Scribble Updates

  News roundup, starting with sort of a “Where are they now?” for past Scribble posts: The Alfred Wegener Institute’s ship Polarstern is back in port after riding along to the scene of the collapse (of the Larsen B ice shelf). Scattered along a seafloor uncovered for the first time in perhaps 12 millennia, the [...]

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U.S. Bedrock Shivers from Korean Nuclear Test

North Korea’s 1-kiloton nuclear test last October showed up in the U.S. on readings from an exquisitely sensitive seismometer array. Seismologists Charles Ammon and Thorne Lay reported the finding last month in Eos: “Nuclear Test Illuminates USArray Data Quality”(PDF here). Modern readers are quickly jaded: We all know nuclear weapons are powerful and seismographs are [...]

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brandung.vogel.gekritzel

Strong onshores are whipping the North Sea into an unrideable mess. Great tits are flitting through the branches outside (note to non-birding readers: this is not naughty in the slightest: see picture). Scribble Headquarters Europe has just opened in Bremen, Germany.  This is as of 24 hours ago, when Scribble Headquarters U.S.A. dragged his sorry [...]

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Triceratops Haunts Respectable Englishman’s Brain

My Uncle Owen was having tea with my mum when the topic turned to dinosaurs. The next thing he said was this: . . The triceratops lived on such slops As lush river-grasses and leafy tree tops It lolloped along like a rabbit that lops It trod on small creatures that burst with loud pops [...]

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Hyperbolic Reality Acheived with Crochet Hook

Call it self interest, but I was most interested at AAAS by science journalist/all-around original thinker Margaret Wertheim, who spoke about where science journalism is going. She gave some impressive statistics about readership for the science magazines (around 20 million per month) and then pierced whatever chest-puffing may have ensued with some scale: the readership [...]

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Improbable crochet and other news from AAAS

I’ve been living it up at the annual AAAS meeting this weekend. In the meantime, the scribbling masses have had to content themselves with cut-rate science blogs by the likes of Carl Zimmer and that Pharyngula guy. Well, I’m still recovering from endless shrieking rides through the BART tunnels at inconvenient hours (BART seems to [...]

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Scribbler cracks up

There’s some sillier-than-usual Scribbling over here. . . . . .

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Calling All Geeklings

They’re hipster geeks in labcoats, but they’ve got fab shoes. And they want you to join their army. Cruise over to Inkling Magazine for their She’s Such A Geek Photo Contest. They want cool photos of geeky women, or alternatively geeky photos of cool women, or let’s face it, both at the same time. The [...]

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Scribble Posts in Google Maps

In case you hadn’t noticed the attractive boldface box over here on the right, there’s a new feature here at Surf.Bird.Scribble. In an endless quest to make it easier for you to read news while avoiding work, I’ve linked all previous Scribblings to their geographic locations in Google Earth. You can quickly view the result [...]

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Scientists, Librarians Get Iconic On Us

We live in an age where nobody has time to read and few people even have the time to look at pictures. That’s why we live in a world of icons. I like the witty ones. Those dreadfully clever people at Science Creative Quarterly pulled together a big group of them, then turned them into [...]

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