Jennifer Ouellette
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Jen-Luc Piquant is the faux-French avatar of science writer Jennifer Ouellette. Find her at Cocktail Party Physics!
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@stevesilberman I once had an apricot clafoutis in Paris that was heavenly.
@laurahelmuth Swearing is an art form all its own. Alas, many people wield it poorly and artlessly. :)
@stevesilberman I make a mean clafoutis, if you find yourself in LA. :) Can be made with raspberries, too. pic.twitter.com/nXLqsTDWgJ
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@stevesilberman Clafoutis is one of my favorite desserts. :)
Whimsical, animal-filled illustrations of mathematical concepts: Kasia Jackowska's Drawing Mathematics series io9.com/whimsical-anim…
Whimsical, animal-filled illustrations of mathematical concepts
io9.com — Kasia Jackowska's Drawing Mathematics series takes an unusually adorable approach to illustrating mathematical concepts. The Pythagorean Theorem and Sierpinski triangles are conveyed through drawings of elephants, snakes, and deer.
RT @deborahblum: This is a fabulous new version of the Periodic Table song: youtube.com/watch?v=zUDDiW…
The NEW Periodic Table Song (In Order)
youtube.com — DOWNLOAD ON ITUNES: http://bit.ly/12AeW99 DOWNLOAD ON BANDCAMP: http://bit.ly/111Kssd (instrumental available) FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/AsapSCIENCE TWITTER: http://twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE ------------------------------------------ Written, Directed, Produced, Edited and Sung by Mitchell Moffit. Based on the "Can-Can" music, by Offenbach.
RT @pourmecoffee: Journalists need Clippy to prompt, "It looks like you're comparing something to Watergate. Are you sure you're not embarr…
RT @stevenstrogatz: RT @JannaLevin Must. Stop. Watching News. Must. Do Math. Feel better.
No Matter How Many Times You Explain Something -- pre-exsting misconceptions hamper science communication sciencerewired.org/summit/2013/05…
No Matter How Many Times You Explain Something
sciencerewired.org — Derek Muller from @Veritasium guest posts on the Summit blog It is a common view that "if only someone could break this down and explain it clearly enough, more people would understand." However it is debatable whether clear, concise explanations really work.
The Ophthalmology of a Redon-ized Bosch: interesting rumination on his "Seven Deadly Sins" (ca. 1400) longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebook…
The Ophthalmology of a Redon-ized Bosch
longstreet.typepad.com — JF Ptak Science Books Post 2026 Cave Cave Deus Videt ("Beware, Beware, God Sees") When I think of the early-ish thinkers on optics and vision, and consider their fantastic images of the anatomy of the eye and the mind/brain/eye connection, the work of Rene Descartes usually appears first.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Science, Opinion and Editorial and more.
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