by Nadia Drake | Nov 8, 2010 | Posts
I’d been warned. But I did not heed the warning: do not look at comments posted about your news stories. I’ve heard various incarnations of this statement, and yet…and yet, I do view online feedback. With trepidation. Sometimes it’s helpful....
by Nadia Drake | Nov 5, 2010 | Posts
“…and everything is going to the beat – it’s the beat generation, it be-at, it’s the beat to keep, it’s the beat of the heart…” Jack Kerouac At least twice in this past week, someone asked, “What is your beat?” And I answered: “It’s new...
by Nadia Drake | Oct 30, 2010 | Posts
Never turn your back on the ocean. [images captured during SciCom trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Tuesday, 10.26.10, to observe and learn about otter-observers learning about otters.]
by Nadia Drake | Oct 26, 2010 | Posts
Intergalactic Fish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Lousy fish image by Nads. NGC 4038/NGC4039 colliding galaxies, BC Whitmore Space Telescope Science Institute, NASA.
by Nadia Drake | Oct 23, 2010 | Posts
[slideshow] A few comments: 1. NMNH in the captions = National Museum of Natural History, aka the Smithsonian’s absurdly fun enormous collection of dinosaur bones, a giant squid, the Hope diamond, meteorites, BUGS, elephants, a crochet coral reef that lives up...
by Nadia Drake | Oct 23, 2010 | Posts
[slideshow] Return to K-tron and Slugnads do D.C.
by Nadia Drake | Oct 23, 2010 | Posts
[slideshow] N: I had a conversation at the awards ceremony with John Mather about kids and science. John’s argument was that kids are natural scientists — and that the problem we’re facing is not how to interest kids in science; rather, the challenge...
by Nadia Drake | Oct 22, 2010 | Posts
This will be a “LIVE, recorded during an earlier broadcast” blog post. We will update as much as possible. *NOTE: We have updated to the point of arrival back in California. We’ve added some flavorful text message exchanges and additional photos...
by Nadia Drake | Oct 19, 2010 | Posts
Oh Frabjous Day! Time to slay some jabber-demons and admit it: I have, on occasion, been known to take photos in mirrors and through microscope lenses…and telescopes. And binoculars. …and it’s totally possible that at least one of my dissertation defense...
by Nadia Drake | Oct 14, 2010 | Posts
The Story By William Blake-Drake Story! Story! yet to write In the newsrooms of the night, What nocturnal journalist Could frame thy lede and nutgraf/gist? In what distant source or two Burn the quotes I need for you? On what site dare facts reside? What the Google,...
by Nadia Drake | Oct 8, 2010 | Posts
On Saturday, I did something I swore I would never do. I opened a Twitter account. Until then, I’d managed to avoid Twitter. It annoyed me. Its over-exposed ubiquity made me want to don a Twitter-stealth-shield that would deflect any and all references to the site...
