topics outside the...... [Show More]
Science News | Submitted by: Waste ’Em AllGod’ll Sort ’Em Out "People can experience the illusion that either a mannequin or another persons body is their own body, says Valeria Petkova of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She and Karolinska colleague Henrik Ehrsson call this reaction the body-swap illusion ... Petkova and Ehrsson first confirmed that 16 male and 16...... [Show More]
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Never Let the Facts Encumber
I do remember in the 1970’s that the news and the magazines were warning that pollution in the form of aerosols could lead to global cooling , and this was atop a two decade cooling trend. We covered it in a Weekly Reader story when I was in 4th grade. For most of the decade our focus on environmental and climate data, at least i...... [Show More]
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