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The author of Skulls in the Stars is a professor of physics, specializing in optical science, at UNC Charlotte. The blog covers topics in physics and optics, the history of science, classic pulp fantasy and horror fiction, and the surprising intersections between these areas. -
Category Archives: General science
Editor’s selections: flying snakes, wormholes, metallic glasses and hungry crabs
“Dr. SkySkull” selects several notable posts each week from a miscellany of ResearchBlogging.org categories. He blogs at Skulls in the Stars. Running a little late this evening — end of semester grading is overwhelming my days! Here are my Monday’s … Continue reading
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ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: wishing on a dinosaur, the 4th down odds, the town that went mad, dead star navigation and deep-water sand dunes
“Dr. SkySkull” selects several notable posts each week from a miscellany of ResearchBlogging.org categories. He blogs at Skulls in the Stars. Here in the U.S., we’re just coming off our Thanksgiving weekend; to celebrate, we’ve got a couple of Thanksgiving-themed … Continue reading
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On scientists, cheerleaders, and rockstars
There’s been a lot of talk on scienceblogs over the past few weeks about the usefulness of a pair of science outreach programs: namely, “science cheerleaders” and “rockstars of science”. The original “science cheerleader is Darlene Cavalier, who was inspired … Continue reading
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Call for hosts for The Giant’s Shoulders!
I noticed recently that, after December, we have no hosts lined up for the history of science blog carnival! If you’re interested in hosting over the next few months, please leave a comment, or let one of the carnival managers, Dr. … Continue reading
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ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: privilege and empathy, lunar lost and found, turtle hatchling locomotion, Louis XVI’s blood, and the animal connection
“Dr. SkySkull” selects several notable posts each week from a miscellany of ResearchBlogging.org categories. He blogs at Skulls in the Stars. Study: More Privilege Means Less Empathy. David Berreby at Mind Matters describes some interesting research that suggests that, the … Continue reading
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The Giant’s Shoulders #29 is out!
The Giants’ Shoulders #29 is now up at Heterodoxolgy, and it is an “esoteric sciences special”! The carnival focuses on the strange, alien and counterintuitive in the history of the sciences. Thanks to Egil for putting together a lovely carnival! Giants’ … Continue reading
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ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Maxwell’s demon, hairy crops, poison frogs and a copper conundrum
“Dr. SkySkull” selects several notable posts each week from a miscellany of ResearchBlogging.org categories. He blogs at Skulls in the Stars. The demon is out of the bottle. No, we haven’t regressed to a superstitious era of witches and demons … Continue reading
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ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: life in the dark, a galaxy far, far away, jewelry box science, and Cookie Monster social science!
“Dr. SkySkull” selects several notable posts each week from a miscellany of ResearchBlogging.org categories. He blogs at Skulls in the Stars. Life in the dark. Most of us live in areas of near-endless light — night is filled with the … Continue reading
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7 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #29!
There’s only 7 days left before the deadline of the next edition of The Giant’s Shoulders history of science blog carnival! It will be hosted by Egil Asprem at Heterodoxology, and will be another themed edition: To the layman, the natural sciences … Continue reading
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Brian Switek’s Written in Stone
To anyone who takes even the most cursory look at the natural world around them, it is obvious that life on earth is an amazing, interconnected system that is constantly changing and adapting. The theoretical cornerstone to understanding this system … Continue reading
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