Exhaustion
He also doesn’t believe in exhaustion, since you can’t check each case. Nor is he a fan of the continuum.
Multimedia
Video blogs, video series, podcasts, science art, photo essays
Proof By Previous Result
“To prove this statement, I invoke Theorem 3.2 of our textbook in conjunction with Corollary 67.1, which together implies our result trivially.â€
Spin
The side job of a scientist is being a public advocate for science anyway. I guess we are close to politicians after all.
#550 Translating Science, Part 1
This week, we're discussing the opportunities and challenges of using Zulu, a language that has traditionally been excluded from science journalism, to share discoveries with a new audience. Host Marion Kilgour speaks with Sibusiso Biyela, science communicator at ScienceLink and a contributor at South African science news website SciBraai. Related links: Decolonizing Science Writing in South Africa on The Open Notebook by Sibusiso Biyela
The Mottled Duskywing life cycle, revised
Back in 2014, I wrote about a commission by a local scientist to illustrate the life cycle of the Mottled Duskywing butterfly. At the time, the pupa stage (chrysalis) was unknown, so the scientist asked me to illustrate that stage based on her best guess, which was brown. Now we have more information—including photos of its pupa—thanks to this local scientist and her work on the recovery of the species in Ontario. She asked me…
Reasonable Assumptions
Cities’ shrinking gene pools
Looking around a city, or a suburb, you might think that mammals are doing pretty well. There are pizza rats and egg roll squirrels, mice in the basement, rabbits in the garden, raccoons in the garbage bins, woodchucks under the shed, deer bounding over fences, maybe some skunks skulking around the yard. Yeah, mammals have it pretty good. That being said, it turns out human presence is creating unforeseen consequences for mammal evolution. A new…
Typographical Miss
As you might imagine, this is definitely based on a true story. I mean come on, the problem was identical to the previous, save one number.
Question Period
“You just told me I had to give the students a chance to ask questions, not that they actually needed to!â€
#549 Let’s Get Slimy
Algae. What springs to mind when you read that word? Maybe a seaweed forest? Maybe a pond covered in scum? Maybe a red tide? Those are all algae, and they can all change the world in different ways. This week Bethany Brookshire talks with Ruth Kassinger about the history, present and future of algae and her new book, "Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us". This episode is hosted by…
