Subway of SCIENCE
I know many of you, like me, are concerned with how Rene Descartes is related to Charles Darwin. Luckily, an awesome person developed a subway map for science. It is AWESOME. check it out.
Also, this guy seems to be updating the map based on comments possibly. If you see something wrong, let him know. Also let him know how AMAZING it is.
I'm just hoping a poster gets made from it soon.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Chitons
I am spending my summer down here at OIMB in Coos Bay and I am designing a t-shirt for the term. What I have now is Representations of all the Ninja Turtles as Cryptochitons (Gumboot chtions). Splinter is represented as an arthropod of some sort, really a mixture of a couple arthropods. If you tried to class it out I think you might get two different main groups because of the eyes, antennae and chelipeds. Check them out! Also see he lyrics for their theme song, sung to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.
Mariachi Waltones
Hi dear readers, I am the member of a band called the Mariachi Waltones. If you look up at the top of this page there is a little button that says "Mariachi Waltones"
There you will find (currently) music and (soon?) video.
Enjoy!
The Haiku Thesis Project
[below is the introduction to my new project, as it is written in the book]
In the spring of 2010, Chris Cunningham, University of Oregon honors college senior, finished his thesis.In order to save people from having to read pages and pages to understand his topic, he compressed his thesis into a haiku. It grew from there . Soon he began searching for like-minded friends and colleagues who would add their theses and the Haiku Thesis Project was born.
If any one wants to add their thesis to the book, let me know! I am accepting all entries, whether you are finishing up now, like me, or you finished last year, or you are in the process, but know your results. Even if you wrote a thesis 50 years ago. if you can remember your writing and want to paraphrase it into a haiku, do so.
Send me:
- the full title of the thesis
- Your name as you want it to be seen
- the term and year it was finalized (or expected to be if you have not defended yet)
- the school you wrote it at
- and your haiku.
Optionally, you can run into me in person and write it in the little moleskin book I am keeping for this purpose.
These might only be published on my blog (cleverpork.com) or they might eventually be made into a little book. Who knows.
The goal is to present knowledge that is locked away in these theses in a way that doesn't force people to spend hours reading the text.
Here is my entry, as it appears in the book right now:
High School Science Course Order and its Effect on Student Attitudes and Beliefs
Chris Cunningham
Spring 2010
University of Oregon
Why enjoy science?
Probably your teacher's fault
Not your course order.
Thesis Summary Day 2: Haiku
I am providing some amusing ways to summarize my thesis to the world. Today I re-wrote it to fit into a haiku format, you know, syllables in groups of 5-7-5.
Why Enjoy Science?
Probably your teacher's fault,
Not your course order.
Come back tomorrow for Episode 3: LOL Thesis Edititon.
Thesis Summary Day 1, Twitter
I am providing some amusing ways to summarize my thesis to the world. Today's summary is designed to fit a twitter post. It is exactly 140 charachters, which is the maximum for twitter or a text message.
Thought integrated science was good. No correlation between order and enjoyment of science. Other factors impact attitudes and beliefs more.
Check back tomorrow for Episode 2: Haiku Edition