misc.ience

Journals and personalities

Aimee Whitcroft • Feb 20, 2013

• culture,
• journal,
• personality,
• Publishing

Today, one of my favourite science (t)witterers, @enniscath, posed an intriguing question:   Is it normal to assign personalities to scientific journals? e.g. Curr Biol is an enthusiastic extrovert; Nucl Acid Res is dull but worthy — Cath Ennis (@enniscath)… Read more › … Read More

Marvellous MRI music vid

Aimee Whitcroft • Feb 15, 2013

• culture,
• design,
• Medically-related,
• MRI,
• music,
• music video,
• sivu

Hooray for CNET!  not only do I use them whenever I’m looking at new tech to buy, but they’ve also pointed me at an extraordinary music video. British musician Sivu (James Page) spent 2-3 hours holed up in an MRI… Read more › … Read More

Competition for Wellington infographics makers

Aimee Whitcroft • Feb 12, 2013

• competition,
• contribeauty,
• design,
• enspiral,
• infographic,
• pledgeme

This post is aimed at those of you who make infographics, or are interested in them, or know someone who does/is. Think of it as a spreading of the word… On Feb 16th, Contribeauty (‘turning data into design’) and Pledgeme.co.nz… Read more › … Read More

What a thought looks like

Aimee Whitcroft • Feb 04, 2013

• Neuroscience,
• thought,
• video,
• zebrafish

Ever wondered what a thought might look like, in real life, as it flashes across the various neurons and synapses we call ‘the brain’? Yes, sure, there are numerous digitally-animated artist’s renditions out there, but what about reality? Now, for… Read more › … Read More

Beer’s bitterness and your health

Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 31, 2013

• alpha acids,
• Beer,
• hops,
• humulone,
• isomer,
• Medically-related

Yay, more beer-related science! This time, it’s around the chemistry involved in that lovely bitterness in beer. As it turns out, this bitterness is provided by a class of chemicals* called alpha acids, which are to be found in the… Read more › … Read More

Overly honest scientists

Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 15, 2013

• #overlyhonestmethods,
• cover letter,
• culture,
• General,
• honesty,
• humour,
• kiwihorizons,
• meme,
• overly honest

Ahhhh, scientists.  As I’ve mentioned before, they can, indeed, actually be amusing. Shock, horror, etc… /waits for people to get back onto their chairs Right, so, just quickly, two amusing topics from the last few days, both on the subject… Read more › … Read More

A very kitchenesque CT scanner

Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 14, 2013

• ben krasnow,
• chicken,
• CT scanner,
• Medically-related,
• x-ray

From awesomely-education website Hack A Day comes a particularly wonderful,  if oddly gruesome, piece of science/tech hacking.   Mad chap Ben Krasnow has built a ‘build something mad on your kitchen table’-type version of a CT scanner. CT scanners, as… Read more › … Read More

How will the End of the World affect clinical trials?

Aimee Whitcroft • Dec 21, 2012

• clinical trials,
• CMAJ,
• culture,
• end of the world,
• End Times,
• Mayan calendar,
• Medically-related,
• medicine

Yes, sure, my first response was also ‘not well – dead patients are often difficult test subjects on which to continue clinical trials’. Thankfully, however, the Canadian Medical Association Journal has looked more deeply into this most pressing of issues.… Read more › … Read More

More microscope pr0n winners announced

Aimee Whitcroft • Dec 18, 2012

• competition,
• microscopy,
• Olympus,
• Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition,
• photography,
• rotifer

I’ve posted before about the Nikon Small World’s microscopy/photography competition. Today, however, focuses on another Maker of Excellent Photographic Equipment – Olympus. For the last 10 years (says the website), Olympus has been sponsoring an international microscopy (i.e.photographing things with a… Read more › … Read More

Your LinkedIn profile, visualised

Aimee Whitcroft • Dec 11, 2012

• CV,
• infographic,
• Kelly Services,
• LinkedIn,
• profile,
• visual.ly

Data visualisation site/service visual.ly has just announced, in concert with Kelly Services, the release of a new feature. As I’ve previously mentioned, visual.ly allows one to create a number of prepackaged infographics, and this appears to be the newest one… Read more › … Read More