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The Return of Amateur Science
Mark Frauenfelder, of bOINGbOING and Make fame, believes that the internet has facilitated an age of science-as-hobby, capable of laying the foundations for an amateur’s scientific revolution. - Picturing Moore’s Law
These simple diagrams illustrate the evolution of the computer chip from Fairchild’s integrated circuit to the exponentially more powerful Intel chips found in modern day computers. While Moore’s law is a well-understood phenomenon, who knew it could be presented so beautifully? - Shade coffee benefits more than birds
Do you feel guilty knocking back a cup of Chock Full o’Nuts or Folgers? If you do, new research reveals that you can reduce that guilt by switching to shade grown coffee whose ecological benefits include ensuring bio-diversity through helping rare tree species pollinate. - Inventor’s 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world’s poorest see better
In a “tremendous glimpse of the obvious” this inventor found that using water’s naturally lens-like properties he could provide adjustable eye care to the masses. - Holiday Medical Myths: Zapped!
The beauty of science is that not only can it expand our collective knowledge, but that it can also be put to use in ending the campaigns of disinformation that, for example, want you to think that the holiday season is accompanied by a surge of suicides. Though December and January may be a downer for some, it seems that not everybody is as suicidal as our culture would lead us to believe.
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Originally published December 22, 2008
