- Help PLoS!
Are you scientifically literate? Can you read and understand scientific abstracts? If so, help out the folks at PLoS by submitting some feedback. - Fish Shares and Sharing Fish
Though it may seem like a post about fisheries management is featured here all too often, the truth of the matter is that fisheries management is one of the most terrifying problems we may encounter in the near future and is an issue we can help by keeping well-informed. - Managing Energy with Swarm Logic
The energy infrastructure in the US poses a significant problem to future alternative energy initiatives, but it is an issue that may be resolved through applying swarm logic. For more on animated machines and swarm logic check out Kevin Kelly’s post on the topic. - Drought warning as the tropics expand
To some, expanding the tropics by 200 miles sounds like a fantastic outcome, but to climatologists it signals the arrival of droughts in unprecedented numbers. (via environment 360) - A DIALOGUE WITH SARAH, AGED 3: IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT IF YOUR DAD IS A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR, ASKING “WHY” CAN BE DANGEROUS
If there is anything that the Science Creative Quarterly has illustrated it is that by combining kids and science one produces humorous results.
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Expanded tropics thrills beachgoers but horrifies scientists, kids + science yield humorous results, using swarm logic to solve the US energy infrastructure problem, privatizing fisheries for positive results, help PLoS with your feedback…
Originally published February 4, 2009
