I'm going to try a new feature, and I'm calling it "Slinks" like Science-links (see what I did there?) as a way to show little science things that I've found on the web the past week.
Slinks!
Learn to program in a year. This looks cool, and I'm already hooked. Folks at CodeAcademy have created a super easy/fun/interactive way to teach javascript. They promise that you'll be building websites and apps in months. We shall see...(GOOD)
10 Stunning Science Visualizations. A compilation of computer-rendered drawings of very small things. Special shout out to my dad, who's model of the yeast mitotic spindle is featured. (Wired Science)
On being conspicuously invisible. "Promoting diversity is all fine and good, but it means nothing if there isn’t a genuine effort to include those ‘new’ people into the fold and make them feel welcomed and apart of the department." An important piece on minority students in science, and how institutions treat diversity. (Scientific American)
Google. Today's Google doodle salutes the 374th anniversary of Nicolas Steno's birth, the geologist who came up with the "principle of original horizonality", which basically says that rock layers form horizontally. If you don't catch it live today, check out the Washington Post's thorough explanation. (Google, Washington Post)
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