I found this really nice blog over the weekend.
Log Base 2
... and started using Technorati!
Here is my Technorati Profile.
I have not added this blog to technorati yet as it seems mostly "experimental" at the moment.
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Looking at the sky
After learning how to find Orion, I have become interested in finding other constellations. I had the supreme good fortune to come across a copy of "The Monthly Sky Guide" by Ridpath and Tirion at a library book sale. So today I was able to find Taurus and Auriga as well! I have found two websites that might also be useful.
Utah Skies
The Monthly SkyguideFree Star Charts and Astronomy Resources
Utah Skies
The Monthly SkyguideFree Star Charts and Astronomy Resources
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Tracking Satellites
This is another cool website from NASA: Satellite Tracking
If you click on the button saying "J-TRACK 3D" a window will pop up showing the earth with hundreds of white dots at various positions. Clicking on each of these will show the name of the satelite and its orbit around the earth. To find out more about the satellite you can go to "View Satellite Position" though this just gives you a whole bunch of numbers relating to how far away it is and how fast it is going. I have not worked out how to use the site to give any information about what the satellite is actually up to. Though, if you got to "Satellite Select" you can choose satellites on the basis of their origin and purpose which I suppose is good enough...
If you click on the button saying "J-TRACK 3D" a window will pop up showing the earth with hundreds of white dots at various positions. Clicking on each of these will show the name of the satelite and its orbit around the earth. To find out more about the satellite you can go to "View Satellite Position" though this just gives you a whole bunch of numbers relating to how far away it is and how fast it is going. I have not worked out how to use the site to give any information about what the satellite is actually up to. Though, if you got to "Satellite Select" you can choose satellites on the basis of their origin and purpose which I suppose is good enough...
Saturday, 12 January 2008
Digital Ethnography
While gently scrolling through chem-blah-ics I came across a link to another blog, that I thought was very interesting. It is called: Digital Ethnography and reports the thoughts/findings of a working group of students and faculty at Kansas State University.
What is ethnography anyway?
This what the wikipedia entry says: "Ethnography (ἔθνος ethnos = people and γράφειν graphein = writing) is the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. Ethnography presents the results of a holistic research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other."
Here are links to two of the Digital Ethnography groups' effectively produced videos:
“A Vision of Students Today” Transcript
Information R/evolution
What is ethnography anyway?
This what the wikipedia entry says: "Ethnography (ἔθνος ethnos = people and γράφειν graphein = writing) is the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. Ethnography presents the results of a holistic research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other."
Here are links to two of the Digital Ethnography groups' effectively produced videos:
“A Vision of Students Today” Transcript
Information R/evolution
Astronomy Picture of the Day
While on holiday in Chicago we visited the Observatory. I am really not a museum-person (and therefore probably not a "true" scientist or scholar), but I was pleased to be exposed to a few ideas that were pleasing in that they could possibly enrich my life.
One was that the early man living in Africa observed the sun, moon and stars; and made objects that could be used to predict the cycle of the moon and the coming of the seasons. This is obvious, but in my mind the earliest astronomers were those dudes in India who made the sundials -- I now am opening my mind to the idea that there were intellectual steps that needed to have been made in previous generations, even ages. (I am having a similar experience while reading a book I took out the library introducing Western philosophy, but I digress)
Another is that NASA has a website where they publish an interesting image every day. While I know very little about astronomy, the photographs of stars, galaxies, the surface of moons and planets, fill me with awe.
Here is a link to the website: Astronomy Picture of the Day
One was that the early man living in Africa observed the sun, moon and stars; and made objects that could be used to predict the cycle of the moon and the coming of the seasons. This is obvious, but in my mind the earliest astronomers were those dudes in India who made the sundials -- I now am opening my mind to the idea that there were intellectual steps that needed to have been made in previous generations, even ages. (I am having a similar experience while reading a book I took out the library introducing Western philosophy, but I digress)
Another is that NASA has a website where they publish an interesting image every day. While I know very little about astronomy, the photographs of stars, galaxies, the surface of moons and planets, fill me with awe.
Here is a link to the website: Astronomy Picture of the Day
Monday, 17 December 2007
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