As a Valentine’s week service to our readers, this column again offers personal ads from science and technology professionals.
Articles with Humor
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Computer graphic
Dear Mr. Computer…
Genetically modified mice with fluorescence • Ingrid Moen, et al (CC BY 2.0)
Glowing mice and other news we missed in ’97
Here are some science stories you may have missed this past year, gleaned from the pages of the journal Science.
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Bumping down the information highway
Dear Mr. Computer, I’m thinking about buying a laptop computer.
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Stuff we could do without
In 1842, a German immigrant to America named J. A. Etzler published a book called The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery.
The progress of science is worth a few giggles
On Columbus Day [1992], NASA scientists will launch a massive new search for intelligent alien life. The $100 million, 10-year project will use some of the world’s largest radio telescopes and fastest computers to scan the entire sky for signals of intelligent origin, with particular emphasis on 1,000 carefully-selected sun-like stars.
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Could the Martians have taken it?
Nothing puzzles environmental scientists more than the case of the missing carbon. No current mystery of science has so many potentially unpleasant consequences for the rest of us.
The future that materials scientists want.
In a world of smart ‘things,’ why not self-sorting socks?
Welcome to the age of smart materials.
Ted Geisel aka Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) • Library of Congress (Public Domain)
The odd critters of Seuss’s are matched by the zoos’s
Dr. Seuss in the science pages? You bet.
The mating behavior of PhDs
The heart of a scientist is as easily warmed and as easily broken as anyone else’s, and that’s probably why the search for love finally is making its way into journals with names like Technology Review and Science.