Dear reader, It goes without saying that we assume that not one of our readers read all 80 or so of the textbook pieces that graced the SCQ’s pages over the summer months. That would be too much – even for us stalwart editor types who know a thing or two about science. Because of this, we are absolutely sure that people will be tickled pink to hear that year two officially begins on September 5th. That’s right – in less than a week, the SCQ will go back to the eccentric mixture of material that made it so loved…
The Science Creative Quarterly
From August, 2006
FREQUENTER LIST 2006: JUSTIN KAHN
– PART I: A HAIKU – The Grand Unification Theory on an Index Card The Universe That Simple is Easier than Writing good Haiku – PART II: TEN LINKS – While one of the great science web pages is The Big Jewel, they also publish less serious stuff. That second article is by Justin Warner who people frequently confuse with me. I guess they do that because we both have the same first name. Anyway, the danger of all of this comedy fun is that it can obscure scientific work like figuring out the Hutchison effect. I live on the…
FREQUENTER LIST 2006: BRIAN WILLEMS
– PART I: A HAIKU – The arrow in your brain pointing to “You are Here!” covers where you stand – PART II: TEN LINKS – 1: A story of mine, “Caravaggio’s Rothko”, which features a graph. (link) 2: Another story of mine, “The Spiders of Prague”, which contains a lion. (link) 3: Web del Sol. Great hub for writers. (link) 4: Things Magazine. Lots of links (and an amazing print mag). (link) 5: Tringo. Part Tetris, part bingo (sort of). My high score is 275. (link) 6: Saragossa Press. My brother’s books and stuff at cafepress.com. (link) 7: The…
FREQUENTER LIST 2006: PATRICK FRANCIS
– PART I: A HAIKU – Upon my return from space I discovered my mislaid sombrero – PART II: TEN LINKS – Geist: A local magazine about ideas n’ stuff. (link) Have you been to the moon? Tintin has. (link) Ever wonder just how many toys Ghana exports? Wonder no longer. (link) Listening to Sunset Rubdown is like having a conversation with God except God’s not paying attention to you because he’s too busy rocking out. (link) Probably the only time you’ll see the Hoff dressed as an Inuit. (link) I don’t know you at all but I’m pretty sure…
FREQUENTER LIST 2006: RUSSELL BRADBURY-CARLIN
– PART I: A HAIKU – Soft swirling dancers Silent havoc of stark snow: White weight suffocates. – PART II: TEN LINKS – All My Shoes and Glasses Astronomy Picture of the Day Tom Waits, Favorite musician Jean Pierre Jeunet Favorite director George Saunders Current favorite author The Life of a Degrading Bicycle Bug Dreams A Very Cool Commercial The 4 Year Old on a Blind Date Bogey As Frodo – PART III: TWO PICTURES – (Left: Sunrise through ice; Right: Nest. Both photographs by my wife, Candace)
FREQUENTER LIST 2006: DAVID SECKO
– PART I: A HAIKU – DNA wind chimes what songs would they play all day– four notes bellow ‘sex!’ – PART II: TEN LINKS – 1. Nature’s Peer Review Debate (link) 2. Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science (link) 3. SandLot (link) 4. The Mind of Leonardo (link) 5. SwarmSketch (link) 6. A monk’s flourishing garden: the basics of molecular biology explained (link) 7. Are computer games rebooting our minds? (link) 8. Working out with the heavyweights of physics (link) 9. Canadian climate novel silenced (link) 10. Inexpensive CD4 counting for the developing world (link) – PART III: TWO PICTURES –…
FREQUENTER LIST 2006: CHRISTOPHER MONKS
– PART I: A HAIKU – In biology We had to dissect a worm It was really gross. – PART II: TEN LINKS – 1. DriveTime (link) 2. Said the Gramophone (link) 3. The Visual Thesaurus (link) 4. The Art of Greg Stones (link) 5. Evolution Vs. Intelligent Design (link) 6. Blokus! (link) 7. The Brick Testament (link) 8. Free Darko (link) 9. Happy Morning (link) 10. Kenny Asimov’s Three Laws of Robot Baseball (link) – PART III: TWO PICTURES (SORT OF)-
FREQUENTER LIST 2006: TIMON BUYS
– PART I: A HAIKU – Phenol: Chloroform Give me a clean interphase Or I must repeat – PART II: TEN SEVEN LINKS – http://www.animalshaveproblemstoo.com/view.php?id=001 – The humor of these increases exponentially with the number of consecutive hours spent awake (keep selecting “next”). http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/drum.php – Odd. http://extremeironing.com/ – Extremely odd. A paper http://www.ambion.com/main/explorations/assessing.html – Kinda tame, but useful when first starting out with RNA samples. http://www.well.com/user/cynsa/newbutt.html – Juvenile and disgusting. Shame on you. http://www.engrish.com/ – PART III: TWO PICTURES ONE LARGE PICTURE – (A pretty great pic from the top floor of the new BC Cancer Research Centre. Credit for…
FREQUENTER LIST 2006: VINCE LiCATA
– PART I: A HAIKU – I don’t like haiku. Never have and never will. So I won’t write one. – PART II: TEN LINKS 1) www.opiummagazine.com (Humor-lit site, where I’ve published several pieces). 2) www.yankeepotroast.org (Who doesn’t love a good potroast? Great humor site). 3) spillwayreview.com (a beautiful online literary mag from New Orleans, where I’ve also published). 4) www.pindeldyboz.com (if you don’t know pindeldyboz yet, then you don’t know squat about online literary magazines). 5) www.apeculture.com/movies/swscience.htm (a set of articles on “The Science of Star Wars” that is absolutely a hoot!). 6) www.toromagazine.ca/home.html (Proving that male Canadians can…